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Showing 1 to 20 of 306 for “"Spectacle"”.
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Never mind the authentic : you wanted the spectacle, you've got the spectacle (and nothing else matters?)
This thesis examines criteria of valuation in regard to popular music. Rock press coverage of particular events within the domain of popular music in 1996 were examined in regard to criteria of valuation (specifically the Sex Pistols reunion and tour, the original lineup/Kabuki makeup reunion and …
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Memorial Museums: Politics, Spectacle and Interpretation
… to exclusion and an exaggerated effect of the spectacle, which distorts on-site interpretation. Furthermore, memorial museums are increasingly blurring the lines between education and entertainment; displays that rely on their emotional effect can more easily manipulate the observer’s reaction …
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Machine couture : manufacturing as consumer spectacle
By creating spectacle through architecture, clothing Labels have developed new branding techniques through which to redefine and provoke. However, the essential behind-the-scenes models of production have remained the same: consumption, manufacturing, and distribution are linked but always …
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The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting
… media attention. Existing beneath the visceral spectacle of mediated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is an underworld of human fighting that is gripping contemporary popular culture. By offering more illicit and brutal forms of violence, this netherworld has increasingly distorted the boundary between …
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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
This project takes up health spectacle, which I identify as a prevailing concept for late eighteenth and nineteenth century American health history, first beginning in the 1790s and concluding in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical …
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A room in the room : a private spectacle
… communication with visitors, I expose my private spectacle to the visitors, giving them the sense of strangeness that I am used to in a public space. Reconstructing and revealing the inside space of our spatial, social, psychological boundaries result in an individual and collective narrative. …
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'Our Mission is Protest': FEMEN, Toplessness and Female Spectacle
… in relation to Mary Russo’s notions of ‘female spectacle’ (1994), considering the ways in which the group might challenge understandings regarding the appropriate behaviours and appearances for women. This exploration of understandings of the female body potentially generated through FEMEN’s …
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Beyond Eden : cultivating spectacle in the Montreal Botanical Garden
… involved in creating "natural" and "cultural" spectacles is investigated in order to comprehend the extent to which this widely acclaimed and advertised sight/site reflects its ideological and physical locus within the city's urban fabric and history.
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Lights, audience, profit: The evolution of the Las Vegas spectacle
… twenty-first century is an explosion of tourism, spectacle and gambling. Especially with the transitions of the past two years and the great variety in the new shows, no one has asked the question how did Las Vegas get from the showgirl to Blue Man Group? If we are to visualize a Las Vegas in the …
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From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance
… with the relationship between narrative, the spectacle and disruptive modes of engagement, drawing out in each chapter a different aspect of the implications for creating and engaging with theatre where the spectacle of society is ubiquitous. The introductory chapter will first outline how …
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From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance
… with the relationship between narrative, the spectacle and disruptive modes of engagement, drawing out in each chapter a different aspect of the implications for creating and engaging with theatre where the spectacle of society is ubiquitous.The introductory chapter will first outline how …
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"Youth, murder, spectacle: The cultural politics of ""youth in crisis"""
"This dissertation investigates the ways in which ""youth,"" as a discursive construct, comes to sit at the nexus of debates concerning social crisis and upheaval. In particular, ""youth in crisis"" is an important site for the operations of hegemony. At an empirical level, there exists a …
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
“An American Spectacle: College Mascots and the Performance of Tradition” seeks to understand how college football and its attendant events (termed here “An American Spectacle”) became a vehicle for cultural production by individuals and institutions in specifically raced, gendered, and classed …
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
… by early cinema particularly by its emphasis on spectacle and the episodic nature of the stories.</p>
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Imagining Canada, imagining the desirable immigrant : immigration spectacle as settler postcolonialism
… site of what it proposes to call immigration spectacle (following Anne McClintock). It argues that immigration spectacle is a social practice of settler postcolonialism specific to the former British dominions, emerging from the settler need to imagine and people the nation through colonial …
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Clinician measurement of spectacle prescription changes and patient tolerance to them
… influence on patient-reported problems with new spectacles. Methods. First, an investigation from optical practices’ perspective, with a study investigating the frequency and causes of patient complaints. Three questionnaires follow; i) quantification of patient-reported symptoms with new …
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Spectacle and power: Military imagery and the British Army, 1803-1856
… high priority on maintaining a splendid outward spectacle, but this was not merely the result of sartorial frivolity on the past of military commanders. Images constitute a fundamental means by which peoples' opinions and actions are influenced, and the British army between 1803 and 1856 utilized …
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Presenting Korea's Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films
“Presenting Korea’s Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films” examines the revival of the cinematic genre of sagŭk in South Korea in the 2000s. The diegesis of sagŭk film portrays premodern dynastic eras of Korea. This project analyzes the evolution of the genre by …
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
The enormous amount of research on the subject of early modern magic indicates clearly that magical thought occupied a significant place in contemporary mental patterns. Its existence was widespread enough to cause popular prejudice against its most esoteric forms combined with tacit acceptance of …
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