American Studies Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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How Japanese is Wii? The Reception and Localization of Japanese Video Games in America
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-12)With control over both store shelves and consumers' consciousness, Japanese video games have dominated the U.S. and global game markets over the past two decades and continue to prosper today. This thesis positions Japanese ... -
"One Hundred Per Cent American": Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-14)"'One Hundred Per Cent American': Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s," provides a sociohistorical analysis of baseball and social attitudes and ideologies of the pre- and post-World War I ... -
Transnational Cultural Transactions: Distributing American Teen-girl films in France, 1986-2006
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)This dissertation analyzes the cultural translation performed by French film distributors - whom I call transcultural intermediaries - in the process of marketing Hollywood teen-girl films, perceived in France as a uniquely ... -
Florence Knoll, Design and the Modern American Office Workplace
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Introduction In every human community, certain built forms are physical expressions of ways in which people think about their lives together. These forms express beliefs that people share about the world around them; what ... -
Seek Science, Meet Jesus: KU Chinese Student's Experience With Local Christian Influence
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)In "Seek Science, Meet Jesus," I examine how Chinese students at the University of Kansas in Lawrence interact with local Christians and respond to conversion forces imposed by local evangelical churches. Being atheistic ... -
"On Behalf of my Comrades": Transnational Private Memories of German Prisoners of War in U.S. Captivity
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)On May 8, 1945 eleven to twelve million Germans experienced the fall of National Socialist Germany while in Allied captivity; four million German soldiers experienced it as captives of the United States. These Germans not ... -
Yoko Ono: Transnational Artist in a World of Stickiness
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)This thesis examines Yoko Ono and her work in relation to Fluxus from 1958 to 1964. Using theories of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and performance to analyze discourse, I argue that Ono's hybrid Japanese and American ... -
Intimate Emptiness: The Flint Hills Wind Turbine Controversy
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)ABSTRACT Howard Graham, Master of Arts American Studies, July 2008 University of Kansas This study examines the political and social controversy surrounding the proposed introduction of industrial scale wind turbines, ... -
Suburban Place? Constructing Place in Overland Park, Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)Do suburbs like Overland Park, Kansas possess a "sense of place?" This thesis not only attempts to transcend the misrepresentations of suburbs as "placelessness," it also attempts to examine suburbs as places, thus examining ... -
Feminism, Socialism, and Pragmatism in the Life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887-1941
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)This thesis is an important intellectual, political, and cultural biography of Marcet Haldeman-Julius. Marcet's life demonstrates the important intersections between class, gender, politics, and individual agency that ... -
'Recommended by Duncan Hines': Automobility, Authority, and American Gastronomy
(University of Kansas, 2008-06-09)How did Duncan Hines become an authority on roadside dining? What role did he have in the consumption of food and the use of automobiles? What were the messages he pronounced to his audiences? In "'Recommended by Duncan ... -
Plunging Into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: The Life and Art of Aaron Douglas
(University of Kansas, 2008-06-18)Visual artist Aaron Douglas is widely recognized as an important figure in African American art history. Recent journal articles, exhibitions and exhibition catalogs, and one monograph have begun to catalog his work and ...