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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"representations of trauma"”.
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Innovative representations of trauma: trauma in popular culture
This thesis investigates the representation of trauma in late twentieth- and early twenty-first century popular culture. Dominant cultural trauma theory tends to focus on high cultural avant-garde works. However, more recent studies increasingly examine trauma representation in popular culture. …
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Houses That Break: Representations of Trauma in The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
… are all terms we use interchangeably, while often forgetting the people affected by it all and the stories they carry. We are used to media representation of catastrophic events such as war and terror but this too usually lacks depth and nuance, which leads to an essential part of the story …
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Representations of Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Film: Moving from Erasure to Creative Transformation
… its limited way, to redress the repeated erasure of trauma from public knowledge and social consciousness by examining how a variety of crisis events have been represented in contemporary American literature and film. Intersecting archival, trauma, literary and film studies, this project …
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… examines three narratives that are part of the genre of Holocaust Literature: Elie Wiesel’s Night, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the way in which each of these texts contributes to collective Holocaust memory and traumatic literature: as a …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
This dissertation explores the intersections of memory and trauma in comics, arguing that the interrelations of the visual and the textual elements of this medium allow for an expanded understanding of how representations of trauma and memory function. This project argues for the centrality of …
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Dissociations in Acting: An investigation of how existing and emergent acting methodologies may be used to create new knowledge and practice, informed by and in response to dissociative identity disorder
… de-roleing, in conjunction with the second aim of creating original authentic portrayals of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in theatre. This is a practice-based MPhil that uses an interdisciplinary approach and has been organised around two key concepts, the notion of de-roleing and that of …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
This thesis traces the fluctuations of figurative language and imagery in youth literature, illustrating how the Holocaust has been and continues to be represented and manipulated. Youth Holocaust literature, often a young person’s first introduction to the events of the Nazi genocide, exposes the …