Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
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This dissertation examines translation phenomena in Singapore from colonial to contemporary times, arguing that they are better understood as performative acts where their symbolic meaning is more significant than their semantic content. Acts of literary translation are performa…
Every government needs to understand how can local cultural resources generate economic results. There are over 1000 ancient towns in China, with its five-millennium history. All these towns have abundant cultural and touristic resources waiting to be transformed into economic b…
Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetori…
Video games are increasingly becoming a part of people’s daily lives. More importantly, digital games have been increasingly built as products that challenge the player morally and ethically. Video games do not only demonstrate their moral and ethical influence, they also influe…
“Buying the blueprints: Investing emotionally and materially in the icy ideologies of Disney’s Frozen” uses a cultural studies framework to examine qualitative data collected from interviews with Norwegian children and families, observations of public engagement with the Frozen …
This dissertation marks the first historical and administrative overview of the Orlando International Fringe Festival. The Orlando International Fringe Festival (OIFF) is America's oldest still-operating fringe theatre festival. This two-week performing arts and immersive cultur…
From 2006 to 2010, ABC broadcast Ugly Betty, a one-hour dramedy based on one of the most popular telenovelas of all time. This dissertation examines at Ugly Betty from a rhizomatic perspective that brings together the areas of representation, political economy, and fandom studie…
To communicate better and to get the desired effect for a message, communicators must know or, at least, ought to hold some image of their audiences. Broadcasters must know who are the audiences of their messages and why the audiences will listen or watch them. This research app…
The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience contributes to current debate about the role that heritage institutions can play as agents for social change. In particular, it proposes historic sites as key venues where dialogue about contemporary human rights…
This thesis analyses the content of three Arab satellite television talk shows and their reception by women in Jordan. It aims to assess the role of talk shows in the Arab public sphere by engaging with different conceptualisations and criticisms of the public sphere theory, sta…
Dry Spell(noun): A period of arid weather. A calendrical break from intimacy. A lapse of love. I have found that most humans hold on either too tightly or too loosely to that which we feel intimate towards - a push or pull dynamic that reflects an unstable relationship with pow…
This research explores narrative through ballet inspired movement and projection, using the concept of Giselle and the individual stories of dancers as catalysts for new work. The process emphasizes individuality with a focus on experience by working with stories of sexual haras…
This research paper provides an analysis of Variations on Balkan Themes, Op . 60, one of Amy Beach’s most significant solo piano works. Variations on Balkan Themes exists in four different versions: the 1906 original solo piano version, a 1936 revised solo piano version, a 1942 …
This study uses the songs of Franz Schubert as a foundational example to consider the contemporary implications of performing Lieder in English translation. Over the last 150 years such translations have been written, published, performed, and rationalized in a variety of ways. …
This dissertation investigated the effects of American-produced entertainment programs on Nigerian audiences. The theoretical basis for the study was the cultural imperialism theory. To that end, the media and audiences in Nigeria were used to probe the relevance and validity of…
The experience of the British soldier throughout the Twentieth Century may seem to be well covered in new military histories, however there is a conspicuous gap in the literature. The Korean War is one of the most globally significant conflicts of the past century, over 80,000 B…
The Chinese government enacted the one-child policy during the late 1970s and early 1980s to curb the growth of the country’s swelling population. This extreme form of family planning marked the beginning of a radical social experiment that profoundly affected Canada’s social an…
Burning to Be Men? is a study that investigates the role of consumption in the performance, enactment, and pursuit of masculinities in the subculture of ukukhothana. The phenomenon of ukukhothana involves township youths who predominantly come from impoverished economic backgrou…