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Confirmation Bias: Staged Storytelling in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings.
(2015)
Many scholars have looked at the dramatic elements of trials. But no scholar has looked at the dramatic elements of Supreme Court Confirmation hearings, even though many hearings in recent years--most notably the hearings ...
Changing the Core: Redefining Gaming Culture from a Female-Centered Perspective.
(2016)
In the mid-2000s, the spread of casual, social, and mobile games led researchers, journalists, and players to believe that video gaming was opening up to previously marginalized audiences, especially women. At the same ...
Behind Immaterial and Material Divides: East German Photography, 1949-1989.
(2016)
In 1950, Walter Ulbricht declared socialist realism as the official artistic method in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Using the implementation of this method in the East German art world as a starting point, this ...
The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Perception by Five to Seven Year Old Children.
(2014)
Sixty-six English-speaking children in Philadelphia aged 5;0-7;0 years were assessed on their meta-linguistic awareness of regional accent and its socio-indices, as well as the amounts of exposure they had to regional ...
Invisible Geographies: Oil, Time, and Ecology in Venezuelan Cultural Production.
(2016)
Despite its political and economic significance in Venezuela, cultural critics have often argued that oil has remained absent in the country’s cultural production. Invisible Geographies disputes the idea of oil’s cultural ...
The Sonic Dimension as Dramatic Driver in 21st-Century Pop Music.
(2016)
This dissertation proposes a methodology for analysis of 21st-century pop music, with a particular focus on songs released between 2011 and early 2016. One of the primary factors that distinguish this music from most other ...
Southern Asia Minor and Northwest Syria at the End of Antiquity: A View from the Countryside.
(2014)
This dissertation examines the changes in Graeco-Roman life that mark the end of antiquity in southern Asia Minor and northwest Syria using the archaeology of the countryside. By 700 CE, the eastern Roman empire had changed ...
The Turning Wheel of Hostility: The E.T.A. in Literature and Film in Spain Since the 1970s.
(2015)
Through an analysis of the terrorist subject, focused on the Basque separatist organization known as the E.T.A (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, 1959-2011), this dissertation demonstrates that a paradigm of war continues to structure ...
Moving Femininities: Queer Critique and Transnational Arab Culture.
(2015)
Moving Femininities focuses on three diverse and eminent figures of Arab femininity: the Golden Era Egyptian belly dancer Samia Gamal (1924-1994), the pan-Arab storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade, and ...
The Black Woman That Media Built: Content Creation, Interpretation, and the Making of the Black Female Self.
(2015)
This study is a qualitative, womanist inquiry into the ways that black women engage media texts through their interpretive work and through content creation. The study explores the media landscape, the interconnected domain ...