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mcgeeorlean
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
Mini Revolution? The Evolution of the Miniskirt
There has always been magic in the mini. The swath of fabric not only signals vitality and confidence, but also independence from...
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mcgeeorlean
- Aug 11, 2022
- 4 min
Art + History ~ The Beauty and the Fight
1948 Miss America winner Beatrice (“BeBe”) Shopps had opinions. But that did not mean that she was free to express them. At some point on...
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 23, 2022
- 7 min
Teddy Girls: The Tailored Subculture
"No one paid much attention to the Teddy Girls before I did, though there was plenty on Teddy Boys. They were tough, these kids, they’d...
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 20, 2021
- 4 min
The Evolution of Beauty (Book Review)
Riordan, Teresa. Inventing Beauty: A History of Innovations That Have Made Us Beautiful. New York: Broadway Books, 2004. x + 307 pp....
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 18, 2021
- 5 min
Art + History ~ History's Love Affair with 'Red'
Can the exploration of a color be a way to take an artistic swan dive into history? Absolutely. And, if the color is red, then positively...
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 13, 2021
- 6 min
Art + History - Film & World War I
In a 2015 interview with Interview Magazine, horror film auteur John Carpenter (Halloween) declared, “horror is a reaction, not a genre”...
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 11, 2021
- 18 min
The Cinematic Manufacturing of Sophistication (Book Review)
Jacobs, Lea. The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. x +358 pp. Preface,...
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 10, 2021
- 13 min
1920s - The Women of the New Negro Movement (Book Review)
Chapman, Erin D. Prove it On Me: New Negroes, Sex and Popular Culture in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 114 pp....
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mcgeeorlean
- Jan 10, 2021
- 21 min
When Cinema Rewrites History: The Civil War's Film Legacy (Book Review)
Chadwick, Bruce. The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film. New York: Vintage Books, 2002. x + 366 pp. Notes, bibliography, index....
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