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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Backstory"”.
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Urban Stratigraphy: The Backstory on Thirty-One Buffalo Blocks
Three miles east of downtown Buffalo, NY, the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood was the historic epicenter of the city’s Polish community starting in the 1880s. Using case studies, the following work investigates the natural and architectural history of one corner of the neighborhood, recognized in …
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Universal Background Generator 2.0
<p>This project is a backstory generator designed to create randomly rolled information and events that come together to create a short yet detailed background for any character for roleplay games, novels or other such media.</p>
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Pigments of Imagination: An Actor's Journey of Creating the Character of Jack Lawson from David Mamet's Race
… acting technique and analysis used to create the backstory and portrayal of the character; insight into the background and beliefs of playwright, David Mamet; and a personal review of my growth and performance.</p>
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Declare I Dare Not
… information rather than other means such as backstory and flashback, and it analyses these strategies in three historical novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession by Alison Weir. The novel chapters included are from Act III of Declare I …
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Truth Marching On: Documenting the Plan to Bring Robert F. Kennedy to the University of Mississippi in 1966
… to do the following: 1) summarize the necessary backstory of Kennedy’s 1966 visit to the university that is central to my film and paper; 2) provide information and analysis of the components that make up the short film, which include interviews, archival materials, and additional film …
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Reading Between the Lines: A Study of Dialogue in Two British Sitcoms
… as an exemplar of a humorous medium that forgoes backstory, making a comparison of two popular, but different, examples. The process was undertaken by first watching them performed, thereby experiencing the dialogue spoken aloud. This was followed by close reading of the scripts to eliminate any …
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Olly Olly Oxen Free
… Meant as a critique of the ideological uses of backstory in contemporary fiction, where revelations about a character’s past justify present behavior, Attributions is also an earnest exploration of how lasting trauma can shape behavior and the narrativization of experience. As each generation’s …
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“This will never happen in real life”: Cape Town tweens' responses to represented violence in digital games
… rules in the video game, which often included a backstory justifying retaliatory violence. A larger sample of children (n = 217) were surveyed on the potential congruence between support for retaliatory violence in video games and in their life-worlds. A moderate positive correlation (r = 0.424; …
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The Other Middle-earth: Intertextuality and Iconography in Sergei Iukhimov’s Illustrations for The Lord of the Rings
… examination of the cultural and socio-political backstory to Iukhimov’s work, tracing the history of Russian Tolkienism and translation from the early 1960s until the official publication of the G&G translation in 1993. The final chapter begins with a holistic survey of the corpus after which the …
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The Quest for Life and Intelligence in Digital Puppets.
… is uninhibited or influenced by its own ego, backstory, or emotions. Nevertheless, these properties are present in a channeled, and therefore changed, form that emanates from the Human in the Loop, namely, the digital puppeteer. In digital puppetry, the protagonist is a digital puppet operated …