Dissertação (Mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação, 2014. / Submitted by Albânia Cézar de Melo (albania@bce.unb.br) on 2014-07-09T15:59:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_CarlosHenriqueJuvencioSilva.pdf: 8533227 bytes, checksum: 3e2002835f686a3a7f0dab90be122014 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2014-07-11T12:12:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_CarlosHenriqueJuvencioSilva.pdf: 8533227 bytes, checksum: 3e2002835f686a3a7f0dab90be122014 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-11T12:12:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_CarlosHenriqueJuvencioSilva.pdf: 8533227 bytes, checksum: 3e2002835f686a3a7f0dab90be122014 (MD5) / A pesquisa investiga a criação, em 1911, do Serviço de Bibliographia e Documentação da Biblioteca Nacional e qual a influência do Instituto Internacional de Bibliografia (IIB), fundado em 1895 por Paul Otlet e Henri La Fontaine, nessa iniciativa, tema ainda pouco explorado pelos pesquisadores da Ciência da Informação. Sob este prisma a pesquisa analisa as repercussões do projeto Mundaneum nas ações de difusão de informações científicas da Biblioteca Nacional (BN) do Brasil. Busca também demonstrar que a criação do Serviço de Bibliografia e Documentação da Biblioteca pode ser considerada parte do projeto de cooperação internacional criado por Otlet e La Fontaine. Os procedimentos metodológicos consistiram em pesquisas bibliográfica e histórico-documental nos arquivos históricos da Biblioteca Nacional brasileira e nos arquivos do Mundaneum com sede na Bélgica, além dos arquivos do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro e do Itamaraty. Dentre os resultados da pesquisa estão o mapeamento do intercâmbio no campo da informação entre o IIB e a BN visando à criação do Serviço de Bibliografia e Documentação. A principal conclusão da dissertação é de que os contatos entre a Biblioteca e o Instituto tiveram, de fato, um papel determinante na construção de uma rede de cooperação científica no país. E esse papel foi desempenhado pelo Serviço de Bibliografia e Documentação da BN como peça fundamental, tendo à frente seu diretor Manoel Cícero Peregrino da Silva. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The research investigates the creation, in 1911, of the Bibliography and Documentation Service in the National Library from Brazil and what would have been the influence of the International Institute of Bibliography (IIB), founded in 1895 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, in this initiative, topic not yet explored by researchers of Information Science. From that perspective, the objective of the research is to analyze the impact of the project Mundaneum in the dissemination of scientific information in National Library from Brazil. It also seeks to demonstrate that the creation of the Bibliography and Documentation Service can be considered part of the international cooperation project by Otlet and La Fontaine. The methodological procedures consisted of bibliographic and historical-documentary research in historical archives of the brazilian National Library and in the archives of Mundaneum based in Belgium, in addition to the archives of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute and the Foreign Ministry. Among the search results are mapping the exchange in the field of information between the International Institute of Bibliography and the National Library aiming to create the Bibliography and Documentation Service. The main conclusion of this work is that the contacts between the Library and the Institute had, in fact, a key role in building a network of scientific cooperation in the country. In addition, the Bibliography and Documentation Service performed this role as keystone headed by its director Manoel Cícero Peregrino da Silva. ______________________________________________________________________________ RÉSUMÉ / La recherche porte sur la création, en 1911, du Service de Bibliographie et Documentation de la Bibliothèque nationale et l’influence de l’Institut International de Bibliographie (IIB), fondée en 1895 par Paul Otlet et Henri La Fontaine, dans cette initiative. Encore peu exploré par les chercheurs, les rapports entre la Bibliothèque et de l’Institut semblent avoir été décisif dans la construction d'un réseau de coopération scientifique au Brésil. De ce point de vue l’objectif de la recherche est d'analyser l’impact du projet Mundaneum dans la diffusion de l’information scientifique à partir de la Bibliothèque Nationale, aussi bien de comprendre la création du Service de Bibliographie et Documentation de la Bibliothèque dans le cadre du projet de coopération internationale conçu par Otlet et La Fontaine. Les démarches méthodologiques compreennent une recherche bibliographique et documentaire aux archives historiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale du Brésil et aux Centre d’archives du Mundaneum en Belgique, en plus des archives de l’Institut historique et géographique brésilien et celles du Ministère des Affaires étrangères. Parmi les résultats de la recherche on a établi une cartographie des échanges dans le domaine de l’information entre l’Institut International de bibliographie et la Bibliothèque Nationale. La principale conclusion de la recherche est que les rapport entre la Bibliothèque et l’Institut ont eu, en effet, un rôle clé dans la construction d’un réseau de coopération scientifique au Brésil et ce rôle a été joué par le Service de Bibliographie et Documentation ayant à sa tête son directeur Manoel Cícero Peregrino da Silva.

Orientador: Suzy Maria Lagazzi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T05:11:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MartinsdeSouza_LuizCarlos_D.pdf: 3983729 bytes, checksum: 646abf82afc9908b41ae8e482668e965 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Prezado viajante, Este bilhete lhe dá direito a uma viagem pela estrada metodológica da Análise de Discurso Materialista para que você contemple o filme em DVD ?Central do Brasil?, de Walter Salles Jr. Você passará por três estações a partir da ausência do pai como principal metáfora articuladora dos trilhos narrativos, para que você veja o entrecruzamento entre dois caminhos: o discurso religioso e o discurso psicanalítico, na estruturação do funcionamento da falta metaforizada nessa ausência, movimentando o político no social. Inicialmente você verá os mapas da viagem, circunscritos na perspectiva materialista de Análise de Discurso: a apresentação do corpus, e a indicação dos principais conceitos nele operacionalizados. Em seguida a viagem se dará em três ?estações? através do batimento sinuoso entre descrição e interpretação: na primeira estação se dá a descrição da estrutura organizacional da superfície linguageira em suas condições de produção e circulação, e a formulação narrativa da falta, lhe direcionando para o deslocamento desta em objetos discursivos. Na estação seguinte você se deterá na observação dessa falta nos dois significantes representados como sujeitos: Dora e Josué. Vendo isso, você estará apto para a próxima estação: a inscrição da falta em metáforas e metonímias discursivas: nas imagens de Santa Maria e de Jesus Cristo, em relação a Dora e a Josué, no pai e nas cartas, e noutros objetos cênicos, como um pião e um lenço, objetos discursivos visibilizados nos planos como unidades de significação pela fragmentação da montagem do filme. Esperamos que você perceba que o Cristianismo intervém na superfície textual e discursiva, como também a Psicanálise, no tratamento dado às constelações familiares, à Metáfora Paterna, à lettre lacaniana (carta, letra, significante) e às projeções entre Dora e Josué. Não se assuste: há um embate do sujeito com o Real, em derivas e deslocamentos em torno de posições de sujeito. Entenda conosco quais processos discursivos estão em jogo nessa viagem, tomando a falta como um gesto estruturante do político nas relações sociais. Na chegada possível, você verá que os sentidos são possíveis pela relação e determinação entre o Real da história, o Real da linguagem e o Real do inconsciente, de forma que as condições sócio-históricas são constitutivas das significações do texto. Agradecemos sua preferência. Boa viagem / Abstract: This work assumes the Materialist Discourse Analysis methodology to analyze the DVD movie "Central Station", by Walter Salles Jr. Taking into consideration that the father's absence is the main metaphor that articulates the narrative surface, the intention was to understand this absence in the intersection between religious discourse and psychoanalytic discourse, asking about the politics in social relations. The introduction circumscribes the materialist perspective of Discourse Analysis, and presents the corpus, and the main concepts employed into it. The following chapters are formulated as "stations" around the stages of analysis: on the first step the language's organizational structure surface is described under certain conditions of production and circulation, the narrative design of the ?lack? and its displacement as discoursive objects. Observing the treatments in the screenplay, it was noticed the inscription of the sense effects on the names of biblical characters (Joshua, Jesus, Moses, Isaiah, Hannah, Pedrão - Big Peter), references to images of St. Mary and Jesus Christ - stage props noticed as units of meaning in the fragmentation of the shots of film edition. Psychoanalysis derives from the treatment given to family constellations, to the Paternal Metaphor, to the lacanian letter and to the projections between Dora and Joshua. From the crossing between description and interpretation, it was intended to give evidence to the clash between the subject and the Real, drifts and shifts in the subject positions. The last step of the analysis examines the discursive processes, which make the ?lack? a structuring gesture of the politics in social relations. The audiovisual, object of aesthetic completion and an important commodity in the contemporary world, acts as a massive investment in the subject, determining, renewing and contradicting the circulation of capital, and the effects of the spectacle's ideology, imposed by the logic of the market. The [meanings] senses are possible through the relation and the determination between the Real from the History, the Real from the language and the Real from the unconscious, so that the socio-historical conditions constitutes the meanings of the text / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística

Submitted by Misael henrique Silva do Amaral Amaral (misaelhenrique@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-05-07T20:33:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação final para entrega.pdf: 1430198 bytes, checksum: 417711847147c793e1aab95cafe33ac8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rafael Aguiar (rafael.aguiar@fgv.br) on 2013-05-10T14:26:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação final para entrega.pdf: 1430198 bytes, checksum: 417711847147c793e1aab95cafe33ac8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-05-14T12:27:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação final para entrega.pdf: 1430198 bytes, checksum: 417711847147c793e1aab95cafe33ac8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-14T12:28:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação final para entrega.pdf: 1430198 bytes, checksum: 417711847147c793e1aab95cafe33ac8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-27 / This work aims to analyze the impacts of the development policy of Juscelino Kubitschek, who through legal devices implanted the shipbuilding industry in Brazil and the impact of this policy on military shipbuilding, and the Navy Yard in Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ) as representative of this process. Brazil is led to a mobilization of development based on industrialization and in this sense it is worth emphasizing three aspects importantes.As JK government measu res in the marine industry and as reflected in the Navy Yard in Rio de Janeiro. Another aspect is the historical moment of the 1950s experiencing the stage of the cold war between the powers Stays States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and it brings suc h developments from military agreements between the U.S. and its allies, with the agreement between Brazil and U.S. inserted in this context. The deployment of military shipbuilding industry in the country in the second half of the fifties in Brazil brough t a significant impact in the military shipbuilding, especially in the 1970s, when the Brazilian Navy regained his ability to design and build modern warships. / Este Trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar os reflexos da política desenvolvimentista de Juscelino Kubitschek, que por meio de dispositivos legais implantou a indústria de construção naval no Brasil e os desdobramentos dessa política na construção naval militar, tendo o Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ) como representante deste processo. O Brasil é levado a uma mobilização de desenvolvimento baseado na industrialização e nesse sentido vale enfatizar três aspectos importantes.As medidas do governo JK na indústria naval e como refletiram no Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro. Outro aspecto é o momento histórico dos anos 1950 vivenciando o palco da guerra fria entre as potências Estadas Unidos (EUA) e União Soviética (URSS) e que traz desdobramentos como a partir acordos militares entre os EUA e seus aliados, estando o acordo Brasil e EUA inserido nesse contexto. A implantação da indústria de construção naval militar no país na segunda metade da década de cinquenta no Brasil trouxe repercussões significativas na área militar naval, sobretudo nos anos 1970, quando a Marinha brasileira recuperou sua capacidade de projetar e construir navios de guerra modernos.

Submitted by Fabiano Vassallo (fabianovassallo2127@gmail.com) on 2017-05-15T18:01:02Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Clarice Goulart - final.pdf: 681792 bytes, checksum: c405eb14f771b9a868e3146d5b87c11a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josimara Dias Brumatti (bcgdigital@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-05-16T17:31:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Clarice Goulart - final.pdf: 681792 bytes, checksum: c405eb14f771b9a868e3146d5b87c11a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-16T17:31:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Clarice Goulart - final.pdf: 681792 bytes, checksum: c405eb14f771b9a868e3146d5b87c11a (MD5) / Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar a representação do escritor e do crítico de arte tematizada por Rubens Figueiredo nos contos “A última palavra” (Contos de Pedro, 2006) e “Os biógrafos de Albernaz” (O livro dos lobos, 1994, 1ª ed.), bem como no romance Barco a seco (2001). Ao apresentar a trajetória desses personagens e sua relação com as diversas esferas de consagração do campo literário ou artístico, as narrativas possibilitam uma rica discussão sobre a inserção e a manutenção do escritor no mercado editorial brasileiro contemporâneo, na medida em que o reconhecimento desses personagens passa pela chancela do editor e da crítica. A partir dessa investigação, é possível ampliar a discussão para temas como autoridade do escritor e distinção social. Além disso, uma vez que a atividade profissional dos personagens analisados está ligada a um sistema de visibilidade e de garantia de privilégios, desenvolve-se uma discussão sobre a ética do escritor, sobre sistemas de valoração, e, também, sobre o lugar social não só do crítico, do escritor e do editor, mas do livro e do leitor – sobretudo no que se refere ao valor do livro. A orientação teórica deste trabalho articula-se com as ideias apresentadas por Eneida Maria de Souza, Néstor Garcia Canclini, Pierre Bourdieu, Regina Dalcastagnè e Beatriz Sarlo / This work aims to analyse the representation of writers and the art critic presented by Rubens Figueiredo in the short stories “A última palavra” (Contos de Pedro, 2006), and “Os biógrafos de Albernaz” (O livro dos lobos, 1994, 1ª ed.), as well as in the novel Barco a seco (2001). Presenting characters in their relation with the possibilities of consecration in the literary field, the three narratives provide varied themes of discussion concerning contemporary insertion and maintenance of writers into Brazilian literary field, considering the fact that their appreciation is directly connected to editors’ and critics’ approval. The examination includes a wide discussion about writers’ authority and social distinction. Furthermore, regarding the characters professional activities and their association with a system which guarantees visibility and privileges, this work develops a discussion about ethics, value systems, and, also, about the place which critics and writers, readers and, mainly, books, occupy in Brazilian contemporary society. This work’s theoretical orientation articulated with ideas presented by Eneida Maria de Souza, Néstor Garcia Canclini, Pierre Bourdieu, Regina Dalcastagnè, and Beatriz Sarlo

Abstract This work is concerned with the attitudes of the principal newspapers in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, Hufvudstadsbladet, Maakansa, Suomen Sosialidemokraatti, Uusi Suomi and Vapaa Sana, towards Urho Kekkonen during the time leading up to his presidency, in 1944-1956. The account proceeds chronologically, employing principally a qualitative historical method, although with some quantitative aspects. A total of 1284 articles or news items concerned with Kekkonen were published in these leading newspapers during the period in question, the vast majority, 87.5%, in 1950-1956. Maakansa was the most active paper in writing about Kekkonen, and gained a position as his mouthpiece early in his career, whereas Hufvudstadsbladet was more passive in its view of him and Suomen Sosialidemokraatti and Uusi Suomi were the most critical. All in all, however, the majority of the leading newspapers tended for the most part to be critical of him during this period, although he gained some recognition even amongst his opponents, who admitted that he had been a forceful and effective personality as Minister of Justice, Speaker of Parliament and Prime Minister. The criticism was directed mainly at his arbitrary behaviour in foreign affairs and his alleged ties with the communists. The speech that he had made in parliament in March 1940, opposing the peace treaty that ended the Winter War, was the weapon most frequently used against him, whereas the question of war crimes did not arouse much debate regarding him in the columns of the press, nor did the negotiations over the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. Kekkonen did not usually intervene in any way in the discussions concerning him in the press during the 1940's, but as Prime Minister he reacted strongly to the growing criticism, usually venting his feelings through articles in Suomen Kuvalehti or Kyntäjä, or through private correspondence. He particularly despised the writings of Suomen Sosialidemokraatti and its columnist "Jahvetti", and was also annoyed at the attitudes of the Uusi Suomi columnist "Timo". / Tiivistelmä Tutkimus käsittelee Suomen johtavan sanomalehdistön, Helsingin Sanomat, Hufvudstadsbladet, Maakansa, Suomen Sosialidemokraatti, Uusi Suomi ja Vapaa Sana, suhtautumista Urho Kekkoseen vuosina 1944 - 1956. Kronologisesti etenevän tutkimuksen päämetodina käytän historialliskvalitatiivista menetelmää. Hyödynnän myös kvantitatiivista metodia. Johtavissa sanomalehdissä julkaistiin tutkimusjakson aikana 1 284 Kekkos-kirjoitusta. Valtaosa niistä (87,5 %) ajoittuu vuosiin 1950 - 1956. Vielä 1940-luvulla kirjoittelu oli vähäistä, mikä indikoi Kekkosen vakiintumatonta poliittista statusta. Ensimmäinen Kekkos-kirjoittelun huippu ajoittui pääministerikilpaan 1946 ja toinen presidentinvaaleihin 1950. Kolmannen Kekkos-keskustelun piikin synnytti Maakansassa 1953 julkaistu Kekkosen ulkopoliittinen haastattelu ja sisäpoliittisesti kiihkeä syksy. Neljäs ja merkittävin Kekkos-kannanottojen lisääntyminen johtui vuoden 1956 presidentinvaaleista. Kaiken kaikkiaan Kekkonen sai pysyvän aseman lehdistössä vuoden 1950 presidentinvaalien jälkeen. Tämän takasivat hänelle aktiivinen poliittinen rooli ja pääministerin salkku. Aktiivisin Kekkos-kirjoittaja oli Maakansa. Lehdestä muodostui jo varhain Kekkosen äänitorvi. Hufvudstadsbladet suhtautui Kekkoseen passiivisimmin. Kriittisimpiä Kekkos-kirjoittajia olivat puolestaan Suomen Sosialidemokraatti ja Uusi Suomi. Kaiken kaikkiaan johtavan sanomalehdistön enemmistön suhteet Kekkoseen muotoutuivat tutkimusjakson aikana enimmäkseen kriittisiksi. Toisaalta hänelle annettiin vastustajienkin leirissä tunnustusta. Kekkosta pidettiin yleisesti niin oikeusministerinä, eduskunnan puhemiehenä kuin pääministerinäkin vahvana ja aikaansaavana henkilönä. Arvostelu kohdistui pääosin hänen ulkopoliittiseen omavaltaisuuteensa ja väitettyihin kommunistikytköksiinsä. Kekkosen talvisodan rauhaa vastustaneesta puheesta eduskunnassa maaliskuussa 1940 tuli yksi käytetyimmistä Kekkos-vastaisista aseista. Sotasyyllisyyskysymys ei sen sijaan herättänyt erityisemmin Kekkos-debattia johtavan lehdistön palstoilla. Kekkosta ei huomioitu juuri myöskään YYA-sopimusneuvottelujen aikana. Ulkopolitiikan merkitys johtavan lehdistön Kekkos-propagandassa korostui vasta 1950-luvulla. Läpilyönti tapahtui viimeistään 1955, jolloin Paasikiven - Kekkosen ulkopoliittinen linja vakiinnutti asemansa johtavan lehdistön kirjoittelussa. Kekkonen ei puuttunut yleensä 1940-luvulla johtavien sanomalehtien häntä itseään koskevaan kirjoitteluun. Sen sijaan pääministerinä hän reagoi jo voimakkaasti johtavan lehdistön kasvavaan kritiikkiin. Kekkonen tilitti tuntojaan yleensä Suomen Kuvalehdessä ja Kyntäjässä sekä yksityisessä kirjeenvaihdossaan. Kekkosta ärsytti maamme eturivin toimittajien "matalamielinen" parjaus- ja huhupropaganda, joka oli kohdistettu häneen henkilökohtaisesti. Kekkonen moitti myös syytöksiä, joita lehdistön edustajat kohdistivat häneen ulkopoliittisena toimijana ja kommunistien ystävänä. Hän paheksui erityisesti Suomen Sosialidemokraatin ja sen pakinoitsijan (Jahvetti) kirjoittelua. Myös Uuden Suomen pakinoitsija (Timo) suututti. Osansa arvostelusta saivat lisäksi Helsingin Sanomat ja Vapaa Sana. Hufvudstadsbladet selvisi vähemmällä. Maakansa vältti arvostelun tyystin.

This thesis provides a sociological understanding of how conventional knowledge of sexuality negates the identity formation of black gay men in contemporary South Africa. It investigates the coming out experiences of six black gay men in order to reveal the disjunctures between being black and being gay. The theoretical formation of disjuncture is pursued through examining a number of sociological, historical, psychoanalytical, and feminist approaches to identity, sexuality, and society; featuring specifically the theories of George Herbert Mead, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler. The chosen research paradigm is symbolic interactionism, postulating both „pragmatist‟ and „empiricist‟ trends that lead to both interactionist and structuralist forms of argumentation. The interactionist approach to sexuality is central to the deconstruction of sexual conventions. It involves conceptualising modern sexuality in the landscapes of African colonial history and the global gay and lesbian movement. The prescribed literature on homosexuality is thus reviewed in conjunction with the South African gay and lesbian struggle, so as to spawn themes and perspectives for conducting life story interviews. The use of the life story interview favours the participants‟ own view of the studied phenomenon, yet aims to depict the structural influence on homosexual identification. Following the qualitative research tradition, the data analysis is based on the interpretation of narratives. It illustrates interpersonal relationships and microscopic experiences that lead to the self-acceptance and self-actualisation of homosexuality. Within these processes, various disjunctures that exist between the cultural sanction of lifestyle and individual choice, between parents and children, between religious belief and personal desires, and between gender identity and sexual orientation are disclosed. The findings are associated with the historical transformation of masculinity in South Africa, sex role performance, and the heterosexualisation of desire. The solution to the proposed research problem is discussed through concepts of socialisation and gender conformity.

This thesis is an attempt at understanding South African photography through the lens of Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko, Tracy Rose, David Goldblatt, Jo Ractliffe and Santu Mofokeng. Through the works discussed this thesis intends to unpack photography as a complex medium similar to that of language and text, as well as attempt to understand how exploring South African experiences and spaces through the lens of photography shapes and mediates them. Furthermore it also attempts to understand how these experiences and spaces conversely affect the discourse of photography or at the very least our perception of it. Through these photographers and their works it is hoped that ultimately the interconnected relationship of exchanging codes that takes place between photography and society will be highlighted. The example of connectivity or dialogue I believe exists between the medium of photography and the physical/social and psychological spaces it photographs will be mediated through Deleuze and Guattari‟s conception of “the wasp and the orchid” where “the wasp becomes the orchid, just as the orchid becomes the wasp...an exchanging or capturing of each other‟s codes”. Other theorists I will be looking at include Vilém Flusser, focusing in particular on his book Towards a Philosophy of Photography, as well as Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and others. The main aims and objectives of this thesis are to understand the veracity of the documentary image and whether or not the image harbours any objective truth, as well as whether truth, if it can truly be said to exist in the world, resides between the camera and the seen world. This dichotomy is further complicated by the matter of subject-hood and technical and philosophical understandings of the camera as an apparatus. At no point do I aim to be conclusive, rather it is hoped that by developing the dynamic tension between the theory and the image world that I will be able to bring fresh insight into the reading of a changing South African condition and the subject position of the photographer in relation to this condition.

Composed for soprano, tenor, and baritone voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments, Three Voices is a polyglotic work that includes German, Chinese, and Spanish texts. The texts are chosen from Brecht Bertolt's Das Schiff, Po Chu I's Lang T'ao Sha, and Frederico Garcia Lorcá's Mar. Significant features of the piece are 1) application of Chinese operatic singing methods to vocal material in the sections that use Chinese text, 2) use of western instruments to emulate the sound of certain Chinese instruments, and 3) employment of Sprechstimme and dramatically inflected speech to create theatrical effects and highlight the sections that use German and Spanish texts.

Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio al reality show Rupaul’s Drag Race, el cual es analizado a partir de la teoría de la performatividad de género de la filósofa estadounidense Judith Butler, donde la autora toma como ejemplo a la performance drag para mostrar que el género es se performa, es decir, que se construye y da la ilusión de ser una esencia a través de los actos performativos. Para Butler, las drag queens imitan y actúan el género para hacer su performance, por lo que evidencian esta performatividad. Mediante el análisis del discurso, analizaremos bajo una mirada cualitativa-deductiva siete capítulos del reality show para reconocer si se cumple o no la performatividad del género en ellos; además de identificar en qué segmento de la estructura narrativa del programa se muestran más y quiénes son los personajes dentro del reality que más se acercan a este concepto. Finalmente, como conclusión principal hallamos que la teoría de la performatividad se cumple, en su mayoría, en el reality show Rupaul’s Drag Race y que son las drag queens que se acercan más a este concepto a través de lo expresado verbalmente por ellas en la ejecución de los desafíos principales del programa y la presentación de sus personajes en la pasarela. Estos dos segmentos coinciden dentro de la estructura narrativa del programa, con el segundo acto de acuerdo al Paradigma de Syd Field, justo en donde se ubica la confrontación del relato y la toma de decisiones por parte de los personajes, siendo cada uno de ellos el primer y segundo nudo de la trama.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the multiple versions of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in concert and determine the reason for their continued presence in the American cultural landscape. To do so I will look at the novel and four films and examine the context in which they were created. In reexamining the novel and films, a central theme begins to emerge: interiority. Fear in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" moves from an external to an internal threat. The bodily locus of the monstrous other has been re-purposed and re-projected outward. The internal nature of the monstrous threat is displayed in the narrative’s use of production and distribution, mental health professionals, pseudo-families, and the vilification of sleep. Finally, this paper will examine the studio influence on the various films and their impact on the relative endings.