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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Popular Narratives"”.
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Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976
… dissertation calls for a reconsideration of popular narratives and visual media created by or written about trans people in the United States prior to Stonewall. Grounded in research conducted at the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, the ONE Archives at the University of …
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Reading between the lines, 1839-1939 : popular narratives of the Afghan frontier
… on the rise and fall of public appetites for narratives of Afghanistan.
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Reconstructing whiteness in Ambrose Bierce
… studies. It compares Bierce's work to the popular literature. Its primary investigation is into the ideological project of white-identity and national reunion as it is played out in sentimentalist war memoirs and plantation romances that flooded the market at the end of the 19th century. …
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The Expanded 'Verse: Serialized Transmediality in Firefly/Serenity
Popular narratives often extend textual content across multiple media platforms, creating transmedia stories. Recent scholarship has stressed the permeability of "the text," suggesting that the framework of a text, made up of paratexts including trailers and DVD extras, must be included in textual …
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Vampire narratives: Looking at queer-centric experiences in comparison to hetero-centric norms in order to model a new queer vampiric experience
<p>This thesis examines vampire narratives such as <em>Twilight</em>, <em>The Vampire Diaries</em>, <em>True Blood</em>, <em>From Dusk Till Dawn</em>, <em>The Gilda Stories</em>, and <em>Fledgling</em> using queer and sexuality studies frameworks to look at salient patterns in the texts. The …
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Policing the Project: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing
… into the criminal-legal system. Writing against popular narratives of public housing as an inherent site of crime and violence, this project instead positions the police—and, by extension, the state—as a central contributor to violence in these spaces. That is, far from mitigating crime, policing …
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Jouer (dans) le texte : des jeux de rôle aux médias interactifs narratifs informatisés
The introduction of interactivity to popular narratives has changed the relationships of authors and readers to those works, as well as the relations between the authors and readers themselves. In fact, the nature itself of those new texts is being put to question as they are no longer set but …
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Monstrum : the vampire in the detective story /
… between monsters and 'others', and between popular narratives and postmodern religion have faded, culminating in a character that can not only model 'otherness' as an exemplary condition, but also provide strategies for modeling the form of active postmodern subjectivity that postmodern …
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The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
… how King and Malcolm X are anthologized in five popular Readers: The Bedford Reader, Rereading America, Patterns for College Writing, The Conscious Reader, and A World of Ideas. By intertwining the historical-critical method and narratives from my own experiences teaching Malcolm X and King from …
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From masculine myths to girl power realities: The athletic female body and the legend of Title IX
… a nationally celebrated and highly commodified popular icon. According to popular narratives, this change in cultural perceptions can easily be explained as the “natural” outgrowth of the second-wave feminist movement, the fitness boom, and more specifically, America’s commitment to gender …
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Aesthetic Citizenship: Popular Culture, Migrant Youth, and the Making of 'World Class' Delhi
… uncertainty, are utilizing globally circulating popular cultural forms to make themselves visible in a moment when the city strives to recast its image as a world class destination for roaming capital (Roy, 2011). I focus on two super diverse settlement communities in South Delhi to explore the …
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All Stalin's men? Soldierly masculinities in the Soviet war effort, 1938-1945
… only men’s preeminence, but also official and popular narratives of a masculine ethic of national defense that stretched back to the Russian Revolution. The chapters of this dissertation explore the ways in which masculine values and priorities from the 1930s persisted in the Red Army despite …
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Family, politics and popular television: an ethnographic study of viewing an Indian serial melodrama
This thesis explores the popularity in India of a contemporary prime time television serial, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Because Mother-in-law was Once a Daughter-in-law) which is now the longest running serial in India. Locating the emergence of this new genre of ‘family serial melodrama’ in …
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Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw
… used this malleable state of memory to construct popular narratives. The most common narrative that has been seized upon by right-wing factions in both countries, and which has been supported by the official state memory institutions, is the false demographic separation of Communist era Germany …
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Chernobyl journey: process and subversion in woman’s self-reflexive animation
… when I attempted to evade politically loaded popular narratives that I found constraining. Despite my intentions, the film quickly became both more political and more subversive when I designated myself as the subject. Observing other examples of women’s self-reflexive animation, I noticed …
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A Dream Denied: The Fight Against the Mass Eviction of Families in Chicago and Jacksonville, USA
… racialized homeowners with a voice, dispelling popular narratives that portray them as irresponsible borrowers who bought more than they could afford. Instead, everyday Americans were victims of a discriminatory financial system that preyed upon the historical disadvantages of African Americans …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
This dissertation studies Latin American narratives of crime in the twenty-first century, arguing that these texts waver between the hyper-rationality of the crime fiction genre, and an affective state of paranoia. This project argues for a new understanding of crime fiction in the region, one that …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
… existing scholarship only partially explains how narratives of the past are forged in Central and Eastern Europe. This gap in research is pressing especially now, as the online sphere is polarising, and the past is being mobilised by political actors and authoritarian regimes to further …