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Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society On "Trial" In The Films Of John Waters, Taunya Lovell Banks
Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society On "Trial" In The Films Of John Waters, Taunya Lovell Banks
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In this Article Professor Banks argues that what makes many of filmmaker John Waters early films so subversive is his use of the “white-trash” body—people marginalized by and excluded from conventional white America—as countercultural heroes. He uses the white trash body as a surrogate for talk about race and sexuality in the early 1960s. I argue that in many ways Waters’ critiques of mid-twentieth century American society reflect the societal changes that occurred in the last forty years of that century. These societal changes resulted from the civil rights, gay pride, student, anti-war and women’s movements, all of which used …
The Bamboo Gulag: Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China, 1991-1992, Ta-Ling Lee, John F. Copper
The Bamboo Gulag: Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China, 1991-1992, Ta-Ling Lee, John F. Copper
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
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People's Republic Of China: The Human Rights Exception, Roberta Cohen
People's Republic Of China: The Human Rights Exception, Roberta Cohen
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
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