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Virtue For Commercial Purpose: A Look At Production Code Censorship In The 1930s, Jacob Key
Virtue For Commercial Purpose: A Look At Production Code Censorship In The 1930s, Jacob Key
Honors Theses
This paper is a study of the conservative political bias inherent to the Motion Picture Production Code as it applies to Great Depression cinema. Many films in this period attempted to explore progressive themes but were edited or prohibited outright under the Code’s authority. Father Daniel Lord, the Code’s author, greatly feared cinema’s cultural and moral influences, but may have been unaware of the political ramifications of his work. On the other hand, his boss, Will H. Hays, was an ambitious man fully in support of the Code’s ability to censor politics that differed from his own. The unlikely partnership …
1st Mississippi Mounted Rifles: Mississippi’S Union Battalion In The Civil War, Beau Johnson
1st Mississippi Mounted Rifles: Mississippi’S Union Battalion In The Civil War, Beau Johnson
Honors Theses
In the Civil War era, Mississippi was a house divided. Secessionists were in a never ending conflict with pro-Unionists in the 1850’s and into 1860 over secession. These clashes even spilled over into the war as Confederates skirmished with pro-Unionists, as well as groups of people that became known as anti-Confederates (these being people that did not support the Union, but did not agree with the policies of the Confederacy). The division in Mississippi had become so bad that many men refused to join the army, some deserted after conscription, while others supported the Union in any way possible. In …
“Double-Crossed, So To Speak": Black Female Resistance To Gendered Oppression In The South, Amolie Egloff
“Double-Crossed, So To Speak": Black Female Resistance To Gendered Oppression In The South, Amolie Egloff
Honors Theses
Despite the vast amount of research focused on slavery and the American South, studies focusing solely on the black female’s experience during this time period are a fairly recent development. In the existing literature, these women have been painted a helpless victim caught in the wrath of white men, black men, and even white women. This study presents the stories of black women courageously resisting oppression both while enslaved and just after emancipation from 1830 to 1890. The analysis of a handful of slave narratives taken by the Worker’s Progress Administration in the 1930s and 1940s established that because black …