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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Captivating a country with her curves: Examining the importance of Carmen Miranda's iconography in creating national identities
(2008)
Carmen Miranda overcame economic obstacles to become the most notable Latin American entertainer in the Americas during the 1930s through the 1950s. This thesis discusses the importance of mainstream popular culture with ...
Images of the other, narratives of the self: Representations of Venezuela in the U.S. printed press 1982--2002
(2008)
This dissertation addresses the question of how values pertaining to a particular culture, in this case U.S. culture, both inform and determine the kind of representations that are found in news about a foreign country, ...
Essays on information security practices in organizations
(2008)
Organizational employee information security behaviors have received attention in its potential role in cyber security. Recently, practitioners and academics alike have emphasized the need to evaluate end-user computer ...
Networks and stems in the Buffalo-Niagara region
(2008)
Statement of issue/problem . Large suburban territories have become almost impossible to describe with traditional architectural means. The existing hierarchy of communities, towns, districts, open space and agricultural ...
Safety in numbers and power in determining strategy evolution in the game of Chicken
(2007)
Game theory has been used in computer simulations to model bargaining and conflict behavior. The game of Chicken, in particular, recognizes the need for a cooperative collusive strategy for the success of the competitors. ...