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61	The Struggle Against Bandits: The Cuban Revolution and Responses to CIA-Sponsored Counter-Revolutionary Activity, 1959-1963 Rossodivito, Anthony, M 01 January 2014 (has links) Following the 1959 victory of the Cuban revolution, the United States government along with the CIA and their Cuban émigré allies immediately undertook a campaign of subversion and terrorism against the Cuban revolution. From 1959 until 1963 a clandestine war was waged between supporters of the revolution and the counter-revolutionary organizations backed by Washington. This project is a new synthesis of this little-known story. It is an attempt to shed light on a little known aspect of the conflict between the United States government and the Cuban revolution by bringing together never-before seen primary sources, and utilizing the two distinct and separate historiographies from the U.S. and Cuba, concerning the clandestine struggle. This is the story of Cuba’s resistance to intervention, the organization of the counter- revolution, and finally how the constant defeat of CIA plots by the Cubans forced changes in U.S. strategy concerning intervention in Cuba and in other parts of the developing world that would have far-reaching and long-last effects. Thesis University of North Florida UNF United States -- Relations -- Cuba Arts and Humanities History United States History
62	Nine Lives: A History of Cat Women, Subversive Femininity, and Transgressive Archetypes in Film Barnett, Katrina 08 1900 (has links) The intention of this thesis is to identify and analyze the cat woman archetype as a contemporary extension of the transgressive witch archetype, which rampantly appears over the course of cinema history, working as a signifier of a patriarchal society's fear of autonomous and subversive women. The character of Catwoman is the ultimate representation for this archetype on grounds of her visibility, longevity, and ability to return again and again. More importantly, Catwoman and her sisterhood of cat women work against male creators as a means of female empowerment through trickery. Within this thesis, key films of varying genres are drawn from throughout cinema history and analyzed in order to demonstrate the intertextual network of characters that make up the cat woman archetype, and the importance of the Catwoman character in her many forms. Catwoman subversive women witches femme fatale female archetypes in film cats and women cat goddess female sexuality strong willed women female laughter womens laughter unruly women patriarchal storytelling batman returns bringing up baby war of the roses that darn cat bell book and candle cat people the dark knight rises batman television curse of the cat people tomb of ligeia the blue bird cat girl gale sondergaard michelle pfieffer anne hathaway eartha kitt julie newmar halle berry nastassja kinski paul schrader tim burton island of lost souls panther woman katharine hepburn cary grant christopher nolan female resurrection Cinema Gender Studies Women's Studies

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The Struggle Against Bandits: The Cuban Revolution and Responses to CIA-Sponsored Counter-Revolutionary Activity, 1959-1963

Nine Lives: A History of Cat Women, Subversive Femininity, and Transgressive Archetypes in Film