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Showing 1 to 20 of 483 for “"staging"”.
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Staging Modernism
<p>This thesis, which supports an exhibition of visual art, develops from Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of seduction. I have focused on the representation of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade …
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Staging Hitler myths
In my thesis Staging Hitler Myths, I analyze the depiction of Adolf Hitler in the contemporary German movies Der Untergang (2004) and Mein Fuhrer-die wirkliche wahrste Wahrheit uber Adolf Hitler (2007). Both movies have been harshly criticized for offering a personalized depiction of the historical …
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falsework : staging construction
… mournful, or prospective activities. "Staging" refers to both the performance itself and the act of setting the stage for what comes next, prioritizing the procedure of construction over or adjacent to its resulting artifacts. This expanded notion of "construction" challenges the …
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Staging Europe, Staging Ireland: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov in Irish Cultural Politics, 1899--1922
By reconstructing and analyzing seminal Irish premieres and revivals of plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov at the Theatre of Ireland (1906--1912) and the Irish Theatre Company (1914--1920), this study reveals the critical role of Northern Europe in the search for wider, alternative models for …
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Intimate Encounters; Staging Intimacy and Sensuality
This text is a partial record of the conception and development of Reflections of Red in a Mirror of Desire that opened on February 20th 2006 for a three day run ending on February 22nd. The majority of the text is focused on the events and research that provided the concept for the show. Some of …
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Analytical model for staging emergency evacuations
… is adopted to determine the optimal number of staging zones. A sensitivity analysis is conducted of parameters (e.g., demand density, access flow rate, and evacuation route length) affecting evacuation time and delay. To account for the heterogeneous demand distribution over the evacuation …
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Neuropathological findings and staging in dementia
… in patients with dementia and neuropathological staging of dementia disorders, the main potential gain being increased epidemiological knowledge and improved neuropathological dementia diagnostics. We could confirm the generally accepted opinion that on a neuropathological basis, Alzheimer’s …
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Staging Anger in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
Through a close reading of the key topoi in early modern revenge tragedy, this thesis investigates the ancient philosophical debate about anger in respect of violence and revenge. The through line of the argument is that the Roman philosopher Seneca’s dramatic and philosophical treatment of anger …
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Riotous Reform, Staging Complaint, 1561–1595
ABSTRACT Riotous Reform: Staging Complaint, 1561-1595 Frances Caitlin Eastwood A cluster of plays published in London in the mid-1590s centres on reform and its corollary—a resistance to established authority. This thesis examines the staging of commons complaint during the evolution of commercial …
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Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal
Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the …
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Staging Geographies and the Geographies of Staging: Space and Place in Shakespeare’s Richard II: Text and Production
… an examination of the geographies of staging across the play’s performance history, and a close reading of the workings of space and place in a selection of contemporary productions. By combining theoretical perspectives and conceptualizations of space and place from cultural geography …
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Staging Hollywood: Theater in a Mediatized Culture
"The nature of spectatorship in our mediatized society has also changed. The American consumers' collective interaction with media has created a ""participatory spectator"" who, influenced by their interactions with media forms, has learned to advance theatrical narratives beyond the threshold of …
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INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER - Aspects on staging and prognosis
… the effects of delay on prognosis, lymph node staging and detection and staging of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) involving the prostatic urethra and prostate in males. This thesis is based on investigations of the impact of diagnostic and treatment delay on prognosis in invasive bladder …
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Staging Canova: Sculpture, Connoisseurship and Display, 1780-1843
… his patrons exhibited them. Canova himself began staging his work in Rome in the 1780s. His patrons, following the artist's lead, subsequently mounted their own dramatic exhibitions of Canova's work. Organized as a series of case studies, the dissertation examines four key exhibitions of Canova's …
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Einfluss der Tumorbiopsie auf das endosonographische Staging von Rektumneoplasien
… Tumorbiopsie einen negativen Einfluss auf die Staginggenauigkeit habe, meist im Sinne eines Overstaging. Jedoch gab es bisher in der aktuellen Literatur keine validen Daten um diese Hypothese zu stützen. Die Doktorarbeit handelt um eine prospektive Studie, die belegen soll, ob die Tumorbiopsie …
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Searching For the Impossible Dream, Staging the Impossible Script
This thesis is an exploration of the novella The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras and my subsequent production of this book. It covers Duras' history and influences in writing this book while at the same time gives an account of all my directorial attempts with this piece. With regards to Duras, …
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Staging Intervention: Native Women, Decolonization, and the American Theatre
"The terrain of American theatre scholarship has seen much change in the late twentieth century; as scholars investigate intercultural and post-colonial, African-American, feminist, and other ""marginal"" theatres, the discipline's boundaries must shift. Still, although American Indian people today …
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Staging frontier dynamics : interplay at the periphery of Manaus
The Amazonia basin has been the protagonist of many large scale infrastructural and colonization ambitions that are closely tied to larger global economic pressures. These are mainly manifest along the peripheries and edges where both deforestation and land conflict have intensified alongside rapid …
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Heuristic Prioritization Of Emergency Evacuation Staging To Reduce Clearance Time
A region's evacuation strategy encompasses a variety of areas and needs. Primary among these is the minimization of total evacuation time, represented in models as the clearance time estimate (CTE). A generic testbed simulation network model was developed. An input/output (I/O) analysis was …
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Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of Public/Private Dichotomies
<p>The cultural performance of textile graffiti, or yarnbombing, dramatizes women’s contested relationship to the public/privates dichotomies that constitute neoliberal capitalism as well as liberal democracies. Across both of these institutions, privatized matters are problematically excluded from …
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