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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Production of Culture"”.
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Craft Beer in the US: A Production of Culture Perspective
In this dissertation I use the production of culture perspective as a lens to analyze the emergence of craft beer in the US. In doing so, I examine how the six facets of the production of culture perspective have both constrained and stimulated the production of craft beer in the US. The six facets …
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Marginal formations and the production of culture: The case of college music
… music--music disseminated over the air waves of college radio stations and/or produced in college environments--emerged onto the national (and international) scene; it earned its own trade paper, the College Music Journal, its own chart in Rolling Stone, and it became the subject of music …
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Cuisine Worlds: Professional Cooking, Public Eating, and the Production of Culture in Contemporary Moscow
… industry, this dissertation explores the production and consumption of Moscow's postsocialist culinary culture and landscape. Approaching cuisine as both a social product and a cultural process, I examine the agents and avenues of the local globalization of culinary culture. In my …
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The Paradox of Creativity and Business in Feature Hollywood Filmmaking: The Relationship Between Motion Picture Production and Budgeting
… Hollywood filmmaking. To understand the effects of this relationship on the creative product, several films are analyzed within the production process where conflicts between the investors and creators are observed. A case study approach is guided by theories of the production of culture, which …
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Country Quares: (Dis)identification Discourse in Black Country Aesthetic
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways Black women and queer artists and their audiences employ country music as a way to facilitate a reclamation and complication of (Black) Americanness. The data for this study emerges from a qualitative content analysis of six music videos by Black …
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The Mexico City Metro: Appropriation and Assimilation of Foreign Technology To Stay on Track With Other Modern Capital Cities and To Produce a Technological and Cultural Marvel
This paper provides a review of the construction of the metro in Mexico City and evaluates themetro as a production of culture. The incorporation and Mexicanization of foreign technology allowed Mexico to build and service a metro while making it uniquely Mexican. The naming of the stations and the …
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Public participation GIS as a cultural process: cultural theory, participation references, and GIS-aided decision making among farmers in central Illinois
… public participation GIS (PPGIS), in the context of agricultural watershed management. The dissertation consists of three papers addressing theoretical and empirical questions that contribute to understanding how culture influences the design of public participation processes and affects the …
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A residual infrastructure. The rise and obsolescence of big satellite television dishes in Colombia
… dish arrived in the South American country of Colombia in 1970. Two decades later, hundreds of them covered the roofs of apartment buildings, community centers, and town halls all around the country. This dissertation follows the trajectory of big satellite dishes by looking at a network …
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Doctor Doom in The Marvel Age: an empirical approach to transmedia character coherence
… and statistical analysis to the field of Comics Studies and uses tools developed from current theories of transmedia storytelling to generate a new empirically driven thirteen-dimensional model of character coherence. The model is tested using a sample of comics featuring the Marvel …
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Producing Popularity: The Success in France of the Comics Series "Astérix le Gaulois"
This study examines the rise in popularity of the French comics series "Astérix le Gaulois" through a production-of-culture lens in an effort to uncover how industry evolution and organization, protectionist legislation, marketing, advertising, branding, and consecration by the media worked …
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The Protection of television formats: intellectual property and market based strategies.
… with Britain alone accounting for nearly half of all format hours broadcast annually worldwide. Yet, there is no such thing as a television format right under copyright law. Any producer is free to develop game, reality and talent shows that are based on similar ideas. This research analyses …
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Crafting Legitimacy: Status Shifts, Critical Discourse, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Cultural Field of Craft Beer in the United States from 2002 to 2017
Over the last few decades, the production and consumption of craft beer in the United States has witnessed a spectacular increase. According to the Brewer's Association (2020), there were approximately 89 breweries operating in the United States in 1978 compared to 8,386 in 2019. Along with this …
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Uno Studio Comparativo della Produzione Artistica tra l'Opera di Pechino e il Melodrama Italiano
… Melodrama are important treasures in the history of world music, not only witnessing the development of Chinese and European music respectively, but also gradually developing into the most important musical forms in China and Europe, occupying an important position in the “hall” of world music. …
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An analysis of distributors' roles in the film market: revisiting the second renaissance of the Korean film industry based on sociological perspectives
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the Korean film industry has experienced a series of prodigious shifts, including a sudden growth of domestic film ticket sales. Although scholars have performed diverse research focusing on the causes and effects of the shifts, most findings from their …
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Genetic epistemology and the sociology of knowledge
… in certain shortcomings in the sociology of knowledge and in sociological theory generally. Among such shortcomings are: an unnecessarily restricted conception of knowledge, the neglect of contemporary findings in biology and psychology, and the oversocialized conception of humankind and …
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An investigation of influences on strategic decision-making in popular recorded music industry micro-enterprises
… the United States. Although a significant body of literature has examined the SDM processes in high-tech firms, manufacturers and other specialty industries, very little has been learned about strategic decision-making within the music industry. Eight cases were used to look at what influences …
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Performing the paradoxes of intellectual property.: A practice-led investigation into the increasingly conflicting relationship between copyright and art.
This thesis explores the paradoxes of intellectual property from a practicing artistic perspective. It is the outcome of a practice-led interdisciplinary research that was conducted as a response to an act of copyright-related censorship.<br/>The hypothesis of this study is that art practices based …
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Exodus industrious : a new American dream for the next industrial revolution
… arrive at a critical moment in the history of the Americanism. Exodus is the story of capitalism and industry, and its antithetical decline which destabilizes a nation. Industrious is the story of the American Dream, a prodigal tale of the excess of Americanism, which was once rooted in a …
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(Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture
<p>The dominant cartography of post-Revolutionary Mexico has relied upon strategic constructions of a unified and homogenized national and cultural consciousness (mexicanidad), in order to invent and map a coherent image of imagined community. These strategic boundaries of mexicanidad have also …
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The Struggle for Space : Youth Participation in 'Ngoma' groups in Globalizing Tanzania
… ngoma groups, audiences, teachers and theatre professionals from both Iringa and Dar es Salaam. Focus group discussions (FGD), participant performing researcher (PPR), questionnaires, documentary review and key informants interviews (KII) were the methods chosen for collecting data. Moreover, the …