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Thai consumers' loyalty towards local editions of foreign magazines /Ritthironk, Wacharawan. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2005
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Questions of Popular Cult(ure)LMcrae@westnet.com.au, Leanne Helen McRae January 2003 (has links)
Questions of Popular Cult(ure) works in the uncomfortable and unclear spaces of popular culture. This thesis demonstrates how cult cauterizes ambiguity and functions as a framing agent for unpopular politics in popular culture. In tracking the flows and hesitations in the postwar period through the rise of the New Right and identity politics, this thesis shows how cult contains moving and malleable meanings that maneuver through everyday life. It is a slippery and slight subject that denies coherent categorization in definitional frames.
This thesis negotiates this liminality by tracking broad social shifts in race, class and gender through textualised traces. The complicated concept of cult is activated within a series of case studies. These chapters are linked together to demonstrate the volatile variance of the cult category.
Section one contextualises the terrain of the intellectual work in this thesis. It paints broad brush-strokes of the postwar period, through an animated intersection of politics and popular culture. The first chapter defines the currency of cult in contemporary times. It is devoted to investigating the relationships between colonisation and popular culture. By pondering postcolonialism, this chapter prises open thirdspace to consider how writing and madness performs proximity in the pre and post-colonial world. The maddening of cargo cults by colonisers in Melanesia operates as a metonym for the regulation of marginal modalities of resistance. In popular culture, this trajectory of insane otherness has corroded, with the subversion of cult being appropriated by fan discourses, as worship has become accountable for the mainstream market.
Chapter two unpacks The X-Files as a text tracking the broad changes in politics through popular culture. This innovative text has moved from marginality into the mainstream, mapping meanings through the social landscape. Consciousness and reflexivity in the popular embeds this text in a cult framework, as it demonstrates the movement in meanings and the hegemonic hesitations of the dominant in colonising (and rewriting) the interests of the subordinate as their own.
Section two creates a dialogue between gendered politics and contemporary popular culture. The changes to the consciousness in masculinity and femininity are captured by Tank Girl, Tomb Raider, Henry Rollins and Spike (from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer). These texts perform the wavering popularity of feminism and the ascent of mens studies in intellectual inquiry. Tank Girl articulates unpopular feminist politics through the popular mode of film. The movement to more mainstream feminism is threaded through the third wave embraced by Tomb Raider that reinscribes the popular paradigms of femininity, via colonisation. The computer game discourse permits a pedagogy of power to punctuate Lara Crofts virtual surfaces and shimmer through the past into the present.
Tracking this historical movement, two chapters on masculinity brew the boom in mens studies questioning of manhood. Henry Rollins is a metonym for an excessive and visible masculinity, in an era where men have remained an unmarked centre of society. His place within peripheral punk performance settles his inversionary identity. Spike from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer demonstrates the contradictions in manhood by moving through the masculine hierarchy to deprioritise men in the public sphere. This is a mobile masculinity in a time where changeability has caused a crisis for men. Both these men embody a challenging and confrontational gender politics. Cult contains these characters within different spaces, at varying times and through contradictory politics.
Section three ponders the place and role of politics at its most persistent and relevant. It demonstrates the consequences for social justice in an era of New Right ideologies. The chapter on South Park mobilises Leftist concerns within an overtly Rightist context, and Trainspotting moves through youth politics and acceleration to articulate movement in resistive meanings.
These case studies contemplate the journey of popular culture in the postwar period by returning to the present and to the dominant culture. The colonisation of identity politics by the New Right makes the place of cultural studies as a pedagogic formation - powerfully important. Colonisation of geographical peripheries is brought home to England as the colonisation of the Celtic fringe is interpreted through writing and resistance.
This thesis tracks (and connects) two broad movements - the shifting of political formations and the commodification of popular culture. The disconnecting dialogue between these two streams opens the terrain for cult. In the hesitations that delay their connection, cult is activated to cauterize this disjuncture.
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Rock n Roll Cinemaa.trainer@curtin.edu.my, Adam Trainer January 2005 (has links)
Popular music and film are separate media, framed by specific discourses, histories of
distribution and reception, semiotic relationships and literacies. Through these divergent
manifestations and ideologies nodes of convergence exist. At moments of connection,
new and innovative textual and contextual possibilities emerge, transforming the ways in
which audiences both engage and read these media. Whilst often driven by capitalist
goals, both popular music and film capture and tether personal expression and collective
memory. Through these processes of signification, popular cultural texts belonging to
both media forms are able to resist their commodified origins to inform and construct
both collective and individual identities.
This thesis charts the movement of popular music across cinema. RocknRoll is utilized
not only as an amalgam of texts made up of sounds and images, but also as a critical and
interpretative apparatus through which specific cultural identities are configured. This
work is concerned with various manifestations of political resistance in popular culture,
and the ways in which this resistance is moderated through cultural commodification.
Using an interdisciplinary approach converging film analysis, popular music studies
and music journalism this thesis constructs an ideological framework through which
film and popular music can be aligned, and through which this alignment can be
researched.
Through an engagement with myriad cinematic and popular cultural texts, executed through interdisciplinary methods, this thesis establishes a theoretical framework for
understanding and analyzing the convergence of popular music and cinema. Its original
contribution to knowledge is an evaluation of the ways in which these media are changed
through their alignment and how they inform each other both structurally, as tangible
manifestations of specific media codes and structures, and politically, in the ideological
embodiment of particular identities and representational realities. This goal is achieved
through the selection of specific research materials, especially those which have not been
subject to detailed investigation in other scholarly studies. Specific filmic and musical
texts are discussed because they embody the aesthetic and political synergy of these two
media forms as well as demonstrating the cultural processes through which this synergy
is enacted.
This thesis offers interdisciplinary dialogue as a valid strategy to understand the
processes involved in the creation and reception of texts which are cinematic in nature
but utilize the language and discourse of popular music. The textual and contextual
manifestations of this process are a primary concern. Emphasis is placed on the
implications for film form in terms of the structure of texts and their existence within
specific genres, the shifting position of the auteur and the renegotiation of the term and its
meaning to film and popular music, and the conjunction and interaction between
creativity and commerce. In addressing the political and aesthetic possibilities of the film
and popular music hybrid, as well as the cultural implications of their convergence, this
thesis provides new perspectives for the analysis of both forms.
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'A secret understanding' : critical responses to 'modern life' and mass culture in English Canada, 1939-1963 /Kuffert, Leonard B. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McMaster University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [329]-361). Also available via World Wide Web.
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The effect of lyric analysis and group discussion vs. traditional music therapy on values clarification and decision making in adolescent delinquentsMoss, Latoya S. Standley, Jayne M. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (M.M.) -- Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor, Jayne Standley, Florida State University, School of Music. Title and description from thesis home page (viewed 2-11-05). Document formatted into pages; contains 55 pages. Includes biographical sketch. Includes bibliographical references.
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Contemporary Cantopop reception of crossover music in Hong Kong /Fu, Lok-yi, Alice. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes Chinese version of questionnaire (leave 132-133), transcript of interviewees in Chinese (leave 134-141) and Chinese texts of translated songs (leave 142-154). Also available in print.
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Pulp literature : a re-evaluation /Morgan, David Ellis. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2002. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education. Bibliography: leaves 291-298.
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Are they lovin' it? Chinese folk attitudes toward United States popular culture /Wiser, Dusty Decker. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Utah State University, 2006. / Adviser: Jeannie B. Thomas. Includes bibliographical references.
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Humanizing the gangster an examination into the character from Hawks' to DePalma's Scarface /Kirby, Nicholas B., Plasketes, George, January 2008 (has links)
Thesis--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-80).
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The discourse of hockey in Canada : mythologization, institutionalization, and cultural dissemination /Noonan, Kerry January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-178). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
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