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Selling The Modern Day Tribe: The Commodification Of Rave Culture, Duncan Martin Barnes
Selling The Modern Day Tribe: The Commodification Of Rave Culture, Duncan Martin Barnes
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis examines youth and rave culture from the late 1980s to the present. It considers the history as well as the global and local impact of rave. I provide a visual ethnographic study from 1999-2014, based on my work as a commercial photographer of the Perth, Western Australian scene. While critically reflecting on existing subcultural research this thesis adds another dimension – the effect that global corporations have had in reshaping subcultural practices, specifically the commodification of rave culture in the form of the contemporary electronic dance festival.
The research incorporates both qualitative and quantitative data to interrogate media …
The Photographic Other: Paradox In The Cathexis Of Longing, Alex Cilla Bradley
The Photographic Other: Paradox In The Cathexis Of Longing, Alex Cilla Bradley
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
A photographic and written examination of paradox in relation to the photograph
This research aims to illuminate the relationship between paradox and photography, elaborated via Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject. Paradox is considered in relation to photography in terms of repeated and unresolved debates about the status of the photograph as either an ‘index of reality’ (Bate, 2004, p. 1) or as a sign. The significance of this research lies in its re-motivation of abjection in terms of paradox, not in order to resolve such debates but, rather, to illuminate the importance of such unresolved contradictions in terms of …