Browsing by Department "Performance Studies"

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    • Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media 
      Earhart, Amy; Ives, Maura; Burkart, Patrick; Ezell, Margaret; Harner, James; Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Vieira de Castro, Filipe; Morris, Jeff; Dox, Donnalee; Urbina, Eduardo; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Carpenter, B. Stephen II; Davis, Trina J.; Yadav, Manjit; Herbert, Bruce; Akleman, Ergun; Furuta, Richard; Shipman, Frank; Vedlitz, Arnold (2009)
      We propose the creation of a Center for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture (formerly titled Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media). The Center will address two related grand challenges: the need to investigate ...
    • The Afro-Diasporic Imagining of African Power, Identity, and Subjection Through Dress 
      Adinku, Grace U (2020-07-23)
      This thesis is a critically interrogation of the film Black Panther through the lenses of costume and the concept of Afrofuturism. Previous research has largely focused on the thematic structure and analysis of the content ...
    • Through the Lens of Grunge: Distortion of Subcultures in Gentrified Seattle 
      Kempf, Brandon Gregory (2019-04-12)
      This thesis examines the effects of gentrification on subcultures in Seattle using grunge as an interpretive lens. Distortion is theorized as both an artistic/aesthetic practice and a translator of social/subcultural ...
    • To The Moon and Back: Cultural Consequences of George Melies’ Trip to the Moon (1902) 
      Parker, Olivia Grace
      Georges Méliès’ 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) has endured as a fascination of popular culture and media. Considered one of the first narrative films, science fiction films, and to apply several ...
    • Toko Atolia: An Anlo-Ewe Cultural Performance of Retributive Justice 
      Sallah, Edudzi David (2020-04-19)
      Most societies throughout history have instituted ways of dealing with criminals, including the penalty of death. How such a penalty is carried out or wherever it ought to be carried out at all is an ongoing discourse. My ...
    • The Voice of Ukraine: Mediating Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism 
      Tanska, Marianna (2019-04-18)
      Popular culture and content of TV broadcasts are strongly related to national identity, and local audiences expectations and tastes. Franchised TV talent shows, such as The Voice, are a significant part of the global TV ...
    • Volunteering as Performance: The Dynamic between Self-Interest and Selflessness within the Volunteer Industry 
      Bernstein, Joshua D (2013-04-26)
      This thesis investigates volunteering as performance. In exploring this topic I discuss a dynamic between self-interest and selflessness in the observable performance of service through the social mechanisms of volunteerism. ...
    • "What Was the War Like?" Experiencing Surrender; Talking with Josh Fox 
      Ball, James R. III; Bell, Gelsey (TDR: The Drama Review, 2012)
      International WOW Company's 'Surrender' combines elements of avantgarde performance, dramatic karaoke, and audience participation to create an immersive portrait of urban combat and communicate the challenges soldiers face ...
    • What's in a Construct? Perceptions of African Americans in Houston's Nigerian Central 
      Adeyemo, Breigha Michelle (2018-08-21)
      Black identity is often homogenized in the United States, thereby leaving its subgroups often ignored and disenfranchised. This study explores the relationship between Yoruba Nigerians and African Americans in the southwest ...
    • Women, Work and the Performing Arts in Ghana 
      Sowah, Benedicta Naa Adjeley (2020-07-23)
      My thesis addresses women and work with a focus on the performing arts. Placing my discussion under W.E.B. DuBois’s theoretical framework of “double consciousness”, I address the attitudes that exist in Ghanaian society ...
    • "World-Class" Entertainment: Producing Cosmopolitan Cultural Capital 
      Melton, Elizabeth Michael (2013-04-11)
      This thesis is a multi-sited survey providing insight into integral performing arts institutions and how they engage in the distribution of cosmopolitan cultural capital to middlebrow audiences. It additionally provides a ...