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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Conjuring"”.
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Crafting, Conjuring, and the Aesthetic of Making: Towards a Materialistic Understanding of Fantasy
This dissertation provides a fresh understanding of the fantasy genre by studying its propensity for the concept of ‘making’. ‘Making’ here broadly encompasses the various practices and performances that generate the sense of the magical. These practices and performances can be collectively viewed …
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Representations of the Catholic Church in horror cinema: Demonology and exorcism in The Conjuring films
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan katolisen kirkon representaatiota osana Kirottu-elokuvia, etenkin demonologian ja eksorsismin kautta. Tutkimuskysymys onkin: Miten katolista kirkkoa representoidaan osana Kirottu-elokuvia? Katolisen kirkon representaatiota populaarikulttuurissa, etenkin kauhuelokuvissa, …
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Conjuring as a Critique of Medical Racism in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
… the 19th-century. This project uses a lens of conjuring, one of the most powerful and compelling forces in Chesnutt's work, to examine ways that The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales can be read as a subversion of 19th-century medical doctrine.
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When Suddenly the Limb Did Quiver
… the motivations, methods, and outcomes of the conjuring practice that is my graduate research. I am concerned with the notion of an encounter, a passing or touching between beings and objects especially those that go unnoticed, or barely so. Utilizing materials that possess heightened …
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Without These Things, I Would Be Invisible
… with personal materials that recall memories, conjuring a symbolic status that overrides their intended function. This body of work is my attempt to remember, find new articulations, and honour the complexities of my own experiences of grief and my obsession with objects.
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HOLY WATER CAR WASH (and other poems)
… their intuition as an oracle would, daughters conjuring faces with makeup, communities creating people from thin air and stories. The poems in this collection trail through ancient Greece, but also back roads, family kitchens, and even, yes, the Holy Water Car Wash on N. Main Street in Zwolle, …
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The Manual Alphabet
… from which I came, but also the elusive task of conjuring memory itself. My hope is that the content asserts a pastoral brand of banality while the hands of the manual alphabet embody a sense of the senses (sight, hearing) and the lack thereof (silences, deafness) while interpreting through a …
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Adaptive reuse and the museum : installing a museum in a preexisting shell
… a building is by itself a complicated problem, conjuring up questions about the relationship between the old and new parts of the structure. The reuse of the old building as a museum of art adds a new set of relationships, multiplying the interactions and enhancing the complexity. The analysis …
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The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre
… Rose (2005), The Last Exorcism (2010), and The Conjuring (2013). Results concluded that although filmmakers utilize a distinct formula of narrative stages and signature characters to represent contemporary exorcism, such elements were negotiated through each film’s construction. Additionally, …
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Enchantment, treasures and the otherworld in the Four Branches of the mabinogi.
… in particular, the role of natural magic to aid conjuring in Math. Alongside the discussion on enchantment is an analysis of the types and distribution of magical objects which demonstrates the purpose of these items in the Four Branches. This thesis discusses the synchronic themes of objects …
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… either been omitted entirely or conflated with conjuring tricks or shamanism. This conflation is understandable given the secrecy, artifice, and misinformation which enshroud the shapeshifting performances of mentalists and psychics. The aim of this practice-led research was to – through both …
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Unsayable Somethings: Modern American Poetry, Language, and the Logic of Experience
… addresses modern U.S. poetry's obsession with conjuring the unsayable. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the social and conceptual landscape that came to align the sayable with the cognitive and credible, while relegating alternative ways of knowing to the category of the unsayable. For various American …
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The Infrastructures of Occupation: Iraq, 2003 – 2012
… the instruments of monetary policy, while conjuring a new figure of financial subjectivity. The third and final chapter focuses on political infrastructure, examining the process of drafting of the constitution and the production of civil society organisations through an infrastructural …
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Staging memories: the imagined city through the mise-en-scène of photography
… The process of mise en scène is pivotal to the conjuring of the imagined city. The end results, the photographic images, are treated as souvenirs, embodying authentic experiences of the imagined city, and opening up sites for the play of desire.
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Feral objects and acts of domestic piracy: sculpture, secular magic, and strategies of feminist disruption
… as ‘secular magic’, the sleight-of-hand of conjuring (During, 2002), proposing that secular magic materialises feminine domestic disruption as the embodied encounter between (feminine) subject and (domestic) object. I argue that the trickery or sleight-of-hand required to construct …
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A critical analysis of three contentious elements of the South African general anti-avoidance rules
… interpretations of the provisions of the ITA in conjuring up avoidance arrangements. However, the analysis suggests the ‘misuse or abuse' test is redundant, given the establishment of the modern approach in interpreting statutes, proposing its repeal to avoid confusion and controversy. In Chapter …
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The Problem of Being the Problem: creating practice-based fieldworking along climate vulnerable coastlines
… ways of sensing such as ritual, augury, conjuring and incantation, as well as methods designed for extended sensing. These strategies are developed as means of sympathetic attunement to coastal ecologies that have long become compromised by carbon-intense imaginaries. The immersive …
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
… destruction of existing social structures but in conjuring up and bringing forth abolitionist futures?</p><p>In the growing body of academic literature on the subject, abolition is most often considered from the perspective of political theory. In media, contemporary abolitionists are often …
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Queer Checkpoints: Sexuality, Survival, and the Paradoxes of Sovereignty in Israel-Palestine
… justification for the violence of the state by conjuring the specter of the intolerant terrorist, who is always understood as the source of queer Palestinian suffering. The remainder of the dissertation draws on ethnographic fieldwork with queer Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… reveals an overlap between the business of the conjuring circle and the stage. Props, costumes, special effects, manner of speaking and so on were carefully described in books of magic attributed to Solomon, and these provided ripe inspiration for playwrights in particular. The first two …
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