Arts, School of the: Recent submissions
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Titus Andronicus: The Material Effects of Sexual Assault and Trauma as Represented Through Design
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus was written between 1588 and 1596. The revenge play focuses on the cycle of retaliation between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths. While the themes of Roman Militaristic ... -
Underwater Forest
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)My Master of Fine Art thesis project, The Underwater Forest, is intended to remind people of the beauty of nature and the importance of taking care of our ecosystems. It comes from my own imagination of a utopian universe, ... -
Embodied Spectatorship: Phenomenological Turn in Contemporary Film Theory
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Since the early 1990s, film theorists have been particularly interested in the studies of film experience and relations between viewers and films. In contrast to the classical and post-1960s film studies of spectatorship, ... -
Everything Always-Already Ends
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This project is an examination of the roles that visual technologies and history play in the contemporary landscape image. Specifically, the work focuses on using the failures of production and imaging to produce an analogue ... -
For One, In A Shared Room
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)For One, In A Shared Room is a thesis exhibition of works on paper, sculpture, video and installation visualizing the site and form of intimacy. The works collectively describe intimacy in context to the ordinary and how ... -
Historical trends in children’s entertainment as they relate to children’s television
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Virtual realities: The use of violent video games in U.S. military recruitment and treatment of mental disability caused by war
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2016)This article critically analyzes the U.S. military's contradictory use of violent video gaming technologies for recruiting young gamers to the military, training soldiers for combat, and clinically treating soldiers for ... -
Student Leadership in a Library-Initiated Experiential Learning Project
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017)This chapter discusses aspects of Undergraduates Speak: Our Rights and Access, a library-initiated and student-led pilot project aimed at advancing educational initiatives in the realm of scholarly communication. The project ... -
Holmes in London, 1988
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Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)“Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology” re-examines archival evidence relevant to three of the most destructive and deadly fires in American theatre history: Richmond, Virginia in 1811, Brooklyn, ... -
Do These Jeans Make Me Look Fat? Adolescent Eating Disordered Behaviors and Body Image Dissatisfaction as Examined in Linda Daugherty's Eat (It's Not About Food)
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Western culture maintains an intense obsession with body image. The sheer volume of diet and performance-enhancing products, as well as weight loss and exercise plans; prove dizzying in an intensely mediated culture. ... -
Remembering What We Lost: Ecomemory, Visual Ecomedia, and the Discourse of Environmental Concern
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)In this study I examine the evolving discourse of environmental concerns within visual ecological media that utilizes what I define as ecological memory—ecomemory. As part of this examination, I analyze the forms ecological ... -
Asynchronous voice and body \'1 primary stress ɛ̀ \ef\`^ : voiceless @ 145-165 hz. ɛ̌ \ef\v^ -- PLOSIVE!
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)A live, interactive, new media, sound performance, the piece addresses issues of identity, intimacy, and the technologically mediated body. In this work, the performer struggles to speak as computers and other communication ... -
Color Machine
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Color Machine is a continued exploration of the manipulation and perception of color. By paying homage to modernist paintings, I attempt to question whether a quilt can transcend its function and become a field of color ... -
Square Halos: A Thesis
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The work of Richard W. James explores themes of personal narrative creation and cognitive dissonance as affected by the influences of culture and religion. In first person narrative, this thesis paper discusses the body ... -
Rushing Towards Death: Alienation and Doom in the 1940s American Crime Film
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)While the criminals found in classic American crime films take many forms, from frontier outlaws to big city gangsters, they all serve, on some level, as surrogates for audiences’ darker impulses and desires. And, while ... -
The Acoustic Screen: The Dynamics of the Female Look and Voice in Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin
(Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2016)Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the representation of women in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has been one of the main concerns of Iranian officials. This concern caused the enforcement of cinematic restrictions ... -
Embracing the "Foggy Place" of Theatre History: The Chautauqua/Colloquia Model of Public Scholarship as Performance
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-09)In her December 2013 Slate polemic “The End of the College Essay: An Essay,” Rebecca Schuman calls for the end of assigning and grading papers in required courses. Since “the baccalaureate is the new high-school diploma” ... -
A Collaborative Disability Studies-based Undergraduate Art Project at Two Universities
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2015)In this manuscript, we discuss research findings from a collaborative visual arts curricular unit on ableism, which we implemented in non-Disability Studies undergraduate courses at two universities during the 2012-2013 ... -
Lucem Ferre
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Lucem Ferre, a Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition was influenced by an interpretation of bioluminescence, a chemical process in which a living organism catalyzes and releases light from within; this process is also ...