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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"spectatorship"”.
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Parent-spectatorship in minor ice hockey
… of the parent-child relationship to parent-spectatorship and the experienced emotions of parent-spectatorship. Located within a conceptual framework informed by theories of emotion (Lazarus, 1966, 1991, 1999; Weiner, 1977, 1980b, 1980a, 2006) and parent-child bond (Bowlby, 1982, 1999), this …
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Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
<p>This dissertation explores intersections between trompe l'oeil painting and photography. It began as an interest in contemporary photographers, such as Thomas Demand, whose photographs of constructed paper models encourage viewers to discover the nature of his interventions. His strategy …
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Distracted spectatorship, the cinematic experience and franchise films
… draws on a reflexive account of embodied female spectatorship in order to re-frame dominant accounts of the cinematic experience. In particular the project shows how distraction, defined as a series of puncta which expand the spectator’s cinematic experience, is integral to embodied experience of …
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Absent Others: dark tourism, theatricality, and ethical spectatorship
… to help clarify what is at stake in such spectatorship. In order to examine theatricality as a mode of ethical responsiveness, I offer two contrasting sets of examples: tourist sites and theatrical performances. The sites I consider are examples of 'dark tourism,' destinations that depict …
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Punishment in the slammer: penal spectatorship among college students.
… the researcher interested in understanding penal spectatorship to observe the everyday consumption of punishment. The focus of this research project seeks to untangle the extent to which citizens engage in multiple forms of penal spectatorship in their everyday lives. One media form which …
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In plane sight: theories of film spectatorship and animation
… pertinence of established theories of cinematic spectatorship to understanding viewers’ perception of animation, particularly cel and other animating cinematic practices (like claymation) that do not attempt to approximate the look of live action filming. The study considers the usefulness of …
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Distributed Cinema: Interactive, Networked Spectatorship In The Age Of Digital Media
<p>Digital media has changed much of how people watch, consume and interact with digital media. The loss of indexicality, or the potential infidelity between an image and its source, contributes to a distrust of images. The ubiquity of interactive media changes aesthetics of images, as viewers …
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Responsible filmmaking: ethics and spectatorship through the lens of Michael Haneke
My dissertation uses, as starting point, an interview with Michael Haneke in which the Austrian filmmaker criticises Downfall and Schindler's List for manipulating audiences and for generating entertainment from real-life and unspeakable horrors. He argues that filmmakers have a responsibility to …
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The Cinema and its Spectatorship: The Spiritual Dimension of the 'Human Apparatus'
This thesis undertakes an excursion into the network of science, art, and popular culture at the end of the 19th century to examine the interrelations between these various strands in relation to the emerging cinema and its so-called spiritual dimension. Instead of an ontology of the image, or a …
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Sympathetic Observations: Widowhood, Spectatorship, and Sympathy in the Fiction of Henry James
This thesis explores the roles of widowhood and sympathy in Henry James's short and long fiction. By the time James established himself as a writer of fiction, the culture of sentiment and its formation of sympathetic identification had become central to American and British writers. Critically, …
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
… of looking’ – surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship – that I claim structure representations of the embodied Soviet subject. My introduction incorporates a brief history of early Soviet social psychological conceptualisations of the body, outlining the coercive renovative project of …
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REACTING TO...: Understanding The Motivations, Participatory Culture, and Spectatorship Behind Reaction Videos
Reaction videos (RVs) are surging in popularity, emerging as a distinctive facet of participatory culture on current-day social video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, Tiktok, and Twitch. This study aims to explore not only the motivations and engagement patterns of viewers with RVs, but also the …
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The Representation of the Violated Body and its Spectatorship: the Negative Approach (1970s to 2016)
… the representation of the violated body and its spectatorship, focusing on the ‘negative’ approach in the period from the 1970’s up to 2016. This thesis argues that any censorship either the state/military/media or self-inflicted (‘forced’ and emphasised absence) has a potential to provide …
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Kalabari Masquerade and the gaze: identity and spectatorship in the sculptures of Sokari Douglass Camp
… power with their scrutinous gaze. Identity and spectatorship lie at the core of the masquerade, and the two aspects are examined thoroughly throughout this research. By examining one particular artist, Sokari Douglas Camp, the importance of identity and its transformation in the masquerade …
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Identity, Desire and Spectatorship: An Examination of Germaine Dulac’s <em>La Coquille et le Clergyman</em>
… the 1920's and how these relationships affect spectatorship. By examining La Coquille et le Clergyman, I hope to better understand how Dulac's cinematic interpretation of Artaud's script treats the idea of spectatorship, not only in 1928, but also today.
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Motivation for sport spectating among the Taiwanese people
… research was to examine the motivation for sport spectatorship among Taiwanese people. Seven sport spectating motivation factors that have been found in U.S. studies to be involved in sport spectatorship (self-esteem, entertainment, eustress, aesthetic, escape, group-affiliation, and …
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Le regard et ses voltes : représentation et modélisation spectatorielle dans la production cinématographique des premiers temps
… (modes of production, modes of exhibition, spectatorship, etc.). Etude de quelques aspects du cinéma des premiers temps.
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Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment
… of Embodiment," I compare theories of acting and spectatorship in theatre and film, focusing on representations of the human body in the work of Samuel Beckett and Peter Weiss. I argue that film and theatre acting must be theorized in specific relation to each other, and that media comparisons …
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