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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"self-reflexive"”.
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Modern Folk Music Composition: A Self-reflexive Exploration
This thesis is comprised of two parts: six recorded original compositions and this paper, which includes an autobiographical survey of my musical influences and an analysis of the compositions. The compositions are all instrumental, written in a modern folk/bluegrass style. This paper discusses my …
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Chernobyl journey: process and subversion in woman’s self-reflexive animation
… focuses on the correlation between women’s self-reflexive animation and subversion. I first observed this correlation in my own practice in making my long form mixed media documentary Chernobyl Journey, when I attempted to evade politically loaded popular narratives that I found …
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Between Fiction and Documentary: Dangerous Liaisons and the Self-Reflexive Film
… and documentary films that foreground, in a self-reflexive way, the process of their construction illustrate is the fact that all filmic representations are a negotiation between fiction and non-fiction. And it is in that space between fiction and documentary that alternative representations …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
… and intratextually throughout the text itself, and a series of fictionalized versions of personal experiences, not only is the reader able to gain insight into the author’s motives, intentions and personality, but the author is also able to retain or regain some of the authority over the …
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The Personal Is Pedagogical: A Critical Teacher Educator’s Self-Reflexive Dialogue on Adultism
… from artifacts, auto-interviews, and systematic self-observation, this study seeks to answer the following question: How am I developing a critical consciousness about adultism as a teacher educator? My findings reveal that there are enabling factors, which I refer to as the three E’s–education, …
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The effect of anthropological research on the researcher: a self-reflexive account of fieldwork conducted for Rape Crisis (Cape Town)
… is the process whereby the researcher's sense of self was transformed, and the dialectical nature of the relationship between this transformation and the way in which the study was conducted. The dissertation is structured around this issue, which is of major importance to anthropological …
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Exploring audience responses to self-reflexivity in television narratives
Self-reflexivity refers to "the process by which texts, both literary and filmic, foreground their own production, their authorship, their intertextual influences, their reception, or their enunciation" (Stam, 1985, p. xiii). This paper expands Olson's (1987) framework for discussing self-reflexive …
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Working Remains
… by the project's title pertain to concerns about self, place, labour, and culture that permeate personal, and collective history and memory. Working Remains adopts a self-reflexive and critical approach to representation through painting, installation, sculpture, performance, and video.
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The human lefts series: postmodern self-reflexivity and post -independence Singaporean theater
… formal documentation of the postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the postmodern and post-independence Singapore. Through the Human Lefts Series, which I conceptualised and performed between 2005 and 2009, we are able to look at postmodern Singapore theatre beyond issues relating to the …
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ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING: THE CHANGING SELF, IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL
… how social networking websites alter the social self. Critical and symbolic interactionist sociological theory is used as a means to understand the data. This dissertation specifically concerns how social networking websites shape identity, result in a more self-reflexive presentation of self, …
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The space between : discursive constructions of masculinity in contemporary South African men's lifestyle magazines
… thesis suggests that appreciating identity as self-reflexive provides a different understanding of the anxiety surrounding contemporary masculinity. Gender as a self-reflexive project allows the self to be constructed from a multitude of resources resulting in the apprehension of choice. This …
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Studies in metafiction and postmodernism
… that movement within the larger category of a self reflexive narrative tradition beginning with Lawrence Sterne and fluidly developing through the modernist experimentation of Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner to the more recent subversion of modernist possibilities in fictions by Borges, …
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Voluntarism and Reflection
… depend on a particular conception of the will as self-reflexive. By considering what is involved in (first-personally) ascribing the relevant kind of self-reflexive structure to one's own will, I conclude that both types of theory are likely to succeed only in modest, first-order normative forms, …
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The participatory potential of early cinema: a reexamination of early projected films
… and Charles Musser do not fully account for the self-reflexive materiality of the actualities under consideration. Working through Gunning and Musser’s debate with Lurline Baths, Sutro Baths, and Sutro Baths, No. 1 in mind, I argue for an alternative reading of early film that understands the …
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Updating the Role of Historiography in Christian Ethics
… this dissertation calls ethicists to a critical self-reflexive historiography equally capable of self-critique as it is at reading for the gaps and silences of history. The importance of a critical self-reflexive historiography for ethics will be found in our ability to construct new histories …
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Music as metaphor and mediator : creating an integrative paradigm for education
… meta-contextual perspective from within which a self-reflexive reframing process is expected to emerge. A system of ideas is presented, consisting of key concepts drawn mainly from the systems worldview and speculative musicology. From these, metaphoric maps are devised as a guide for mediating …
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The kid with a camera : Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic critique.
… films constitute a body of work that serves as a self-reflexive critique of cinema. Through both documentary and fiction film-making, Kiarostami complicates the clear divide between reality and fiction in film-making by blending both realities and fictions into his film. Through the use of …
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Travails in limbo - an ethical and aesthetic investigation into new approaches in the presentation of Theatre for Young Audiences
… practice led the researcher to shift focus into self-study and a critique of practice to enhance self-reflexive praxis, which strives to be ethical. Issues surrounding representation took precedence in an attempt to speak to the lived experiences of the early adolescent South African girl. The …
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Interconnections between Self and Others: Building an Ethical Foundation for a Mindful Model of Spatial Literacy
… embodied mindfulness practices in relation to self and community. I begin by recasting mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 2013; Langer, 1989) as literacy (Soloway, 2015) so as to bridge mindfulness studies with contemporary socially situated understandings of literacy (Cazden et al., 1996; Gee, 2015; …
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