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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Contemporary Popular Culture"”.
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(School) girl power : the construction and contradiction of the cultural figure of the schoolgirl across contemporary popular culture
Girls are significant consumers of media and popular culture. As the girl power movement gained popularity alongside the rise of postfeminism in the late 1990s, representations of girls were held to demonstrate model citizenship. With schoolgirls being representative of almost all women and girls, …
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The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting
… events can ignite public controversy and attract popular attention than that of violence. A fascinating new development - human cage fighting - has generated massive audiences and significant media attention. Existing beneath the visceral spectacle of mediated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is an …
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Umthonyama
… and contested belonging within the evolving culture of amaXhosa people. Black queer performance practitioners, are practically and theoretically foregrounded in this thesis to demonstrate the sophisticated ways in which we become visible, create space, and locate ourselves within the culture. …
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… but continues to gain momentum in other areas of contemporary popular culture as well, evident in television series such as American Horror Story.
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Panography
… the figure of Pan into the backwoods of contemporary northern Ontario, on the fringes of a rural community. This idea owes much to Knut Hamsun's novel Pan , which places a Pan-like protagonist on the outskirts of a Norwegian village. Unlike Hamsun's Pan, Panography overtly acknowledges …
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Latinas Talk Back: The Latina Body, Citizenship, and Popular Culture
… of the Latina body across media institutions, popular culture, and lived experience. In particular, it asks: what is the discursive construction of the Latina body in mainstream U.S. and Latina/o popular culture and how do Latinas engage with these representations of their bodies? Within the …
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Dialogic Convergences of Spatiality, Racial Identity, and the American Cultural Imagination
… offers observations of race and space from a popular culture perspective; namely, this chapter analyzes the visual imagery and lyrics in two music videos - “APES**T” by The Carters and “This is America” by Childish Gambino. This analysis provides a take on how racial and spatial issues have …
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Whoretography – The Sex Worker As Image-Maker: A critical analysis of sex workers’ self-representation in online public spaces
… imagination and remains a steadfast part of contemporary popular culture. However, the ways in which sex workers photograph themselves remain largely unknown. The sex worker is considered an image-sitter who is never viewed in her capacity as a 21st-century image-maker. Hence, the nature of …
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Bringing up baby: representations of lone motherhood in modern popular culture
… combines textual analysis of selected texts from popular television and film with empirical data collected during seminars conducted with groups of teenage, female college students and young single mothers. The texts studied were chosen from television soap opera and situation comedy (both of …
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Stylizing, Commodifying, and Disciplining Real Bodies: An Examination of WWE Wrestling
… audience, commodification, and discipline in contemporary popular culture and media.</p> <p>I use three approaches in this study. First, I apply the theory of culture industry, developed by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, to understand WWE wrestling. I examine how the WWE thoroughly …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… literary phenomenon that moves “beyond culture of origin” (Damrosch 199) and inhabits the “world literary space” (Pascale 281). Would his novels, therefore, stand as materialization of Goethe’s humanist cosmopolitan vision upon the coinage of the term world literature? Many cultural …