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Stephen E Hunt has produced the definitive account of Street Farm (Graham Caine, Peter Crump and Bruce Haggart), a London-based collective of anarchist architects working in the early 1970s. The three friends put together Street Farmer,... more
The end of revolution. The transformation in the conception and way of living the making of history in the Italian social movements of the 70s This article focuses on the Italian social movements of the 70s in order to grasp a crucial... more
RON DOUD'S life reads like a film, but with a tragic ending. Doud grew up and studied interior design at Seattle, graduating in 1970. Decades before Grunge rock, Seattle did have an active counter-culture in the 1960s but for young Doud... more
Through the years and the mediums Mexican women have been depicted with different meanings and ways. One very important medium that has been significant in capturing the experience of Latin America women has been photography. Thus the... more
Historical and feminist reflections on Louise Brown the first "test-tube baby," born July 1978.
Introduction from "A Secret History of the Ollie" in PDF form. No illustrations are included. Published March 3, 2015.
The main problems encountered when researching recent contemporary art in an academic rather than a curatorial or art-critical context are, on the one hand, the lack of archives and sources and, on the other, the fact that the actors and... more
The Generation of Normalization: The Lost Hope of the Czech Cinema? Prague: NFA 2017, 256 p.
"For the master's tools," the poet Audre Lorde wrote, "will never dismantle the master's house." Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the... more
John Berger’s warnings around the gaze in Ways of Seeing and the discourses surrounding NASA’s Blue Marble, the 1972 image of the whole Earth from space, propose a visual practice based on vision as inculcating an alienating objectivity.... more
Early academic article on McCartney's songs during/after the Beatles. This focuses on themes of time and nostalgia alongside musical innovation in a selection of McCartney songs, 1963-2001. Some of my later publications on McCartney (and... more
In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywood’s own history of... more
In 1974, Melbourne teenager Jennifer Sketchley started keeping a daily diary. It continued until 1985, describing everyday life as a schoolgirl, leaving school at the age of 16, studying by correspondence and entering the workforce. She... more
This essay reconsiders the constituencies of fans and detractors present at disco's 1970s prime and subsequent bursting. It argues for a more gender-inclusive conception of disco's multiracial ‘gay’ revellers and for a particular... more
This essay recommends a revised framework for approaching periodicals by putting the Bay Area Dadaists’ 1970s “Dadazines” into dialogue with San Francisco punk zines, and by linking these periodicals with each group’s performances. For... more
A review of recent Bowie books (Future Nostalgia and Enchanting Bowie) that examine the rock star's desire to test the limits of the gendered body.
Die Arbeit mit Performance wurde zu einem Kernelement der frühen F+F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung in Zürich.
From The British Abroad since the Eighteenth Century: Volume 1 Travellers and Tourists, edited with Xavier Guegan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
In the 1970s, several young, innovative directors released horror films that benefited from the techniques of exploitation marketing. These films became infamous not only because they delivered a level of violence and brutality that had... more
The publication of the sixth volume of the official history of the BBC, Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation 1974‐1987 by Jean Seaton is reviewed. The book is found to contain numerous errors, mis‐statements of facts and... more
Der Beitrag untersucht den sexualwissenschaftlichen Diskurs um Pädophilie zwischen 1960 und 1995 beispielhaft anhand der Schriftenreihe „Beiträge zur Sexualforschung“ sowie der Fachzeitschriften „Sexualmedizin“ und „Journal of Sex... more
This essay was published in the American magazine "Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge", 28, summer 2015: The american artist Hermine Freed's video work "Art Herstory" (1974) is unfamiliar to most people today. By means of... more
De todos os elementos que distanciam o cinema moderno da estrutura romanesca que fundou o filme narrativo clássico, é provável que nenhum tenha sido mais importante para Rogério Sganzerla que a concepção de personagem...
Après une première sortie annulée en 2013 pour des raisons obscures (a été mentionné un blocage de la part de la veuve Giraud en raison d'une possible violation des droits concernant les dessins de son mari, largement présents dans le... more
https://academic.oup.com/gh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerhis/ghy067/5091968?redirectedFrom=fulltext My review of the first two academic monographs on Krautrock, published in the journal "German History": (1) Alexander... more
In this study, approaches of political parties in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to Cyprus Issue will be examined. Although it is impossible to oversee contributions and effects of guarantor states and international... more
Deze paper is een analyse van de parlementaire werkzaamheden tussen 1970 en 1975, ter voorbereiding van een nieuwe drugswetgeving. In de jaren zeventig van vorige eeuw is er een verschil ontstaan in de wetgeving én in de maatschappelijke... more
After the original one was canceled in 2013 for obscure reasons (it was speculated that the widow Giraud objected due to alleged copyright infringement concerning her late husband's drawings, prominently featured in the film), Frank... more
Ten years in the making, An Alternative Seventies: the last age of Radicalism is a revisionist look at design and styling in the 1970s and sets out to demolish the long-established fallacy that all is hideous from this decade. Diligent... more
A look at the ways that plotlines, visuals, and soundtracks of American "Made-For-TV" Movies about teen runaway girls evolved over the 1970s decade, subliminally promoting an increasingly conservative ideology to both parental and teen... more
This paper deals with the question of eroticism in feminist art in the 1970s - a hot topic wich divided feminists.
Ouvrage désormais accessible sur CAIRN : https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-theatrales-2008-3.htm Placée sous le signe du quotidien, une part importante de la production théâtrale des années 1970 est marquée par la volonté de faire... more