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Until World War II, the automobile industry has been a predominantly male bastion. But with so many men called to serve, more women than ever looking for employment. While their fathers, son, husband and friends fought in Europe and Asia, women served the war effort right at home by filling quickly and competently.
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“Whether women are better leaders than men I cannot say. But I can say they are certainly no worse – Golda Meir” When the word “greatness” comes to mind, Golda …
Heroes of the 20th Century: Golda Meir Read More
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is a song written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, for the Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Lennon’s …
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The rise of Hollywood signaled the arrival of America’s urban-industrial age, a period when traditional values and established notions of family and community, of the social and political order, and of individual freedom and initiative were radically transformed. Hollywood movies were among the first and were certainly the most widespread and accessible manifestations of an emergent “mass culture” which brought with it new forms of cultural expression.
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Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 23 different national and regional editions by Condé Nast. The name Vogue means “style” in French. Vogue was …
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The biggest challenge facing Mann was turning 21st-century America back into the world of the early 1930s. As there were some 114 different sets to dress for the film, the …
Gangster History: Designing and Lensing Public Enemies Read More
If you haven’t read the books, get the scoop on one of the year’s most anticipated films. While the raunchy comedy has the right to remain the top money earner, …
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Though many essays, books, songs and films have told fascinating stories from the Great Depression, Michael Mann has long been interested in examining this turbulent era through the experience of a criminal who became a folk hero for a generation. For Americans in the early 1930s, who watched their life savings vanish and became jobless and hungry, they found a hero in a man who robbed and challenged the banks that caused the collapse and the government that could not fix it: John Herbert Dillinger.
Dillinger: Best bank robber in American history Read More
So the motion picture in the 1920’s. But still further triumphs awaited this popular amusement which had so marvelously evolved from the vitascope of only three short decades earlier. In …
Morals at the American Movies Read More
The diversity of pictures that sound made possible was the most characteristic feature of the movies in the 1930’s. They were filling the democratic role that the theatre itself had …
Gone With the Wind and Romance Read More