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1	Muscular Otherness: Performing the Muscular Freak and Monster Staszel, John Paul 31 July 2009 (has links) No description available. Theater Freak Monster Muscular Freak Muscular Monster Schwarzenegger Pumping Iron
2	Entertainment Bias: A Case Study of the Tonight Show and the California Gubernatorial Recall Election in 2003 Hite, Katherine Blake 27 June 2005 (has links) This thesis looks at entertainment bias, specifically bias on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno towards Arnold Schwarzenegger during the time leading up to the California recall election in 2003. Entertainment media possess a unique ability to communicate messages to an unguarded audience, which gives them the potential to have more of a political impact than traditional news media. The basic theory is that Jay Leno showed political bias in his monologues towards his friend and gubernatorial candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger. This theory was tested through a highly detailed descriptive analysis of monologue jokes and summary data for the time period March 31, 2003 to October 6, 2003. In total, there were 388 jokes from monologues of the Tonight Show analyzed. These jokes were broken down into categories based on their content and the subject. They were then compared to jokes delivered on the Late Show with David Letterman about the California recall election. The analysis of jokes showed that the manner in which candidates were portrayed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno was politically biased towards Arnold Schwarzenegger. Due to the differences in program structure it was difficult to determine if this political bias was also present in the Late Show with David Letterman. / Master of Arts Jay Leno Arnold Schwarzenegger Entertainment Bias
3	Male Bodies On-Screen: Spectacle, Affect, and the Most Popular Action Adventure Films in the 1980s Wagenheim, Christopher Paul, Ph.D. 07 December 2016 (has links) No description available. Aesthetics American Studies Cinematography Comparative Ethnic Studies Film Studies Gender Gender Studies Mass Media Motion Pictures Affect bodies action adventure films movies 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger Sylvester Stallone Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford Eddie Murphy cinematography film editing spectacle body spectacle blockbuster Hollywood Star Wars Rambo Rocky Commando
4	Political contradictions : discussions of virtue in American life LaVally, Rebecca 26 January 2011 (has links) This dissertation asserts that American political culture faces a crisis of virtue and explores the role of citizens, journalists and politicians in fostering it. The historic election of Barack Obama on a platform of hope and change in 2008 suggests that Americans yearn for an infusion of virtue into political life. I assert, however, that we have lacked a lexicon of political virtue, or any systematic understanding of which virtues we value and which matter most to us. Nor have we understood whether groups who constitute key elements of our democracy—citizens, journalists, politicians, men and women, Democrats and Republicans—value virtues in politics similarly or differently. Without a working knowledge of the anatomy of virtue in the body politic, what is to prevent us from having to change again? By charting the virtue systems of these key groups, I have made explicit what is implicit to reveal that political virtue is more valued—and more present—than Americans likely realize. This exploration, I believe, contributes to the scholarship of political communication by enabling a fuller and more useful understanding of American political culture—and of the contradictions, curiosities, and surprises that enrich it. / text American politics Party politics Political virtue Newspapers M. Jodi Rell Christopher Dodd John Baldacci Olympia Snowe Kathleen Sebelius Sam Brownback Dianne Feinstein Arnold Schwarzenegger Political ethics Political capital Masculine virtue Feminine virtue Letters to the editor Political websites Political integrity Political liking Female politicians Women politicians News frames Media mores Media norms Celebrity politics American public life Political journalists Political reporting Media agenda setting Political campaigns Crisis of virtue Political immediacy Political androgyny Rhetoric
5	Paul Verhoeven, media manipulation, and hyper-reality Malchiodi, Emmanuel William 01 May 2011 (has links) Does the individual really matter in the post-modern world, brimming with countless signs and signifiers? My main objective in this writing is to demonstrate how this happens in Verhoeven's films, exploring his central themes and subtext and doing what science fiction does: hold a mirror up to the contemporary world and critique it, asking whether our species' current trajectory is beneficial or hazardous.; Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is a polarizing figure. Although many of his American made films have received considerable praise and financial success, he has been lambasted on countless occasions for his gratuitous use of sex, violence, and contentious symbolism--1995s Showgirls was overwhelmingly dubbed the worst film of all time and 1997s Starship Troopers earned him a reputation as a fascist. Regardless of the controversy surrounding him, his science fiction films are a move beyond the conventions of the big blockbuster science fiction films of the 1980s (E.T. and the Star Wars trilogy are prime examples), revealing a deeper exploration of both sociopolitical issues and the human condition. Much like the novels of Philip K. Dick (and Verhoeven's 1990 film Total Recall--an adaptation of a Dick short story), Verhoeven's science fiction work explores worlds where paranoia is a constant and determining whether an individual maintains any liberty is regularly questionable. In this thesis I am basically exploring issues regarding power. Although I barely bring up the term power in it, I feel it is central. Power is an ambiguous term; are we discussing physical power, state power, objective power, subjective power, or any of the other possible manifestations of the word? The original Anglo-French version of power means "to be able," asking whether it is possible for one to do something. In relation to Verhoeven's science fiction work each demonstrates the limitations placed upon an individual's autonomy, asking are the protagonists capable of independent agency or rather just environmental constructs reflecting the myriad influences surrounding them. Film and Media Studies

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