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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"pageant"”.
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Beauty Pageant Mothers: Demographics, Motivations, and Family Structure
<p>An exploratory analysis of national beauty pageants for children was conducted through the administration of a questionnaire and through observation. The population surveyed was mothers with daughters sixteen years old or under. Questionnaires were distributed at six national pageants in five …
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Royal Rhinestones: The Beauty Pageant and Female Beauty in American Literature
… various competition segments of the beauty pageant to isolate and analyze how beauty affects the lives of heroines of American literature, reflecting how beauty influences the lived experiences of American women. While heroines of novels are often beautiful, little attention has been paid to …
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"The Gate City": artistry and identity in an American historical pageant
… in Lincoln, Nebraska organized an historical pageant entitled 'The Gate City: A Masque of Omaha.' The second in a series of three pageants, 'The Gate City' explored visions of Nebraska's past, present and future through the interpretation of two myths; one Omaha and the other Spanish. Using …
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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
Child beauty pageants are a phenomenon in rural communities throughout Georgia. My belief is that most of those who compete in these pageants are from the lower socio-economic bracket, participating for a multitude of reasons. A bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnography, critical …
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Methods of Revision in Sixteenth-Century English Cycle Drama
… plays. Further, it argues that the actors and pageant-makers themselves often made these revisions, rather than the civic or ecclesial authorities traditionally credited for rewriting the pageants. These changes, introduced in production and transferred into the texts, helped keep the plays …
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Playing the Crowd: Mass Pageantry in Europe and the United States, 1905-1935
… a theatrical and political genre I call "mass pageantry," which emerged in England, the United States, Russia and Germany during the early twentieth century. Performed out-of-doors, often with thousands of amateur local performers in costume, these vast mytho-historical spectacles emerged from …
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Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place
… comparable performances today (the Hill Cumorah Pageant and the Nauvoo Pageant); they are also reenactments of sacred events framed by the sacred spaces where they originally occurred. The main commonality of my focus is the sacred physical space which frames each of the performances as a sort of …
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… as their playwright-director, evoke the literary pageant in Woolf's last novel. In photographing the Illustrations, Cameron took control of the Laureate's poetry, metaphorically assuming the role of Vivien stealing Merlin's poetic spells. This dissertation traces Woolf's perception of her great …
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T. S. Eliot's theory of dramatic communication
… unfinished fragments Sweeny Agonistes and the pageant play, The Rock. These works show the ways Eliot put into practice his own theories about the relationship of drama and verse. Although their relative merits are the subject of considerable critical controversy, each play affords a rich …
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LANDSCAPES AND TRADITIONS OF MARATHONING IN THE USA, 2000-2008
… cultural traditions of marathoning, Corrival and Pageant, simultaneous creates and eliminates barriers to marathoning participation. Using John Caughey's strategies for studying cultural traditions and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of capital to differentiate between and describe two different …
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… pursued in terms of the period genre of the 'new pageantry' where national and ethnic identity are performed. This is compared with mural painting in public buildings, and a case study is made of the 1908 Quebec Tercentenary pageant and the 1910 South African Union pageant. The study of Fairbridge …
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Sexuality: Social and Cultural Constructs of Women Represented through Art
Life is one beauty pageant after another. There is always competition, be it physically or mentally. Societal rules have always determined the constructions of gender both accepted and taboo. My research explores how these social constructs pertaining to sexuality began and how they have been …
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Disruptive Body
… disorder. I discuss the inspiration behind Pageant of the Vulnerable, beginning with research into art therapy, eating disorders, and artist Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is an important reference for my large-scale sculptures, because of her approach to expressing her own fears and obsessions by …
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RuPaul's Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
… in the 2018 edition of the Toronto-based drag pageant Crews and Tangos Drag Race. Using this group as a case study, this thesis demonstrates how Drag Race has influenced both the politics and aesthetics of the Toronto drag scene. Drawing from scholar Will Straw’s work on scene theory, I argue …
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Carnival Is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
… participated in this Carnival-themed beauty pageant that remained popular until the</p><p>1970s. I also examine the legend of <italic>soucouyant</italic> (an old woman who turns into a ball of fire at night and sucks the life blood from unsuspecting victims) and how this figure can be …
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S USE OF THE PAST: THE EARLY CRITICISM TO "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" (HISTORY, MODERNISM, WORLD WAR I)
… generation novel; Between the Acts concerns a pageant of English history performed while planes preparing for war fly overhead. But the historical fiction that began with Orlando did not represent a return to earlier interests. This dissertation, dealing with the early criticism and the first …
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A Comparison of the Treatent of Selected Subjects in American History in the Ninth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Editions of the Encycloaedia Britannica
… War by Thomas Bailey in The American Pageant,1 the text that my students were then using.</p> <p>Inspired as I was by my interesting and amusing discovery I decided to pursue, for the subject of my dissertation, the question of how much change there had been in the writing of American …
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Théâtre, fêtes et célébrations en Acadie (1880-1980)
… du Bicentenaire acadien et la representation du Pageant de l'Acadie, ecrit par Laurent Tremblay, en 1955. (8) La Chandeleur, le Charivari et le Frolic.
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'Dost Thou Speak like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the Early English Stage
… cycle, and argues that the cycle's new opening pageant, The Fall of Lucifer, embodies Chester's fears about losing its traditional civic identity. Chapter Two examines Biblical drama's surprising ability to encourage resistance to tyranny through a reading of The Killing of the Children, which …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… short story ‘Of the Coming of John’ and the pageant The Star of Ethiopia (1913), he mixed Wagner with anti-racist declarations to outline a mythology of ‘Black Folk’. Expanding our understanding of Black Wagnerism, this chapter is a timely intervention in discussions about Wagner’s legacy. …