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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"corporeality"”.
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Teaching Bodies: Curriculum and Corporeality
<p>I began thinking about the topic of this dissertation at first in 2003 when I found myself expecting a third child while teaching full-time and pursuing a doctoral degree, and in earnest later that year at Bergamo, where I began to see a connection between my own interest in desires and bodies …
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Choreographing through an expanded corporeality
… research explores the potential for an expanded corporeality through choreography and a posthuman ethics. Engaging somatechnics (body technologies) such as rope tying and Contact Improvisation I develop techniques that seek to rupture the binaries of nature/culture and dis/ability through …
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Gaming Bodies: Video Game Corporeality in Characters, Players, and Representations
… four preliminary characteristics of gaming corporeality, or the nature of bodies in/of video games, which share several similarities that I discuss in the conclusion. The characteristics are as follows: the aesthetics game characters’ bodies, strategies of drawing awareness to game players’ …
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From popular music to the film score: innovation, interrogation, corporeality
… keeping with central themes of interrogation and corporeality. It encapsulates instances where on-screen music and sound are unusually foregrounded, where previously established auditory techniques are taken to heightened extremes, where hierarchies of dialogue, effects, and music are upended, …
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The urban exploratory circus : infrastructure for corporeality, connectedness, and virtuosity
A traditional form of cultural critique, the circus rests its appeal in presenting extremes of the familiar and by removing perceptual barriers between people. Rather than directly confronting problems, the circus generates ideas of living and creating, seeking the unfamiliar to frame a new …
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
… the powerful epistemological import of corporeality in favor of discursive constructions. Through three paired case studies, I investigate how these artists engaged with emerging discourses in queer, African American, and diasporic communities that directly addressed issues of …
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A materialism of entangled corporeality: Hu Feng in a modern world
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Undoings: A Feminist Art Practice Investigating Female Sexed Corporeality and Othered Phenomenological Bodies
This fine art practice-led research investigates how the female sexed body might elicit sexual difference as an integral subjective perspective through modes of representation, modalities of experience and materiality. This research project seeks to explore, through a visual arts practice, how a …
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Tonal Modulation With Just Intonation; Corporeality and Musical Gesture: In the Music of Harry Partch
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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Embodying Technology: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Corporeality and Identity as Manifested in a Case of Strap-On Dildo Use
This dissertation takes a deep look at a first-person narrative from a man who develops complete impotence following androgen-deprivation treatment for prostate cancer. After feeling depressed for some time about what he imagined to be the permanent loss of his sexual life, the man, pseudonymously …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… to certain bodies' imagined proximity to corporeality. Analyzing the onstage presence, or lack thereof, of the predominantly male ""dead"" body alongside animate, female characters' performance of mourning makes visible the ways in which these performance texts place women in a bind …
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“White ink”: the body and écriture féminine in Toni Morrison's Beloved
… as her own literary devices, including ideas of corporeality and the body and the divine as mundane and material, Morrison is able to tell a story that otherwise could not be told.</p>
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Hull
… the buoyancy of a paradox; the un-shakable hyper corporeality of a body both Black and woman, and the social and spiritual liminality of Black womanhood. This collection is centered around a contemporary Black, queer, femme voice, and moves beyond the deeply familiar, beyond any implied monolith …
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An Unstable Container
… rural Michigan, and the dangers and pleasures of corporeality. The collection also interrogates the social institutions of marriage and religion, gender roles, and non-traditional family structures.</p>
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Catasterisms
… through the lens of Stacy Alaimo’s trans-corporeality. Each essay uses various forms to explore these concepts, utilizing concrete form, hybridized poetry and prose, and what Charles Olson refers to as projective verse. The essays use motifs like cell phone communication, star-gazing, and …
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Form and the picturing of mining : an epistemology of form with special reference to the explication of iconography
… pictorial methodology . The visual primacy and corporeality of form in painting have been the enabling vehicles assisting me to re - code selected iconography. The genealogy of this form and its development is chronologically traced in three groups of work preceding the body of work executed for …
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Towards the haptic encounter: investigating and theorising a strategy for writing a web-series screenplay, prioritising the sensory
… informed by filmmaking choices, framing corporeality and materiality in the film’s image (Marks 1999). I developed what I am calling the haptic encounter through the writing of a web series Efunsetan’s Story, Adire Girl and Bodunrin. This consists of nine screenplays, a series of test …
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Corporeal Modernity: Shared Concepts in the Work of Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham
… process that reminded viewers of both the corporeality of the artists and of themselves. My thesis identifies and interprets the formal analogies evident in each the artists' approach to asymmetry, repetition, gravity, and space. I argue that the common aspects among the works of the three …
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