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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Obscene"”.
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THE OBSCENE DEVICE. ARCHAEOLOGY OF IMMERSIVE PORNOGRAPHIES
This dissertation is devoted to examining the interplay between immersive devices and erotic-pornographic images. Employing a media archaeological approach, the research delves into technologies of the past to shed light on contemporary phenomena. Specifically, the stereoscope, in its various …
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Judicial Enforcers? Exploring Lower Federal Court Compliance in Regulating the Obscene
Although federal circuit and district court judges are placed within a federal hierarchy, and receive legal and judicial training that emphasizes the importance of the judicial framework and its structure, such judges are also subjected to other pressures such as the types of litigants within the …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
… the development and the regulation of Chinese ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates over the definition of …
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Out of Sight: Exploring Desire, Visuality and the Obscene through Photographic Practice
… research begins by exploring the notion of the obscene according to the Greek etymology of the term ob skene (of-stage), when violent parts of Greek plays were acted, not in front of the audience, but out of sight (Mey, 2007). In light of this concept, the practice-based research was conducted …
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A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
… of his legacy has been a vast collection of obscene publications, characterized by detailed descriptions of sexual torture and murder, along with philosophical diatribes that offer theoretical justifications for the atrocities. Not surprisingly, Sade's works have been subject to censorship …
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"Red alert in cyberspace": A battle over First Amendment privileges on the Internet
… of content, especially when dealing with obscene and indecent materials. The first chapter focuses on the inability of the American courts to specifically define what obscenity is and exactly where it falls within the realm of First Amendment protection. In that chapter, I discuss the …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… that spectres are performatively conjured as the obscene to any symbolic performance - including both historical acts as well as their rehearsal and restaging in re-enactment, testimony, or dramatisation; such spectres constitute a power that may be claimed by the performer. This power interacts …
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Realism, Fantasy, and the ‘H’ Certificate: Rethinking Horror Cinema in Britain during the 1940s
… appearances of reality, when confronting the obscene or the taboo hidden below this surface realism was deemed to be far more closely associated with ‘horrific’ fantasy. This thesis therefore looks beyond common perceptions of British cinema during this period through an analysis of …
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Rhetorical Imperialism
<p>José Donoso’s <em>The Obscene Bird of Night</em> is often described as a grotesque labyrinth of symbols and images representative of the Latin Boom literary moment. The novel’s purposefully ambiguous construction opens itself up to two opposing readings that reveal discrepancies and conflicts in …
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An Analysis of Cyberbullying Policies In Virginia Public School Districts
… including: 1) form of the speech, political or obscene, 2) school-sponsored speech, 3) severity of the disruption caused by the incident, 4) site(s) of the incident, and 5) if the incident rises to the level of a true threat. The study evaluates existing school district policies in addition to …
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Obscenities offstage: Melbourne’s gay saunas & the limits of representation
… to know the gay sauna, and yet let it remain 'obscene'.
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Dissecting the erotic : art and sexuality in mid-Victorian medical anatomy
… In the years immediately preceding the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 that defined the category of “pornography,” anatomical illustration was being purged of sexual connotations as part of an attempt to consolidate medicine as a respectable “profession.” In the eyes of this new …
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From Myth to Meth: Viewing the American Small Town Through the Lens of Psychoanalytica Fantasy
… the civilized city, where both idealistic and obscene fantasies can play out because they take place "out there" uncoupled from the influences and transformations of social progress.
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Lygių galimybių politikos įgyvendinimas Lietuvoje homoseksualių asmenų atžvilgiu /
… still experience it, hear insulting and obscene comments, experience attacks and humiliations, homosexuals tend to hide their sexual orientation. Homosexuals still cannot live as freely as all the other members of society: Lithuanian laws do not provide any possibilities for legalizing …
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The Extent of Computer Usage Among School Teachers and Students in Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam
… independent learning, but also leads children to obscene materials such as pornography. Moreover, teachers and students in primary schools are skilled in using computers but lack of trainings been among the major factor that facilitate to unprofessional skilled teachers, majority access computers …
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Some Controversial Problems Regarding Censorship
… Court upheld the right of the states to censor obscene literature and to prosecute those who violate the anti-obscenity laws. The Congress in recent years has spent months and thousands of dollars investigating the effect of movies, television and comic books on juvenile delinquents--needless to …
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The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour
… oral humour is personal and playful - at times obscene - but can also be critical. In texts it explores the comedy of characters as well as the irony of socio-political realities. In both oral and textual discourses the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Xhosa are exploited to create …
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Monstrosity on the Southwest Frontier: Grotesque Terrain, Body, and Voice in the Works of Henry Clay Lewis and George Washington Harris
… voices. What other critics see as perverse and obscene aesthetic failure, I see as coherent and purposive aesthetic accomplishment. These arcs are strategic and aesthetic tours de force, emblems of the instability at the heart of their creators’ transgressive grotesquerie.
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ORDINAL
… being observed. Ordinal is an exploration of obscene consumption. The images and words consumed can be understood to symbolize the consumption of the body. This piece may register as significant of a sexual act or acts, but is intended to be understood as solitary, selfish consumption in place …
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ORDINAL
… being observed. Ordinal is an exploration of obscene consumption. The images and words consumed can be understood to symbolize the consumption of the body. This piece may register as significant of a sexual act or acts, but is intended to be understood as solitary, selfish consumption in place …
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