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...Ann Ngoc Tran Abstract This article theorizes and historicizes soap, a medical “gift” distributed by the US military to villages and hamlets in South Vietnam, as a commodity and as an infrastructure in the American war in Vietnam. During the war, soap not only operated as a tool to clean those...

... time, however, closeted soap opera viewers, talk show aficionados, and romance fiction junkies emerged and bore witness to the pleasures they somewhat guiltily experienced. What we discovered that first night was that we readily reduced the popular culture interests of others and then only...

... of the board is a line of six bars of hand soap (Lava, Camay), and on the sandwich board are the words, Whoneeds advertising? What’s the real difference in these soaps?” On lifting up the board, an answer: “Producers of goods that are virtually the same as their competition-flour, seeds, soap...

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... these infrastructures forcefully in her essay on the imperial and insurgent traffic in soap during the Vietnam War. Moreover, the displacements and dislocations set in motion by the Vietnam War also went on to shape the domestic geographies of everyday life in Louisiana, as exemplified by how New Orleans’s eastern...

... of Reagan’s America, some items reflect more venerable craft traditions. Care- fully preserved in the Eureka collection of collectibles, for example, is a bar of soap in which an eleven-year old girl has sculpted Reagan’s likeness. The accompanying documentation (A la Buddy Hough) includes...

... University, the Escuela de Estudios Univer- sitarios Real Madrid, and UC Berkeley. Her research has included agrarian politics in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, representations of Africa in Chinese soap operas, and multiple aspects of sport, gender, and development. Glen Thompson is a research...

... the paradigm of ideological domination, it was also proposed that there could be "progressive"or "subversive" texts. Ingenious critics discovered what they characterized as opposition- al practices in all sorts of genres, from seemingly conventional 1950s melodrama to television soap operas. Meanwhile...

... the advertisers who has not taken this step identification is equally important. Can the Negro identify ith your product? Can the Negro identify with the ad that promisesyovelier, whiter hands with ABC soap?" Because of the Negro's history of suppression his need to be "invited" to try...

..." and spent "profoundly unhappy times." He also worked as a writer for the Federal 97 Writers' Project and as an actor in radio soap operas where he "usually was cast as a gangster," and "the surreal nature of his work made itself felt." It was in becoming...

... gained ground on the stage. However, the plots and scenarios of melodrama, together with its ability to deliver an emotional punch, were adopted by the silent cinema and echo in popular dramatic narratives such as the soap opera right up to today. The historians and critics who wrote about...

... make a radio address to describe his principles and rally the people. Two scenes break through the plot twists and soap opera conven- tions to reveal the message behind the lamentations for a lost America. In one scene, Andrei walks down a White House hallway (there's still a puppet...

..., and I defend Larraín’s representation of the television campaign as a deciding factor for the victory of the no vote. Film Synopsis The film opens and concludes with scenes in René’s slick advertising agency where he is promoting the latest soap opera and pitching commercials for consumer prod...

.... Even retailers picked up on the family theme. In 1994 the Body Shop mail- order catalog featured the Year of the Family Soap, manufactured to commemo- rate the declaration of the Year of the Family by the United Nations. Despite the soap’s superfi cially androgynous...

..., and in doing so brought the samba schools from working-class neighborhoods together in the central celebra- tion. As a result, a samba school like Vai-Vai, which originated in Bela Vista, is now simply considered the old working-class group?2 Radio soap operas no doubt played a similar role...

..., and in doing so brought the samba schools from working-class neighborhoods together in the central celebra- tion. As a result, a samba school like Vai-Vai, which originated in Bela Vista, is now simply considered the old working-class group?2 Radio soap operas no doubt played a similar role...

... it either as a soap dish or for coins, pins, and other small items. Natalia was very much invested in seeing the bowl as a reminder of the treasures now tucked away in her pile that would eventually find the light of Manalansan | Mess, Migration, and Queer Lives   101...

... nations have also faced their share of mercury problems, through, for example, fungicides in Iraq or gold-mining runoff in Latin America. In sub-Saharan Africa concerns about mercury stem not from its use in industrial practice but rather from its function as a key agent in skin-lightening soaps...