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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A study of the Great Gatsby as a national allegory

Vogt, Loiva Salete January 2006 (has links)
A presente dissertação aborda a questão da experiência nacional representada alegoricamente no romance –O Grande Gatsby. Meu objetivo é estudar esta relação baseada na sedução estética do romance e a sua proposta de redirecionamento do Sonho Americano dos anos 20. Estudos Culturais e de Gênero fazem parte do embasamento teórico na observação de valores que são questionados e/ou perpetuados através de representações de gênero, classe social, raça e etnia no romance. A organização espacial da narrativa é entendida como um sistema estrutural em que o pertencimento de personagens a determinados “lugares” e cenários gera relações hierárquicas de poder, representadas por polaridades espaciais. Este trabalho sugere que os privilégios de algumas posições sociais estão representados alegoricamente na narrativa. O conceito de alegoria de Walter Benjamin enfatiza o estudo da temporalidade associada ao espaço narrativo e permite que se faça uma leitura do sentido gerado por essas representações, na medida em que expõe, e não omite, as contradições da narrativa. Estas remetem à impossibilidade de concretização histórica do Sonho Americano que é questionado e também re-valorizado através de sua ligação a um ideal pastoril em conflito com as demandas de uma ideologia marcadamente materialista no período entreguerras. Desta forma, a sobreposição de níveis temporais no romance liga a crença do excepcionalismo americano, patriotismo e herança cultural a um imaginário pastoril, em que uma versão do passado é legitimada e projetada para o futuro nacional. / This dissertation approaches the issue of a national experience represented allegorically in the novel – The Great Gatsby. My aim is to study this relation based on the novel’s esthetical seduction and its proposal of representing the new directions of the American Dream in the 1920s. Cultural and Gender Studies are employed as theoretical tools in order to observe the values questioned and/or perpetuated by the novel’s representation of gender, social class, race and ethnicity. The spatial organization of the narrative is conceived as a structural system in which the characters’ sense of belongingness to specific places and settings creates their hierarchical relations of power, represented by space polarities. This dissertation hopes to prove that specific social positions are inscribed allegorically in the narrative as owners of privileges in the representation of society. Walter Benjamin’s concept of allegory emphasizes the study of temporality, which is associated to space in the narrative, and allows one to conceive the meanings created by the mentioned representations, exposing the narrative’s contradictions. They lead to the historical impossibility of fulfillment of the American Dream. In the novel, the dream is questioned and also re-valued due to its link to a pastoral ideal in conflict with the demands of a materialistic ideology in the world war period. In this sense, the superposition of temporal levels in the novel connects a belief in American exceptionalism, patriotism and cultural heritage to a pastoral imagery, in which a version of the past is legitimized and projected to a national future.
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O desequilíbrio familiar e a identidade americana nas peças de Sam Shepard / The unbalanced family and American identity in the plays of Sam Shepard

Ligia Razera Gallo 09 March 2012 (has links)
Este estudo analisa três obras dramáticas de Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child e Fool for Love dentro do contexto de sua obsessão compartilhada com o sonho americano sobre uma família harmoniosa mostrando um desvio do sonho o que também é predominante em peças de dramaturgos americanos, como O\'Neill e Miller, que antecedem Sam Shepard. Este estudo também investiga o conceito da identidade americana nas peças. Entre os trabalhos do dramaturgo Sam Shepard encontramos três peças que exploram o que significa ser o membro de uma família do meio oeste americano. Em Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, Shepard retrata a dor ecoando dentro do círculo familiar. Assim como os trabalhos iniciais de Shepard, essas peças familiares se revelam com um forte elemento biográfico, nascidas das experiências pessoais e persistentes preocupações do dramaturgo; através das peças, ele examina e reexamina o sistema familiar multigeracional do qual ele é oriundo. Por exemplo, o alcoolismo do pai e a forma como os pais são construídos em suas peças, a partir de uma perspectiva pessoal, são muito mais do que simples características das personagens, são uma condição que afeta a todos os personagens, seu relacionamento interpessoal e seus destinos. Além disso, podemos observar que o sonho americano, e sua relação com essa instabilidade familiar é um dos temas recorrentes nos dramas escritos pelo autor. Outra intenção deste estudo é, num primeiro momento analisar, o sonho americano sob uma perspectiva histórica para definir suas múltiplas facetas desde os tempos coloniais até o século XX, tal como apresentado no drama; em segundo lugar em um nível temático para identificar os vários temas que Sam Shepard usa em suas peças, tais como laços familiares adulterados, alienação, incapacidade de se comunicar, a violência, a relação esposa-amante surreal, e a busca de identidade e assim definir como eles impedem a realização do sonho; em terceiro lugar, as características usadas por Sam Shepard, que servem para apresentar as peças como instâncias do sonho de uma família harmoniosa tornando-se um pesadelo.Na peça Fool for Love analiso também a tirania exercida pela família sobre as vidas das suas crianças crescidas. De 1977 até 1985, Shepard distancia-se da aceitação fatalística e desse modo revela mudanças tanto na perspectiva autoral como no ambiente social. Como ele faz frequentemente em seus trabalhos, Shepard reflete o comportamento de uma época. / This study analyzes three dramatic works of Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child and Fool for Love within the context of their shared obsession with the American dream of a harmonious family showing a deviation of the dream which is also predominant in plays of American playwrights such as O\'Neill and Miller, preceding Sam Shepard. This study also investigates the concept of American identity in the plays. Among the works of playwright Sam Shepard there are three plays that explore what it means to be a member of a family in the U.S. Midwest. In Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, Shepard portrays the pain echoing within the family. As the initial work of Shepard, these family plays reveal themselves with a strong biographical element, born of personal experience and persistent concerns of the playwright, through the plays, he examines and reviews the multigenerational family system of which he also derives from. For example, the father\'s alcoholism and how the fathers of his plays are constructed from a personal perspective are much more than simple features of the characters, it is a condition that affects all the characters, their relationships and their interpersonal destinations. In addition, we note that the American dream and its relationship with that family instability is one of the recurring themes in dramas written by the author. Another aim of this study is, at first look at the American dream from a historical perspective to define its many facets from colonial times to the twentieth century, as depicted in the drama, and secondly on a thematic level to identify the various themes Sam Shepard uses in his plays, such as family ties tampered with, alienation, inability to communicate, violence, wife-lover surreal relationship, and the search for identity and to define how they prevent the fulfillment of the \'dream\', and finally, the features used by Sam Shepard, which serve to make the plays as instances of the \'dream\' of a harmonious family becoming a nightmare. In the play Fool for Love we also analyze the tyranny exercised by the family on the lives of their grown children. From 1977 until 1985, Shepard is away from the fatalistic acceptance and thereby reveals changes in both the authorial perspective and the social environment. As he does often in his work, Shepard reflects the behavior of an era.
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Theoretical and Practical Record of the Making of the Documentary Film, A Native American Dream

Daggett, Liz 08 1900 (has links)
This textual record of the making of the social issue documentary film A Native American Dream examines theoretical and practical considerations of the filmmaker during the pre-production, production, and post-production stages. It also examines the disciplines of anthropology and ethnography in terms of modern documentary filmmaking and evaluates the film within these contexts.
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Nuclear

Nylander, Benjamin Thomas 24 May 2021 (has links)
No description available.
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Gambling mythologized : A multimethod qualitative study of U.S. sports betting advertising narratives

Janson, Stig January 2023 (has links)
Online sports betting is an industry that has seen a huge surge in popularity in the US since 2018, and the companies behind this surge have enjoyed exponential increases in profits. Accompanying the increased interest in and profits of online sports gambling is a large spike in advertisements created by companies that offer online sports betting services. Although gambling is an activity that is recognized as highly addictive and potentially destructive for certain individuals, the companies that offer sports gambling services in the US face little to no government regulation in how they advertise their services. This study aimed to investigate the advertising narratives deployed by the four most popular online sports betting companies in the US (FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars Sportsbook, and BetMGM) in terms of their frequency, using the precision afforded by the method of qualitative content analysis. Additionally, this study deployed semiotic analysis with the constructionist approach to representation and the concept of myth to examine how the most frequently used narratives in online sports betting advertisements draw on broader systems of meaning in order to persuade audiences. This study found that FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars Sportsbook, and BetMGM most frequently used narratives of online betting and celebrity feature in their advertisements. Using semiotic analysis, this study found that the narratives of online betting and celebrity feature often translated to mythologized and often unrealistic depictions of sports betting which represented it as an activity that allowed sports bettors to align themselves on the same hierarchical level as professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities, while largely ignoring the risks that are inherently attached to gambling. The findings of this study stand as an exploratory accounting and examination of the currently unregulated advertising practices of the largest sports gambling companies in the US.
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Consumerism and Christianity: An Analysis and Response from a Christian Perspective

Christman, Amy 09 May 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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Dramatic License: Alexander Woollcott’s <i>The Story of Irving Berlin</i>

Eddleman, Laura Marie January 2006 (has links)
No description available.
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Putování novinářského psance dobou dekadence a zvrácenosti: Hunter S. Thompson v kontextu Ameriky 60. a raných 70. let. / An Outlaw Journalist's Journey through an Era Decadent and Depraved: Hunter S. Thompson in the context of America of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Stárek, Jiří January 2015 (has links)
The thesis aims to explore the artistic personality of Hunter S. Thompson, one of the most distinctive cultural figures of post-war America, and his genesis as an author, journalist, and a counterculture idol of the 1960s. The era is now widely regarded as a turning point in contemporary American history as its deep-rooted values and norms were, over the course of a decade, gradually transformed by the young generation of social and political activists toward allegedly a more tolerant and liberal kind of community. Crucial in such an endeavor was the role of the countercultural movement that produced some of the most capable intellectual minds of the time, including Thompson. The paper thus analyzes the role and nature of the alternative culture in America as perceived by one of its most observant participants. Also, the thesis focuses on the author's role in establishing a new genre called New Journalism which can be linked with the era's countercultural efforts as well. In general, Thompson, in his texts, examines various phenomena surrounding the counterculture and provides us with a distinctive portrayal of the era's zeitgeist. However, unlike some of his contemporaries, he also remembers to examine numerous flaws and fallacies existing within contemporary American society, the American Dream...
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The Myths of the Self-Made-Man: Cowboys, Salesmen and Pirates in Tennessee Williams' the Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Gros, Camille 21 April 2009 (has links)
Most books written about American drama concern definitions of masculinity, the American dream, and the family in a society that encourages people to surpass their competences and limits. American playwrights of the twentieth century reveal the anxiety and insecurity of men who do not rise up to the standards of the American dream. In concentrating on these themes, most critics have analyzed the main characters and plots but have left aside hints about other myths. This study aims to analyse the extended use of the cowboy, of salesman, and of pirate in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The recurrence of these three myths touches on the core of American drama that playwrights and critics have tried to define endlessly: the definition of the male in the American society.
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The Myths of the Self-Made-Man: Cowboys, Salesmen and Pirates in Tennessee Williams' the Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Gros, Camille 21 April 2009 (has links)
Most books written about American drama concern definitions of masculinity, the American dream, and the family in a society that encourages people to surpass their competences and limits. American playwrights of the twentieth century reveal the anxiety and insecurity of men who do not rise up to the standards of the American dream. In concentrating on these themes, most critics have analyzed the main characters and plots but have left aside hints about other myths. This study aims to analyse the extended use of the cowboy, of salesman, and of pirate in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The recurrence of these three myths touches on the core of American drama that playwrights and critics have tried to define endlessly: the definition of the male in the American society.

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