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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Puppets"”.
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Puppets in chaos: airlines, regulators and strings
An examination of the relationships between competition and the deregulation and liberalisation of the US and European air transport sectors reveals that the structure of the air transport sector is undergoing a number of significant changes: a growing number of airlines are entering into …
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The Quest for Life and Intelligence in Digital Puppets.
… the same spontaneity and animation[1] in digital puppets as it is with tangible puppets and, if so, what are the mechanisms involved? Unable to find a three-dimensional computer graphics digital puppetry software and hardware solution, I have devised what I call the GLOPPID[2] method, where …
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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology
This project argues that traditional puppetry offers a practice-based approach to think through political and ethical issues in technology and communication. Drawing on three summers of ethnographic participant engagement at Bread and Puppet Theater, a historic and internationally famous political …
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Puppets between human, animal and machine: towards the modes of movement contesting the anthropocentric view of life in animation
… depictions demonstrate anthropocentric views of puppets, I consider religio-philosophical, scientific and aesthetic discourses on puppets and human/animal simulacra. Further, I explore a selection of puppet-as-puppet figures as alternatives to these anthropocentric conventions, examining their …
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The use of puppetry in dramatherapy to enhance communication, especially in children with an autism spectrum disorder
This dissertation analyses the use of puppets in a therapeutic setting. It aims to analyse the ways in which puppets can be used to elicit communication in therapy, especially with children who have an autistic spectrum disorder. This analysis will be made by (1) defining autism and dramatherapy …
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The Incorporation of Puppetry into Reading Instruction
… course of five weeks and included students using puppets with reader's theatre scripts as well as trade books. The students taking part participated in a twenty minute puppetry center where they were encouraged to incorporate puppets into their reading activities. Data were analyzed using …
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Design and Construction of the Audrey II Puppet Series for the Play <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em>.
… Shop of Horrors</em> (Ashman, 1982). The puppets were to be created with consideration for the production space, budget, and operator ease, along with audience impact. This paper will present the design and construction in a step by step-bystep fashion using illustrations and photographic …
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Need To Be Adored
… theory. My thesis is a project. I make things: puppets, videos and performances, which included the exhibition, Need to be Adored (2014), staged in the digital media lab of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition introduced thirteen of my …
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Towards a national puppet centre for the Lebanon
… the times of the Pharaohs and Mesopotamians, puppets and masked actors communicated myths and legends in religious rituals and festivals. Later, puppets continued under Islam to communicate secular themes and narratives. Puppets, by their nature, involve the concept of alienation and enable …
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Fairness expectations in the first year of life
… divide two cookies equally between two animated puppets (1:1), and they detected a violation when she divided them unfairly instead (2:0). The same positive result was obtained whether the experimenter gave the cookies one by one to the puppets (Experiments 1–2) or first separated them onto …
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
… dissertation will explore the way Philip treats puppets and masks as pseudo-sacred objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines the …
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Objects in Protest: Bread and Puppet Theater's (Non)Human Solidarities
… studies, I consider both the bread and the puppets as they intersect with various assemblages and fields of interpretation. These configurations demonstrate how the objects embody (non)human, material, and conceptual aspects. Because of this ability to exist within the meshes of binaries, …
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Connections Between Voice and Design in Puppetry: A Case-Study
Puppets have been entertaining, educating, and mesmerizing American audiences since the birth of our nation. Both in live theatrical events and TV/film, audiences have watched puppeteers bring their puppet characters to life with clever voice quality choices, unique characterizations, and vivid …
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Creating resonance in emptiness with visual theatre : how the metaphorical potential of puppets, objects and images in theatre can be used to explore the constructed nature of reality and the complexity of the self
… I have defined as Visual Theatre, a theatre of puppets, objects, visual and theatrical images. Visual Theatre is examined in the context of theatre as an artistic medium; it is then contextualised in terms of its 20th development through the Century; and definitions are offered of the major …
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The Alchemist of the Surreal and the Uncanny Valley: Jan Švankmajer, the puppet and eerie animation
… in favour and introducing diverse effigies and puppets on stage and screen. The relationship of puppets, statues, robots, objects and people in theatre holds a notable significance in the scholarly contribution of the Prague Linguistic Circle discussing first the semiotics of puppet theatre and …
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A research study investigating methods of obtaining the views and opinions of disabled children about spirituality
… Method: Four different interview methods: puppets, vignettes, diamond ranking and statement ranking were used to interview a group of six disabled children aged between 7 and 14 years old to try to access their views on spirituality. The interviews were linked to two specific themes of …
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Decorative Specter
… portraits of alien, but eerily familiar puppets. They represent moments within an implied overarching narrative, frozen for study and contemplation. My use of commonly overlooked aesthetics is intended to remind us that other intelligent life will likely spring from an unexpected place …
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Unveiling the implicit message: A look at racial, Hispanic/Latino, and Mexican portrayals on "Sesame Street"
… and human-looking, animated characters and puppets. Furthermore, my study proposed to look at the portrayal of the Hispanic/Latino group and Mexican group; My findings revealed that the population on Sesame Street did not mirror the United States population distribution. Other results …
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