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1	And God Created Pornography : The relationship between pornography and Christianity in the postmodern mediasphere Hope, Ross A. January 2004 (has links) Pornography and Christianity are multifaceted, complex institutions that resist generalisation. In today's postmodern society, they are also mediated commodities that compete within the mediasphere. They are both dependant on the mass media, and communication technologies such as the internet for their survival. The binarised nature of these two institutions has led to a significant amount of 'productive othering', whereby both institutions have sought to define themselves in relation to their 'other', thus creating a space in society for their opposing force. In a sense, Christianity and pornography rely on each other in order to contextualise, and provide an opportunity to restate their own ideological position. This mutual need, suggests that the contemporary nature of their relationship is symbiotic. The relationship between pornography and Christianity can be observed in various sites within the mediasphere, such as the internet, and the film industry. These two sites provide varying accounts of their relationship, and evidence of productive othering, while also demonstrating the paradoxical affect the postmodern mediasphere is having on these two institutions -- that they are also becoming increasingly hybridised, intertextual, and difficult to distinguish from one another. Mediasphere Pornography Christianity Sexual Abuse Screenplay
2	Marriageability and Indigenous representation in the white mainstream media in Australia King, Andrew Stephen January 2007 (has links) By means of a historical analysis of representations, this thesis argues that an increasing sexualisation of Indigenous personalities in popular culture contributes to the reconciliation of non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australia. It considers how sexualised images and narratives of Indigenous people, as they are produced across a range of film, television, advertising, sport and pornographic texts, are connected to a broader politics of liberty and justice in the present postmodern and postcolonial context. By addressing this objective the thesis will identify and evaluate the significance of 'banal' or everyday representations of Aboriginal sexuality, which may range from advertising images of kissing, television soap episodes of weddings, sultry film romances through to more evocatively oiled-up representations of the pinup- calendar variety. This project seeks to explore how such images offer possibilities for creating informal narratives of reconciliation, and engendering understandings of Aboriginality in the media beyond predominant academic concerns for exceptional or fatalistic versions. Aboriginality Indigenous marriageability reconciliation popular culture sexuality relationships interracial public sphere mediasphere celebrity
3	Our Nation’s Future? Chinese Imaginations of the Soviet Union, 1917-1956 Knight, John Marcus 13 October 2017 (has links) No description available. Asian Studies History Mass Media Modern History Political Science Russian History Republican China Maoist China Soviet Union modernity mediasphere October Revolution cosmopolitanism imagination Sino-Soviet Friendship Association Chinese womens movement Guomindang Chinese Communist Party

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