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What is so (Un)Exceptional About Soviet Cinema? The Pragmatics of Soviet Film Exports to Germany and France in the 1920s

Images, 2023
The article discusses Soviet efforts to export its cinematic production to Germany and France during the 1920s. Aside from advertising the USSR’s achievements abroad, cinema export was an important contribution to early Soviet fund-raising ...
Nataliya Puchenkina
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Representation of Scientific Research on the Interaction of Soviet and Chinese cinema [PDF]

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The article examines the state of research into the influence of Soviet cinema on Chinese cinema (1917–1991). The author compiles a classification of scientific research (dissertations, articles, monographs) by Soviet-Russian and Chinese scientists ...
Liu, Yuanyuan
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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship

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Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
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Z dziejów francuskiej debaty o kinie stalinowskim

Images, 2016
From the French debate about Stalinist cinema Through the juxtaposition of texts by Andre Bazin and Georges Sadoul, the author reconstructs a stormy debate on the reception of Soviet cinema from the Stalinist era in 1950s France.
TADEUSZ SZCZEPAŃSKI
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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History and Symbols: Lithuanian and Central European Cinema of the 1960s

Images, 2015
History and Symbols: Lithuanian and Central European Cinema of the 1960s   The text discusses the most creative period in Lithuanian cinema, the 1960s.
Anna Mikonis-Railienė
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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THE FALL OF CINEMA ATTENDANCE IN THE ERA OF "STAGNATION". CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

Вестник университета, 2019
The article discusses the process of the fall of cinema attendance that took place in Soviet cinema in the 1970's - early 1980-ies. The author examines the causes of this negative tendency and the measures that took the leaders of the Soviet ...
M. Kosinova
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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