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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"Spectacular"”.
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Waterfront spectacular
… asserts that making work visible, in public, is spectacular—as noted, “a visible deviation from the norm intended to provoke a response.” In conclusion, this thesis discusses how instrumentalizing spectacle in design can lead to a post-post-industrial scenario—one which merges industrial space …
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Spectacular physicalities: female athleticism in contemporary cinema
This thesis provides a critical account of contemporary female sports films. The research presented here is interdisciplinary in nature as it is situated in relation to (feminist) discourses around women and/in sport as well as women and/in cinema. Taking into account the embodied, discursive and …
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Secreting History: the spectral and spectacular performance of political violence
… secrecy, can only be imagined) and their spectacular Hollywood renditions (imaginary, but projected in spectacular realism). The aim here is to identify and analyse the exchanges - imaginary and material - between the spectral and the spectacular rather than point to the accuracy of detail …
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Spectacular Subjects: Embodiment, Abjection & Imagined Community in Contemporary South Asian Fiction
… the staging of the abject body in an attitude of spectacular protest becomes essential for victims of corporate crime who wish to claim their right to be protected as biological citizens of India. The final chapter of the dissertation discusses Aravind Adiga'sThe White Tigerand Vikas …
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
… mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English bourgeois audiences at the turn of the century, Tree filled his stage with scenery, props and supernumeraries that together testified to his wealth as a …
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Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture
… Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture” presents thrill as a powerful thematic component centered on immediate affective gratification informing character development and narrative. This perspective rethinks theme as always having an …
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In the Midst of the Spectacular: Performance, Media, and Criticism in Frank O’Hara
This thesis repositions Frank O’Hara as a writer whose sustained engagement with different media forms reveals a neglected chapter in the history of thinking about media. Scholars of O’Hara typically discuss his relationship to media in terms of poetry and painting, while those who do consider his …
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Spectacular political experiments: the constitution, mediation and performance of large-scale public participation execises
… across the three settings is characterised as spectacular and experimental. The findings of this research problematise the idea that large scale public participation exercises might somehow enact forms of politics that are more direct. The study also challenges the assumption that such …
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Design of creative narrative and technical systems for an immersive multimedia nighttime spectacular show
… creative and technical components of a nighttime spectacular show. As spectacular shows are a unique art form with unusual narrative structures and conventions and complex technical systems involved in their implementation, they present an intriguing case study for the design process. There exists …
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Spectacular architecture, identity crisis, cultural politics and the reinvention of the significance of museums of modern art
… of museums of modern art has centred upon the 'spectacularity' of such structures and the regeneration effect on sites and/or cities triggered by their presence, often highlighting their agency in promoting mass tourist activity. However, apart from these widely debated facts, more complex …
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The Arena Spectacular from Ben Hur Live to Isles of Wonder: Adaptation, Post-cinema and the Postcivil
What is an ‘arena spectacular’ and why has this genre of live entertainment gained international popularity in the twenty-first century? This study looks at three arena spectaculars: Ben Hur Live, Batman Live and Walking with Dinosaurs Live – all adapted from film or TV productions and performed in …
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Beyond Perspective: A Spectacular History of the Three-Dimensional Image through the Stereoscope, the View-Master, and Marcel Duchamp
… a stereograph’s two-dimensional surface. This spectacular, three-dimensional image enjoyed widespread popularity in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries as the technology underwent multiple reinventions. By examining stereoscopy with an art historical lens, this dissertation …
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'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find': A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958.
… the Whitby-Loftus line as a paradigm: 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find'. The dissertation considers this opinion by looking at the construction of the line, its history up to the opening in 1883, and especially its later history in terms of a financial …
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Anglo-American Far Eastern Policy in a Time of Decision, October-December, 1938
The most spectacular diplomatic event of 1938 came when Adolph Hitler demanded, and got, the Sudetenland at the Munich Conference on September 29th of that year. At the same time, however, events were occurring on the other side of the world which, while less spectacular, were to prove just as …
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Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904
… nineteenth-century popular culture – newspapers, spectacular melodrama, and series detective fiction – and how these depictions register diverse incarnations of this figure, demonstrating a discomfort with, and anxiety about, the way in which the sporting experience after the Industrial Revolution …
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Perinatal mortality : the causes of stillbirth and early neonatal death as occurring in the obstetrical units of the University of Cape Town during the years 1952-1955 inclusive, with a statistical analysis of 1933 perinatal deaths, with special reference to the part played by antenatal supervision and prematurity in the white and non-white patient
… been focused on foetal mortality, what with the spectacular fall in the maternal morbidity consequent on the vast improvements in antenatal care, the consequences of the discovery of the antibiotics, and the liberal transfusions.
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"We are not 100% free": narratives of continuity and change amongst women on the margins of post-apartheid South Africa
… men and women who have lived extraordinary and spectacular lives. Following Ndebele's (1994) recognition of the radical potential of attending to the lives of ordinary South Africans, this thesis shifts the focus from the extraordinary and spectacular to the ordinary and examines the personal …
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Man Poems: From Beer and Gears to Grills and Girls
… of 20-40. From casual observation, including the spectacular wonders of alcohol and the female body, to the humorous: re-visiting the classic heavy rock hits of the 1980s, the varied works of <em>Man Poems</em> offer an interesting look into the mind and surroundings of author Christopher Ward.</p>
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HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive
… banal bureaucratic processes, the visceral and spectacular violence of prison torture, the marking of the record, and the exploitation of prison communication industries — and the mundane act of living-in-spite-of that is both survival and its transcendence. Drawing from the knowledges of sound …
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From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance
… significance of experience of reality through spectacular representation looking at how the notion of the spectator and the experience of engagement with theatre have changed, then the following six chapters will address the relationship between the spectacle and virtuosity in performance; the …
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