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Art Imitating Life: How Heteronormative Values Shape And Encourage The Censorship Of Jamaican Dancehall Music, Aleia Walker
Art Imitating Life: How Heteronormative Values Shape And Encourage The Censorship Of Jamaican Dancehall Music, Aleia Walker
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In 2009, increasingly violent and sexually explicit lyrics led the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica to issue directives severely censoring the broadcasting of dancehall music on radio and television. Dancehall music, a descendant of reggae, serves as a cathartic release for the working-class in Jamaica with lyrics and dances that focus on achieving primal pleasures. Since entering mainstream society, dancehall has been unappreciated by those outside of its following. This thesis seeks to understand the purpose of the offensive lyrics and the subsequent need for censorship by combining various gender theories with the analysis of lyrics, media, government documents, historical contentions …
Dark Façades: Gender And The Films Of Stanley Kubrick, David Eric Browning
Dark Façades: Gender And The Films Of Stanley Kubrick, David Eric Browning
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The work of iconic film director Stanley Kubrick is generally studied in terms of visual style and its reliance on male protagonists. Looking past the traditional focal points, one is able to examine the truly fascinating female protagonists that inhabit these dark worlds. By uncovering three distinct types of women included in the filmography of Stanley Kubrick: the instigator, the victim, and the empowered, I have reasoned that the director evolved alongside these female characters as his career advanced. Focusing on the instigating nature of the women in his early films, I have showcased how these individuals held powerful grips …
This Harvest / A Wild (B)Looming, Jen Mehan
This Harvest / A Wild (B)Looming, Jen Mehan
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The following creative manuscript is a swirl of themes, language, intimacies, and violations. Through use of paced, intimate layers, the manuscript explores themes of the lovers, the you, gender (and its oppression), violence and its tenderness, the wilderness and its wild, heritage and legacies, and the (d)evolution of self. Despite the themes, the poems offer a playfulness with form, enjambments and prose blocks, sounds, syntax, lists, parentheticals and juxtapositions. There is hunger here, and it swirls.