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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"critical textual analysis"”.
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Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis of Femininities,Performances, and Representations
In this study I examine the multiple ways in which femininity is performed and how those performances intersect with race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality in the anime Bleach and Samurai Champloo. I also interrogate the implications of these performances in relation to hegemonic discourses of …
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Hardwiring consumer desire: Publishing and promoting the online technocultural experience : a critical textual analysis of Wired magazine and its advertising, 1993-1996
… In order to achieve a detailed yet nuanced analysis of Wired's claim of reinvention, the thesis has been organised into areas which analyse Wired's material and textual characteristics, the construction and promotion of techno-lifestyle in relation to Wired's readership, and an examination …
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Watching the Watchdogs: Defining Journalists in the United States
… journalism studies. This dissertation utilizes critical textual analysis for a case study of journalists' letters to editors of journalism trade magazines to identify the patterned ways journalists define journalists. Deuze's (2005, 2007b) theory of the ideological definitions of journalists …
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Competition in local TV news: Ritual, enactment, and ideology
"This work seeks to develop a critical, ethnographic understanding of competition in local television journalism. Using methods of participant observation, focused interviews, and critical textual analysis, the author argues that competition is ritualized within and among news organizations. …
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Sarah Kane's Post-Christian Spirituality in Cleansed
… post-Christian spirituality. Through the critical textual analysis of <em>Cleansed </em>in conjunction with scholarly literature regarding her work, I explore Kane’s life and spiritual background and tie them to the biblical allusions in the play and Kane’s adaptation thereof.</p>
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Corporate social advocacy and racial justice : a critical analysis of Dove's CROWN Act campaign
… itself as an advocate for Black women. A critical textual analysis was conducted of Dove's web-based campaign materials, and Critical Race Theory (CRT) was used as a framework, focusing on core tenets such as: counter-storytelling, interest convergence, whiteness as property, and …
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Violence, Paratexts, and Fandoms: The Walking Dead as a Societal Mirror
<p>This project is a critical textual analysis of fan discourse surrounding the season seven premiere of The Walking Dead “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be” that aired on AMC on October 23rd, 2016. Focusing on paratexts, fandoms, and the violence/horror genre as the theoretical framework, the …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
… examines psychoanalytic interpretation through a critical textual analysis of primary texts by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan. Chapter One presents Freud's The interpretation of dreams (1900) as initiating a new psychoanalytic hermeneutic/interpretive epistemology, methodology, …
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#instaworthy presentations of place: a place study of experience among teenagers on Instagram
… with former Rustic Pathways students and textual analysis of ninety Instagram posts. The analysis applied multiple lenses of interpretation through a hermeneutic perspective as well as a critical textual analysis to understand both the constructed realities of place experience and to …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures 1976-2010
… concerns recent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and galleries that are part of a broader attempt to increase the diversity of histories and perspectives represented in public art collections and exhibitions. The research focuses …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures, 1976-2010
… It concernsrecent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and galleries that are part of a broader attempt to increase the diversity of histories and perspectives represented in public art collections and exhibitions. The research …
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Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space
… feminist and postcolonial perspectives and apply critical textual analysis. I posit, and find, that the self and other are mutually constitutive. I suggest this shift visually and textually by using self-other, rather than the more usual self/Other. I find that these travel writers point to …