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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Creating characters"”.
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Physical emergence
An examination of the physical development of characters through improvisation and experimentation. The physical process of acting is a vital part of creating characters for the stage. This thesis is about the discovery of the value of that system, and finding a trust in the process of physical …
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… abnormality during their time and formulated mad characters that worked to destabilize the medical perceptions of madness as behavioral deviations from social normalcies, and instead portrayed madness as a pathological form of genius or knowledge. Additionally, these fictional depictions helped …
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Agent + Image : how the television image estabilizes identity in TV spy series
… Bergson's formulations of memory and image, creating characters and spaces within TV stories that vividly illustrate the limitations to and potentials for creativity within the domains of action and identity. In addition to Butler and Bergson, this paper turns additionally to Gilles Deleuze …
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Unmasking Masks An Analysis of Psychological Physical and Virtual Masks as applied to Intellectual Property(IP) Character Design in Branding and Marketing Strategies
… increasing cultural and commercial impact of IP characters in media and branding, particularly in East Asia. Positioning IP characters as contemporary "masks," this thesis argues that they not only reflect but also construct symbolic and affective identities in a digital–consumer context. Despite …
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Affective synthetic characters
… architecture for modeling interactive synthetic characters. The other is a practical one: to build believable synthetic characters that we can interact with, utilizing our best understanding of animal behavior in creating characters that are perceived as sympathetic and empathetic to humans. We …
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Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine
… which she is still remembered and admired. These characters are feisty, fiercely feminine, and have left an indelible impression on critics and audiences alike. What is it about her that enabled Patil to create these portrayals with such honesty and intensity? This thesis looks at her persona, as …
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"Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified": Materialism and Commercialism in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
… brought with them a post-war economy that was creating a middle class that suddenly had disposal income and leisure time. To O’Connor, this translated into a culture that was becoming increasingly more distracted by the secular and material, and moving farther and farther away from the …
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El caso de Mateo Alemán: La interaccion entre el derecho y la literatura en el informe de la mina de mercurio de Almaden y <i>El Guzman de Alfarache</i>
… literary and rhetoric tools to give voices to characters who narrate their lives in texts susceptible of being analyzed as Literature. Alemán elevates the category to this people –Foucault’s infamous men or docile bodies- by granting them a voice; creating characters who actually don’t have …