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...exhibit confronts queer theory from myriad artistic perspectives. In one work, images of 1950s magazine models are intermixed with depictions of lesbian love under the Clairol logo “Does She, or Doesn’t She?” Another image presents an alternative depiction of Eve, showing the biblical figure as a man holding two apples up as breasts. Other works are confrontational, like a portrait of a naked woman pointing a gun and a “Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” a collection of snapshots...
...1950s, the African National Congress (ANC) organized a massive non-violent campaign against apartheid. Songs like “Nkosi Sikelel’i,” the People’s Anthem, a prayer for peace and harmony, accompanied the rallies...
...says Rentschler, Heimatfilms of the 1930s “became a vehicle for privileging native soil, seeing native space as having to be protected from outsiders”—but by the 1950s, “the homeland was no longer about the same militant national identity, but about a psychological need to deal with upheaval” and create a new identity...
This subtle difference between Nazi and post-Nazi Heimatfilms seemed insignificant to critics of the German films of the 1950s. These critics, young German filmmakers of the 1960s, rebelled against a film industry that had been used to promote Hitler...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Michael Caine is garnering some of the best reviews of his career for his role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton...