Search Results - "toys"

Little big world collecting Louis Marx and the American fifties / by Safe Driver A. D. I.

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The UN and global political economy trade, finance, and development / by Toye, J. F. J.

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Parlor ponds the cultural work of the American home aquarium, 1850-1970 / by Hamera, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Promiscuous Vision : The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments : Early British Aquarium Writing -- The Toy of the Day : American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Toy Fish -- The Domestic Aquarium -- "Foreign in the Domestic Sense" : Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness.…”
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Cold war hothouses inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy /

Table of Contents: “…Cold war/hot houses -- Cockpit -- Forecast -- Plastics -- Playroom -- Toy -- Mission 66 -- Beat space -- Pornotopia.…”
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Reframing 9/11 film, popular culture and the "war on terror" /

Table of Contents: “…Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale -- The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney -- Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans -- The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh -- "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell -- The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs -- Prophetic Narratives. …”
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