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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Visual studies"”.
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A Visual Studies Approach To Critical Historiography
This dissertation asserts that critical historiography, a term first used by Stefan Berger and later by Mark Jarzombek, is worthy of extensive development as a discourse. Furthermore, it calls for both intra- and interdisciplinary research regarding the meaning, relevance, and application of …
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A light emitting object and its environment
… installation at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a written perspective with artistic affinity.
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Through the Eyes of Visitors: Understanding the Contexts of the Visitor Photo Study at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
… Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, & Donohue, 2003b), Visual Studies (Marshall & Rossman, 2011; Pink, 2007), and Visitor Studies (Visitor Studies Association, 2012). This study considers the extent to which the principles and elements of each of these fields were present in the Visitor Photo Study, …
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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
… marginalised within cinema as well as fashion studies. Here I show not only that it is now a thriving area of research but also that it can - and indeed should - be recast as a more complex and dynamic field that reflects a wider array of activity within the academy (also including cultural …
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The Knotweed Factor: Non-visual Aspects of Poetic Documentary
… investigation as a discourse on blindness and visual impairment. There are few representations of blindness and/or visual impairment (VI) in The Knotweed Factor. Rather, the documentary is concerned with how visual information (e.g., filming a poet) is translated non-visually (e.g., the sound …
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Homebody
… for the degree of Master of Science in Visual Studies the individual body to the individual home site in the cycliat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology cal process of everyday identity production. This involves an interrogation of habit, the choreography of repeated gestures over …
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Visualising Creative Destruction: A Photographic Study of Urban Change in Salford, UK
… research tool to identify, formulate, and visualise the wide-scale urban change currently taking place across parts of the City. Situating Salford’s real estate revolution within Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of ‘creative destruction’, the research navigates the contemporary urban landscape …
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I Am See-Through: Participatory Video Making As A Method For Social Change In The Mississippi Delta
… including radical documentary filmmaking, visual studies, developmental studies, and emerging social media studies. Over the years, a number of programs have adopted participatory video to work with young people living in marginalized communities, to provoke youth civic engagement and to …
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Seeing the God of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure and the Optic of Enchantment
… Mexican modernism/primitivism movement in the visual arts. I explore what I call Austin's "optic of enchantment," a visual experience of divinity that is uniquely tied to the New Mexican landscape. I break down this optic of enchantment into three distinct and definitive facets: First - a …
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Truth and lies in cinema verite
… for the degree of Master of Science in Visual Studies. This thesis consists of two sections: Truth and Lies, and the making of Everything Must Change. Truth and lies traces several developments made in the evolution of the documentary cinema (both technological and ideological) and …
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Conditions Variable: Assemblage Theory and Systems Theory in Creative Practice
… and Technology (EAT) and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In light of these developments, I argue that a flexible, descriptive, Assemblage theory is needed to better articulate how art (the work and its making) functions within an …
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The stories we sell: A narrative analysis of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising\r\n
… philosophy, interpretive anthropology, visual studies, and the ethical criticism of literature to develop and advocate an alternative paradigm for thinking about pharmaceutical marketing. The project involves a theoretical exploration of an interpretive, and specifically narrative, …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… cultural history, cultural anthropology, gender studies, global studies, visual studies and sports studies, and draws on a range of sources, including Lao and French archives, ethnographic writing, newspapers, magazines, cartoons and photography. This blend of textual and visual sources reveals …
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