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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"reenactment"”.
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Show-me ambiguity : an ethnographic study of Missouri Civil War reenactment
This thesis examines Civil War reenactment as it is practiced and performed by residents of Missouri. Using fieldwork (interviews and participant observation) conducted by the researcher at reenactment events, the thesis describes reenactment's rhetorical tendency to suggest that individual Civil …
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Reenactments: Embodied Encounters with the U.S. Southern Past
… performance practices that “reenact” the South. Reenactments explores the multiple historic and contemporary U.S. Souths evoked by Civil War battle reenactment, lynching protest performance, plantation tourism, and contemporary theatre. Drawing on the anthropology-inflected methodology of …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
… live action role playing (LARP), historical reenactment societies, and even other festival settings in which an alternate, non-normative identity is expressed. The participatory element of this activity, where interaction takes place face to face in an immersive setting which is set apart …
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
… media, whether escapist fiction or dramatized reenactment, participate in information systems that, intentionally or not, positively reinforce the goals of American imperialism, if not its outcomes.
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Public Art Between Authoritarianism and Democracy (The Case of the Maidan Protest in Ukraine)
… decommunization law in post-Maidan Ukraine as a reenactment of Soviet practices. Overall, this thesis argues that the formation of a new Ukrainian subjectivity based on democratic values which reached its peak during the recent revolution continues to manifest through the popular approach to …
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In between empathy and wonder lies the contamination that makes us human
… of bodies. This thesis speculates on the reenactment of a different kind of empathetic subject, one that is many and reflects the desire of many. Through deconstructing the concepts of empathy, wonder, and contamination in parallel with my own art practice, I will examine the role of art …
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Congressional Statutory Responses to Supreme Court Precedent: Comparing the Breadth and Potency of Statutes Invalidated by the Rehnquist Court and Analogous Statutes Subsequently Repassed by Congress
… in the four instances of successful reenactment, Congress was able to achieve, in practice, indistinguishable potency and breadth in two statutes and identical potency with significantly narrower breadth in one statute. This work is significant because it demonstrates that …
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A two-Paper Examination of Secure Body Attachment in the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders
… and consistency, can invite a type of reenactment of the proximity-seeking behavior that results in the creation of a "secure base," which can be used by the client to experience a sense of secure attachment and begin to shift the nature of her attachment to her own body.
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Art Therapy Program for Children of Battered Women
… and the prevention of the transgenerational reenactment of violence.</p>
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… knowledges. Using techniques of subjective reenactment, re-citation and rescripting—strategies that are collectively conceptualised here as forms of reimagining—I demonstrate how these artists offer subjective, situated, speculative and intersectional approaches to gender representation that …
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Between the Lines: Encoding Relations Through Body, Tool, and Algorithm
… our tools extend beyond the projective reenactment of the machine and offer us a means to measure the derivative of what it takes to produce a drawing, a surface, or a construction. This thesis dislocates the spline from its formal geometry associated with slipstream construction and …
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Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
… the bodies of visitors, in the performances of reenactment, in the ceremonies of communitas, and in the physical structures of the castles. The construction and deployment of social memories rooted in a shared experience of oppression evidenced in the historical examples of the slave trade and …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… of artistic convention and self-conscious reenactment of the past; by returning to the performers of the 1890s, these British and Irish writers reconceived the terms that are central to our understanding of modernism: personality, history, and tradition. As the late-Victorian stage passed …
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The Use of Forum Theatre as a Problem Solving Strategy for Middle School Students
… experienced this process with me. Along with the reenactment of a drinking episode on campus using Forum Theatre, the students also engaged in two sensory/muscular exercises. The first exercise was called "The Great Game of Power". (See Appendix A, p. 3-11). The second exercise was called …
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Global Iconic Events: How News Stories Travel Through Time, Space and Media
… a contemporary social myth. Through recycling, reenactment, possession, memorialization and other embodiments, the event's simple and universal story continues to travel successfully through time, space, and media, inspiring people in various parts of the world. In conclusion, I emphasize that …
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Internal visuomotor models for cognitive simulation processes
… notion, internal simulations -i.e. the mental reenactment of actions and their corresponding perceptual consequences - replace the application of logical rules on a set of abstract representations. These internal simulations are directly related to the physical body of an agent with its …
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The lion in Chinese space and social life
… in front of an entry way, is the reiteration or reenactment of the conceptual image of the lion through symbols, rituals and “traditional” beliefs by which this particular animal motif has become an enduring legacy of Chinese communities around the world. The thesis, then, summarises the changes …
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Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs and the Textual Experience of Photography
… bear a relationship to sculpture through a reenactment of impossibilities. It is here that the act of writing—especially as elaborated in a text by Jacques Derrida—becomes important.Derrida reads Bataille's reading of Hegel and writes another text, acknowledging his participation in the …
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Documenting trauma : an analysis of the construction of traumatic collective memory in the first and last scenes of the documentary, Mama Marikana
… women of Sikhala Sonke Women’s Organisation), reenactment (a play in which the women act out their memories and interpretations of the massacre that took place on 16 August 2012), cinéma vérité footage [of the audience (male mineworkers) watching the women perform the play at the Marikana …
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