This dissertation “Taiwanese Eyes on the Modern: Cold War Dance Diplomacy and American Modern Dances in Taiwan, 1950–1980” examines the transnational history of American modern dance between the United States and Taiwan during the Cold War era. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the C…
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Mikhail Bulgakov’s mystifying relationship with the Soviet government, and with Joseph Stalin in particular, has long been understood to be a result of the dictator’s aesthetic appreciation for the writer’s early work. In an era defined by Stalin’s Great Terror, Bulgakov escaped…
This thesis considers two women—Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Paul de Seroskerque, Madame de Blau (1681?-1749) and Anne-Marguerite Petit Du Noyer (1663-1719)—who traveled between France and the Dutch Republic and respectively engaged in secret and public diplomacy during the peace ne…
Among the ethos of consumerism, Selective Memories / Crossing Boundaries acknowledges the power of consumerism, and proposes to ironically integrate consumptive spaces to circumvent censorships in China, and to reveal repressed conversations. Consumerism, which presupposes that …
This public history capstone is a research paper that also examines the use of research within the public history field. Within the project, Shannon LeRoy argues that cultural and social factors such as gender and social standing contributed to Roman literary censorship to the p…
This case study uses qualitative interviews with administrators, advisers, former editors, and others, along with researcher observations and more than 50 years of archival documents to construct a comprehensive portrait of the history, successes, and challenges of the student n…
The lens of music plays a crucial role in the analysis of South Africa history and how musicians and activists shared commonalities that in turn strengthened the resistance against the increasingly aggressive apartheid regime. Through the study of music and cultural work, the hi…
The establishment of film censorship legislation in Germany after the end of World War I ultimately contributed to political crisis and the rise of the Nazis in 1933. The Weimar National Assembly passed the Motion Picture Law in 1920, establishing the film censorship boards whic…
This dissertation offers the first monograph-length exploration of South Korean popular folk—or p'ok'ŭ— music in English. P'ok'ŭ was tied initially to “youth culture” (ch'ŏngnyŏnmunhwa), which refers to the Western-derived musical and leisure activities of university-educated yo…
Research into the citizen political participation via social media is dominated by two grand narratives. In the first, new media are seen as empowering society, while the second portrays the Internet as the State’s ultimate tool for manipulating citizens. This research employed …
Over recent years, censorship of the press in Turkey has been under international scrutiny, having been examined on the basis of recent political developments such as the Justice and Development Party’s democratisation promises with the incentive of the EU accession process and …
Jack Valenti, then President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), formally announced the commencement of a new Motion Picture Code and Rating Program on November 1, 1968; a mode of industry self-regulation designed to replace the, by then discredited, Production …
This paper treats the connections between contemporary popular music and neoliberal ideology through a historical analysis and critique of digital music platforms, lo-fi, and EDM. Following the work of Byung-Chul Han and Philip Mirowski, I explore how the transformation of the d…
Satire has many effects on its audience, from callous laughter at politicians to seriously thinking about the experienced social and political reality. This thesis explores satire’s effects on those who watch Kukly, a famously banned political satire show in Russia that is only …
The 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings in response to a moral panic about comic books and the subsequent creation of the Comics Code Authority as the self-censorship organ of the American comic book industry drastically contracted the comic book market and…
The screenplay Nothing Nefarious was written in response to the challenges on freedom of expression that have been imposed by the current economic conditions of the feature film industry. The analysis contained within this document discusses regulatory censorship and self-censor…
This dissertation is a study of the translation and publication of Latin American literature in the post-Stalin era Soviet Union. During the Thaw, the Soviet cultural authorities sought to use literary translation for propagandistic purposes, targeting Latin America as the lates…