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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Critical/Cultural Studies"”.
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Playful Labors: Narrative, Work and Digital Games
"This dissertation applies a critical cultural studies approach to digital gaming. Specifically, I examine the strategic simulation genre, often called ""god games,"" such as SimCity, Civilization , and The Sims. Two ideas guide the various readings and analyses of digital games. First, despite …
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Transmission: Premium Television Characters Outside of the Gender Binary
… (sex, gender, orientation, and transgender) and critical/cultural studies (encoding, decoding, and reading a text) are explained as a basis for the analysis of the characters, which seeks to answer the research question: does the premium-pay-cable television format offer truly empathetic …
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Towards the Enhancement of a Critical Cultural Paradigm in Health Communication: An Examination of the Impact of Paradigmatic Structures
… will be examined through a positivistic and critical cultural studies paradigm. This work will then examine underlying assumptions related to theoretical approaches in health communication.</p> <p>With the primary argument of this work being that the dominant approaches in Healthcare …
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Circuits of race: Consumption of colorism in Nivea’s “Natural Fairness”campaign
… to expand theories of public relations from critical cultural studies perspectives.</p>
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Buzz by Bravo: a trendsetting niche network’s place within contemporary television
… television, industry, network, and audience studies with thematic analyses to reinforce the impossibility of studying television in our contemporary moment without each of these components. This project straddles the boundaries of several paradigms. Informed by critical branding and …
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Detroit's Sport Spaces And The Rhetoric Of Consumption
<p>This dissertation argues how Detroit’s spaces of sport consumption rhetorically configure the city’s identity. Specifically, this project interrogates the city’s sports spaces and argues how they anchor identity in the following ways: through the production of accessible discourses, through the …
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The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives
This dissertation examines the role of gendered authorship in the U.S. film industry and focuses on how women’s directorial labor is represented in film history and its accumulated archives. Specifically, the project evaluates women’s labor in the cinematic paradigm of second wave exploitation …