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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"'the gaze'"”.
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an empirical access (via visual processes of the gaze) to a knowable reality, and …
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Exploring Individual’s Explanations of Economic Mobility through the Gaze of Intersectionality
<p>This study looks at whether or not adopting intersectionality as a theoretical framework allows for a better understanding of individual’s explanations of economic mobility, rather than examining variables such as race, gender, and class as mutually exclusive from one another. The reason for …
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Subversion of the gaze Degas and the social implications of his Dancers
… to be women of ill-repute, yet Degas shows them hard at work. I believe that Degas purposefully set out to chronicle the plight of working women as part of his commitment to realism in art. Looking at his series of ballet paintings and contrasting them with the works of other contemporary …
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Navigating the Gaze: Young People's Intimate Knowledge with Surveilled Spaces at School
<p>The 1980s introduced numerous state and federal policies that created a similar ideology of discipline and punishment in the educational system and the criminal justice system, a phenomenon known today as the school-to-prison pipeline. Several critical elements are involved in the production and …
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Deciphering the Real through Artifice: A Study of the Gaze in Victorian Art
This thesis explores how the gaze is utilized to find hidden truth in Charlotte Brontë's first novel, The Professor, the early work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and George Eliot's novella, "The Lifted Veil." Brontë's narrator and protagonist of The Professor is an obsessive gazer who decodes …
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Michel Foucault’s panopticism and dystopian discourses: the asymmetry of the gaze in philosophy and film /
… relations and film mechanisms. By reconsidering the circumstances in which panoptic power dispositifs were established within the context of Foucault’s works, and by drawing on his texts, as well as Michel de Certeau’s idea of the colonization of panoptic power microtechniques, a new …
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Kalabari Masquerade and the gaze: identity and spectatorship in the sculptures of Sokari Douglass Camp
… himself by wearing an intricate costume. The costume propels the dancer into the mystical spiritual realm, where through the effectiveness of his performance he is believed to temporarily be possessed by a higher spirit. The single performer, however, cannot attain this state without the …
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Irresistible grace : excerpt from a novel, and, Looking back: on writing, travel and the gaze : an essay
This thesis consists of a creative component, the first half of a novel, ‘Irresistible Grace’, and an exegesis, ‘Looking back: On writing, travel and the gaze.’ The novel begins in Manchester and centres on Caitlin, an Australian woman in her late twenties, who learns of her partner Pedro’s affair. …
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Implementation of a line attractor-based model of the gaze holding integrator using nonlinear spiking neuron models
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
The thesis adopts a post-colonial approach to examine the relationship between historical and contemporary visual representations of Jamaica and identifies the repeated visual associations made with blackness and servitude, and whiteness with luxury from the colonial period in Jamaica and the …
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Exploring the acute affect of de-coupled batting drills on the gaze behaviour and decision-making of elite baseball players
… batters utilize context-specific information and gaze behaviour to aid decision-making and performance. However, typical practice and warm-up activities often lack relevant context-specific information and visual cues that exist in competition. This study’s purpose was to examine if drills varying …
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The Turning Point of Who Shall Be Master: Killer of Sheep, Naming, Gender, and the Gaze of African American Women
… <em>Killer of Sheep</em> directly responded to the then-popular Blaxploitation genre, holding a mirror up to post-Watts, 1970s America, while exposing and exploring gender and race issues. Moreover, intentionally or not, Burnett, with this film, effectively demonstrated the lack of recognition …
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Relationality and theories of the gaze: an analysis of the black female body archetype in the work of contemporary African artists
The colonial archive is marred by a history of violence, particularly in its reductionist and hypersexualized portrayals of Black bodies, especially those of Black women. This problem is rooted in colonialism, racialized misogyny, and the commodification of Black bodies for the entertainment and …
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A Confronting of the Gaze: A Study of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order, and its Communities in Amman, Jordan and Calgary, Canada
This study focuses on the history, teachings and culture of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi order whose roots in North Africa emerge in mid-19th century Palestine with the arrival of its founder, Shaykh Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti. To this end, this thesis constructs the biographies of the founder …
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To Be Loved Is To Be Seen: Gazing as a Form of Interpretation in the Turn of the Screw
<p>The heated discourse that would follow Henry James’s novella “The Turn of the Screw” centered on whether the ghosts were real or not. With Shoshana Felman’s groundbreaking article “Turning the Screw of Interpretation” a new-found focus on the ambiguities, as opposed to finding a singular, …
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The role of social cues in the involuntary attribution of intentionality.
Predicting the behavior of others is crucial in social interactions and requires sophisticated cognitive mechanisms with which to do so. In order to make a more informed prediction, it is necessary to integrate information about the mental state and intentions of the actor with the perception of …
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