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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Reception studies"”.
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… several waves of feminism, is explored through reception studies carried out with female participants in focus groups, as well as theory on the ‘female gaze’. Images were principally drawn from three British fashion magazines: Vogue (UK), i-D, and Lula. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and …
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Second star on the right and straight on 'til morning: The reception of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
… my research is to illuminate the long-standing reception of J.M. Barrie’s most famous story: Peter Pan. There are three distinct mediums for the story, theater, fiction, and film, and I unveil the successes and failures of each category. My research centers on the theories produced by Hans …
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Receiving A Queen: A Queer and Trans Feminist Classical Reception Rhetorical Historiography of Elagabalus
<p>This dissertation studies representations of Elagabalus, the sovereign of Rome who ruled between 218–222ce, after her assassination to examine how depictions and historical accounts of Elagabalus's life make rhetorical decisions about Elagabalus's identity and being that can foreground the …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
… Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to do with the classical tradition – both the art and literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. I have conducted …
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Investigating Kuwaiti television serial dramas of Ramadan : social issues and narrative forms across three transformative production eras
… the political economy and journalistic reception studies of Arab television, the state of Kuwaiti television serials that has influenced the formation of other regional Ramadanian serial programmes has thus far been neglected. Kuwaiti serials present a limited amount of episodes …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… to re-examine them in transatlantic- and reception-studies frameworks. The thesis argues that because Poe portrays his American identity as multiple, marginal and fundamentally transatlantic, Poe’s place in the canons of American literature has become an enduring subject of controversy. …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
… the fourth century, so all we have are multiple receptions of Virgil. Virgil’s most famous commentator, Servius, lived at the time when Roman culture was being Christianised and when the greatness of Rome projected in Virgil was in flux. I focus on the reception of Virgil through Servius in this …
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Simulating Disempowerment: The Rhetoric and Reception of Social Realism in Video Games
… witnessed a boom in video game research. Many studies associated with this field have been effective in identifying the role that video games serve as vehicles for ideology and political persuasion. Most, however, have been predominantly theoretical in nature, relying on the development of …
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British National Identity and Maritime Film and Television, 1960-2012
… Aligned to this is the manner in which critical reception continues to operate as an indigent of collective memory, morality and communality aligning itself as provision not only of positive cultural taste but also of a wider debate on the merits or de-merits of the specific components of myth …
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A very British spectacle? : critical reception of the fantasy genre within contemporary British cinema
… machine’, this research adopts a historical reception studies approach to examine meanings and associations as generated by the contemporary British mainstream press in the subsequent decade since 2001 onwards. Building on work conducted by Barbara Klinger and Kate Egan, amongst others, this …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… from poststructuralist theory and audience reception studies, the first aspect of this tri-partite investigation examines the macro context of this episode's production in the United States in 1992, and identifies competing constructions of 'motherhood' and 'the family' circulating within …
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Towards Infinity And Beyond Branding, Reputation, and the Critical Reception of Pixar Animation Studios
… on Barbara Klinger’s approach to historical reception studies. Individual chapters focus on how Pixar was discussed by critics and journalists at specific moments or in specific contexts, as it evolved from a computer graphics company to become the most celebrated film studio of all time. …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… and extend the emerging field of critical comedy studies by drawing on a range of disciplines to analyze the affective politics of live feminist stand-up comedy. My position is informed by, and my writing integrates, the voices of contemporary and historical women-identified stand-up comics whom I …
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
… Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)--are presented as case studies to understand the complexities and tensions that arose out of the colonial moment and to examine how each figure negotiated his own compositional style, musical career and artistic identity vis-à-vis colonial Algeria. The dissertation is …
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Crafting Prose Poetry. A Comparative Study of Alfonsina Storni’s and José Ángel Valente’s Creative Journeys
… out on their versified poetry, only a couple of studies specifically focus on their prose poetry. However, they fail to consider the role of this genre in their writing and the consolidation of their poetic voices. This thesis tackles the presence of prose poetry in their poetic itinerary as a …
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“A riddim resisting against the system”: Bob Marley in Aotearoa
… local political groups. The thesis is a study of reception employing an unusual combination of methods, some derived from the theorists Paul Gilroy, Edward Said, Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Donna Awatere-Huata. It also draws upon this student’s own experience as a young Pacific Islander involved in …
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The British historical film, 1930-1990.
… utilizing notions of myth and ideas derived from reception studies.</p> <p>In terms of overall approach, this project is an example of what David Bordwell has called 'middle-level research', applying theory to a problem-driven, in-depth, empirical investigation. In following the precepts of …
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Adoption of the big data concept in the construction industry
… future of construction. However, despite this reception, studies that explain in detail the factors that favour the adoption of BD are scarce or non-existent and the adoption itself has proven to be a challenge, especially in industries such as construction that are not technology driven. …
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Worship as Interpretation: The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6
… against the neglect of liturgy and ritual in reception studies and make the case that liturgy is one of the major influential forms of biblical reception. I do this by taking Isa. 6:3 as my example. My liturgical material is the qedushah liturgies in Ashkenazi Judaism and the Sanctus in three …
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The subject of television: a methodology of subject-oriented textual analysis
… cannot be imported wholesale to television, reception studies, or modes of cultural studies that use texts to diagnose social phenomena, having texts “stand in” for audiences. Situated within media studies' recent “return to the text,” this approach therefore treats texts as ends in …
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