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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Cultural representations"”.
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Diamonds: Cultural Representations and Transformations of a "Girl's Best Friend"
The great success of the advertising industry in the 1950s created a diamond culture where diamonds are continuously associated with images of love and devotion. With all of the diamond's positive associations, no one could have imagined that such a precious jewel could have negative connotations. …
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A Dark Reflection of Society: Analyzing Cultural Representations of State Control in Black Mirror
… found in Channel 4’s Black Mirror in relation to cultural fears of state control and the progression of technology. The themes, including state power and coercion, the spectacle of punishment, and panoptic surveillance, are placed in a popular criminological framework in order to examine the …
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The village shop and rural life in nineteenth-century England: cultural representations and lived experience
… debates relating to the commercial history and cultural understanding of rural communities, the findings broadening our understanding of the history of rural retailers and the communities they served, shedding light on rural consumption and how changing attitudes to retailing, rural communities …
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The image of idiocy in nineteenth-century England : a history of cultural representations of intellectual disability
… emergence of new discourses. An examination of representations of idiocy over the century foregrounds the manner in which the condition was given shape and meaning. The dissertation traces the history of the idea of intellectual disability in England from the start of the nineteenth century up …
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The Need for Reform: Exploring Historical and Cultural Representations of Identity and Equality in Irish National Schools
… and the emergence of a perceived Irish cultural identity and its effects upon present school structure. The study was accomplished by using a variety of qualitative methodologies including data and statistical analysis, personal interviews, and examination of relevant textual evidence …
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Inquiry into the Latin and Spanish Cultural Presentations of Spanish First Year Textbooks
… qualitative research methodology to explore the cultural content of three first-year Spanish textbooks. These three textbooks are currently being used or have been used recently in the region of southeastern Georgia. The researcher seeks to discover what cultural aspects are actually being …
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In Her Place: Geographies of Urban Female Labor in Spanish Culture (1880--1931)
… working characters reveals that middle-class representations of working women result from a dominant conceptualization of class and gendered spaces in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spain. For that reason, my thesis draws a geography of urban female labor through the analysis of the …
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'LONDON UNDER ATTACK.' ANARCHIA E IMMAGINARIO URBANO.
… fin de siècle. Opening up to contemporary cultural representations in a post 9/11 age, this PhD dissertation tackles anarchic narrations like The Secret Agent by J. Conrad, Princess Casamassima by H. James and the graphic novel V for Vendetta in order to map the development of the terrorist …
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Wreckage, Hell, and Madness: American Drug Films and the Image of the User, 1923-1936
This paper is an exploration of the discursive, cultural transformations images of drug use and drug users have taken though some of America’s early film history. By exploring and unpacking the imagery and other expressive qualities of films centering on the topic of drug use, this paper attempts …
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Immigration and Sexual Citizenship: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Contemporary France
… recent work by anthropologists, sociologists and cultural theorists it explores the current debate over French identity--a debate that has to a considerable extent revolved around the impact of recent postwar immigration to France and the "integration" of immigrants on the cultural level, and of …
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Moving Forward Into the Past: The Role of the Belvedere Museum in the Construction and Representation of Austrian Identity
Overall, the national museum uses cultural representations to produce a selective view of the country's history and alters a community's historical consciousness. Yet in the long-term development of pluralistic, national identities, an easily recognizable heritage product is unsatisfactory for …
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Gendered and classed stereotyping : the effects of viewing Teen Mom
… serve a socialization function, communicating cultural values and expectations to audiences. Mediated representations of sociocultural groups such as gender, race/ethnicity, and class are thought to influence group-based attitudes and beliefs. Although class is a powerful social organizer in …
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'From local hero to national star?' : the changing cultural representation of the professional footballer in England, 1945-1984
… investigates continuities and changes in the cultural representation of the professional footballer in England, modifying one of the major existing assumptions that there was a transformation in his public persona from 'local hero' to 'national star'. It does this by establishing the context …
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‘Post Traumatic Web Disorder’: Navigating the Relationship between Humorous Representation of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Digital Spaces
This thesis examines the relationship between cultural representations of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the internet, focusing on how the subject of CSA is reformed and resituated in humorous ways through digital spaces. Through examples that range from humorous internet characters representing …
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Toward a philosophy of water: Politics of the pollution and damming along the Ganges River.
… second chapter, I describe various natural and cultural representations of the Ganges, accounting for physical features of the river, Hindu myths and rituals involving the river, and ecological crises characterized by the pollution and damming of the river. In my third and final chapter, I look …
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Re-imagining multiculturalism : how newness enters the world
… possibility of affecting change in official multiculturalism in Canada. It starts from the premise that the current policy and discourse of multiculturalism need to be re-evaluated in our evolving multi-racial and multi-ethnic landscape. Masala , the 1992 Canadian feature-fiction film, is used as …
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The Left Behind: Representations of Working-Class Masculinities in British Culture 1945-1989
This study offers an analysis of representations of white, heterosexual, working-class masculinities in British culture between 1945 and 1989. As the period that saw the establishment of the Welfare State, and the construction and breakdown of the post-war consensus in British politics, this is a …
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From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits
… racial representation, collective identity, and cultural authority. I conduct a systematic two-part investigation of exhibition practices across Black-owned/operated and mainstream museums, one of each in three different cities (Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; and Washington, DC). First, I explore …
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Constructing leather: professional and consumer accounts and experiences
… thesis is to identify and explore patterns of representations of leather and leather objects, and the ways in which they are used in the construction and management of identities.<br/><br/>The thesis begins with a review of theoretical conceptualizations of the relations between material …
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Rediasporizing Bahia: the lived experiences of blackness and the cultural politics of Bahian hip-hop
… in Salvador da Bahia are disrupting dominant representations of Afro-diasporic cultures and race in Brazil’s most “African” locale. Cultural representations, tourism groups, and government agencies commonly portray Salvador as brimming with exotic and premodern Africanisms through the …
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