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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"closet"”.
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Closet Space
<p><em>Closet Space</em> is an exhibition investigating what makes a home. Through the creation of six drawings and seven prints, I investigate the relationship between isolation and companionship. This body of work explores the concept that a home is not simply a physical structure made up of …
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Her Closet: Narrative Short Film
… applied to the short narrative film, Her Closet. It critiques the film from story conception, directing and writing applications especially. Contexts for the film are applied in topics of film genre, story form and psychological approaches. This written thesis serves to explain the …
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An examination of "Laura's Closet"
An Examination of Laura's Closet serves as written documentation of both the practical dance concert, Laura's Closet, as well as the rehearsal process which led to this performance. This paper will include my thoughts on the original concepts of each piece, an analysis of the choreography, a …
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Editing Closet Memories : theory and methodology.
… study examines the creative editing process of Closet Memories, a short film, from preproduction through post-production as well as the relationship between the editor and director and how the vision of each shaped the film from the rough cut to the final cut.
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The Australian Football League and the closet
This thesis examines the complete absence of openly gay males from the ranksof the professional players in the Australian Football League (AFL). It seeks to explain this absence in the context of the modern gay rights movement. incontemporary Australian society. It compares and contrasts the …
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The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity on the Job
Though we tend to think of organizations in asexual terms, a certain model of heterosexuality pervades most white-collar workplaces. Heterosexual behavior and values are disguised by official ideologies that require professionals to be "asexual" at work, in accordance with prevailing beliefs about …
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Learning, Living, and Leaving the Closet: Making Gay Identity Relational
… is inextricably tied to the metaphor of the closet. This tie is best exemplified by the act of "coming out of the closet," an act when a person discloses a gay identity to another, an act of self-identification and confession that others can motivate but never force, an act typically thought …
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Out of the Art Closet and Into the Middle School
<p>In this project my primary goal was to expose the public to the artistic self that I was so sure of in high school, but had lost in the years following. I was so sure of myself and art while in the confines of middle school and high school. Once I got into college I found myself lacking that …
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Out of the Art Closet and Into the Middle School
<p>In this project my primary goal was to expose the public to the artistic self that I was so sure of in high school, but had lost in the years following. I was so sure of myself and art while in the confines of middle school and high school. Once I got into college I found myself lacking that …
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Gender roles, homophobia, and the closet: Experiences of queer women
… internalized homophobia, and coming out of the closet are related. A focus group of seven women who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and queer was conducted. The findings suggest that gender roles do limit the way women view themselves, that religion is the largest contributor to …
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The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
This thesis broadly interrogates the way three media technologies in the history of the United States have been used in relationship to wealth, sexuality, and the emergence of "the right to privacy" in the late 19th century. This includes photography in the First Gilded Age, cable television in the …
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The No No-Exit Closet: An Alternative to No-Exit Pathways
… Thesis project, which is titled The No No-Exit Closet. The No No-Exit Closet has been a project through which I have developed a heightened ethical awareness of how I consume, store, throw away, and reuse the materials that enter and exit my life. This thesis dossier is divided into three …
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Transgression in the closet: Gay academics’ experiences of heteronormativity in China
… for queer research in Chinese academia. The closet might enable gay academics not only to pass as heterosexual, but also to challenge heteronormativity. By drawing on Butler’s (1990) formulation of agency and highlighting gay academics’ subjectivities as both closeted and agentic, I argue …
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"Sometimes You'Ll Feel Like An Outcast": Using Superman To Interrogate The Closet
… individuals, for example, that coming out of the closet results in crucial visibility that, among other things, can help lead to political advances for the GLBTQ community. Yet, the call to make the invisible visible also valorizes the gender and sexual binary system that queer theory seeks to …
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Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama
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Logging into Horror’s Closet: Gay Fans, the Horror Film and Online Culture
Abstract Harry Benshoff has boldly proclaimed that ‘horror stories and monster movies, perhaps more than any other genre, actively invoke queer readings’ (1997, p. 6). For Benshoff, gay audiences have forged cultural identifications with the counter-hegemonic figure of the ‘monster queer’ who …
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The closet door, the gateway to the self? : fashion, identity, and self-expression
This study explores the relationship between the decisions we make surrounding fashion, our sense of 'self,' and our attempts at self-expression through fashion. This thesis is based on the premise that material items and first impressions or appearances are important in our culture. Referring to …
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Remodeling the Closet: The Individual and Organizational Correlates of Workplace Sexual Identity Management
<p>The strategies by which sexual minority employees manage their sexual identities in the workplace have long been a subject of inquiry. Extant research has long recognized that these employees potentially engage in several different strategies for workplace sexual identity management (e.g., …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
Intersections between gay liberation’s intellectual, communications, and transnational history reside at the core this thesis. Methodologically indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops …
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The psychological and aesthetic development of "Closet memories" as a short-film production.
… a detailed account and analysis of the making of Closet Memories as a short-film production, including descriptions of content research and resources, concept and aesthetic development, production goals and examples and finally, a thorough self-evaluation of situational outcomes involved in every …
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