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School of the Arts Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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In Search of the Audience - Forty Years of German Public Television and Its Audience Driven Commercialization
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-11)The long established dichotomy between public and commercial television into elite and mass programming, or commercial and public stations, has been changing in recent years. The divide is narrowing and many public stations, ... -
Together Let Our Hearts Agree
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-30)From my earliest memories I have used drawing as a way to deepen my experiences of the things I encountered: movie monsters, comic book heroes, baseball and church. In time this practice became a ritual, and the resulting ... -
Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-15)Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude is an MFA Thesis Exhibition comprised of small-scale paintings of rural scenes that examine the way memory and perception is used in experiencing the landscape. By incorporating ... -
Agency Unrealized: Women Students in Film Production Classes
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-22)Abstract This study looks at the issue of agency in women undergraduate students enrolled in film production classes at the University of Kansas during the Spring Semester 2010. Women undergraduates students enrolled in ... -
Garden of the Forebearer
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-27)Ideas about life and death have been a major source for my work since the death of my father. His loss made me question my role in life and the role of a god-creator. I chose to make a garden to set up circumstances for ... -
Alone With the Alone
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)This dissertation examines the artistic creative process and it's relationship with esoteric spiritual and religious beliefs and practices. Pulling from traditional, hermetic, and occult sources, I have developed an ... -
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle: Maternal Gender Subversion in American Suffrage Drama
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)This thesis aims to shed light on the maternal role and its use in subverting feminine gender association. The maternal has always been an important facet in the construction of gender, specifically that of the feminine. ... -
"Bridging the Musical and Scriptural Generation Gap": The Jesus People Movement and Jesus Christ Superstar
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)Jesus Christ Superstar, a "rock opera" written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and first staged in 1971, enjoyed a significant amount of popularity in the United States at the end of the "long sixties" era. However, ... -
Charting The Self
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-27)Charting the Self can be understood as a process of manifesting revelations of existence through the metaphor of large scale figurative sculpture. By focusing on three ways I understand the human experience I have developed ... -
The Green Sheet and Opposition to American Motion Picture Classification in the 1960s
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-19)The Green Sheet was a bulletin created by the Film Estimate Board of National Organizations, and featured the composite movie ratings of its ten member organizations, largely Protestant and represented by women. Between ... -
Metamorphosis Metaphora
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)Plants have become the focus of my artwork as a way to explain a state of being. Growing up in a highly industrialized area that lacks vegetation and scenery, I became captivated by the ephemeral nature of plant life. Using ... -
The Political economy of the Film Industry in Tanzania: From Socialism to an Open Market economy, 1961-2010
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-15)This study examines the film industry in Tanzania from the 1960s to 2010 and assesses how government policies, legislation, and cultural institutions have impacted filmmaking in Tanzania. By employing a critical political ... -
Machine For Grinding Fog
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-30)Machine For Grinding Fog, an exhibition of stop motion animated films, revolves around three primary concerns: relationships, psychological or subjective reality, and relativity. Rooted within concerns of faith, personal ... -
Prison Songs
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-30)Prison Songs is an installation of drawings and videos portraying the artist's struggle in reassessing the value of innate knowledge and cultured thinking. Simple line drawings from the artist's childhood are combined with ... -
A Sense of Place
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-29)The concept of "place" is a mental construction that we, as humans, create to give importance to a location. The experience of authentic human attachment to an environment is a phenomenon all people can relate to. Through ... -
Warner Bros. Forgotten Men: Representations of Shifting Masculinities in 1930s Hollywood
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-19)This dissertation examines the stardom, characters, and and shifting nature of the styles of masculinities enacted by Paul Muni, George Brent, Dick Powell, and Errol Flynn's characters in the films produced during their ... -
The Revenger's Tragedy
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)Thomas Middleton's 1609 satiric tragedy The Revenger's Tragedy, as the title suggests, deals with revenge, as well as wider themes including material consumption, institutional corruption, and defining characteristics of ... -
Reading for the Soul in Stanislavski's <italic>The Work of the Actor on Him/Herself</italic>: Orthodox Mysticism, Mainstream Occultism, Psychology and the System in the Russian Silver Age
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-30)Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavski's system of actor training has become a common foundation for modern approaches to acting through much of the world. This study explores Stanislavski's writings within the context of ... -
Cinematic "Pigness": A Discourse Analysis of Pigs in Motion Pictures
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-30)The representations of "others" in film have been contentious since filmmaking began. Fraught with misrepresentations, cinema has been held responsible, and occasionally credited, for influencing cultural practices and ... -
Waves
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-29)Waves is the supporting document to the Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition of the same title. Exhibited March 7-12 2010 in the Art and Design Gallery at the University of Kansas, Waves was comprised of a series of mixed ...
