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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF"”.
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The suspension of disbelief: the myth of market memories
… in similar ways to similar past events. One of the methods of technical analysis commonly used is candlestick charting. The objective of this thesis is to investigate whether or not candlestick charting can be used to predict stock market price movements. This research is in both a …
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Suspension of Belief
… written both as a compliment to and in defense of Yaro Shon Neils' Master's Thesis Exhibition Suspension of Belief, an art installation and performance during which the artist created a bedroom-like space and slept in the Gallery of Visual Arts for the three week duration of the exhibition. The …
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Suspension of Belief
… written both as a compliment to and in defense of Yaro Shon Neils' Master's Thesis Exhibition Suspension of Belief, an art installation and performance during which the artist created a bedroom-like space and slept in the Gallery of Visual Arts for the three week duration of the exhibition. The …
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Accepting the Unacceptable: Textual Accessibility in Baum's Oz Books, L'Engle's Time Quartet, and Rowling's Harry Potter Series
The genre of fantastical literature is subject to many misconceptions, and audiences often find the reading of such texts difficult because they require refers to as a willing suspension of disbelief. Some fantastical works, however, are much more accessible. L. Frank Baum’s Oz book, Madeleine …
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Evolving a Genre: Doctor Strange Comics as Post-Fantasy
… Strange comics incorporate established tropes of the fantastic canon while also incorporating postmodern techniques that modernize the genre. Strange's debut series, Strange Tales, begins this development of stylistic changes, but it still relies heavily on standard uses of the fantastic. The …
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REDLANDS THEATRE FESTIVAL: DIRECTING IN REPERTORY -- THE HOT L BALTIMORE
<p>The purpose of this project was to broaden my skill set and responsibilities within a well-established theatre company by transitioning from performer to director. I would accomplish this goal by using my extensive knowledge of the inner-workings of the Redlands Theatre Festival, while applying …
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Performing modern Korea in the U.S.: Korean immigrants' theatrical activities in California and Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century
… immigrants in the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century. As a result of the fact that Koreans regarded their national territory as tainted by the Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945), they developed their national identity based on ethnic commonality, and expected Korean diaspora, …
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Issues involved in Real-Time Rendering of Virtual Environments
… realistic interactive visualizations of complex virtual environments (Brooks, 1986). This pursued high degree impression of reality enhanced by interactivity, leads the user into a state of immersion, or the suspension of disbelief. The use of these systems ranges from virtual …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
… become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to them socially, what individual factors leverage the relationship, and what constitutes the social influence of these technologies need to be addressed. As an expansion of the CASA paradigm, the Media are Social Actors (MASA) …
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Theatre, performance and digital culture
This thesis proposes that the theory of aesthetic agency derived from gaming in digital culture may be used as a lens through which live theatre and performance may be analysed. I argue that the aesthetics, immersion and play with identity in live theatre and performance are informed by digital …
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Enhancing player experience in computer games: A computational Intelligence approach.
… is by definition an interactive experience that often involves the human player interacting with the non-player characters in the game which are in turn controlled by the game artificial intelligence. Research in game AI has traditionally been focused on improving its competency. However, a …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… language functions overlooked when readers think of his texts as "plays" and become absorbed in the "story" as only a sequence of events. This study explores reader response to poetry and narrative, points out the different thought processes followed when encountering the two, and reveals new …
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Impact Fiction: the Gentle Art of Bending the Near Future.
… dissertation presents, and performs, a novel way of practicing design, to inform the core methodology of a new design practice; one seeking near future impact-innovation outcomes — cornerstoned to build Agency for our Elder* segment. The mainstay thesis question, evolved to ask: ‘How can …