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Gender role heuristics used by adolescent boys when negotiating sexual practices of a heterosexual nature /McCain, Candice. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009. / Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.
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Heroes, assassins, mobsters and murderers : martial arts TV and the popular Chinese imagination in the PRC /Thomas, Suzanne Lynne. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-303).
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Why is America so Blue? : a performance analysis of the Blue Man Group that demonstrates the deeper cultural significance within the structure of its performance /Fidler, Sean A., January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.) in Theatre--University of Maine, 2002. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).
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Party people : mapping contemporary dance music cultures in Australia /Luckman, Susan Heather. January 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.
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What lies beneath : medical imaging and the erotic in public culture / Medical imaging and the erotic in public cultureWise, Rebecca Louise 09 November 2012 (has links)
The anatomic human body is increasingly visible in public culture. Representations of the body sourced from or imitative of the images produced by medical imaging technology are bloodless depictions that highlight the body’s internal structures and elide its viscerality. Despite the deliberate exclusion of the flesh, many of these images are saturated in erotic potential, both implicitly and explicitly. These images emerge in a culture preoccupied with the visualization and control of women’s bodies and sexualities.
Feminist scholars have long been critical of the ways in which popular media constructs the body as an object for erotic consumption;; the anatomic images I consider here go one step further. The mainstream gaze has previously been limited to the exterior surfaces of the body, with the penetrating gaze into the body’s interior restricted to the medical and legal establishments. The penetrating gaze is increasingly democratized as x-ray and other interior views of the body become more prevalent.The texts under discussion in this thesis traverse the opaque barrier of the skin and serve to construct the totality of the human body as an object to be examined and consumed.
While X-rated x-rays can, sometimes, offer a potential site of resistance to gen- dered surveillance of the anatomic body, their increasing ubiquity demonstrates the escalation of a dominating surveillant regime intent on penetrating and controlling the anatomic body. The images’ uncritical public consumption provides an insidious route by which that regime may be normalized, furthered and even glorified. / text
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Teaching the conflict, teaching the transition : history education and historical memory in contemporary SpainMagill, Clare Alexandra January 2013 (has links)
Despite the enormous interest in recent years in the movement to recover the ‘historical memory' of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, the teaching of these contentious and bloody periods of Spanish history has received relatively little attention. This qualitative study, which explores the experiences and perspectives of secondary school teachers of history, aims to address this gap in the literature. To select the participants for this research, I adopted a stratified, multi-stage, purposive approach, sampling by region, city, school and teacher. The sample comprised 24 history teachers from 17 separate secondary schools in the cities of Madrid (Torrejón de Ardoz), Barcelona, Seville and Oviedo. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five history education experts. All interview transcripts were imported into QSR NVivo 9, a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis package. The data was then analysed using Framework, a systematic, matrixbased approach to data management and analysis. The research findings build on Kitson and McCully's (2005) work by developing their ‘continuum of risk-taking', which relates to the teaching of controversial issues associated with history in Northern Ireland. An adapted model of risktaking is presented. It helps to explain the challenges and pressures teachers face in the Spanish context by identifying and exploring five distinct approaches to the teaching of the history of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship: avoiding (‘natural' and ‘reluctant'), containing, risk-taking and activist. The research also highlights teachers' frustration with the dominant narrative presented in textbooks of Spain's ‘exemplary' transition to democracy. In so doing, it points to the danger of retrospective inevitability if the history of the transition is not presented in a nuanced fashion and if the alternatives are not explored. As such, the research constitutes an original contribution to the literature, opening up space for new conversations about the teaching of the history not only of conflict but also of the difficult and often controversial compromises that help to bring about cessations of violence. The study also considers the role of history education in the recovery of historical memory and, more broadly, in contributing to the wider reconciliation of Spanish society. Finally, the thesis highlights implications for curriculum and teacher education policy in Spain and beyond.
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And Consumption For All: The Science Fiction Pulps and the Rhetoric of TechnologyScott, Ronald January 2005 (has links)
This dissertation argues that in industrial society technology is not merely an immaterial, abstract set of machines but instead has a rhetoric all its own. This rhetoric of technology consists of myriad elements, ranging from cultural conversations about machines and the engineering principles from which they're derived to class relationships naturalized by industrial structures.In the United States, the rhetoric of technology focuses on individuals, creating cults of personality that embody an otherwise abstract entity. This dissertation asserts that these cults focus on specific components of the process of technological development, represented as inventors, engineers, and hackers.The bulk of the dissertation explores the creation and continuation of these cults in American popular culture. Specifically, it examines how these representations are used in the science fiction pulp magazines, published from 1926-1949. Each cult has a period of ascendancy followed by a lessened importance in the rhetoric of technology, and these ebbs and flows are thoroughly represented in the pulps.Each of these cults has its own chapter, with Chapter 1 focusing on the history and definition of the term 'rhetoric of technology' and Chapter 5 examining ways to teach the rhetoric of technology in the college classroom. Chapter 2 focuses on inventors; Chapter 3 examines engineers; and Chapter 4 traces the beginnings of hackers.
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Sign of the times: celebrity, truth, and legal storytellingRamshaw, Sara Lynne 11 1900 (has links)
Contemporary Western legal storytelling relies heavily on images and discourses in
popular culture to secure meaning and give credibility to certain legal arguments. This
thesis focuses on the legal stories told in the trial of a celebrity in Western society. As a
system of meaning, the celebrity sign operates on the levels of signification and affect.
The ambiguous semiotic power of the celebrity sign forces an examination by the legal
audience regarding the "real" nature of the celebrity. Reality and truth are seen to
emanate from this private self. Moreover, the affective power of the celebrity sign
guarantees that, at times, emotion will dictate how much credibility will be given to
particular celebrity legal stories and what stories will be considered plausible by a jury.
In the trial of a celebrity "Other" — that is, one of the celebrated few who defies
the white male norm -- celebrity legal storytelling looks towards issues of race, class, and
gender, in addition to celebrity, in order to secure meaning and effect credibility. The
aesthetic acceptance of the celebrity "Other," along with discourses of authenticity in
Western society, work to shape what is considered credible and true in a courtroom.
These factors place limits on the semiotic and affective power of the celebrity "Other"
and, thus, on what celebrity legal stories will be accepted as truth in the courtroom.
Looking specifically at the 1949 acquittal of jazz singer, Billie Holiday, and the
1994 acquittal/partial conviction of gangsta rapper, Tupac Shakur, this thesis will
demonstrate the ways in which law, culture, race, gender, class, and the celebrity intersect
in the Western mass media and how this intersection affects legal process and the trial
tactics utilized in the trial of a celebrity "Other."
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Challenging Normalcy? Masculinity and Disability in MurderballTollestrup, Benjamin Neal 14 September 2009 (has links)
In 2005, MTV Movies and ThinkFilm released Murderball, a groundbreaking documentary about wheelchair rugby. Due to its popularity and its subject matter, the film presents a unique opportunity to reflect on representations of disability in the contemporary North American context. The narrative of the film constructs a rivalry between Team U.S.A., captained by Mark Zupan, and Team Canada, coached by Joe Soars. Murderball works exceptionally well to disrupt notions of people with disabilities as fragile and helpless, countering ableist assumptions about what persons with quadriplegia can accomplish. However, based on a close reading of the film, I suggest that Murderball accomplishes this disruption by also celebrating ableist, sexist and heterosexist representations. I critique the film’s construction of the relationship between competitive international sport settings, disability, and masculinity by drawing on the tools of feminism and anti-normative politics. I also examine representations of hegemonic masculinity that are discursively linked to sport competition and violence in ways that work to support a U.S. nationalist and imperialist impulse. Overall, I suggest
that recuperations of normative identity in Murderball rely on a jingoistic and violent air of moral authority where American men work to preserve the winning reputation of the U.S.A., while subjecting themselves to the constraints of normalcy. / Thesis (Master, Kinesiology & Health Studies) -- Queen's University, 2009-09-14 16:16:58.087
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The bold and the beautiful.Akal, Genevieve. January 2009
No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.
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