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2018

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Review: 'Improvising Improvisation: From Out Of Philosophy, Music, Dance, And Literature', Aili W. Bresnahan Oct 2018

Review: 'Improvising Improvisation: From Out Of Philosophy, Music, Dance, And Literature', Aili W. Bresnahan

Aili Bresnahan

This book review attempts to interpret the meaning and value of Gary Peters’ book in a way that is true to the kind of book, an experimental improvisation, that it purports to be. As such, it grapples with the difficulties of evaluating the merits of a philosophical discussion within a book that claims not to be philosophy and case studies in performance that beg the question of whether they accurately exemplify the (non-)philosophy they are meant to support. Despite these difficulties, this review ends with the conclusion that this book does, in fact, convey something essential about the nature of …

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The Relationship Between Instagram Selfies And Body Image In Young Adult Women, Charles N. Wagner, Ester Aguirre Alfaro, Erin M. Bryant Oct 2018

The Relationship Between Instagram Selfies And Body Image In Young Adult Women, Charles N. Wagner, Ester Aguirre Alfaro, Erin M. Bryant

Erin M Sumner

This study observed the relations between actual body size, body dissatisfaction, frequency of selfies taken, and number of Instagram selfies posted. Results indicated that actual body size was positively related to body dissatisfaction, and negatively related to the number of selfies taken. Results also revealed a positive relationship between body dissatisfaction and selfies taken. Conversely, no correlations were detected between the frequency of selfies posted to Instagram and either actual body size or body image dissatisfaction.

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The Relational Reconnection Function Of Social Network Sites, Artemio Ramirez Jr., Erin M. Bryant, John Spinda Oct 2018

The Relational Reconnection Function Of Social Network Sites, Artemio Ramirez Jr., Erin M. Bryant, John Spinda

Erin M Sumner

Relational reconnection is a prominent yet under-explored function of social network sites (SNS) that encompasses both the activation and subsequent maintenance of dormant social ties. The present investigation used two data collections (Study 1, six university samples; Study 2, national United States sample) to explore the characteristics of friends who reconnect using SNS, and attempt to predict whether reconnected relationships persisted beyond the initial reconnection. Results indicated that relational reconnection is extremely common, especially among same-sex friends and individuals who identify as heavy SNS users. Predicted outcome value emerged as the best predictor of persistence beyond initial reconnection, in addition …

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Multimodal Communication, Idealization, And Relational Quality In College Students' Parental Relationships: A Model Of Partner Idealization In Ongoing Relationships, Erin M. Bryant, Artemio Ramirez Jr. Oct 2018

Multimodal Communication, Idealization, And Relational Quality In College Students' Parental Relationships: A Model Of Partner Idealization In Ongoing Relationships, Erin M. Bryant, Artemio Ramirez Jr.

Erin M Sumner

This study tested the partner idealization component of the hyperpersonal perspective, and extended this perspective to the study of an ongoing relationship – college students and their parents. We proposed a model to encompass the cognitive and behavioral idealization mechanisms that past research identified as provoking positive relational outcomes. Results indicated that mediated communication frequency was positively related to both idealization and relational quality, and that idealization partially mediated the statistical relationship between mediated communication frequency and relational quality. Face-to-face communication frequency was inversely related to one indicator of idealization (positive affect thinking), but was not directly related to relational …

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(The “Avos” Phenomenon: A Non-Censured Theatre In The Novosibirsk University, 1975-1976). In: Mosty (The Bridges), Frankfurt, Germany, 2012, 34: 236–284.] [Part 1], Victor Fet, Serge Camyshani, Aleksandr Troitsky, Oleg Polyankov, Elena Fedorovskaya, Aleksandr Butorin, Mark Taraban, Sergei Kovalenko Aug 2018

(The “Avos” Phenomenon: A Non-Censured Theatre In The Novosibirsk University, 1975-1976). In: Mosty (The Bridges), Frankfurt, Germany, 2012, 34: 236–284.] [Part 1], Victor Fet, Serge Camyshani, Aleksandr Troitsky, Oleg Polyankov, Elena Fedorovskaya, Aleksandr Butorin, Mark Taraban, Sergei Kovalenko

Victor Fet

In 1975-1976, a group of science students of the Novosibirsk University (Russia, Siberia) created a small theatre that managed to avoid the official censorship for the entire season. In this memoir, several former actors, now scattered across the world, reconstruct the detailed history of their “Phenomenon” theatre 35 years later. The central event was the (first) staging (December 1975) of Andrey Voznesensky’s long poem “Avos'!”, long before the famous rock opera appeared.

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В 1975-1976 гг. группа студентов Факультета Естественных Наук Новосибирского университета (Академгородок) умудрилась создать свой неподцензурный маленький театр «Феномен», который успел просуществовать целый сезон. В этих мемуарах бывших …

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Hate Speech As Theater, Adam White Jul 2018

Hate Speech As Theater, Adam White

Adam White

More public and philosophical attention has recently been given to hate speech.  Hate speech does not merely hurt feelings; it is public communication that implies that the targeted group does not merit the constitutional protections assured the speaker.  Hate speech poses a riddle given the liberal commitment to freedom of speech independent of content. 

This paper argues that philosophers misdiagnose hate speech.  The novel claim is that hate speech is a tactic in a game being played by the speakers.  The game’s prize is the same kind of personal buzz felt by effective theater actors.  Winning requires manipulating the audience’s …

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Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In The Egyptian Film Poster, Roberta L. Dougherty Jul 2018

Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In The Egyptian Film Poster, Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

No abstract provided.

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Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In Egyptian Film Posters (Slides), Robin Dougherty Jul 2018

Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In Egyptian Film Posters (Slides), Robin Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

No abstract provided.

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‘Steady Stream … Mad Stuff … Half The Vowels Wrong …’: Water, Waste And Words In Beckett’S Plays, Katherine Weiss May 2018

‘Steady Stream … Mad Stuff … Half The Vowels Wrong …’: Water, Waste And Words In Beckett’S Plays, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

No abstract provided.

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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: The American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell dedicated her literary career to exploring the lives and motives of lonely and trapped individuals.

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Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

This paper examines violence and masculinity in Sam Shepard's work as a symptom of war trauma, apparent in his characterization of several of his male characters as war veterans and the violent language accompanying his other characters. War becomes a cultural disease infesting and destroying the family on Shepard's stage.

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The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss May 2018

The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians. by Hugh Kenner

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Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xi + 199 pp., $90.00.

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Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater by Ilka Saal. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007. 244 pp. $69.95.

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Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Using Jacques Derrida's 1995 study, Archive Fever, Weiss examines how Samuel Beckett's Come and Go and Footfalls stage the failed acts of archiving. In both plays, memories are either unknown or not named. Either way, without being named they cannot be collected, catalogued or made public. Despite this, the women haunting his plays seem struck by archive fever. Ultimately, Beckett stages the tension between the desire to remain silent with the desire to archive.

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"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss May 2018

"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: In 1975, Bob Dylan invited Sam Shepard, the young playwright who had ignited the Off-Broadway and London theatre scene, to go on tour with him in order to write scenes and dialogue for a film of the Rolling Thunder Revue.

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Umsl Magazine: Spring 2018 Apr 2018

Umsl Magazine: Spring 2018

María Teresa Balogh

UMSL Magazine available online at https://issuu.com/umsl/docs/umslmag_s18/28

The University of Missouri–St. Louis publishes UMSL Magazine for alumni and friends. The magazine highlights excellence at the university. Circulation is 103,000 and the magazine is released twice a year. 

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Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz Mar 2018

Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz

Kirsten Schultz

No abstract provided.

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Rsa Performance And The Rhetorical Tradition Workshop Bibliography, Jenn Fishman Feb 2018

Rsa Performance And The Rhetorical Tradition Workshop Bibliography, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

This bibliography was compiled by participants in the 2009 RSA Institute Workshop on performance and the rhetorical tradition. Instead of trying to determine a canon for this emerging subfield, the group identified texts that inform their individual research, scholarship, and teaching. As a result, this list below includes a broad and interdisciplinary range of publications and performances. These works offer a multitude of starting places for further inquiry and invention.

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Staging International Communism: British And Australian Radical Theatre Connections, Lisa Milner, Cathy Brigden Dec 2017

Staging International Communism: British And Australian Radical Theatre Connections, Lisa Milner, Cathy Brigden

Dr Lisa Milner

Encouraged by Communist parties and left-wing trade unions, radical, or working-class, theatre groups of the twentieth century were crucial in the development of a long-lasting left-wing cultural activist impulse in a number of nations. The branches of the Unity Theatre in UK and the New Theatre in Australia had a highly conscious democratic and explicit working class orientation, and presented various combinations of mainstream and radical dra-matic genres and plays. Drawing on oral histories and archival research, this chapter explores the politics of popular culture by focusing on the degrees of mobility of ideas, dramatic texts and people and politics …

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1800s Handbag, Jazmin Andrews Dec 2017

1800s Handbag, Jazmin Andrews

Jazmin Andrews

My handbag is made of velvet, to replica one from the 1800's. It was machine embroidered with a Bernina embroidery machine using different colored threads

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Armor From Julius Caesar, Jazmin Andrews Dec 2017

Armor From Julius Caesar, Jazmin Andrews

Jazmin Andrews

My last project (and second most difficult) was to create a piece of armor from the play, Julius Caesar. I chose to recreate the bodice that had a peascod belly silhouette worn by Decius Brutus pictures below.

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The Grinch Feet, Jazmin Andrews Dec 2017

The Grinch Feet, Jazmin Andrews

Jazmin Andrews

I eventually drew inspiration from the costumes from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, put on by the Theater at Madison Square Garden in NY, NY. The costumes were designed by Robert Morgan. This silhouette is a pretty simple one, with a curve at the toe.

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Fox Mask- Le Petite Prince, Jazmin Andrews Dec 2017

Fox Mask- Le Petite Prince, Jazmin Andrews

Jazmin Andrews

To construct this piece I used Warbla. I heated the Warbla over a generic mask to get the general silhouette, and changed the shape from there. I decided to paint the face with acrylic paint, used faux fur to contruct the ears, and added a small piece of leather to create a change in texture for the nose. The base of the mask is stippled with copper and gold tones.

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Belt From To Be Or Not To Be, Jazmin Andrews Dec 2017

Belt From To Be Or Not To Be, Jazmin Andrews

Jazmin Andrews

I started with a rough outline of the six main pieces in the belt, and created the pieces from warbla that I molded to fit. I thought the most important piece was the square, so I bought a belt buckle, and re purposed it. I then painted them all gold, to match the image. I used a plastic beading cord to connect the pieces, later I reinforced them with hot glue, and a strip of warbla over than. In between pieces I beaded to keep with the regal, ruby theme constant. The back piece of the belt is a simple, …

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Crown From To Be Or Not To Be, Jazmin Andrews Dec 2017

Crown From To Be Or Not To Be, Jazmin Andrews

Jazmin Andrews

The crown was one that I purchased online. It originally had a peak in the middle with diamonds, but the crown in the image is mostly one set of colors, and does not reek of gems, so I re-painted over it with a copper acrylic paint, and stippled a lighter gold shade on top to give it depth.

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Paulette Marty.Jpg Dec 2017

Paulette Marty.Jpg

Dr. Paulette Marty

No abstract provided.

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The Dancer's Paradox: Dance In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty Dec 2017

The Dancer's Paradox: Dance In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

Egyptian films have presented us with many portrayls of the dancer, but what role did she play in our collective consciousness? And how did audiences perceive her?

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