This thesis analyzes how Joan Rivers’ comedy content and style changed during the first 30 years of her career and how these changes impacted Rivers’ presentation of her identity as a Jewish female comedian. This project focuses on Joan Rivers’ career in two sections: her early …
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In spite of postmodern attempts by prominent figures such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault to deconstruct the Author, and to expose as fraudulent and false some of the underlying assumptions related to genius, a popular understanding of the Author-as-Genius persists in the …
Marie-Antoinette apparaît aujourd’hui aux Etats-Unis comme un personnage éblouissant. Tout comme la Chimère, monstre mythologique auquel la propagande révolutionnaire l’avait comparée, Marie-Antoinette présente une image composite aux facettes apparemment inconciliables : celle …
This thesis collects three essays which deal with the use of identities as a marketing device; investigating how capitalism informs and reduces identities, like race, gender, and sexuality to market products to individuals. The first essay looks at how scholarly perspectives on …
This research study asks the question: what is the lived experience of fame for the person who is famous in today’s culture? Despite cultural preoccupation with celebrity, very little academic attention has been given to the experience of fame itself. Interviews with six individ…