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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Creative Adaptation"”.
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Securing Their Place: The Ba'alawi, Prophetic Piety and the Islamic resurgence in Indonesia
… Indonesia In particular, it observes their creative adaptation and manipulation of their sufi path, Tariqa 'Alawiyya, in their attempt to secure their place within the wider imagination of Indonesian nationhood while protecting their distinctive genealogical eminence. In the twentieth …
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… offered an array of radical possibilities for creative adaptation. Morris's broad reading in newly recovered medieval texts, his library of manuscripts and woodcut books, and his personal experience of medieval domestic architecture were more instrumental in developing his sense of the past …
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A place for West Side Story (1961): Gender, race, and tragedy in Hollywood's adaptation
… paper, I explore the film West Side Story as an adaptation in order to demonstrate how Hollywood’s conventions impact the show. The effects of the Production Code, the star system, and the practice of dubbing the actors all had a significant impact on the film. More than that, alterations made to …
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"Post Your Version Here!": Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations
<p>Processes of creative adaptation no longer fit traditional, culturally sanctioned forms, like commercial book-to-film adaptation, or vice versa. Meanwhile, internet users are demonstrating how noncommercial, creative text adaptation using video technology has become an everyday art form, a skill …
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Stuck in the middle: A case study of conflict experiences by a first-time community college president
… negotiate these differences in order to enhance creative adaptation of a community college to its changing environment.</p><p>This study explores the experiences and responses to conflict of a community college president using a field case study method and grounded theory approach. Interviews …
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The Miserere Tradition from the Cathedral of Santiago de Guatemala
… culture characterized by pragmatism, agency, and creative adaptation amidst significant socioeconomic and political challenges.A central finding in this research is the identification of a pervasive, distinct local performance tradition: a patterned alternation in which odd-numbered psalm verses …
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Transitional Justice, Decolonisation, and the Legitimation of Political Change in Contemporary South Africa
… justice would have to be decolonized for a creative adaptation that will stimulate continued processes for change and emancipatory transformation. In decolonization, a few things unravel: (i) we begin to understand why societies that have undergone transitional justice sometimes relapse to …
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Scriptwriting and the Transformation of Realities: A Critical Discussion of Story Creation, Transformation and Transmedia Storytelling in Animation, Comics and Computer Games
… thesis focusses on what the activity of writing creatively for a variety of media may reveal of a medium from the stages of pre-production. <br/><br/>The Fallow Narratives (developed at the University of South Wales) was created to explore the specificities of a medium, transmedia storytelling …