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Beyond binaries: Globalization, the Korean film industry, and Hollywood hegemony
(2007)
The Korean film industry has undergone a dramatic change in the past decade. While it had seemed to be almost dead amid the onslaught of Hollywood films for most of the 1990s, since the late 1990s the Korean film industry ...
Becoming American in Sam Shepard's West and Asian American West
(2007)
This dissertation searches for meanings of becoming American through comparative studies of the American West as a psychological locus for establishing American identity in Sam Shepard's plays and films, and several Asian ...
Sites of resistance: A cross-cultural study of late twentieth-century counterhegemonic theatrical and performance strategies
(2007)
In this cross-cultural study, the author focuses on sites that have historically served as staging grounds for concentrating, displaying and/or broadcasting power--the household, the prison, and the detention and interrogation ...
Tension and modernity: Expressions of cultural anxiety in images of Weimar femininity
(2007)
The Weimar Republic, created after the First World War, was a society that experienced a great deal of upheaval socially, politically and economically. My graduate thesis will focus on this period of Germany's history and ...
Urban Scars
(2007)
Many of the various events and stories that have occurred in the past are often not represented in the environment. In trying to create a remembrance for a specific event or history, certain stories and perspectives get ...
Early modern, multicultural England: Literature and immigration in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
(2007)
This dissertation challenges recent scholarship on the construction of Englishness and early modern national identity by examining the ways in which early modern writers addressed the issue of immigration from the continent ...
Art therapy intervention with "at-risk" adolescent boys: Effects on self-image and perceptions of loss
(2007)
The purpose of this study is to gain a clearer understanding of the effects that art therapy treatment has on perceptions of loss and self-image with a population of "at-risk" adolescent males. This investigation was carried ...
Assimilation as an impact of globalization: A comparative study of women's magazines in Singapore and the United States
(2008)
This study primarily looks at women's magazines, examines the trends in readership and reasons for changes in content, and compares the magazine industry of Singapore and the U.S. Research for this paper was conducted ...
Assessing the utility of integrating perceived barrier and response cost measures into the Extended Parallel Process Model
(2008)
The purpose of this study is to test the utility of expanding upon the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM)(Witte, 1992), a theory developed and widely utilized by communication scientists studying fear appeals, which ...
Allotropic Systems: Thermo-sensitive reconfigurable molds
(2008)
Allotropy in the natural world occurs with variation within the arrangement of the atoms within a specific element. The differing structural arrangements make up different materials, such as the element carbon that produces ...