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Heroes, villains and more villains : representations of Arab men on Australian screens
This thesis examines the representation of Arab male protagonists in three Australian crime drama productions: East West 101, The Combination and Cedar Boys. Since 2007 Australia has seen a notable increase in the inclusion of Arab and Muslim male characters in various serials and films, …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
The term "feminist," when applied to Wilkie Collins, implies he was concerned with rectifying the oppression of women in domestic life as well as with promoting equal rights between the sexes. This study explores Collins the "feminist" by analyzing his portrayals of women, particularly his most …
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The Better to See You with: Revealing a Hero's Monsterhood Through Villains
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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts
<p>In <em>Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts</em>, I analyze moments of discursive dissonance that emerge through the juxtaposition of early-Victorian theories of criminality and representations of criminals in popular culture. In …
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Making Malice Musical: Verdi’s Compositional Journey Through the Eyes of Six Villains
… This paper instead focuses on the arias of six villains, and through those arias, examines Verdi’s evolution from <em>solita forma </em>to the through–composed, free style he adopted near the end of his life. His desire to provide theatrically suitable accompaniment for the malicious intentions …
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
Plato presents Socrates as an ethical example and a political warning. Other characters serve other philosophical functions. Alcibiades--the worst man in the democracy--and Critias--the worst in the oligarchy--are the most notorious characters.. This dissertation argues that Plato uses these …
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Marked Superheroes and Villains: 21st Century Embodied Rhetorics of (Dis)Abilities and (Hyper)Masculinity
<p>I. Appeals of Multiple Masculinities: Maintaining Hegemonic Heteronormative Masculinity in the 21st Century Comic Superhero Adaptation <em>Arrow</em></p> <p>II. Marked Bodies: Physicalist Manifestations of Superhero Strength, Character Evolution, and Mental and Emotional Dis/Abilities</p> …
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Heroes and villains: an analysis of the treatment of individuals in world history textbooks
… which identify them as heroes or as villains. The selected textbooks were compared to determine the amount of agreement among them. The study found a large number of individual people identified by name in the selected textbooks. These people represent every corner of the world, area …
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Stripped down and flawed : demystifying journalism heroes and villains on film in the 1970s and 2010s
… era and what those films say about heroes and villains as they relate to journalism as a profession in both portrayals of real life journalists and fictionalized satires of journalism.
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A renewable reserve army of villains: Nostalgia and memory of the communist other in American Cold War cinema
The present dissertation revisits the Cold War on film from the official start of the conflict with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the contemporary moment. It argues that in order to understand and account for the continued proliferation of Cold War films with recognizable stereotypes and motifs, …
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Playing Devil's Advocate: The Attractive Shakespearean Villain
… the playwright's most hypnotic figures are his villains, those characters whom audiences should by all counts detest but cannot help but find alluring. Some of these villains have attracted more critical attention than others. For instance, Iago, the scheming fiend of Othello, has forever …
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The damned, the bad, and the ugly: Our society's bad (and occasionally sinister) habit of using villains to label, deter, and other
<p>As the most dynamic characters within a plot, villains have the ability to initiate change. To demonstrate the effect a villain can have, I have chosen two very different villains of popular culture—Theodora of <em>Oz the Great and Powerful</em> and the Joker of T<em>he Dark Knight</em>—because …
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… in their sympathetic process with the female villains and fallen heroines. Affective tools employed by sensational fiction create an understanding between the reader and the villains that occupied most of sensation fiction. The second chapter, "The Fallen Heroine: Feeling Injustice” discusses …
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An Analysis of Sports -Oriented Development Discourse in St. Louis, Missouri
… living organisms, nourishment, homes, rescuers, villains and sports fans.
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Louisa May Alcott and the Female Fairy Tale (Form, Massachusetts)
… climax in difficult tasks or struggles with villains. Finally, the heroine triumphs, is transfigured, and is rewarded with marriage and sometimes a type of coronation.
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Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem
… "runaway or abandoned teens," and "threatening villains." Biographies and vignettes, journalistic commentary, visual techniques, and the presentation of numerical and research information are conventions establishing news stories as factual. Images portray unambiguous sets of victims and …
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When visions converge and collide: A fantasy theme analysis of staff participation in the Patient- and Family-Centered Care initiative at the University of New Mexico Hospital
… were most concerned with other physicians as villains. Interdisciplinary teams espoused more negative fantasies of patients, diseases, and families and were less likely to practice PFCC principles when planning care. Interdisciplinary teams may not be conducive to PFCC care without strong …
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