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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Media and Cultural Studies"”.
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Unwrapping the wings of the television show The West Wing
… using John Fiske’s narrative analysis approach and Douglas Kellner’s multicultural and multiperspectival critical cultural theory. My initial venture into the show was more a chance to get away from commonplace television shows, such as family dramas and soap operas, than an opportunity to think …
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Being Jacques Villeneuve: Formula One, 'agency' and the fan
In this thesis, I analyse my fandom for the Formula One driver, Jacques Villeneuve. Despite its rampant commercialism, innovative mediation, prestige and popular status within global sport, Formula One is surprisingly an under-researched topic in academia. Moreover, 'intense' fandom has often been …
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Jewish Identity on American Television and Viewer Attitudes in an Era of Rising Anti-Semitism
<p>Research in media and cultural studies have shown that viewers form opinions regarding Jewish identity based on how Jewish characters are presented on screen. American entertainment has struggled with accurate portrayals of Jewish culture and characters; negative Jewish stereotypes frequently …
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Low Culture Fever: Pulp Science in Chinese Comics After Mao
… (*kexue puji lianhuanhua*) from the late 1970s and early 1980s, contending that, in taking children and the less educated as their primary audience, these understudied texts represent a doubly abject form of transmedia storytelling. In contrast with adaptations of works of revolutionary …
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Politicizing a film practice
This is a practice-based Ph. D. in filmmaking and concerns the generation of a radical film practice. It is situated in the field of no-budget experimental film and video making and deploys a combination of deconstruction and critical perspectives of cultural production in the construction of its …
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(Re)Defining Modest Sportswear through the Hijabi Habitus: Intersections of Faith, Fashion, and Function in Muslim Women’s Sportswear Design
… examines modest sportswear as a design and cultural field where faith-based embodiment, athletic performance, aesthetics, and digital visibility converge. Addressing a methodological and epistemic gap in modest fashion scholarship—particularly the absence of autoethnographic and …