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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Terministic screen"”.
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Creating a terministic screen of "mothering" in Nella Larsen's Passing and Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life
… less attention. Using the Burkean concept of “terministic screens,” this dissertation seeks to create such a screen for the term “mothering” based on the characters found within the two novels. Consideration is paid to cultural concepts of the time, criticism of the novels, and the novels …
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Representational Politics of Plantation Tourism: The Case of the Hampton Plantation
… domestic group of tourists utilized a lens, or terministic screen, which deflected away from slavery while the international group of tourists, adopted a lens of reflection on slavery and race.
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
… alluding to our worst fears beyond the silver screen. "Body horror" is a unique sub-genre that distorts the very nature of human flesh for horrific effect. David Cronenberg's <italic>Videodrome</italic> (1983) is an exemplary body horror text that incorporates themes of disease, metamorphosis, …
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Gay in Game: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gay Identity Through Varus and Sett/Aphelios in League of Legends
… transmedia storytelling, Kenneth Burke’s terministic screen, and Gayatri Spivak’s othering. My inquiry illuminates that Riot Games’ attempts at gay representation in League of Legends repeat harmful worldviews about gay people; concurrently, Riot Games’ approach to gay representation with …
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Subjective-Objective-Subjective: The Science Of Propaganda
… 4. That further evidence of this scientific ‘terministic screen' (Burke 1950, pp. 26-27) is also revealed in the failure of some television commercials to profitably ‘connect' as intended with an audience – thus undermining claims to the objective approach that preceded these commercials. 5. …