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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"female audiences"”.
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On a Good Day, You Get to Kill a Whore: Narrative Misogyny and Female Audiences in Supernatural
… messages in media texts and the engagement of audiences with these messages. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, applying theoretical and methodological concepts from both film studies and audience studies, in order to develop a new model through which to study media texts and fans. I apply …
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Sisterly Sleuths: The Hidden Cultural Work of Serial Modernism
… for their popularity. Serial texts aimed at female audiences have been subjected to further criticisms: they have been judged as being trivial or insipid in content and as lacking aesthetic merit or cultural weight. Despite these criticisms, serial narratives were exceedingly popular with …
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
… has managed to remain an icon to contemporary female audiences, demonstrating a powerful relationship between women, fashion, and identity.</p>
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From Text to Screen The Role of Feminism in Adapting Female-Oriented Internet Literature to Chinese Television Drama
This thesis investigates the adaptation of female-oriented internet literature into Chinese television dramas from 2011 to 2021, with a particular focus on how feminist ideologies are negotiated and represented across the adaptation process. It explores four interconnected dimensions: the feminist …
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Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Seventeenth-Century Painting
“Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting” examines representations of music-making featuring female musicians to demonstrate how visual and aural elements interweave to create an emotional and physiological experience for a seventeenth-century audience. …
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The contextual evaluation of research on sexually explicit materials
… of sexual magazines aimed at male and female audiences. Participants' reactions to images and texts associated with SEM presented in different contexts are discussed. Three main conclusions are drawn from this thesis. Firstly, images deemed 'pornographic' differ through historical and …
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… aim of this thesis is to clarify the role that female interpreters in Britain played at an early stage in the canonisation of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, one of the popular playwrights in English Renaissance theatre, became increasingly famous during the first half of the eighteenth …
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Utilizing mass media in the political empowerment of Egyptian women
… of women’s rights. This is done by interviewing female members of political parties, NGOs and a governmental women’s organization, as well as using archival research to analyze the information available in the publications of these organizations. Other methods employed in this study are critical …
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An Analysis of the Ecology and Public Perception of Coarse Woody Debris in Virginia
… Given that brochures were more effective for females than males, brochures addressing natural resource issues might be the most appropriate, cost effective method of education at events that target female audiences. Knowledge gained from this study that CWD management for wildlife would be …
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Screen-to-measure: An Interdisciplinary and Embodied Approach to the Investigation of Film Noir Costumes Informed by Lady in the Dark (Mitchell Leisen, USA, 1944) and Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA, 1944)
… cinematic identities and its relationship with female audiences. However, as it appears that film scholars have seldom looked at or worked with the actual garments, little academic scholarship addresses cinematic costume as an embodied practice or as material culture. The thesis develops the …
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Would You Recommend This Picture to Your Friends? A History of Hollywood Test Screenings
… and filmmakers and their conceptions of what audiences they hope to attract. Studios have test screened movies since the 1920s, and over the years have enlisted market research firms and political pollsters in an effort to mitigate financial risk. How they interpret and act on this data can …