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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Caricatures"”.
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Face Verification with Veridical and Caricatured Images using Prominent Attributes
Caricatures, with their exaggerated features, offer a surprisingly efficient means for individuals to recognize each other compared to veridical (real) images. However, it is still a difficult task in machine learning to match veridical images to caricatures. This is due to the poor quality of …
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Looking for a Simplicity Principle in the Perception of Human Walking Motion
… the caricature effect that subjects can identify caricatures of familiar stimuli more accurately than veridicals. Our design was to compare walker caricatures generated in our two schemes in the hope of finding that one gives caricatures that benefit identification more than the other, from which …
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La compréhension de la métaphore dans les images.
… publicité, dans les campagnes sociales, dans les caricatures politiques ou encore dans l’Art). L’objectif de ce travail est de créer une base de connaissances de métaphores picturales en examinant leur composition (topiques, véhicules). Les cinq études expérimentales réalisées examinent la …
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Uncovering strata: an investigation into the graphic innovations of geologist Henry T. De la Beche
… De la Beche also designed and drew scientific caricatures that encapsulated the theoretical debates of the day, as well as the social, cultural, and historical influences on the emerging theories of geology. These scientific caricatures have emerged as instructional graphics with significant …
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An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
… transformed these early depictions into female caricatures that reinforced a very different system of values with respect to female agency. This study uses changes in texts, both narrative and iconographic, to illuminate subtly changing cycles of gender politics within the larger cultural and …
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We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image
… the African American race by challenging racial caricatures prominent in American society. Washington's New Negro was patterned after Washington's own personality and was a respectable, Christian, southern African-American. This study also shows that the New Negro was a racial uplift strategy …
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Deslanting the Lens
… film. From the early days of “yellowface” to caricatures like Long Duck Dong, Asian men have been relegated to perpetual foreigner status in American cinema. This paper will explore why the portrayal of Asian men has been limited to very specific ideas about Asian and Asian Americans are in …
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The Riddle of Turandot
… rarely appear in contemporary novels - except as caricatures.
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
… in the soap opera narratives and oppressive caricatures of African American women. It shows that these caricatures have been commercialized through the hip hop genre, questioning the potential for similar images of coloured identity to be normalized and therefore problematizes coloured …
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Irish Life and Character in Anglo-Irish and English Fiction During the Career of Maria Edgeworth
… A large percentage, however, are mere caricatures—the creations of those writers who wished to satisfy a British public that only wanted to be amused.</p>
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"""To take for truth the test of ridicule"": Public perceptions, political controversy, and English political caricature, 1815-1821"
… structure of the country. The contemporary caricatures which satirically and sometimes savagely attacked the government, however, indicate that a variety of beliefs and traditional concepts helped to form public perceptions about the causes and implications of large-scale domestic …
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Doubter Come Home from a Drowning of Vision
… and who they are as individuals, rather than the caricatures wrestlers often play, are the core concerns of this opening section. Knotcraft, the second half of the collection, offers a mix of lyric, narrative, and formal poetry. As in Slingshot Catapult, common threads running through and between …
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Scholarly figures and the conventions of mockery on the early modern English stage
… with literary precedent for their intellectual caricatures.
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Buffalo Bill and the Great Western Story
… are used as examples of figures that have become caricatures in service to a greater narrative about the American West. This paper argues for the inefficacy of considering any one narrative as “history” instead recommending a close reading of many different narratives. Three different Western …
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Frances Ellen Colenso, 1849-1887 : her life and times in relation to the Victorian stereotype of the middle class English woman
… creature, has been one of the most popular caricatures of the nineteenth century. Recent research into this hitherto largely ignored social class has begun to re-adjust this image. The stereotyped distressed gentlewoman who emigrated to Australia and New Zealand for instance has recently …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
… <i>The In-Between World of Vikram Lall</i> caricatures one of these "Asian Shylocks" to critique the diaspora's class politics and, simultaneously, the racism and xenophobia that led to their 1969 mass deportation from Uganda by Idi Amin. Vassanji's focalizer weaponizes capital accumulation …
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Shakespeare and England's Empire, 1780-1800.
… of Shakespeare by women artists and writers, caricatures that reference Shakespeare during these years, the use made of Shakespeare by prominent individuals to formulate their identities in the context of empire and the debates on the Quebec Bill in London’s parliament in May 1791. The thesis …
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Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century
… By examining celebrity productions, portraits, caricatures, and performances as elements to producing celebrity, I demonstrate how the audiences used these public figures to create complex narratives regarding class, femininity, masculinity, marriage, nationalism, among others. Ultimately, the …
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Detecting Deepfakes with Human Help to Help Humans Detect Deepfakes
… indicator of doctoring that we call deepfake caricatures: a targeted distortion that reveals the fake nature of deepfakes, while rendering real videos virtually untouched (see Figure 1-1). This targeted distortion takes the form of an amplification of unnatural areas in a fake video, dubbed …
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Pray for the lights to go out: the portrayal of Blacks in Kansas City published sheet music
… Collections and include lullabies, minstrel caricatures, and a series on deacons. The lyrics and musical demarcation are analyzed for the demonstrated perception in each piece. Analysis includes genre along with associations and connotations with the songs' intended audience and venue. …
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