Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis, 2012 Wayne State University
Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis, Christopher Timothy Gullen
Wayne State University Dissertations
This project explores the trend of bodily and identity modification in the contemporary Hollywood musical and calls for a re-reading of the genre away from the standard classification, that of one strictly imbued with wistful nostalgia and heteronormativity. This work argues that several films have abrogated these traditional ideals to create a carnivalesque representation of the societal norms through a genre, and a production code that sought to preserve them. Using the work of Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin, this project reveals that these films feature dark and satirical para-realities of murder, debauchery and cannibalism that act as a catharsis to …
Baptism With The Holy Ghost, 2012 Asbury Theological Seminary
Baptism With The Holy Ghost, Henry Clay Morrison
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
"Still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit, 2012 Wayne State University
"Still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit, Andrea Nevedal
Wayne State University Dissertations
Adults aged fifty and older are the fastest growing age group with HIV/AIDS. Research on older adults with HIV has focused primarily on health status and physiological changes that occur as people age with HIV. However, little is known about the socio-cultural consequences that occur when older adults are diagnosed with HIV and as they age with HIV. Drawing from an anthropological approach to the life course and Becker's (1997) framework of life disruption, this dissertation research explored to what extent people experienced disruption from living with HIV and reorganized their lives after experiencing disruption.
The specific aims included identifying …
The Lived Experience Of African American Women With Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema, 2012 Wayne State University
The Lived Experience Of African American Women With Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema, Deborah Collins-Bohler
Wayne State University Dissertations
African American patients have been reported as having a greater number of aggressive cancer treatments compared to Caucasians (McWayne & Heiney, 2005; Meeske et al., 2009; Ridner & Dietrich, 2008), and have higher incidence of BCRLE due axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) and radiation intervention (Thomas-MacLean, Miedema, Tateemichi, 2005). Research regarding BCRLE has used BCRLE samples comprised almost exclusively of married and well-educated Caucasian women. Few studies (Bowman, Deimling, Smerglia, Sage, & Kahana, 2003; Eversley et al., 2005; Joslyn, 2002; McWayne & Heiney, 2005) have included sizeable numbers of African American breast cancer survivors. No studies have been found that …
Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, 2012 Bucknell University
Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, Sheila Lintott
Faculty Contributions to Books
In the spirit of exploring fresh perspectives, I offer this investigation into the aesthetic aspects of personal relationships with a focus on friendship.1 Glossing the aesthetic aspects of friendship, as we too often do, impoverishes our understanding of the value and meaning of friendships, relationships which give shape and content to our lives, which animate our lives or, as Nancy Sherman (1993) puts it, relationships which structure the good life. The friendships we forge and those we forgo, the loves we cultivate and those we lose, these varying and variable relations broaden (or impoverish) our experiences, intensify (or diminish) our …
Common Eternities, 2012 Western Washington University
Common Eternities, Aaron Wallace
WWU Graduate School Collection
Common Eternities embodies a conglomeration of forms and concepts pooled from my interests as a board game aficionado, a long-time consumer of science fiction, and a student of literary conventions and style. In doing so, Common Eternities, demonstrates the power progressive storytelling can offer. Set in numerous time periods and surroundings, Common Eternities strikes at the purpose of life and how all living objects are connected to one other. Anthelion and the Darkness, the two main godlike characters, find themselves constantly entangled in the span of five chapters as they discover their own identities, their surroundings, and the implications of …
Producing Early Modern Space And The Mind In Public And Closet Drama, 2012 University of Northern Iowa
Producing Early Modern Space And The Mind In Public And Closet Drama, Megan M. Gallagher
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
The construction of space has become such a common process for modernity that its culture would argue spatial experiences as intrinsic in nature. However, it is through the consideration of the experience of space and spatial boundaries one notices the cooperative nature of space. This thesis explores the early modem constructions of space and the development of the modem idea of the mind through the closet dramas of John Milton (Samson Agonistes) and Elizabeth Cary (The Tragedy of Mariam the Fair Queen of the Jewry), and the public dramas of William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure and Julius Caesar). Our notions …
Baseball In The Heartland: Semi-Pro Baseball Survives In Iowa, 2012 University of Northern Iowa
Baseball In The Heartland: Semi-Pro Baseball Survives In Iowa, Todd Michael Hospodarsky
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Baseball has been an important part of American popular culture for over one hundred years. In the early part of the twentieth century baseball was the nation's most pervasive sport and symbolized many values and attitudes that Americans held dear. During the late nineteenth century, adult baseball teams were formed within small towns across the nation. The team members were typically considered amateur athletes playing "town team" baseball. Over the years, as they were given opportunities to make money from their play, the term of semi-professional was applied to many of these players.
The decades following World War II were …
Experimenting With The Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, And The French Avant-Garde, 2012 Portland State University
Experimenting With The Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, And The French Avant-Garde, Anmarie Trimble, Jennifer Grotz
University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Born is an experimental online magazine that brings together writers and "new media" designers and artists, who have collaborated to create multimedia interpretations of poetry (and more rarely, short prose). As editors of one of the earliest, enduring literary publications on the Web, we often receive invitations to share our “vision” of Web poetics, literary multimedia, et cetera. This presents a problem—Born evolved without consciously intending to even focus on poetry (only our current incarnation), but rather with an intent to be a creative, collaborative community. As such our work and vision are shaped as much by the interests of …
The Metaphysics Of Improvisation, 2012 Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Metaphysics Of Improvisation, Tobyn C. Demarco
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In "The Metaphysics of Improvisation," I criticize wrongheaded metaphysical views of, and theories about, improvisation, and put forward a cogent metaphysical theory of improvisation, which includes action theory, an analysis of the relevant genetic and aesthetic properties, and ontology (work-hood).
The dissertation has two Parts. Part I is a survey of the history of many improvisational practices, and of the concept of improvisation. Here I delineate, sketch, and sort out the often vague boundaries between improvising and non-improvising within many art forms and genres, including music, dance, theatre, motion pictures, painting, and literature. In addition, I discuss the concept of …
(Re)Forming Italians: Children's Literature In Italy, 1929-1939, 2012 Graduate Center, City University of New York
(Re)Forming Italians: Children's Literature In Italy, 1929-1939, Marisa Giorgi
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
My dissertation argues for the centrality of children's literature under Fascism as a tool to bring about the ultimate goal of forming the "new" Italian. This project examines the relationship between children's literature, the creation of culture and the transmission of ideology in Fascist Italy. I chose the period 1929-1939 because this decade encompasses the years the regime actively sought consolidation of power and consensus, as well as the years of the fascistization of Italian schools. These novels are conduits of fascist ideology veiled as adventure stories, historical novels, bildungsroman or romantic fiction for children and young adults and deserve …
Global Wreckage And Consumer Illusions: Responses To The Human Effects Of Economic Globalization In Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels And Films, 1973-2006, 2012 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Global Wreckage And Consumer Illusions: Responses To The Human Effects Of Economic Globalization In Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels And Films, 1973-2006, Sara C. Hanaburgh
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
My study examines a group of nine novels and films set in Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Gabon written and produced between 1973 and 2006 in which "the West" and its international finance network are depicted as the fundamental contemporary world power that wields a destructive dominance over African countries. These forms of control are in many ways similar, yet distinct, from the projects of European imperialism. I analyze consumerism as a major feature of globalization, and discuss the linkage of globalization and the consumer society by looking at various theoretical models, in particular that which Jean Baudrillard conceptualized …
The Museum Of Modern Art's "What Is Modern?" Series, 1938-1969, 2012 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Museum Of Modern Art's "What Is Modern?" Series, 1938-1969, Jennifer Tobias
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Between 1938 and 1969, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) poses the question of What Is Modern? (WIM) in a series of books, traveling exhibitions, and a symposium. This dissertation argues for the WIM project as a sustained if minimally effective effort to influence popular American perceptions of modern art, architecture, and design, at the same time embodying tensions inherent to the museum and its notions of that modernism.
MoMA is an unquestionable influence on modern art history. WIM is a significant component of this influence, yet scholarship on the series is minimal. Hiding in plain sight, the series offers …
Grunt Work For The Avant-Garde, 2012 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Grunt Work For The Avant-Garde, Andrea A. La Rose
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
grunt work for the avant-garde is an original, four-movement composition for solo trombone, clarinet, violin, cello, and accordion.
Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe And Sacrifice In The "History Of My Life" By Henry Darger, 2012 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Recollecting Turbulence: Catastrophe And Sacrifice In The "History Of My Life" By Henry Darger, Carl Watson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This study of "The History of My Life" the 5,086 page autobiographical text by the outsider artist/author Henry Darger, uses non-linear modes of analysis, such as chaos and complexity theory, to explore the meaning of Darger's epic narrative. Beginning with the idea that turbulence, seemingly chaotic, actually comes about as a compensatory restructuring of inadequate or unstable system dynamics, this study goes on to show that, as both influence and effect, turbulence is found at every level of Darger's life and art, both in theme and structure. "My Life" is a prime example: an extended narrative describing a cataclysmic tornado, …
Yayoi Kusama: Biography And Cultural Confrontation, 1945–1969, 2012 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Yayoi Kusama: Biography And Cultural Confrontation, 1945–1969, Midori Yamamura
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) was among the first Japanese artists to rise to international prominence after World War II. She emerged when wartime modern nation-state formations and national identity in the former Axis Alliance countries quickly lost ground to U.S.-led Allied control, enforcing a U.S.-centered model of democracy and capitalism. As a result, the art world became increasingly internationalized. This interdisciplinary study is the first attempt to comparatively examine postwar artistic developments in Japan, the United States, and Europe, through a focus on Kusama. I consider Kusama not so much in terms that seek to aggrandize the uniqueness of the individual, …
History Of The Performance Practice Of Mozart’S Fantasie And Sonata K. 475/457, 2012 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
History Of The Performance Practice Of Mozart’S Fantasie And Sonata K. 475/457, Mikako Ogata
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The pieces chosen for the discussion, the Fantasie and Sonata in C minor, K. 475/457, are especially well documented in terms of their sources: in addition to the composing autographs and the first edition, there is the so-called dedication copy, a manuscript written by a copyist that was given to Maria von Trattner, to whom the Sonata was dedicated. The discussion will include a close examination of these three primary sources, several editions published during the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries (including that edited by Johann Anton André, who owned the autographs at the time), and representative recorded performances …
Review Of Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well, 2012 Loyola Marymount University
Review Of Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Transformative Education In A Broken World: Feminist And Jesuit Pedagogy On The Importance Of Context, 2012 Marquette University
Transformative Education In A Broken World: Feminist And Jesuit Pedagogy On The Importance Of Context, Theresa Weynand Tobin
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
This chapter relates the concept of positionality from feminist theory and pedagogy to the Ignatian paradigm to show how its focus on the individual, at the expense of the structural, fails to acknowledge the unequal power relationships that disadvantage students from minority groups. Focusing on the positionality of gay and lesbian students in the author's classroom at a Jesuit college, it explores how becoming attentive to our own positions with respect to our students allows us better to examine how relationships of domination and subordination between members of oppressed and privileged groups in larger social and ecclesial contexts are re-created …
Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment And The Intellectual Origins Of Modern Democracy, By Jonathan Israel, 2012 Marquette University
Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment And The Intellectual Origins Of Modern Democracy, By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.