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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"fourth wall"”.
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Proscenium: Building the Fourth Wall
The key relationship in a theater is between the audience and the production staff. I explored this relationship through a performing arts complex located on Mt. Vernon Square in Washington DC. The two questions that drove the thesis were: How are the spaces occupied by the audience different from …
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Pedagogy of the fourth wall : toward a time-based architecture
Contemporary design pedagogy has failed to produce architects that can operate effectively within time-based global crises. In their attempts to address issues of sustainability and resiliency, architects have trapped themselves in a false binary, understanding structures to be either temporary or …
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Dancing through the fourth wall: Process Drama as an enactment of Critical Pedagogy
This thesis explores the interplay of process drama and critical pedagogy and addresses the question of how the principles of the two pedagogies relate and whether process drama can enact critical pedagogy. While a significant and previously recorded association exists between the principles of …
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The Fourth Wall of Dialogue: A Co-Constructive Collaboration on BIPOC Student Sense of Belonging in Higher Education
… community with a commitment to “break the fourth wall”, a reference to Diderot’s theatrical metaphor describing invisible borders and perceived barriers that exist between BIPOC students and their institutions of higher education. Results revealed that a co-constructed environment allowed …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
<p>Despite the extensive collection of works related to both Joss Whedon and <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>, relatively little critical attention has so far dealt with the subject of metafiction. This study aims to make use of narratological analyses as well as drawing upon relevant theorists …
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Not Leading Lady Material
… disruption all while eliminating the fourth wall and inviting the audience on a journey through personal narrative. This paper examines the navigation and weaving together of different expressive disciplines, as well as the challenges presented in the performance of both original and …
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Acts of making and receiving: A compositional practice
… relationship, by addressing the function of the fourth wall as part of musical performance. Focusing on the inherent theatricality of musical performance, the pieces were created by experimenting with the non-sonic constituents of performance – i.e. the space that hosts performance and the rules …
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In the Footsteps of: The Challenge of Recreating and Reflecting on the Writings and Achievements of Historic Women Travellers.
… These techniques were employed to break the fourth wall and use my body and experiences as a narrative devices. This commentary has drawn on my auto-ethnographical reflections linking my intellectual journey with my physical ones to show how this interweaving creates layers of texture and …
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Wagner's Meistersinger and the tradition of comic opera
… of emotional detachment, the breaching of the "fourth wall", parody and satire.
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The Traumatized/traumatizing Subject In Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, And August Wilson
… audiences through a destabilization of the fourth wall, embedded performances, and a stylistic and thematic focus on dissociation, fragmentation, liminality, and simultaneity.</p>
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Empathising With Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity In Documentary Film
… empathy are: depicting animals as breaking the fourth wall; anthropomorphising animals; juxtaposing humans against non-humans; the inclusion of abstractions and defamiliarisations that render the image otherworldly or unheimlich; avoiding didactic voice-over to stimulate imagination; and to …
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'The Screen Is A Dim Page Spread Before Us': Thomas Pynchon, Digital-Age Fiction, and the Theory of the Reflexive Correlative
… I argue that Pynchon uses diegetic levels and fourth-wall breaks as reflexive correlatives for the transcending of the finite set in set theory. In my fourth and final main chapter, I explore feedback, an important concept in cybernetics, as well as Pynchon’s influence on William Gibson’s …
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Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Medieval theatrical audiences expected that dramatic performances would have some element of truth: they believed that what they saw performed was in some sense factual, and this belief was due in large part to their participation in the dramatic spectacle. By the end of the sixteenth century, …
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Black Cats, Berlin, Broadway And Beyond: The Genre Of Cabaret
… in the form of the proverbial "lowered fourth wall," allowing me to use my improvisational acting and interactive skill set as well as my musical skills. Cabaret is generally more intimate and personal in nature and I enjoy the camaraderie cabaret affords. Cabaret is interactive and …