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Showing 1 to 20 of 749 for “"Popular culture"”.
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Technological uncertainties and popular culture
This thesis is an inquiry into possibilities and problems of a sociology of translation. Beginning with a recognition that actor network theory represents a sociological account of social life premised upon on recognition of multiple ontologies, interruptions and translations, the thesis proceeds …
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History in Australian popular culture : 1972-1995
… and Social Sciences. In History in Australian Popular Culture 1972-1995, I focus on an intersection of cultural studies with history. However, I do not debate the competing claims of 'history' and 'cultural studies' as academic projects. Rather, I examine the role played by historical discourse …
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Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture
… of the historical Nazi – in the various media of popular culture is both disturbing and fascinating. There is an important relationship between the ‘Nazi’ and its audience; related to but separate from the historical Nazi, the creation and reception of the ‘Nazi’ both enables and exemplifies the …
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Innovative representations of trauma: trauma in popular culture
… late twentieth- and early twenty-first century popular culture. Dominant cultural trauma theory tends to focus on high cultural avant-garde works. However, more recent studies increasingly examine trauma representation in popular culture. This thesis sets out to add to these studies, uncovering …
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Fake Realities: Assassination and Race in Popular Culture
… are followers of Islam. Elements of American popular culture since 9/11 have portrayed assassination, with the antagonists generally being of Middle-Eastern or Muslim descent while the protagonist being a white American or from a country allied with the United States who is involved in the …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… literary phenomenon that moves “beyond culture of origin” (Damrosch 199) and inhabits the “world literary space” (Pascale 281). Would his novels, therefore, stand as materialization of Goethe’s humanist cosmopolitan vision upon the coinage of the term world literature? Many cultural …
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A critical postmodern response to multiculturalism in popular culture
… identity and representation in North American popular media. The first case considers vocal impersonation as a disruption to the visual primacy of race by examining the stand-up comedy films of Dave Chappelle, Russell Peters, and Margaret Cho. The second case turns to the postmodern bodies of …
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
… people, their lives and their interactions with popular culture in 1950s Ireland. Popular culture is contextualised within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the rise of mass culture. Understanding the social structures of young …
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Crossing Borders, Crossing Genders: Queer Approaches to Popular Culture
Popular culture poses the most direct route to understanding how everyday people grapple with identity and power. Popular culture simultaneously promotes inclusion and diversity, while constricting it into an easily consumable and profitable form. This project approaches the popular from three …
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Deconstructing Michael Jordan: Popular Culture, Politics, and Postmodern America
… current ubiquity in the diverse networks of the popular media, Jordan has largely been neglected by critical cultural analysts. In redressing what is clearly a serious oversight in contemporary cultural understanding, this dissertation provides a critical deconstruction of Jordan's place within a …
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Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture
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Representations of law in popular culture: Knowledge constructions, media deconstructions
… law and analyses its representations in popular culture. Law is a powerful institution within western society with a regulatory role that is supported by a range of complementary discourses that accord with society's dominant cultural values. This thesis proposes that while such …
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Because, x: A new construction of because in popular culture
<p>This thesis explores the new language fad, <em>Because, X,</em> which originated on the Internet and was named the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year in 2013. Since the construction is relatively recent, there has been little formal research conducted on it beyond Internet articles and …
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Sacred Screens: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Islam in Popular Culture
<p>Popular media content creators have routinely drawn from religious concepts when seeking inspiration for new material. Developers in the West have traditionally relied heavily on Christian themes to supply new ideas. Now, more artists have begun to look towards Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and …
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Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
… generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition 'Tokyo Pop' at Hiratsuka Museum of Art in 1996 which included all four artists, to Murakami's group exhibition 'Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture' which opened in …
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Latinas Talk Back: The Latina Body, Citizenship, and Popular Culture
… of the Latina body across media institutions, popular culture, and lived experience. In particular, it asks: what is the discursive construction of the Latina body in mainstream U.S. and Latina/o popular culture and how do Latinas engage with these representations of their bodies? Within the …
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