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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"contemporary culture"”.
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The doctor will fix everything : intersexuality in contemporary culture
… Doctor will Fix Everything: Intersexuality in Contemporary Culture , authored by Michelle Morgan LeFay Holmes, is submitted in partial fulfillment of the doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this work examines the development of diagnosis and …
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Reading the gendered body in contemporary culture, 1980-1990
"One of the significant developments in feminist studies during the decade of the 1980s has been the emphasis on studying the body, gender, and sexuality as complex cultural constructions. As a contribution to the broader feminist project to rethink the body as a cultural construction rather than a …
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Concepts of the global in contemporary culture : figuring the totality
This thesis approaches a selection of contemporary literary, filmic, and philosophical works from the point of view of a now well-established field of concern – namely, the global. It takes into account a broadly Western view of the global, prioritises Anglophone cultural production, and looks at a …
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Meridian International Contemporary Culture Center Proposed Addition to Meridian International Center
… their other programs, specifically the Arts & Culture and World Affairs divisions. A primary intention of Meridian International Center is to open its doors to the city, to invite and engage the public in international matters through a variety of expositions. Currently lacking sufficient space …
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Believing Anew: Gianni Vattimo and A Form of Faith in Contemporary Culture
… the difficulty,ofdeveloping a religious life in contemporary culture. Itmight be best understood in terms ofa search for faith and meaningwithout, often,adheringto any particulardoctrinal framework or authority.Many are choosingto follow their own instincts in searching for something that …
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Painting as process: a Jungian approach to image and imagination as experiential practice in contemporary culture
… is given to precedents within modern culture and the arts in relation to mainstream and marginal practice, along with the concept of the Other as Outsider. Speculations on the idea of altered states of consciousness are explored in relation to different values (both cultural and …
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THINKING MAKING AND LIVING ARCHITECTURE IN AN AGEING SOCIETY. THE TYPOLOGICAL PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA
The twenty-first-century norm is represented by people living longer. This new demographic structure creates a number of societal challenges. One such challenge is that living longer and becoming old increases the likelihood of acquiring long-term conditions such as dementia. Another challenge is …
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“The Day Everything Became Nothing”: Finding Meaning in the Postapocalyptic
… fictions and their ubiquity and popularity in contemporary culture, each work will be analyzed individually to explore each author’s message regarding postapocalyptic concerns. These three texts have been chosen as each represents a point along a loose continuum of high-to-low art. Primarily, …
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Modern Myth and Masculine Character: Revealing the fit 'self' in MTV's I Used to Be Fat
… into being of the modern subject within the contemporary culture of self-revelation. Through the cultural myth of fast transformation by overcoming the body, heroic narratives depict subjects renouncing their fat bodies in order to produce themselves anew. Drawing on Michel Foucault's late …
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appreciating coincidence
… which can potentially fortify and enrich contemporary culture. carefully considered subtle and substantial interventions can infuse seemingly defunct existent constructions with a new vitality and provide the contemporary world with a rich and intricate new architecture.
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric Jameson's assertion that Stevens cultivated a style that favours impersonality and abstract universality over the Romantic individualism that is typical of Modernist poetry in English.
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Contemporary interpretation of a winery in the Cape Wine lands : understanding terroir
… growing separation between product and source in contemporary culture . The current consumer culture gives little thought to where products come from. This phenomenon is prevalent within architecture too; much contemporary work is purely image-based, following ever-changing international trends …
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Hypermasculine Victim or Psycho-Sexual Perpetrator? The Filmic Representation of Postmodern Masculine Identity-Formation in Taxi Driver and Falling Down
… dominant ideology, having a direct effect on contemporary culture.
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A body and technology as meme: Durer's Draughtsman drawing a reclining nude, Herrenvolk, aesthetic surgery and an artist's digital studio practice
… only applicable to the body and technology in contemporary culture. As this thesis argues, new media, information, and malleability can inscribe and produce an historical body. The historical body and technology that is used to demonstrate this intersection is that of Albrecht Durer's …
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The Queer Work of Fantasy: The Romance in Antebellum America
… the heteronormativity of antebellum sexual culture and to promote fantasy as both a mode of critique and a strategy for cultural subversion. Antebellum romances thus represent both a deep dissatisfaction with their author's contemporary culture and a means of envisioning subversive …
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The Exodus Experiment: Theatrically Bridging the Cultural Gap
… other on the volatile subjects that divide our contemporary culture: homosexuality and religion. Twenty-nine people with various backgrounds and worldviews were interviewed for this project. The words from these interviews were used to create the beginnings of a script for a play that explores …
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Drawing Through A Linear Temperament
… relation to history, language, high art, popular culture, propaganda, contemporary upheavals, Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism, globalization and the digital revolution. Furthermore, the main arguments draw upon my Cuban origin and European ancestry, the Cuban Revolution, my Belgian early …
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Can I Get a Yee-Haw and an Amen: Collecting and Interpreting Oral Histories of Texas Cowboy Churches
… religious movement that speaks volumes about contemporary culture. Cowboy churches' "Low Barriers Model" Christianity attracts many disenchanted with traditional evangelicalism's assumed sterilized and feminized religion. Despite the cowboy church movement's exponential growth since the …
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Cosmopolitanism as a measure of political tolerance : an inquiry into the acceptability of homosexuality
… feelings of global citizenry, is often used in contemporary culture but neglected in the social sciences. This study attempts to resurrect cosmopolitanism and evaluate its relationship with tolerance toward a current stigmatized group: homosexuals. This study creates a multi-part measurement of …
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Mythic Symbols of Batman
… malleability to reflect the attitudes of his contemporary culture. An examination of Batman's enduring and changing characteristics will reveal insights into American values, culture and history during the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.</p>
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