Arts, School of the: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Bucket Brigade: ATHE President’s Address, 2013
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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 ... -
The Spatial Self: Location-Based Identity Performance on Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2014-04-09)As a growing number of social media platforms now include location information from their users, researchers are confronted with new online representations of individuals, social networks, and the places they inhabit. To ... -
Calling all “Fiberhoods”: Google Fiber and the Politics of Visibility
(SAGE Publications, 2014)This essay examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s “Fiber for Communities” project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular ... -
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 -
An Experiment with Digital Lighting in Adding Machine: A Musical
(United States Institute for Theatre Technology, 2014) -
Good and evil as represented in Massinger’s plays
(University of Kansas, 1915) -
"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 ... -
Iranian Women, Iranian Cinema: Negotiating with Ideology and Tradition
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 2015-04-01)Throughout the ruptures of Iran’s history, Iranian women have been at the core of any social and political changes and challenges. In this historical context, Iranian women’s body, sexuality, and individuality have been ... -
Burman's Ode to El Once Neighborhood
(Brandeis University Press, 2011-01-01)In the mid-1990s, young directors such as Daniel Burman began making films about ethnic identities and multiple subjectivities in Argentina. Because these filmmakers relied more on personal stories than on overtly political ... -
Voices from the Small Cinemas: Beyond “the Remaining Countries”
(Intellect Press, 2012-11)This introduction to a special volume dedicated to translations of recent writings from underexamined cinematic traditions in Latin America (such as Bolivian, Cuba, Colombia, Peru and Puerto Rico) argues for the amplification ... -
Interviewing Children after Performances
(Trentham, 2012-03)Klein charts the ways in which she has used interviews to engage with children's responses to TYA performances, thus providing a methodology for researchers in reception studies. -
Some British Aesthetic Theories From Shaftesbury Through Alison
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The Semiotics of Action Design
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996-09)