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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"puppet"”.
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Towards a national puppet centre for the Lebanon
… long way in the direction towards abstraction is puppetry. From the times of the Pharaohs and Mesopotamians, puppets and masked actors communicated myths and legends in religious rituals and festivals. Later, puppets continued under Islam to communicate secular themes and narratives. Puppets, by …
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Infecting the Inanimate: Puppet Theatre Responds to Aids
… frustration and despair about HIV/AIDS, and puppet theatre, in particular, has made acontribution to the discourse.I investigate how puppetry artists have addressed the illness by examining threecase studies, each with a different relationship to the virus and a different target audience.The …
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StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre
StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre documents a vital Kansas City, Missouri, non-profit arts organization from its inception to the year 2014. The thesis includes the company’s mission, its evolution from a profit to a non-profit theatre, the process of building and booking …
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Objects in Protest: Bread and Puppet Theater's (Non)Human Solidarities
Bread and Puppet Theater's use of performing objects offers an aperture to contemplate complex assemblages that blur lines between the human and the nonhuman. Drawing upon cultural studies, feminist materialism, circus studies, and puppetry studies, I consider both the bread and the puppets as they …
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Puppet and Parvaneh: Exploring gender bias and artistic anonymity in Iran
… is the written component to the art exhibit, Puppet & Parvaneh, Exploring gender bias and artistic anonymity in Iran, held in March 2025 at Gallery 181, College of Design, Iowa State University. The title incorporates the word Parvaneh, which means butterfly in Farsi and symbolizes hope in my …
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Fusion of engineering, art, and education through an interactive robotic puppet show
… need to be emphasized and pursued. The Robotic Puppet Show fuses engineering, art, and education all in one. The focus of the project is to promote not only interest in math and science for young women, but it includes art to develop creative thinking. The robotic puppets are powered by Vex …
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The Alchemist of the Surreal and the Uncanny Valley: Jan Švankmajer, the puppet and eerie animation
… exists in poetry and transformation, the puppet is evoked as exemplary precedent and the actor’s model in theatre in the search of creating art out of the actor’s appearance. Scholars, artists and theatre practitioners questioned the mimetic, realistic, and naturalistic practice of theatre …
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Design and Construction of the Audrey II Puppet Series for the Play <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em>.
… to design and build 4 stages of the Audrey II puppet for the East Tennessee State University production of <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em> (Ashman, 1982). The puppets were to be created with consideration for the production space, budget, and operator ease, along with audience impact. This …
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Investigating infant preference for prosocial others: Replication and extension using repeated measures
… when given a single opportunity to choose a puppet after watching a puppet show, more infants (72-100% of infants) choose a helper puppet (the puppet that "helps" another puppet attain its goal) over a hinderer puppet (the puppet that "hinders" another puppet from attaining its goal). …
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Connections Between Voice and Design in Puppetry: A Case-Study
Puppets have been entertaining, educating, and mesmerizing American audiences since the birth of our nation. Both in live theatrical events and TV/film, audiences have watched puppeteers bring their puppet characters to life with clever voice quality choices, unique characterizations, and vivid …
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Puppets between human, animal and machine: towards the modes of movement contesting the anthropocentric view of life in animation
… this, I put forward as a critical focus the puppet-as-puppet figure, that is, the figure of a puppet depicted as a puppet per se in the film diegesis, which problematises the impression of life even if appearing to move on screen. A related focus in my thesis is the mode of movement which …
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Socio-cultural Conventionality and Children’s Selective Learning
… 4-year-olds heard novel words either from a boy puppet who wore a skirt or a boy puppet who wore pants. When then tested for their memory of the words, children who heard the words from the skirt-wearing boy puppet were less likely to produce and remember the word-referent link after a brief …
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Event description by two subtypes of learning disabled children
… was examined. Children viewed a narrative or a puppet show, then were asked to either describe of enact what had happened. Generally disabled children enacted the events as accurately as nondisabled children, indicating that generally disabled children understood and remembered events as well as …
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