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Showing 1 to 20 of 1679 for “"Audiences"”.
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Community-engaged Theatre Audiences
Community-Engaged Theatre Audiences is an intervention into the reception of politically motivated, community-centered plays. This thesis aims to understand how individuals make meaning or sense out of these complicated sites of performance. It asks “what can scholars and artists learn about …
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Scottish television comedy audiences
… about the problematics of researching comedy and audiences qualitatively. The first part of the second half is a literature survey of selected examples of audience research which is translated from theory and epistemology, to methodology and technique in the next section which comprises a …
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Audiences in George Herbert's Poetry
… as a poet is to address simultaneously three audiences: the human readers, Herbert's extended congregation; the speaker himself, whom we sometimes recognize as Herbert speaking in his own voice; and God, who bends over Herbert's shoulder and, as the poetry asserts, guides the poet's hand--to …
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Uses and Gratification of Sports Media Audiences
… Thus, this thesis explores 1) sports media audiences' motivations to watch live NFL game broadcasts with others, 2) their gratifications as a consequence of the group watching, 3) their motivations to use sports Twitter while watching live NFL game broadcasts, 4) their gratifications as a …
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Cry wolf : an opera for young audiences
… Wolf is a seventy-minute chamber opera for young audiences based on characters from Aesop’s fables, with a libretto by William Glick. A semi-staged production was premiered in April 2017 at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin. The opera tells the story of the ‘Boy Who …
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Engaging with Online Audiences: A cross-country analysis of use of the Web for communicating biomedical science to public audiences.
… the Web is used to communicate science to public audiences. Through a review of the literature, it was found that biomedical research institutes can communicate information effectively by targeting content at particular segments of their audience; providing in-depth yet accessible information; …
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Nostrovia: Methods in Creating Immersive Theatre for Audiences
… Methods in Creating Immersive Theatre for Audiences, I explore the process and politics of creating an immersive dance theatre experience. Nostrovia was performed January 16th -18th 2020 at The Peacock Public House and reimagines the historical narrative of the Romanov family. This thesis …
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That Belongs In A Museum: Archaeology and Audiences
<p>Archaeology is a field that inspires interest and curiosity among people outside of the profession. Movies, television, newspapers, video games - numerous popular culture areas have featured archaeology or archaeologists at one time or another. However, archaeologists have fallen under criticism …
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POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION: VOICE, AUDIENCES, AND NARRATIVE AUTHORITY
Abstract The thesis addresses the non-realist trend of Iraqi fiction written after the US occupation of 2003. In particular, it focuses on the construction and characterisation of non-mimetic voices in this production. Within the frame of post-classical narratology, the thesis asks how the thematic …
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The nature of communication between scenography and its audiences
… of the scenographic and the way it works on its audiences. Scenography is inseparable from the performance event yet its particular material qualities draw on languages of the stage that appear to speak simultaneously with, but separately from, the textual and the gestural. This investigation …
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Directing Molière: Presenting the French Master to American Audiences
… of Molière by American directors for American audiences. How have his works been produced and reimagined by directors from his own country? What are the qualities of successful American productions of a French masterpiece? What is the best way to present these works to American audiences? How …
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Writing for the Audiences of a Freelance Web Site
Internet writing and web design.
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Television advertising and television audiences in contemporary South Africa
… analysis to gauge where the approaches to the audiences differed or converged. A number of strategies were observed, reflecting the advertisers' perceptions of the audiences' relationships with the economic and political establishments. Corporate advertisements often represent the diversity of …
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Hidden Museum: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour for Contemporary Audiences
… organizations and museums to engage with their audiences in a profound new way.</p>
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Acting Alone: Solo Female Performers, Their American Audiences, and Embodiment
<p>This project focuses on popular female entertainers--Olive Logan, Annie Oakley, Annette Kellerman, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Gypsy Rose Lee--who wrote and performed solo works at some point from the 1880s through the 1950s. Whether adopting the guise of a monologist, dancer, swimmer, or …
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Captive Audiences: Sound and the Senses in Civil War Prisons
Although Civil War historians assume that people in the past experienced the world through their senses, they rarely give explicit attention to nonvisual senses such as hearing and smell. This thesis takes nonvisual senses seriously. Unlike vision, hearing cannot be turned off, making sound and the …
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The Domestic Soundscape and beyond… presenting everyday sounds to audiences
… involved with presenting everyday sounds to audiences and proposes that these problems might in part be solved by forming new presentational strategies. Problems discussed include the difficulty of presenting everyday sounds to audiences who do not have access to the same information and …
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Collections : adapting the display of personal objects for different audiences
… of digital pictures according to their intended audiences. The goal is to create a graphical interface that supports the creation of fairly complex privacy decisions concerning the display of digital photographs. Simple graphics are used to enable the collector to create a wide range of audience …
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The effects of debater styles on audiences during televised political debates
… debate styles on television viewing audiences. The study used three separate gubernatorial debates with identical questionnaires attached to determine the behavioral traits viewers found most appealing in state level political candidates during organized, televised events. The author …
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