The American movie industry did not have to develop into the Hollywood dream factory. There were educative, religious, explicitly political, and other non-commercial alternative arrangements to America’s film industry. These alternatives, along with principles such as film free speech and movie propaganda, had to be cast aside by the emerging moguls of Hollywood. Conflicts with the vanquished liquor industries, moral and economic regulatory concerns, Republican Party politics, and the resurgent Klan all shaped the classic Hollywood system from 1906 to 1927, a 20-year period in which the American film industry depoliticized the Hollywood movie screen, shedding its democratic and propagandistic definitions for the politics of publicity and entertainment as a service to Americans. Developments in this infant industry also shaped the broader trajectory of American consumer capitalism toward big producer control and the self-regulation of the industry’s social effects.

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This thesis has traces the legal encounters of a crusading newspaper editor by the name of George R. Dale in Muncie, Indiana, during the 1920's. The influence a revived Ku Klux Klan had upon the local courts was explored in detail. This study explored in depth the legal harassment suffered by one who challenged Klan supremacy in Indiana.Local court records were diligently researched in an attempt to properly analyze the charges of criminal libel, carrying a concealed weapon, violating the liquor laws held against the independent editor in the local circuit court. In addition, the work dealt specifically with the contempt citations received by the fiery newspaperman while defending the above mentioned charges. Moreover, the costly and tortuous course of appeal was discussed as most of these proceedings were appealed to the Indiana and United States Supreme Courts.Moreover, the latter portion of the paper attempts to predict the changes that might result in our Anglo-American system of jurisprudence as a result of this series of cases.

This thesis contains a descriptive study of antiCatholic/alien content in The Fiery Cross and Dawn. In addition, the paper includes a history of anti-Catholicism to put the study period into perspective and discusses the sociological reasons for the upsurge in anti-Catholicism during' the early 1900s.Not only was a list of traditional anti-Catholic/The so was a group of themes peculiar to the times, e. g., the massive immigration to the United States of unlettered foreigners, most of whom happened to be Catholic.Although slurs against Negroes were printed in Fiery Cross and Dawn, it is quite clear that both newspapers were predominantly vehicles for anti-Catholic/alien propaganda from 1922-1924.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-327). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-327). Also available on the Internet.

Hedersrelaterat våld är ett fenomen som under de senaste 15 åren har uppmärksammats i Sverige. Tidigare undersökningar tyder på att det riskerar att finnas en brist på kunskap från yrkesverksamma som arbetar med dessa ärenden, det verkar också finnas en osäkerhet kring hur man på bästa sätt hanterar problematiken med hedersrelaterat våld. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur verksamheter som arbetar med hedersrelaterat våld upplever sitt samarbete med socialtjänsten insatser i frågor som rör hedersrelaterat våld. Studien baseras på en kvalitativ metod som bygger på semistrukturerade intervjuer, och utgår från 3 olika verksamheter i Göteborgs kommun som arbetar med hedersrelaterat våld och samarbetar med socialtjänsten. Många teman var återkommande genom de intervjuer som var relaterade till hur respondenterna upplevt hantering av hedersrelaterade fall. Dessa teman delades in i olika subteman: Kunskap och förståelse 1) Makt 2) Resurser 3) För att möjliggöra tolkning och förståelse i analysen användes teorier från tidigare forskning, vilka kopplades samman med upplevelser från intervjupersonerna.   Resultatet visade att det finns brister beträffande hedersrelaterat våld som innefattar både brist på kunskap och resurser i området, vilket resulterade i brist på säkerhet och förtroende hos klienter. Resultatet visade också att sambandet mellan kunskap och resurser var vagt, vilket innebär att de professionella inte alltid visste hur man skulle hjälpa offer.  Bristen på kunskap utgör i sin tur att de utsatta inte får de insatser och stöd som behövs. Kunskap blir således en livslinje för socialarbetaren för att kunna lokalisera rätt resurser samt utöva sin makt som behövs för att hjälpa de som faller offer för hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Denna studie indikerar att mer forskning behövs som ger nya perspektiv på ett arbete med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck

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The thesis examines the role of women in the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s. The author seeks to analyze the following aspects: the main goal is to prove that the foundation and the very existence of the women's auxiliary (WKKK) points to inner tensions within the movement. The WKKK, therefore, can be used as a model or a case study in order to highlight all the issues the Klan had to face, from financial struggles and various allegations to transient and unstable membership. Secondly, the author sets out to verify whether and to what degree WKKK members legitimized the Klan, be it from the outside (public opinion) or from the inside. The author also places emphasis on the fact that the Klan should not be primarily viewed as a violent racist organization, but as a group of members who felt threatened by the outside world from which they needed to shelter themselves. Social life of the Klan and what role Klanswomen had, charity work, or interventions in local affairs play a vital role in this thesis as a result. Last but not least, proper understanding of primary sources is essential. They are obviously highly subjective and serve as a prime example of how reality differed from what was stated. (W)KKK pamphlets and writings were colored by fear of the so-called "other". Most texts written by...