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School of the Arts Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Scenography for Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)This thesis deals with the scenography for Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. The themes of the play are explored through the costume, scenic, and lighting design. Through ... -
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Obscured by Language
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)Tom Stoppard's 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead focuses on two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. However, in Stoppard's re-telling, language is the focus because nothing much happens; the action ... -
Daydreams of a Daydreamer
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-29)"What is most truly human about man, what is perhaps his greatest gift derived from evolution and perhaps his greatest resource in his mastery of the environment and of himself, is his capacity for fantasy." -Jerome Singer ... -
Ardent Notions: a contemporary Everywoman's essence examined
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-29)Ardent Notions is an installation of objects that form a personal narrative expressing my points of origin, current passions and future hopes. I employ self-specific imagery referencing family, home and partnership to ... -
Shady Ladies: Sister Acts, Popular Performance, and the Subversion of American Identity
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)"Shady Ladies: Sister Acts, Popular Performance, and the Subversion of American Identity" is a project with two major components. First, it is a historical project based on original archival research conducted at the ... -
IDENTITIES OF DISPLACEMENT: WOMEN, HOME, AND TRANSNATIONAL VISUAL CULTURE
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-22)This dissertation explores how gender and globalization interweave in visual culture from a transnational feminist perspective, aiming to challenge the neoliberal, gendered discourses of globalization and to offer an ... -
POWERFUL AND POWERLESS: POWER RELATIONS IN SATYAJIT RAY'S FILMS
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-17)Scholars have discussed Indian film director, Satyajit Ray's films in a myriad of ways. However, there is paucity of literature that examines Ray's two films, Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen (Adventures of Goopy and Bagha 1968) ... -
Miss Conceptualizing the Dream
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-09)The Master's of Fine Arts exhibit by Sarah Kephart, Miss Conceptualizing the Dreamilluminates the strength of the American dream by examining our cultural ideals of happiness, equality, and success. The iconographic power ... -
Re-Inventing Memory And Reforming Performances: A Genealogy Of Panic Theatre In Zimbabwe
(University of Kansas, 2009-09-23)This dissertation examines the emerging aesthetics of panic theatre and shows how it uses memory and nostalgia to communicate with its hoped-for-but-often-absent audience. Using a theoretical approach that is informed by ... -
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S BOLLYWOOD DREAM
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-30)"A Midsummer's Night Bollywood Dream" An Indian Theatrical interpretation Of A Western Classic Author: Madison Elizabeth Spencer The Indian film industry makes as many if not more films than any other country in the world. ... -
A Cultural Interpretation of the South Korean Independent Cinema Movement, 1975-2004
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-14)A Cultural Interpretation of the South Korean Independent Cinema Movement, 1975-2004 examines the origin and development of the independent cinema movement in South Korea. The independent cinema movement refers to the ... -
Mouthful Of Silence
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-02)Mouthful Of Silence is an MFA Thesis Exhibition comprised of mixed media drawings, paintings and an installation. The work in the exhibition examines the ideas of home and cultural belonging through the lens of the Jewish ... -
Fecunding
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-02)This essay explains the development of the painting series titled Fecunding. It explains how these works were influenced by a belief in the value of diversity seeded in my Mexican-American background. A personal quest for ... -
Support Systems
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)Support Systems is a multimedia art installation that addresses shifting personal boundaries in contemporary America and functions as a dialogue between the external battles we must face and the internal landscape we need ... -
The Politics of Mexican Documentary Distribution: Three Case Studies, 1988-2006
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-14)This dissertation examines the politics involved in the distribution of Mexican documentaries during the 1988-2006 period, as a way to pinpoint the factors shaping the circulation of these films. The research explores ... -
Audience Response & Disability Representation in Four Film and Television Dramas: A Qualitative Audience Study
(University of Kansas, 2008-03-20)This dissertation examines the audiovisual representation of physical disability in a group of films produced for theatrical and television distribution. The films under study are: Prelude to Happiness (USA, 1974), Passion ... -
Seeing Stars: Female Film Stars and Female Audiences in Post-Colonial Korea
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-29)This dissertation examines the complex relationships between Korean cinema's construction of femininity and female audiences' interpretation of such representations while problematizing the master narratives of Western ... -
MACHINAL: SILENCE, STAGE DIRECTIONS AND SOPHIE TREADWELL
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-29)This thesis explores the legacy of silence that surrounds Sophie Treadwell and her work. It does so by investigating the abundant and poetic stage directions she provides within her play "Machinal". -
Embodiment
(University of Kansas, 2008-04-23)"Embodiment" is a MFA Thesis Exhibition made up of several mixed media objects fashioned from fabric, wool felt, and domestic tools. By combining carefully chosen materials to reference the human form and employing humor ... -
Writing Home: The Post Colonial Dialogue of Athol Fugard and August Wilson
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)ABSTRACT Paul Prece, Ph.D Department of Theatre and Film, April, 2008 University of Kansas Athol Fugard and August Wilson are two of the most prolific, respected, and artistically and commercially successful playwrights ...
