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Showing 1 to 20 of 316 for “"hybridity"”.
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ScreenStage performance: Hybridity, perception and enstrangement
… and the virtual realms by means of conceptual hybridity. The thesis articulates the insights of a practitioner by applying new ways of semiotic thinking about intermediality in terms of composition, action, narration and ‘enstrangement’ (Shklovsky, 1919). SSP is considered and analysed as a …
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'Disquiet' novella and screenplay : adaptation and creative hybridity
The major creative work of this thesis consists of ‘Disquiet’, the novella and the screenplay. It is a twice-told tale. In the exegesis I explore the writing practice of working between two narrative forms. To do this I begin by establishing that the traditional focus of adaptation studies has been …
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Urban hybridity: an alternative development strategy for Woodstock
At the beginning of this year, my initial concept lay in understanding the influence of hybridisation on contemporary urban society and how this, in turn, affects and changes places within the city. I find this subject interesting as I personally feel influenced by the hybridisation of global and …
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Crossover: boundaries, hybridity, and the problem of opposing cultures
Classical crossover is a term regularly used but not yet adequately defined. This<br/>thesis attempts to redress this imbalance through a study of the relationships<br/>between high and low musical cultures. Starting from the separation of highbrow<br/>and lowbrow, the concepts of genre and musical …
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The Intricacies of M.F.K. Fisher: Discovering a Kaleidoscopic Hybridity
<p>This thesis seeks to analyze M.F.K. Fisher's socio-historic role and the components of her texts as a means to interrogate the categorization of her writing, to identify her authorial voice, and to see how it all contributes to and proves that Fisher is a `kaleidoscopic' hybrid writer. I utilize …
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The theater of innovation : developing skills to perform hybridity
… how an organization successfully sustains its hybridity despite challenges associated with making multiple identity claims. The paper analyzes how the organization socializes individuals to perform its particular hybrid organizational identity. A common practice known as demonstrations served …
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Bram Stoker and cultural unification: colonialism, hybridity and the gothic
This thesis develops the links between Ireland, Colonialism and Nationality that occur within Bram Stoker's narratives through the representation of an ancient version of the past that actively engages with the Victorian present. This construction of the past demonstrates Stoker's political views …
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Negotiating hybridity in Gu Hongming’s English translation of Confucian texts
… As a case study, this thesis probes into hybridity as a constructive yet ruptured term in translation studies.<br/>
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
This dissertation establishes the groundwork for a new genre of Southern film – a hybrid genre that I call Southern maternal horror. By integrating key elements from the genres of maternal melodrama and modern horror into Southern narratives, Southern maternal horror uses the central ambivalence …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
This work examines the concept of “hybridity” and critically engages with the intellectual and political discourses that have attempted to define its meaning from the time of the Spanish Empire to the postmodern era. As a phenomenon resulting from cross-cultural encounters, hybridity has always …
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The Asianadian, 1978-1985: Hybridity and Resistance in Theory and Practice
This dissertation examines the cultural and political production of the magazine The Asianadian (1978-1985). The Asianadian was the first and only anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic social justice magazine in Canada. Using theoretical insights of Critical Race Theory, Indigenous Studies, …
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Literacy Potentials: Agency, Embodiment, And Hybridity In Cesar Chavez's Discourse Practices
… to define lifeworld Discourse as an emergent hybridity that accounts for one's capacity to act based on one's history of sedimented literacy practices. The project also looks at a case study of Chávez genre use in Oxnard, California in 1957 in order to understand how genre blending across …
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Hybridity, border-crossings and the homeland in contemporary literature by women
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J-Horror : A discourse in cross-cultural communication and cinematic hybridity
Film visually communicates the idea of culture, leaving interpretation open to an impressionable audience. Though a genre's recognizable iconography can transcend boundaries, understanding a film's intended message still requires a certain amount of foreknowledge. J-Horror, the common term for …
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Black British Identities : The Dialogics of a Hybridity-of-the-Everyday.
This study looks at hybridity as an everyday interactional phenomenon using conversations on lived experience, amongst Black British people of Caribbean heritage between the ages of 16-40 who are from London, the Midlands and West Yorkshire. Black British identifications in talk-in-interaction are …
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The ambiguity of hybridity : an encounter between constructivism and Latvian sociology
… scientific representation is not concealed, and hybridity is acknowledged.
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Toward a Creole Christ : a theology of language and Christian hybridity.
Following the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960's and 70's, a new tradition of theology was inaugurated, known today as Black Liberation Theology. This tradition attempted to offer an account of Christianity that could challenge white racism and the theological structures that …
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Transmedia - a Place of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
… a framework of understanding in conditions of hybridity and change.
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Learning Performances of Dislocation, Receptivity and Hybridity in Women's Utopian Writing
The deconstructionist and revisionist gestures of this project also address the metaphysics of purity and imprintability that have been dominating educational notions of childhood. In particular, I explore two arguments: (a) The understanding of utopian writing as the literary supplement of …
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