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Because I Am Not Here, Selected Second Life-Based Art Case Studies. Subjectivity, Autoempathy And Virtual World Aesthetics, Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez
Because I Am Not Here, Selected Second Life-Based Art Case Studies. Subjectivity, Autoempathy And Virtual World Aesthetics, Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Second Life is a virtual world accessible through the Internet in which users create objects and spaces, and interact socially through 3D avatars. Certain artists use the platform as a medium for art creation, using the aesthetic, spatial, temporal and technological features of SL as raw material. Code and scripts applied to animate and manipulate objects, avatars and spaces are important in this sense. These artists, their avatars and artwork in SL are at the centre of my research questions: what does virtual existence mean and what is its purpose when stemming from aesthetic exchange in SL?
Through a qualitative …
A Dangerous Professor Loses A Friendship, Michael C. Vocino
A Dangerous Professor Loses A Friendship, Michael C. Vocino
michael c vocino
A brief essay/short story based on the author's experience as a gay university professor and how creative teaching methods ended one of his vital friendships.
Shaping Identity: Male And Female Interactions In Cinema, Jonette Lauren Lagamba
Shaping Identity: Male And Female Interactions In Cinema, Jonette Lauren Lagamba
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
Since the inception of cinema, women have been portrayed with the typical identities of emotionally and physically weak characters; this portrayal led to their subsequent dependence on men. Men were usually the protagonists and/or the heroes, following their archetypal journey. Thus, women's position in early cinema was to exemplify what men were not, placing the former in the diminutive position of the Other. One may conclude that men were often defined by what women lacked, and the women were defined by their relationships with these heroic men. As time progressed in the history of cinema, women's images retained part …
Translation And Distortion Of Linguistic Identities In Sinophone Cinema: Diverging Images Of The ‘Other, Henry Leperlier
Translation And Distortion Of Linguistic Identities In Sinophone Cinema: Diverging Images Of The ‘Other, Henry Leperlier
Books/Book Chapters
In today’s globalized market, Asian films are being increasingly exported; often,
multilingual movies deal with more complex societal issues and catch the interest of
a foreign audience interested in having an open door, one might say multiple doors,
into another society. The nearly complete lack of a system enabling such an audience
to be made aware of the complex multilingual and multilingual characters in such
movies ends up providing a distorted and simplified view of Chinese, Taiwanese,
Hong Kong and Singaporean societies as reflected in its cinemas.
This chapter examines all the resulting issues and cultural misunderstandings that can occur …