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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Western genre"”.
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
This work uses Western genre cinema as a springboard for evaluating how alt-right political ideologies are absorbed by common, everyday people. Using the exploratory work of political journalist Andrew Marantz and employing his research of the alt-right movement as supporting material, it explores …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
This study provides a cultural history of the Western genre in the comics medium, from the late 1800s up until the 1970s. Historically, this chronology is not arbitrary, and represents the core years in which the Western genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media. The genre …
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Once upon a time in the veld: South Africa westerns in context
Historically westerns have been one of the most popular film genres in South Africa but very few features have been produced locally. In addition, the few productions that exist have not received significant attention from researchers and scholars. Thus, this study aims to contribute to South …
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People and Place: A Journey Through Film, Tourism, and Heritage
… and heritage all converge through the American Western genre. During national social change, Westerns increase in number to reflect national values and identity. Westerns that ally with landscapes and people are potentially the most powerful storytelling tool in mainstream media. My research …
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Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories
<p>This paper attempts to redefine genre as a set of bodily experiences rather than a collection of thematic objects. Beginning with the western genre as a whole and ending with my own comics work, I pull apart elements within specific narratives and analyze them as mechanical divides that disrupt …
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Political history TV dramas and the representation of Confucian China : the regulation, emergence and politics of a new genre
… order to bridge the knowledge gap noted between Western and Chinese approaches to analysis of China’s TV media, this thesis sets out to propose an alternative methodological framework for investigation of the emergence, development and significance of a distinctive television genre categorised as …
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Global gamers, transnational play, imaginary battlefield: encountering the gameplay experience in the war-themed first-person-shooter, Call of Duty
… appetite for this so-called ‘shoot’em’all’ genre. Within academia, scholars from different research disciplines also realized the importance of gaming and have been trying to approach this conflict-based digital game culture from various angles. The war-themed genre FPS is frequently …
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A Comparative Study of Frederick Manfred's Lord Grizzly and A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Big Sky
… same time their differences as writers of the Western novel. Chapter Three is an investigation of Manfred's writing style in Lord Grizzly. A summary of the story of Hugh Glass and his metamorphosis in character is also included. Chapter Four is an investigation of Guthrie's writing style in The …
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“War is God” and “Unguessed Kinships”: Blood Meridian and Cormac McCarthy’s “Border Tetralogy”
… Since historicist approaches to McCarthy’s Westerns often read them as imaginative critiques of Manifest Destiny and colonialism, this metaphysical exploration of the “Border Tetralogy” can serve as an inquiry into the conceptual underpinnings that make historiography and nationalist …