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Manifestations Of Ebenezer Howard In Disneyland, Michelle M. Rowland
Manifestations Of Ebenezer Howard In Disneyland, Michelle M. Rowland
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
While political praise and condemnation of Disney is commonplace in the literature, my research will focus instead on the origination of Disney's design plan for Disneyland and the theoretical and physical connections between key historical figures and the finished product. I will not consider what Disneyland means to the world today---that is a subject many others have covered, some even brilliantly; instead, I will consider what social concepts contributed to the initial design in an attempt to see the underlying values at work in this post-modern utopia. In this thesis, I intend to show that Walt Disney's initial design for …
Language In Utopian Societies: A Study Of Works By Le Guin, Atwood, And Lowry, Laura Katherine Latinski
Language In Utopian Societies: A Study Of Works By Le Guin, Atwood, And Lowry, Laura Katherine Latinski
Honors College
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Slash As Queer Utopia, Ika Willis
Slash As Queer Utopia, Ika Willis
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In Text, John Mowitt writes that textuality can be understood “in terms of the interplay between what takes place within a cultural production… and what, as yet, has no place within the social”. In this paper I will be trying to tease out the complicated topography produced by this interplay between what takes place and what has no place, in its specific relation to the utopic and queer spaces produced by slash fan fiction. I argue that Mowitt’s understanding of the text allows us to interrogate and to reframe the relationship between textuality and historical/social context (often metaphorized as ‘situatedness’, …
Dreams Of Utopia: An Exhibition By Gadens' Artist In Residence, Madeleine T. Kelly
Dreams Of Utopia: An Exhibition By Gadens' Artist In Residence, Madeleine T. Kelly
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
These works explore recurrent themes of energy consumption, processing nature, human folly and progress. Collage methods are used to construct lyrical scenes that suggest alternative realities, where juxtaposed and absent elements create spaces for projection and gaps to be filled. Figures interacting and processing abstract material shapes evoke mythological realms.