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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Political commentary"”.
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Contemporary Art and Food: An Examination of Three Case Studies Using Anthropology and Diaspora as Key.
… modernity and technology underlying social and political commentary. It continued throughout the 1960s with performance art, conceptual art, and happenings, and in the 1970s with the Fluxus movement’s exploration of the boundaries between art and life. During the 1980s and 1990s, food through …
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Marionettes and metaphor : political satire in the photographs of Tina Modotti
… as relatively straightforward social and political constructs. This thesis shall investigate Modotti's placement within Mexican post-revolutionary political and social drama and consider her cultural and aesthetic production as expressions of class, gender, national and artistic identity. …
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The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre
… for an appraisal of the future of postmodern political philosophy. Each chapter is divided into sections on Rationality, The Self, and Politics and Society, in part to try to simplify and make accessible their often complex and vague theses, but also as an attempt to reflect how their own …
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Cityscapes of exclusion: representation of the favela, favelados and figures of authority with specfic reference to cidade de deus
… stylised set pieces and a prevalent socio-political commentary draws greater parallels with Cinema Novo's "esthetic of hunger" (Rocha, 1997 [1965]: 59-61) and ttalian Neorealism's "aesthetics of rejection" (Liehm, 1984: 132). In Cidade cia Deus we see the emergence of an aesthetics of …
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Urban Playhouse : a Chinese communal drama in seven acts
The thesis examines the social-political issues resulting from the immense expansion of mundane housing developments in China under a totalitarian state. Initially influenced by the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the four to six-story slab housing blocks became a prevalent model for efficiency and …
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Gagging for it: irony, innuendo and the politics of subversion in women’s comic performance on the post-1880 London music-hall stage and its resonance in contemporary practice
… performances frequently served as ironic socio-political commentary on their lives and experiences. Making use of a range of critical approaches from areas as diverse as performance history and historiography, contemporary approaches to gender and comedy, performance theory, humour theory and …
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The (family) firm : representation and power in the British royal family
… shows, websites, social media outputs, cartoons, political commentary, fan/anti-monarchy publications, public opinion polls and surveys, government reports, palace documents and legal archives; to more material phenomena such as monarchy memorabilia and tourist sites around the UK. Centrally, this …
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Hidden Doublings: A Context for Understanding Jean d'Arras's Mélusine ou la Noble Histoire de Lusignan
… be seen, not only as a fantastical story, but as political commentary. Jean d’Arras glorifies the Duke of Berry, his patron, by connecting him to a supernatural being, but he also suggests throughout the narration, that the true justification for nobility and political power is not a supernatural …
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"And if Men Might also Imitate her Virtues" An Examination of Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Hagiographies of the Female Saints of Ely and Their Role in the Creation of Historic Memory
… were used to engage in memory creation and political criticism by examining them as postcolonial discourse.In it, I study the hagiographies written about the royal female saints of Ely by the Flemish monk Goscelin of Saint-Bertin in the late eleventh century as a form of postcolonial …
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Facing the Wall: Screening through Alienation and Separation
… identities appear increasingly permeable, political walls by contrast reappear around the world. Such barriers produce restrictive political spaces and delimited perspectives; however, they also demarcate the psychological conditions and historical imaginaries of those they keep apart. …
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The power of political commentators in the age of social media
… analyses the power and democratic function of political commentators writing for legacy newspapers in contemporary Norway. Although such commentators are highly visible in the public debate, this study finds that their overall readership has decreased significantly in the last decade. …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
… and stupidity; the use of animals' characters in political commentary; as well as in the economic and erotic didactics in Archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures. Judging from the frequency of their appearance, it seems that animals are one of the preferred ways through which people …
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Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
… to the West), the Fela Kuti of hip life musical political commentary. Hip life is popular beyond the ten regions of Ghana. It has established roots globally and is distributed around the world to reach the diaspora. This entry of hip life into the world music spectrum has significantly increased …
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This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
… Like Mine and is correlated to her emerging political consciousness (specific to race and gender) and the concern for racial violence during the Black Liberation period. The examination of recurrent themes in Your Blues reveals a direct relationship to Campbell's activism at the University of …