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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Aesthetic trends"”.
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Shedding Light on Dark Comedy: Humour and Aesthetics in British Dark Comedy Television
… the programmes may be distinguished primarily by aesthetic features, placing their rise on British television in a broader context of aesthetic trends towards a display of visual detail, spectacle, and excess that puts the private and the taboo on greater show. Using the theories of Freud, …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
“The Plastic Dynamism of the Human Aesthetic” is a critical anatomisation of the aesthetics at play in the morphological design of social robots. The thesis argues for a knowing and consciously engaged approach to the matter and materialisation of non-human bodies in a technologically-driven …
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Cross media promotion: entertainment industries and the trailer
… with these key issues, this thesis considers the aesthetics and emergence of the trailer in entertainment industries other than film and serves as a counterpoint to the cinema centric imbalance within the study of the trailer. Using a corpus of audiovisual texts identified as trailers through UK …
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The lifecycle of a social media beauty trend: a case study of the Instagram body. [Thesis]
… the typical manifestations of products and trends, chronicling their interactions with consumers from their introduction to their exit from the market. In the last decade especially, social media has established itself as both a breeding ground for beauty trends and a cultural meeting point …
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The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown
… as only the most visible manifestation of aesthetic trends already underway in both Europe and the United States. I subsequently address indeterminate music in the context of contemporaneous improvised music, following the critique laid out by George E. Lewis, and consider how it has been …