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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Nudity"”.
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The Changing Face of Ralph Lauren's Advertising: A New Lifestyle Image and Increased Nudity
… the study examines the increased use of nudity and sexual imagery in Lauren's advertising. The findings were obtained by content analyzing all Ralph Lauren advertisements appearing in Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine from 1980 to 2000 (N=283). The study finds that Ralph Lauren lifestyle …
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Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture
Stephen Guy-Bray argues that though the story of Pygmalion has taken various forms in the nineteenth century, “it is often read as a story of artistic and sexual triumph” (447). But a sexual triumph for whom? My thesis addresses questions pertaining to how the nude female body is vieon the …
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Embodied shiftings to bridge actor-character dissonance
… limit the scope of the study, the focus was on nudity and the intimacy surrounding nudity in performance. The study used action research to strategise, implement and reflect on the practical intervention strategy. Data collection took place through practice- based experiences and observations. …
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The Use of Nakedness Imagery as Theological Language in the Old Testament
… aesthetic, penal, and military uses of nudity, and it demonstrates that these nations considered public nudity taboo. Chapter 4 examines the use of nakedness imagery in the Pentateuch. Genesis uses nakedness imagery to depict the original idyllic state of creation, the disorder after …
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Sexual and Non-Sexual Juvenile Offenders: Developmental Antecedents and Behavioral Outcomes
… maltreatment histories, childhood exposure to nudity and sexual activity, sexual crime characteristics, as well as non-sexual crime characteristics of juvenile sex offenders in residential treatment. Paper 2 focuses on the family characteristics and childhood experiences that predict group …
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Encountering Statues: Object Oriented Ontology And The Figure In A Sculptural Practice
… statues that allows us to be unsettled by their nudity, or the role touch plays in considering statues, and ultimately the history of the object itself. These findings are considered through a sustained engagement with Object Oriented Ontology (after Harman). Through this process, my initial …
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Intimacy Direction: A New Role in Contemporary Theatre Making
… for intimate scenes (namely those involving nudity or simulated sex), its core concepts can act as a model for other disciplines to re-define their relationship to power, inclusion, and sustainability.
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… whether female directors offer more balanced nudity, more diverse imagery, and less gazing of female bodies than their male counterparts. The feminist male gaze theory, developed in Mulvey’s (1975) essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” and subsequent revisions, examines some of these …
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CONSTRUCTING THE WEST IN CHINESE MAGAZINE ADVERTISING: A CONTENT AND SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS
… feature in, occupational status, the extent of nudity, and relation to product. When Western models were chosen for an ad, they served different roles than Chinese models. Close examination of individual advertisements from a semiotic perspective showed that Western female models were …
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The Guilty Pleasure of Watching Like Big Brother: Privacy Attitudes, Voyeurism & Reality Programs
… or semi-private settings, scenes containing nudity and scenes containing gossip contributed to the voyeuristic appeal of reality programs.
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"""Reverse pictures"": twentieth-century American portraiture and the subversion of the medico-photographic body"
… of indigenous “savagery” to justify their nudity. Deploying racial difference and hyper-masculinity as defenses against homophobic scrutiny, Hartley manipulated visual codes to circumvent public reproach. Chapter 2 examines the collaboration between Alfred Kinsey and the artists Paul …
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Recovering From Modesty: A Response to theAlteration of An Old Master At Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
… the museum's own stated educational goals. The nudity of the Christ Child on this altarpiece is integral to its religious, cultural, and art-historical origins. In conforming to the expectations of one segment of its audience, the museum has lost part of the history and therefore diminished the …
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The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation on Film in Adaptations of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and Washington Square
… into ineffectuality through his use of full nudity to capture the eye of the audience, ensuring that the film's images, rather than its story, are all that is remembered.
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Othered flesh : social-scientific and critical patial investigations into the tattooed ancient near eastern body as space and body in space
… communicativeness, honour and shame, humility, nudity, ordering, prominence, social norms, customs, and laws (originally referred to as Torah-orientation), and wholeness. The analysis of these values as they are applied to each of the aforementioned cultures allows for the establishment of the …
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Attitudes Toward Anonymous Public Nudes
While technologically-mediated expressions of sexuality have been previously studied, there is very little research regarding anonymous public nudes (APNs). APNs are nude photographs which are taken or cropped so as not to include the face or other identifying characteristics, and posted on the …