School of the Arts Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Living Shakespeare at the Lansing Correctional Facility, Kansas: Rehabilitation and Re-creation in Action
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Living Shakespeare is an all-male, all-inmate theatre program offered under the auspices of Arts in Prison at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas. It was founded by Scott L. Cox in September 2011 and has ... -
Goo-Witching: Hydromancy
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Abstract: Goo-Witching: Hydromancy is a culmination of searching for moments of magick, manifesting child-like imagination to rediscover the world, and experimenting with strange materials and creatures that fill the soul ... -
MEN, MEMORY, AND MEMORIAL: VIETNAM VETERAN THEATRICAL NARRATIVES
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation is a study of Vietnam War veteran narratives and how they are presented on stage. I argue that these plays are a form of commemoration of the Vietnam War and those who fought in it. I examine three plays: ... -
Hard to Say
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Abstract Hard to Say is an installation comprised of four artist’s books that are displayed in a fabricated living room environment that includes wood laminate floors, comfortable chairs, a coffee table, a rug, end tables, ... -
From El Mariachi to El Rey: Robert Rodriguez and the Transformation of a Microbudget Filmmaker into a Latino Media Mogul
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Studies based on a director often follow a common model, generally resorting to an overview of that director’s films and examining shared aesthetic qualities and themes. This sort of study was grounded in the auteur ... -
Hairball
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Hairball is a metaphor for life as an accumulation of things, good and bad, over time: years, people, ambitions, loves, fears, and cells. Whereas time is typically thought of as linear, in truth it winds in many directions ... -
Enlarged to Show Texture
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Enlarged to Show Texture is an exhibition that utilizes video, sound, installation, and print media to activate the viewer’s senses as a means to investigate the surface and depth of an idealistic image. This work ... -
Non+Precious
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Non+Precious, a Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, consists of five tables with assorted sets of jewelry arranged on the top and a suspended necklace centered above each. The sets of jewelry contain rings, bracelets, ... -
blaze
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Transformative visual cypher-landscapes navigated by human interaction. My work is a system of trails and paths meant to be followed through signals of texture, number, and color. Within the work are solutions which depict ... -
Salad Days
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Salad Days is a multimedia installation consisting of sculpture, prints, painting, and artist’s books. Viewers are transported to a period of youthful innocence as they climb up into a fort reminiscent of the childhood ... -
Building to Fall
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Abstract Building to Fall is an exploration of our experiences that establish ideas of balance, risk, and failure, testing theories about the physical and social world in which we exist. Throughout history we have encountered ... -
MassillonProud: A Performance Studies Approach to High School Football and Localized Meaning-Making
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Residents in Massillon, OH understand their relationship to the town through the lens of football. Football offers residents a narrative to which they can accede when the popularized narratives of the town fail to appropriately ... -
Top Flight
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Top Flight uses personal memoir and the ordinary experiences of everyday life as a vehicle to discuss privacy, self-awareness, learning and personal growth. The exhibit, comprised of twenty-eight large-scale drawings, took ... -
The Perfect Wife and the Evil Temptress: The Dichotomy of Penelope and Helen of Troy
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Stories about Helen of Troy and Odysseus’ wife Penelope have existed alongside each other over the centuries since Athens dominated Greek art and culture. By considering depictions of these two women in three time periods, ... -
Scenography for “Oliver! : The Musical”
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This paper is focusing on the Scenography for Lionel Bart’s musical “Oliver!”. It mainly includes the Scenic Design, Costume Design and Lighting Design. I chose this musical for my thesis because I believe it is timeless, ... -
Ultra-Sounding Maternal Subjectivity: A Feminist Reclamation of Pregnancy and Childbirth on Stage
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Maternal subjectivity, as it is formed through pregnancy and birth experiences, is avoided in theatrical depiction. While particular limitations demand that the depiction of gestation be shortened in plays, what has resulted ... -
Mothers, martyrs, wives, and whores : toward a new feminist theory of Sean O’Casey’s gender constructs
(University of Kansas, 1993)This thesis uses feminist criticism as a means of shedding new light on the Irish political, social, and cultural issues in Sean O'Casey's plays. While traditional critical analysis has often viewed the O'Casey female ... -
Life in a Jar: The Performative Efficacy of the Embodied Historical Archive
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Life in a Jar -
"I am the one who knocks!": What It Means to Be a Man in Breaking Bad
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Breaking Bad (AMC, 2008-2013) dramatizes the rise and fall of Walter White, a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher who, through a series of misfortunes and freak opportunities, is transformed into a notorious, brutal ... -
Some British Aesthetic Theories From Shaftesbury Through Alison
(University of Kansas, 1914-06-01)
