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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"cultural critique"”.
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Romanticizing Leadership: A Historical and Cultural Critique
Romanticism, a cultural and intellectual ideology of the late 18th and early 19th century, left a historical legacy of ecstasy and disaster upon subsequent generations. Manifestations of neo-romanticism are evident in many areas of contemporary culture. These modern manifestations, which include an …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
… performance art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural critique. This juxtaposition also examines the multiple layering suggested by the relationship between art, art history and art criticism to both, each other and to broader social and …
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Prescription drug advertisements as fantasies: A cultural critique using a visualization model
Foss' (1994) rhetorical schema for the evaluation of visual images in conjunction with elements of Bormann's (1982) theories on fantasy theme analysis provides a framework for the creation of the included Visualization model which enables the examination of prevalent advertising images. The …
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Tagging and identity in the age of social media : a cultural critique
This thesis explores online identity through a cultural critique of tagging on social media. In particular, I discuss social media tagging in relation to historically and socially grounded labelling practices. While labelling has often been theorised as a social tool to oppress and marginalise, the …
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'I Heard Beauty Dying': The Cultural Critique of Plastic in Gravity's Rainbow
… It argues that Pynchon takes 1960s and 1970s critiques of supply-driven consumer capitalism, of which plastic was a visible emblem, and makes them more emphatic by placing them into a fictionalized version of the prewar years and the 1940s. Looking backwards, and employing a creative license …
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Solving the World's Problems: Walker Percy's Cultural Critique in Love in the Ruins
… choosing authentic existence. He juxtaposes his critique of culture with time devices, such as his selection of genre, his use of flashback, and his persistent present tense narration, so that the reader can reflectively contemplate the concept of eternity, a major component of the existential …
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Cultural critique and canon formation, 1910-1937. A study in modernism and cultural memory
… from the canon. I investigate the work and cultural milieu of three such writers: Douglas Goldring, John Rodker and Mary Butts. The first chapter sets the terms of the argument, and presents the grounds for a reconfiguration of the conventional historical view of modernism. The second …
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Leon Baptista Alberti : the philosophy of cultural criticism
… investigates Leon Baptista Alberti's cultural critique, taking into consideration a broad spectrum of Alberti's writings, including many which have remained relatively unknown and ignored. Alberti developed his cultural theories by means of a literary ontology which is based on the …
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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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Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
… identity in an environment of ever-shifting cultural norms, which called into question all of their predetermined ideas on femininity, masculinity, and the ways in which members of the opposite sex should interact with one another. Although much of their writing is set amid and seems to …
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Worth the Wait and Hype? Gentrification, Anxiety, and the Hipster Geographies of Boutique Ice Cream
… retail gentrification processes by offering a cultural critique of an ice-cream boutique located on Ossington Avenue in downtown Toronto, attending to material and digital dynamics of urban production and consumption. At the same time, this Master’s thesis locates the presence of anxiety within …
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Translating and interpreting South Africa’s cultures: art, song and dance in Mda’s selected novels
… the complexities of translating South African cultural realities into narrative form. By examining how Mda incorporates and reinterprets traditional South African art forms, music, and dance, this study reveals the complex dynamics of cultural expression and translation. The study argues that …
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An examination of the post- second world war relative decline of UK manufacturing 1945-1975, viewed through the lens of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd
… to do so. The study also examined whether the ‘cultural critique’ of Barnett C, Wiener M.J. et al provides a valid alternative explanation for the collapse. While the hypothesis has some plausibility, too many variables and unresolved supplementary questions arise for this to contribute …
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Italian Unity as Leitmotiv in British Literature, 1820-1865
<p>This paper demonstrates that popular cultural interests, fueled by the forces of the marketplace, can develop and formulate a political will and expression. In nineteenth- century England, a sympathetic embrace of what the historian C. P. Brand called Italianate fashion” (3), captivated the …
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Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure
… size, as well as religion to create a corpulent critique. I do this by examining the lineage of queer failure as well as queer temporality as it is linked to failure (Edelman; Muñoz; Halberstam; Love) with fat queer bodies serving as foundational elements. Informed by LeMaster, I understand queer …
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Marketing the aesthetic encounter : the role of consumption in the design of the new Museum of Modern Art
… architecture has been extensively subjected to cultural critique. Perceived as an instance of architects' stylistic yearnings, reflecting control strategies, promoting institutions' economic and cultural power, catering for education through forms that increasingly associate it with commercial …
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A role for spiritual self-enquiry in suicidology?
… of suicidality; secondly, an anthropological or cultural critique of suicidology; and thirdly, a role for spirituality in understanding the suicidal crisis of the self.
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Accounting for health and illness: A social psychological investigation
… "the wonders of modern medicine"; "stress"; "the cultural critique'; 'a healthy lifestyle", 'tradition"; "individual autonomy", 'Theism'; and "Willpower". These accounts are assumed to operate both within individual subjectivity and popular discourse, offering people a variety of complementary …
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Videogame culture as transnational media: one neoliberalism, many resistances
… 4 rewrites the stealth espionage thriller into a critique of neoliberalism's financial speculations and neocolonial wars, while Final Fantasy 12 rewrites the fantasy role-playing videogame into a critique of the colonial and neocolonial legacies of fantasy and role-playing fiction. Using the tools …
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CIAM and the emergence of Team 10 thinking, 1945-1959
… for the discipline of architecture, to a cultural critique of Modernism occurring in postwar society in general.
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