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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"popular entertainment"”.
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Vaudeville, Popular Entertainment and Cultural Division in the Inland Empire, 1880-1914
… America and their impact on attitudes towards popular entertainment. This paper will draw on Lawrence Levine’s observations of cultural hierarchies that emerged during the late nineteenth century and shaped American understandings of culture. Entertainment of the nineteenth century will be …
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Playing with stereotypes and building a queer community : race, sexuality and the stand-up comedy of Margaret Cho
… of stereotypes, as well as stand-up comedy and popular entertainment in general, in serving as a site that promotes community-building and challenges sexual, racial, gender, and class oppressions.
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Latin Oxford: dominance, power, and gender roles in dancing salsa
As a form of popular entertainment, salsa dancing is an active social and commercial recreation in many places around the world. It has become, in Anglo- European parts of the world, a highly-structured partner dance, involving several months of training to become skilled. It is a gendered partner …
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… research project that investigates how popular entertainment media portrays cults. My intention is to see how the selected films and television shows portray issues of hierarchy and culpability within the cult and to explore how the genre and theme of the content was utilized in order to …
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Digital and Interactive Media Analysis of Myths and Traditions Expressed in Thai Fairground Art
… been didactic Buddhist ethical works and popular folkloric beliefs. Both are permeated with a cosmology and worldview that is supernatural but which is pervaded with ethical implications for people’s daily lives. Buddhist art aims to encourage selfless acts for the good of others, …
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Depression on Screen: Rewriting Depression Through Arts-Based Methods
… of depression, perceptions of current popular film and television portrayals, and identifications of stereotypes and notable gaps in the popular entertainment landscape. Phase Two then translated those insights into a collaboratively developed narrative short film, while simultaneously …
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From <i>Zadruga</i> to oil refinery: Croatian immigrants and Croatian-Americans in Whiting, Indiana, 1890 to 1950
… impact on Croatian-Americans. Public schools, popular entertainment, military service, and ethnic out-group marriages effectively Americanized the immigrants’ children. Croatian-Americans had higher educational and occupational attainments than their immigrant parents. The Croatian-American …
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Henry L. Brunk and Brunk's Comedians: Tent repertoire empire of the Southwest
… by seven brothers and an uncle, provided popular entertainment for the heartlands of America through the first half of the twentieth century, leaving a lasting impression on regional inhabitants. Ken Ciirtis, noted for his portrayal of Festus on television's "Gunsmoke," said that, "Brunk's …
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Predictive analysis of real-time strategy games using graph mining
… Strategy (RTS) video games are not only a popular entertainment medium, they also are an abstraction of many real-world applications where the aim is to increase your resources and decrease those of your opponent. Using predictive analytics, which examines past examples of success and …
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Fixed and Fleeting: An Exploration of Film Poster Art from Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
… between consumerism and aesthetics, popular entertainment and fine art. The intent of my dissertation is two-fold. On the one hand, I reconsider the intellectual debates surrounding the artistic legitimacy of film as argued in the so-called Kinodebatte of the early twentieth century, …
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An Investigation of the Relationship between Popular Music and Analytic Cubist Paintings in Prewar Paris
… connection between Analytic Cubist paintings and popular music culture in pre-World War I Paris. In particular, it focuses on popular music, performance, song lyrics, music iconography and its connected poster advertising as each relates to the Analytic Cubist paintings of Braque and Picasso. …
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"""Raising the specter"": Poems and songs of the American Radical Left, 1880-1920"
… to rising censorship directed at the Left and at popular entertainment. The Radical Left's contributions to the poetry of this period are surprisingly extensive and substantial. Believing that poetry's reliance on logics of metaphor and paradox made it eminently suitable for use in thinking …
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A Transnational Bohemia: Dandyism and the Dance in the Futurist Art of Gino Severini, 1909-1914
… dissertation studies the intersection of popular entertainment and the visual arts in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century and the dialogue that formed between this subculture and the avant-garde factions of Paris and Italy. While this project will focus on the Italian …
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Stage Hypnosis in the Shadow of Svengali: Historical Influences, Public Perceptions, and Contemporary Practices
… examines stage hypnosis as a contemporary popular entertainment form and investigates the relationship between public perceptions of stage hypnosis and the ways in which it is experienced and practiced. Heretofore, little scholarly attention has been paid to stage hypnosis as a performance …
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Dr Carnesky’s incredible bleeding woman
… feminism, live art and performance, entertainment history, popular culture, activism and ecology. Informed by an autoethnographical framework, it uses my experiences as a woman and a performance maker developed through the creation of a Practice as Research (PaR) live performance …
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
… books can be understood as a visualization of popular culture in the U.S. For a long time these tales were formed by a white power fantasy, circulating in mainstream culture as over-exaggerated narrations. To give an example of white power fantasy, Dwayne McDuffie, a prolific writer in popular …
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Seasonal House-Visiting in South Yorkshire
… from the fieldwork to support the theory, popular among these earlier scholars, that these customs originate from pre-Christian rites and ceremonies. Even the bringing of luck is not a major feature. Rather, it is suggested here that house-visiting is in fact a form of popular entertainment …
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The media's role in the consolidation of democracy in South Africa: the case of the SABC's soap operas as a cultural public sphere
… (2006) and McGuigan's (2005) interest in the popular entertainment content which has often been regarded as having little significance in politics, especially democracy. In its emphasis on the consolidation aspect of South African democratic transition, the study is conducted against the …
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'We're Not Little Babies Anymore': A Cultural History of Small Girls in America, 1920-1945
… appearance of high-profile girl characters in popular culture media of all types soared between the years from 1924, when Little Orphan Annie first appeared in the comic section of newspapers, to 1945, when teenage girls replaced their younger sisters in the spotlight. As such, girl culture of …