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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"audience studies"”.
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On a Good Day, You Get to Kill a Whore: Narrative Misogyny and Female Audiences in Supernatural
… messages in media texts and the engagement of audiences with these messages. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, applying theoretical and methodological concepts from both film studies and audience studies, in order to develop a new model through which to study media texts and fans. I apply …
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The audience at the 43rd Melbourne International Film Festival : a psychographic analysis
… where they are exhibited. This suggests that the audience for this will be different, and the purpose of this thesis is to investigate those people who attended the film festival and to discover if they exhibit any unique traits. The volume of research into film audiences has been quite small, and …
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Buzz by Bravo: a trendsetting niche network’s place within contemporary television
… Bravo as a niche cable channel whose strategies, audience, and programming contribute to its success in a competitive, changing landscape. As such my study of Bravo significantly contributes to the understanding of what television—as both a concept and an industry—represents in the twenty-first …
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Managing ourselves: young people, soap opera and technologies of self-government
… are produced in Australia and watched by large audiences in the UK. The study's broadest aim is to discover the nature of the relationship between the programmes and their teenage viewers. In order to meet this aim, the study combines textual analysis and audience research. Following a review of …
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Perceiving Experience: Accounting for the role of the audience in the construction of pervasive and locative artworks
This practice-led study examines the role of audiences in pervasive and locative artworks. It critically examines claims made for the ability of pervasive and locative artworks to provide audiences with new, heightened and engaging experiences. It addresses the way in which the role of the audience …
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Family, politics and popular television: an ethnographic study of viewing an Indian serial melodrama
… and evolving field of ‘third generation’ audience studies, particularly in its focus on family, more so in its observations of family dynamics and discourses. In addressing questions specifically about audiences’ relationship with the serial, the thesis drawing on the ethnographic …
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Television, race and national identity : a study of South Africa's lifestyle programme Top billing
… on the lifestyle and lives of its viewers. Studies on the "lifestyle" programme genre, especially in context to contemporary television studies, has not been widely written about. Further, as there is growing interest and a need for ethnographic and audience studies on the impact of …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
… the established models of transnational media audiences prove insufficient. With the emergence of internet technologies, these mediascapes have now become networked, increasing the visibility and complexity of transnational media flows and the audiences around them. No longer are we seeing …
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The mediated myth of rock and roll
This study deconstructs the cultural myth (Barthes, 1957) of rock and roll as constructed by television and film (forms) and negotiated through musicians' experiences and personal understandings (concepts). It does so through textual analyses of five films and eight televisual forms and forty-one …
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Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century American Popular Media
… American Popular Media,</italic> I examine audience perceptions of South Asian/Indian characters and actors in American popular media. My research is guided by the following question: <italic>to what extent do audience perceptions of South Asians in U.S. popular media reflect pre-existing …
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Media Mimicry - How ‘Mimic Vlogs’ Emulate User-Generated Content in Online Stories
… limits our understanding of the videos and how audiences respond and interact with them. However, while formats associated with user-generated content such as mimic vlogs offer an opportunity to tell online stories in novel and interesting ways, they also have the capacity to mislead audiences …
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The self and self-conscious theatre on the Renaissance stage
… a concomitant self-consciousness within its audiences that situates identity on the theatrical boundary, highlighting the performativity of the self and its relations to others. It takes a dialectical and thematic approach to demonstrate how self-conscious theatre makes audiences conscious of …
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Ludological Storytelling and Unique Narrative Experiences in Silent Hill Downpour
… I examine the relationship of ludology and audience agency to the narrative structure of video games, specifically by examining the ludological narratives of the games in the Silent Hill series, with a focus on the most recent entry in the franchise, Silent Hill Downpour. While much has been …
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
When audiences talk back, either by responding or retorting, the line between performers and audience members blurs, bringing into relief the relationship between spectatorship and agency. The dramas of W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and John Arden pursue such a blurring by positioning …
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Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture
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