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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Audience Reception"”.
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The Monstrous Side of Humanity: A Generic, Narrative, and Audience Reception Analysis of True Blood
… the theoretical lenses of genre, narrative, and audience reception. Specifically, this study examined the series' adherence to the gothic vampire subgenre, the way the series functions as an allegorical narrative, and the audience reception principles demonstrated by viewers of the series. …
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¡Viva la Raza! : using audience reception theory to identify the American hegemonic influences of early Mechicana/o theatre.
Using audience reception theory, the aim of this work is to determine the factors that manipulated and influenced the experience and success of the musical Zoot Suit. Whilst studying archival records of the production's reviews, this essay will also analyze the influence the media and newspapers …
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Why do Channel 4 and the BBC portray disability and disability sport differently? Analysing the production processes and audience reception of mediated sport
This thesis focuses on the perceptions of the audience/media professionals on the nature of the content on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Channel 4 – a mainstream commercial television broadcaster in the UK. It investigates whether Channel 4 portrays disability in shows which are …
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Unpacking American Reception of Glocalized Non-English Content in the Netflix Era
… However, while a lot is known about what audiences see, far less is known about how they really understand and assess these stories. There is a fundamental vacuum in our understanding of audience reception as a lived, meaning-making process because previous research has mostly focused on …
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Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.
… rules and representations. The study expands on audience reception research to account for children's "readings" of digital games. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is used to study gaming relationships. Combining SNA with broadly ethnographic methods provided a systematic way of investigating …
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Accessible theatre: the application of human ethology and innate neurobiological systems to full-masked devised theatre practice
… performance that is largely accessible to audiences of every age, social background and culture. The study is original and contributes to knowledge in two distinct ways; it is to this researcher’s knowledge the only such research that examines the relationship between the devising processes …
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Methods of Revision in Sixteenth-Century English Cycle Drama
… response to local concerns, economic change, or audience reception.</p>
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The politics of enjoyment: the media viewing preferences and practices of young higher-educated Chinese
… neglected areas of Chinese studies: audience reception and foreign entertainment via largely non-regulated downloading and pirate DVDs. The dissertation shows how higher educated Chinese youth use their new semi-illicit media freedom to structure their own social and political …
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Ideological Sinicization of China Central Television in Africa A Reception Analysis of African Audiences
… in 2009. This research is aimed at conducting a reception analysis of the African audiences of CCTV-Africa from the perspective of critical political and economic media studies. The focus of this research is not limited to the audience reception of the media content produced by CCTV-Africa but …
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Introducing a new medium : newspaper reviews of the first film screenings in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and New York in 1896
… these reviews/articles are also useful for audience reception analysis, as well as discourse analysis. Through examination of the advertising for these first shows, one can follow the movements of the various film systems around the four cities. One can also track the interest threshold of …
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The construction of meaning in Hollywood and music video editing aesthetics: A comparison between the pre-television and music television generations.
Film or television editing influences how audiences construct meaning. Since the advent of music videos, traditional Hollywood editing conventions have been evolving into a new form characterized by quickly changing, almost dizzying, images. Evidence of this evolution has surfaced in contemporary …
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Videogame culture as transnational media: one neoliberalism, many resistances
… transnational media production and transnational audience reception in productive ways. At their best, they offer new ways to critique digital capitalism as well as its shadowy obverse, financialized neocolonialism. I conclude that videogames have become an important space for anti-neoliberal …
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An Afrocentric Cultural Study of Buum Oka Dance Yaounde and Perceptions of its Relevance to African (-Canadian) Students Between the Ages of 18 and 25 in the City of Regina
… historical production, its representation and audience reception to determine to what extent such a dance could serve as tool for liberation. Its findings, based mainly on interviews of six students, three males and three females, from the City of Regina, illustrate the perceived relevance of …
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Simulating Disempowerment: The Rhetoric and Reception of Social Realism in Video Games
As the medium’s audience has diversified and grown, video games occupy an increasingly significant role in cultural and ideological fabric of society. As a result, the past two decades have witnessed a boom in video game research. Many studies associated with this field have been effective in …
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The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces: Site-specific Performance and Audience Labour
… develops a theory for analyzing the role of audiences as aesthetic resources in contemporary site-specific performance and relational art. Collaborating with three Canadian companies as a participant-observer, interviewer, and in some cases, documenter, I develop case studies that track …
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Dissociations in Acting: An investigation of how existing and emergent acting methodologies may be used to create new knowledge and practice, informed by and in response to dissociative identity disorder
… observations, as well as the creation and audience reception of bespoke performances created for two projects. The theoretical principles of this study centre upon key practitioners such as Mark Seton, Bryony Kimmings and Bobby Baker. The research is influenced by the work started in …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… derived from poststructuralist theory and audience reception studies, the first aspect of this tri-partite investigation examines the macro context of this episode's production in the United States in 1992, and identifies competing constructions of 'motherhood' and 'the family' circulating …
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Exploring audience responses to self-reflexivity in television narratives
… authorship, their intertextual influences, their reception, or their enunciation" (Stam, 1985, p. xiii). This paper expands Olson's (1987) framework for discussing self-reflexive (Olson calls self-reflexivity "meta-television") statements based on the referent. This study proposes a framework also …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… This dissertation analyzes evidence of audience reception in order to assess the effects of Gone with the Wind's version of Lost Cause collective memory on the construction of the Old South, Civil War, and Lost Cause in the American imagination from 1936 to 2016. By utilizing the concept …
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Media Mimicry - How ‘Mimic Vlogs’ Emulate User-Generated Content in Online Stories
… limits our understanding of the videos and how audiences respond and interact with them. However, while formats associated with user-generated content such as mimic vlogs offer an opportunity to tell online stories in novel and interesting ways, they also have the capacity to mislead audiences …
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