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This thesis examines narrative constructions of motherhood in popular children’s novels published in the U.K. between 1945 and 1960. The interrogation considers family fictions intended for readers of nine years onwards, alongside narratives of development aimed at a female teen…

Scholarship on 1950s American science fiction cinema has tended to explore the relationship between these films and their domestic contexts of production and reception. They are often characterised as reflections of US anxieties about communism and nuclear technology. However, m…

This thesis sets out to examine and understand the evolution of masculinity in America by the mid-twentieth century. The research focuses on examining how this new form of masculinity can be seen mirrored in the most popular film genre of the day; the Western. This study gives f…

This is a study about Egyptian architectural culture. It asks how did Egypt's architectural modernism converge with the country's political transition from monarchy to military republic? After 1952, the self-proclaiming revolutionary regime utilized architecture in its attempt t…