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Imagining Woman Otherwise, Or Nothing: Sexuation As Discourse In Lacanian Thought, Rahna Carusi

Rahna M Carusi

My dissertation looks at the connections between Lacan’s four discourses and the sexuation graph in order to claim that sexuation is discursive and that, as Lacan presents it with the phallus as its quilting point, the sexuation graph is a narrative based on patriarchal hegemony, which is one of many possible narratives. I argue that through the hysteric’s discourse and a removal of the phallus as the Symbolic-Imaginary quilting point, we can begin to formulate new narratives of sexuated subjectivities. The textual objects I use for this project are literary and filmic works where women are the central topic or …

Silent Subversions, Derek Dubois

Derek M Dubois

Explores the concept of spectatorship in relation to gender in the earliest period of film history in the United States known as the silent era. Argues that a new mode of spectatorship emerges for women during the 1920s, which employs to advantage the extra-diegetic components of spectacle in theater design, new customized genres for female filmgoers, fandom, and exotic male film stars, such as Rudolph Valentino. Focuses primarily on feminist film theory and on cultural studies as methodological models.

The Ister: Between The Documentary And Heidegger’S Lecture Course Politics, Geographies, And Rivers, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

The Ister, the 2004 documentary by the Australian scholars and videographers, David Barison, a political theorist, and Daniel Ross, a philosopher, appeals to Martin Heidegger’s 1942 lecture course, Hölderlins Hymne «Der Ister»and the video takes us «backward» as the river flows: beginning from the Danube’s delta where it ends in the sea and «journeying» with it to its source in the Alps. the value of the Barison/Ross documentary for both political theory and philosophy is its illustration of the technological incursions or assaults on the river itself, that is to say: its representation of the ‘uses’ and hence of the …

Brody Must Die, Gary Edgerton

Gary R. Edgerton

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The Tragic Beauty Of Ken Burns's The Dust Bowl (2012), Gary Edgerton

Gary R. Edgerton

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Musical Modernism In Brian May's Australian Film Scores, Rebecca Coyle, Michael Hannan

Dr Rebecca Coyle

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Like It Or Not, Aaron Sorkin Has Found His Niche, Gary Edgerton

Gary R. Edgerton

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Test Candidates’ Attitudes And Their Relationship To Demographic And Experiential Variables: The Case Of Overseas Trained Teachers In Nsw, Australia, Judith (Judie) L. Cross Dr, Jill C. Murray Dr, Mehdi Riazi Assoc. Prof.

Judith (Judie) L Cross

One measure of the impact of a high-stakes test is the attitudes that test takers hold towards it. It has been suggested that positive attitudes produce beneficial effects while real or anticipated negative experiences can result in the development of attitudes that erode confidence and potentially impact negatively on performance. This study investigated test taker attitudes by exploring the opinions, beliefs, and feelings of a group of overseas trained teachers preparing for a professional gate-keeping test, and examining correlations between attitudes and demographic and experiential factors. The participants were 105 candidates who were enrolled in a preparation course for the …

Playable Books Or Serious Games: Publications That Love You!, Jeffrey Brand

Jeffrey Brand

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The Latino Immigrant Labor Experience As Depicted In Film, Duane Wright

Duane E Wright II

The author argues that traditional macro-level methods of gathering data on populations create an impersonal depiction of the group. A useful pedagogical tool for teachers to counter this is to use fictional accounts in film and literature to put a more human face on the subjects being studied. Two films, Bread and Roses and El Norte, are used in this way to enhance or add another dimension to studies of the labor experience of Latino immigrants in the United States. The films are looked at through various sociological theories, Assimilation, Competition, and Neo-Marxist. The author concludes that Neo-Marxist theory best …

Fishing For Animal Rights In "The Cove": A Holistic Approach To Animal Advocacy Documentaries, Carrie Freeman

Carrie P Freeman

The Oscar-winning 2009 documentary "The Cove" serves as a thrilling and poignant advocacy tool promoting activism to save free-roaming dolphins off the coast of Japan from kidnapping, enslavement in marine parks, and slaughter for meat. This essay evaluates the ethical and social justice implications of The Cove not just for dolphins but for the animal rights movement as a whole, particularly in terms of how it could challenge the ethicality of humans killing any nonhuman animals for food. Strategic media recommendations are made for how animal protection advocates could better deconstruct the human/animal dualism that is at the root of …

“El Resto, Los Insectos" (What Remains: The Insects), Andrés Henao Castro, Juan Henao Castro

Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro

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Postcards From The Edge V: Film Studies [Presentation File], Nedda Ahmed

Nedda H Ahmed

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Who’S Steering The Mothership?: The Role Of The Fanboy Auteur In Transmedia Storytelling, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

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Flux, For Flute, Multi-Percussion, And Electronics, Bruno Louchourn

Bruno Louchouarn

In Flux I sought to explore the shift of meaning between the clear denotation of the spoken words and their transformation into “music.” The process moves from the indexical nature of words to the corporeality of speech. The players embody that performative aspect of music-speech. This piece was conceived in layers generating each other centrifugally: “Flux,” the short poem by Carl Sandburg, has the alliterative simplicity needed for semantic and formal sonic manipulations. The 15 second reading is actually the seed from which everything is derived. The motives in the electronic layer are generated form the pitches and rhythm of …

Civil Rights, Labor, And Sexual Politics On Screen In Nothing But A Man (1964), Judith Smith

Judith E. Smith

The independently made 1964 film Nothing But a Man is one of a handful of films whose production coincided with new civil rights insurgency and benefited from activists' input. Commonly listed in 1970s surveys of black film, the film lacks sustained critical attention in film studies or in-depth historical analysis given its significance as a landmark text of the 1960s. Documentary-like, but not a documentary, it offers a complex representation of black life, but it was scripted, directed, and filmed by two white men, Michael Roemer and Robert Young. This essay argues that the film's unusual attention to labor and …

Postcards From The Edge V: Film Studies [Handout File], Nedda Ahmed

Nedda H Ahmed

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Music For Films, Tv, Commercial, Bruno Louchourn

Bruno Louchouarn

Music for film, TV, and commercials. Titles include: Tango Flush, The Novice, Cover Up (Dolph Lungren), Latin, Surf Orpheus, Total Recall, 100 Centre Streetm Black Dog.

Retour, For Piano, Video And Electronics, Bruno Louchourn

Bruno Louchouarn

A return—but also a reversal (of fortune)—ReTouR stems from an inquiry into the narrative shape of love gained and lost, mediated and articulated by music. The myth of Orpheus is a archetype of such a narrative. In itself the myth has a symmetrical structure: growing love interrupted by the death of Eurydice, followed by Orpheus’ descent to Hades, his stay there and intense negotiation with the powers that be; his ascent back toward light with his love regained, only to loose her again forever. The piece’s shape and structure—a quasi palindrome—explore the abstract narrative of loss in the liminal and …

Arc-Tension, For Clarinet And Piano, Bruno Louchourn

Bruno Louchouarn

This piece is part of a cycle on the phenomenology and poetics of spaces and explores the idea of a linear space. In French “arc” means both “bow” and “arch.” In both these artifacts there is a sense of contained tension and energy, even in their static state. This particular contrast, present in the keystone—holding the arch together—and in the taut bow string, has prompted me to explore this kind of tension musically. There is a sense of restrained movement in the constant interaction between fast figuration and slow pulse, flow and interrupting silence. Like the bow, high strung but …

Almodóvar On The Verge Of Cocteau's "La Voix Humaine", Linda Willem

Linda M. Willem

Jean Cocteau's one-act play, La Voix humaine [The Human Voice], consists entirely of a monologue by a woman engaged in a final phone conversation with her lover. Alone in her room, she desperately clings to the telephone as her only link to the man who has left her for someone else. Although this agonizing portrait of abandonment and despair bears little resemblance to Almodóvar's multi-charactered comedic romp through the streets of Madrid in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios [Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown], Cocteau's play has been named as the source of inspiration for …

Response 2 To 'Loneliness' By Elizabeth Dougherty, Meri Faulkner, And Morgan Robinson, Thomas Burkdall

Thomas Burkdall

No abstract provided.

Interview With Rob Gibbs, Director Of Air Mater From Pixar Canada, James Plath

James Plath

The Philosophical Act Of Seeing With One’S Own Eyes: The Silent Films Of Stan Brakhage, James Magrini

James M Magrini

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Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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Selected And Annotated Bibliography Of German-Canadian Literature And Criticism, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Ross

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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Bibliography For Work In Holocaust Studies, Agata Lisiak, Louise Vasvári, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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The Study Of Literature And Culture Online (Theory And Application), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.