Category Archives: Popular Culture

What to know just before to see Hunger Games movie

Posted on March 23, 2012 by atlantis

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, the odds are not in its favor, seeing as one … Continue reading →

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Dillinger: Best bank robber in American history

Posted on March 15, 2012 by atlantis

Dillinger – Public Enemy No. 1 11 in. x 17 in. Buy This at Allposters.com 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 … Continue reading →

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Gangster History: Designing and Lensing Public Enemies

Posted on March 15, 2012 by atlantis

The Public Enemy 12 in. x 18 in. Buy This at Allposters.com 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 … Continue reading →

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Morals at the American Movies

Posted on January 18, 2012 by atlantis

The Jazz Singer, 1927 Premium Poster 11 in. x 17 in. Buy This at Allposters.com 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 … Continue reading →

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Gone With the Wind and Romance

Posted on January 18, 2012 by atlantis

Gone with the Wind, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, 1939 16 in. x 12 in. Buy This at Allposters.com The diversity of pictures that sound made possible was the most characteristic feature of the movies in the 1930′s. They were filling … Continue reading →

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Popular Culture and Social Change

Posted on January 18, 2012 by atlantis

Coca-Cola 16 in. x 20 in. Buy This at Allposters.com The preference accorded football-players in their college work, undue absorption in the game through long training-seasons, the prevalent spirit of winning at any cost, and the open hiring of star … Continue reading →

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Limited Edition Pens for Yuri Gagarin by Montegrappa

Posted on November 7, 2011 by atlantis

Montegrappa is proud to honour one of the greatest heroes of the 20th Century, with a limited edition pen marking the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space. It signalled the start of manned space flight, launching the most … Continue reading →

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Muammar Al Gaddafi and Islamic Socialism

Posted on September 17, 2011 by atlantis

Painting of Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi, Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya Doug McKinlay 12 in. x 16 in. Buy This Allposters.com Gaddafi was the youngest child from a nomadic Bedouin peasant family in the desert region of Sirte. He was given … Continue reading →

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Sitting Bull, Teton Sioux Indian Chief (Tatanka-Iyotanka)

Posted on September 17, 2011 by atlantis

Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) 1831-1890 Teton Sioux Indian Chief 18 in. x 24 in. Buy This Allposters.com A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting … Continue reading →

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Radio Luxembourg and Pirate Stations

Posted on September 17, 2011 by atlantis

The Beatles, Rolling Stone no. 24, December 1968 8 in. x 12 in. Buy This Allposters.com Through this apparent decline was due in part to a moral and/or cultural backlash, it had much to do with ingrained aspects of national … Continue reading →

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