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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"creative agency"”.
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The Audrey Hepburn Image: Stardom, Gendered Authorship, and Creative Agency
… friend, Hubert de Givenchy. However, Hepburn’s agency becomes subverted in scholarship and popular culture by her established label of “Givenchy’s muse” which was originally implemented by the couturier himself. Though the Hepburn-Givenchy collaboration pioneered a new mode of female stardom …
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String teaching for enabling creative agency: Exploring teachers' values, experiences, and practices
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Making Space: Gardens and Social Identity in Early Modern English Literature
… century, aesthetic gardening permitted women creative agency in separate garden-spaces isolated as their own in the prescriptive manuals. Hence, Aemilia Lanyer's representations of gardens in Salve Deus and ""To Cooke-ham"" depict how women might imagine another context for holding land and …
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Choose Your Own Adventure? The Experiences of Occasional Teachers in the Reproduction or Transformation of Educational Systems
… applying teaching innovation, and exerting creative agency or, alternatively, mechanisms for deskilling and the induction into institutionalized patterns and routines. This project looks at three elements that can cause deskilling or transformative change: (1) institutional experiences and …
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Accenting agency: duets within interactive video installation
… Publication constitutes a research enquiry into creative agency within interactive video installations through reflection on six published works: Remote Dancing (2004-9), Doing (2008), Orbital (2010), Gravity Shift (2010), ByPasser (2010) and Weighting (2015). These installations have been …
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Falling isn't the End: Reimagining Demolition as a Creative Practice
… global challenges into opportunities for creative agency and systemic reinvention.
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… struggle. The story that emerges is one of deep creative agency among racial justice activists, and analysis of the rhetoric of martyrdom within this activism provides new ways of examining questions of identity, race, citizenship and Americanness. Furthermore, I argue that the intentional …
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Something rich and strange: a psycho-geographic unconcealing of the genius loci of Shoreditch, London, exploring affinities between generative artificial intelligence and Shakespearean text
This arts-led research project investigates the creative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in a visual art practice. To stimulate human/computer creative collaboration I introduce the imaging power of GenAI models to the words of William Shakespeare (1564 –1616). Text, themes, …
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Co-Becomings in Creative Music Workshop Practices
… adopted as the starting point for understanding creative music workshop practices in the field of community music in the UK. Co-becomings take the place of individually situated humans as the basis for an understanding of subjectivity in this context that emphasizes embodiment, relationality and …
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… in post-revolutionary Iran, exercising creative agency within restrictive frameworks to reimagine women’s lived experiences.
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Rapping feminism, rapping the family: hip hop, the Mudawwana, and the monarchy in Morocco
… lyrics, and music videos reflect their own creative agency as well as larger sociopolitical forces (Almeida 2013, 320). By examining the output of two popular artists deeply engaged with gendered political expression, I demonstrate the ways that musicians work within and reflect the …
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Mobile Holmes: Sherlockiana, travel writing and the co-production of the Sherlock Holmes stories
… fiction in which readers harness literature’s creative agency in order to consciously add to or expand the literary spaces of the text. My thesis is a work of literary geography. I am indebted to recent work that theorises reading as a dynamic practice which occurs in time and space. My work …
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The Interpreter as Co-Author: Pianists and the Practice of Interactive Re-Working
… of WAM performance studies has recognised the creative role of the interpreter, notions that equate work-interpretation with Werktreue have remained almost entirely uncontested, resulting in an apparent presupposition that the composer’s role in determining pitch material is inviolable. …
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Scribbling Girls, Becoming Writers: A Speculative Mapping of Girl Writer Characters in Classic and Contemporary Adolescent Fiction
… final chapter theorises fanfiction, or fan-based creative practices, as minor literature, arguing that by identifying the “minoritarian” writing strategies depicted in novels about adolescent female authorship, we might better understand how these books express the affirmative potential of young …
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Rewriting Christina Rossetti : cross-gendered sibling rivalry, fraternal intervention and the counter-poetics of dissidence
… made strenuous efforts to direct and control her creative work. This thesis also examines and challenges the myths that William Michael set in motion as his sister's initial editor and biographer, and which still inform our perception of her as a poet and as a sister. I also investigate her …
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Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study
… For this reason, this dissertation explores the creative process of visual artists to better understand how creativity can be cultivated. Visual artists' perspectives and sense-and-meaning-making processes offer a unique view of innovation and creativity. However, there is limited research on the …
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Phenomenological costume-making: an embodied approach to movement and materiality in the making of performance wearables
This practice-led research examines the creative agency of costume through a phenomenological framework that defines the relationship between the designer’s body and materials within processes devised through this PhD. While scholarship on costume materiality and creative practice is gaining …
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Creative Performer Agency in the Collaborative Compositional Process
… of idolizing the composer as the autonomous creative genius has been challenged by recent developments across musicology and creativity research literature. The composer’s music is now regarded as the product of a collaborative network, influenced by all who come into contact with it—first …
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Diverse Economies and Economic Possibilities for Kāinga Housing in Aotearoa New Zealand
… Nonetheless, it argues that Māori exercise creative agency to achieve housing and other community aspirations within their wider political, economic and institutional contexts. These arguments are drawn through an elaboration of the diverse economies and ethical motivations that support, and …
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May Morris and the Making of Art, c. 1880 - 1938
… of artmaking that is expressive of the maker’s creative agency and reveals how Morris and her peers understood needlework within narratives of art’s prehistoric origins and its contemporary forms at the end of the nineteenth century. Chapter three focuses on the artist’s ambition and stylistic …
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