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Charania, Moon M. "Spectacular Subjects: The Violent Erotics of Imperial Visual Culture." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/54.
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The central concerns of this project are the visual constructions of feminine and feminist subjectivities, significations and semiotics of the (brown) female body, and the pleasures and power of global visual culture. I consider the primary visual fields that seek to tell the story of Pakistani women, and Muslim woman more broadly, after September 11th, 2001. Specifically, I offer detailed case studies of three visual stories: international human rights sensation Mukhtar Mai; twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan and first woman to lead a Muslim country Benazir Bhutto; and female terrorists/religious martyrs of the Red Mosque events in Islamabad, Pakistan. I locate the relevance of these visual stories on three axes − human rights, democratization and the war on terror − where each operates as an arm of, what Jasbir Paur (2007) calls, the U.S. hetero-normative nation. I also examine the structures of affect, pleasure and eroticism that are embedded in these popularized representations and narrations in the U.S. cultural context. Finally, I offer ways to reread the potential radical subjectivities or possibilities that these visual subjects and their political labor open up.
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Huffstetter, Olivia Claire. "Feminist Pedagogy, Action Research, and Social Media: TabloidArtHistory's Influence on Visual Culture Education." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1619043241765287.
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Villaplana, Ruiz Virginia. "Nuevas Violencias de género. Arte y Cultura Visual." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10721.
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La escritura de esta tesis Nuevas violencias de género, arte y cultura visual, parte de la relación entre la cultura visual y la violencia de género, evidenciando las nociones de narración, enunciación, práctica artística en las Bellas Artes y comunicación en la sociedad actual. Esta tesis implica la consideración una serie de argumentaciones sobre la construcción cultural de la violencia social. El tema que desarrolla esta investigación es la representación de las nuevas violencias de género en la práctica artística, los relatos de los medios de comunicación y la creación visual del videoarte. El período en histórico en el que se enmarca esta tesis se articula desde las prácticas feministas a partir de los años setenta, ochenta y noventa hasta la actualidad donde confluyen las nociones de cultura y globalización. La hipótesis e idea núcleo de esta investigación parte los relatos artísticos audiovisuales que han sido determinantes en la construcción de las imágenes de la violencia de género heredadas en nuestra tradición occidental, pero también atiende a la escritura de realizadoras y artistas o de textos teóricos silenciados. El objetivo de esta tesis es exponer el género como construcción social y la violencia de género en las obras de vídeocreación tomando como eje temporal inicial la década de los setenta, y como punto final las narrativas del vídeoensayo en la actualidad. Para ello las líneas metodológicas de las que se parten son la teoría interdisciplinar feminista crítica, la teoría estética, los estudios de crítica cultural y los estudios de comunicación. La tesis propuesta es deudora de las aportaciones metodológicas de la teoría interdisciplinar feminista y crítica y de los estudios de género, que permiten una aproximación al espacio de interpretación hermenéutico-retórico aportado desde estas teorías en la esfera de las Bellas Artes.Esta tesis se desarrolla mediante la consulta en archivos fílmicos internacionales para la elaboración de un corpus de obras fílmicas y videográficas que proponen la emergencia de nuevas violencias de género y su implicación el discurso de las Bellas Artes. Nuevas violencias de género, arte y cultura visual plantea una reflexión desde las estéticas y las prácticas documentales del cine y el vídeo. Las redes de archivos, autoras y distribuidoras en Europa y USA son, entre ellas: Blickpilotin (Berlín), Video Femmes (Québec), Film Archive imaginaria (Bologna), Woman Make Movies (Nueva York), Cinenova (Londres) y Electronic Intermix, Frameline (San Francisco). En este sentido, las líneas metodológicas que se aplicarán para el análisis prácticos de los relatos culturales en torno a las nuevas violencias estarán enfocadas desde el método de análisis y la investigación en archivos fílmicos internacionales para la elaboración de un corpus de obras del arte feminista y videoarte, situando en oposición la esfera de las Bellas Artes al discurso de la comunicación de masas en la cultura visual. El método de análisis presta atención a varias perspectivas teoría fílmica feminista, estudios de género, comunicación de masas, sociología, y análisis del discurso pero está guiado por la preocupación de una serie de cuestiones comunes: análisis de la representación de la violencia de género y sus categorías ideológicas, la relación con el imaginario social, función especular de los discursos dominantes, los imaginarios de que genera la esfera artística y los medios de comunicación.En definitiva, una mirada hacia la Cultura Visual de las prácticas artísticas feministas. Voces silenciadas que demandan la consideración de una hermenéutica que advierta de los fundidos en negro que supone la lógica de la dominación, la violencia de género en la Cultura Visual contemporánea. Relatos de la Cultura Visual que responden a otras formas de mirar para una nueva lectura crítica.The writing of this thesis New gender violence, art and visual culture part of the relation betwee the visual culture and the violence of genre, demonstrating the notions of story, statement, artistic practice in the Fine Arts and communication in the current society.This thesis implies the consideration a series of argumentations on the cultural construction of the social violence. The topic that develops this research is the representation of the new violences of genre in the artistic practice, the statements of the mass media and the visual creation of the videoart. The historical period in that this thesis places is articulated from the practical feminists from the seventies, eighties and nineties up to the current importance where there come together the notions of culture and globalization.The hypothesis of this research departs the artistic audio-visual statements that have been determinant in the construction of the images of the gender violence inherited in our western tradition, but also its attends to the writing of producers and artists or of theoretical silenced texts. The aim of this thesis is to expose the genre as social construction and the gender violence in the works of Fine Arts taking as temporary axis the decade of the seventies, and as final point the narratives of the videoessay at present. For it the methodological lines of those who split are the theory interdisciplines critical feminist, the aesthetic theory, the studies of cultural critique and the studies of communication. The proposed thesis is a debtor of the methodological contributions of the theory to interdiscipline feminist and critique and of the studies of genre, which allow an approximation the hermeneutic - rhetorical space of interpretation contributed from these theories in the sphere of the Fine Arts.This thesis develops by means of the consultation in movie international films and video archives for the production of a corpus of films, videoessay and videoart that propose the emergency of new gender violences and their implication the speech of the Fine Arts.New gender violence, art and visual culture raises a reflection from the aesthetics and the documentary practices of the cinema and the video. The film and video archives, authoresses and distributors in Europe and USA are, among them: Blickpilotin (Berlin), Video Femmes (Quebec), Film Archive imaginaria (Bologna), Woman Make Movies (New York), Cinenova (London) y Electronic Intermix, Frameline (Usa). In this respect, the methodological lines that will be applied for the analysis practical of the cultural statements concerning the new violences will be focused from the method of analysis and the research in films and videoart international archive for the production of a corpus of works of the art feminist and videoarte, placing in opposition the sphere of the Fine Arts to the speech of the Communication of masses in the Visual Culture. The method of analysis there payes attention to several perspectives movie theory feminist, gender studies, communication of masses, sociology, and analysis of the speech but it is guided by the worry of a series of common questions: analysis of the representation of the gender violence and the ideological categories, the relation with the imaginary social one, function to speculate of the dominant speeches and the imaginary ones of which it generates the artistic sphere and the mass media.Definitively, a look towards the Visual Culture of the artistic practices feminists. Silenced voices that demand the consideration of a hermeneutics that warns of the bankrupts in black, that supposes the logic of the domination, the gender violence in the Visual contemporary Culture. Statements of the Visual Culture that answer to other ways of looking for a new critical reading.
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Åsberg, Cecilia. "Looking at Science, Looking at You! : The Feminist Re-visions of Nature(Brain and Genes)." Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-66375.
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Vision has often been a central concern of feminist studies of science, medicine and technology. In cultural or social feminist analysis, the male gaze and the ways in which technoscience accommodates, and in effect organizes the watching of women, has been an important part of the feminist interrogation of the gender and power relations that produce the subjects and the objects of science. This attention is due to the intimate, and power-saturated, merge of processes of seeing and processes of knowing. Inherent in the notion of vision, there is always a politics to ways of seeing, ordering and observing, of organising the knowledge of the world. Historically, this can be exemplified by the eighteen-century Swedish “father” of biological classification, Linnaeus. Taking a leap away from Christian assumptions, Linnaeus placed human beings in a taxonomic order of nature together with other animals.ISBN 91-87792-49-4 not valid for this book.
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Rhoades, Melinda Justine. "Addressing the computing gender gap a case study using feminist pedagogy and visual culture art education /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1217107478.
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Rhoades, Melinda J. "Addressing The Computing Gender Gap: A Case Study Using Feminist Pedagogy and Visual Culture Art Education." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1217107478.
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Chen, Ting-Yu. "Using visual culture to address gender expectations in middle school art education: Visual art curriculum design based on the Manga Ranma1/2." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1129.
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In this thesis, I identify and explore approaches to middle school art curricula that address the cultural expectations of gender in visual culture media. I use images from the Japanese comic Manga: Ranma1/2 to develop units of instruction with goals of engaging students in relating the study of art to their visual culture outside the classroom. The unit has three lessons that deal with cultural expectations of gender to help students become aware of understand gender differences in contemporary society. In the lessons, students examine how the Manga characters are depicted differently according to the character's gender. Also, the teacher utilizes feminist pedagogy which considers how educators and students can work in a classroom with less power struggles. Educators provide students space to let them open-minded to have conversation in the classroom. Through sharing personal experience and interacting with classmates and teachers, students may owing to the empower activity to get more confidence in their academic studies.
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Corey, Jessica Rose. "Literate Artifacts and Psychosocial Compositions: Feminist Activism's Composing, Archiving, and Revising of Social Narratives." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448646252.
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Bonnet, Claire. "FEMME: extinct stereotypes." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6950.
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My research is about stereotypes of women. Responding to scepticism towardsfeminist movements, my degree project aims to challenge the power structure of today’s Western society. How does visual communication play a big role in creating and/or reproducing inequalities? I have created a retro-futuristic exhibition, placed in an imaginary museum. In a utopian world based in 2050, the exhibition femme: extinct stereotypes, aims to show, explain and deconstruct how women were portrayed around 2020; how society and (pop)culture were deforming humans into stereotypical women.I have created a speculative scenario through different objects and artifacts displaying the expectations and instructions on how women should or should not behave. By showcasing the past and its conventions, this retro-futuristic exhibition questions their normality and rationality.
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Crippa, Benedetta. "World of Desire." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5855.
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This project report offers an in-depth, detailed account of my creative process and work during my two-year Master in visual communication at Konstfack, Stockholm. My degree project is a celebration of plurality and visual democracy. Starting with identifying different norms pervading the graphic design discipline in the Western world today, both in terms of aesthetic values and systems of thinking, I have worked to propose and visualize alternative possible futures. Drawing has been my main carrier through an intense journey of un-learning and re-learning resulting in an artist’s book in unique copy. With this book, I want to problematize the dominant discourses around objectivity as a utopian ideal with a suppressive agenda, while visualizing a world I can recognize myself in. I have used decoration as a method, emotion and femininity as explorative standpoints, giving space to the metaphorical, the ambiguous and the spiritual to challenge current visual norms. This book emerges as an affirmation of my own quest for visual belonging as a graphic designer and a woman; a testimony of the practice of drawing as actualized power.
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Brum, Luciana Hahn. "O kañe (olhar) na cidade : práticas de embelezamento corporal na infância feminina Kaingang." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/37376.
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Esta dissertação tem como questão central as noções de beleza feminina corporal da infância feminina Kaingang moradora da cidade. A investigação foi realizada com dezesseis meninas com idades entre quatro e doze anos residentes em uma comunidade indígena localizada no bairro Lomba do Pinheiro em Porto Alegre. A pesquisa se desenvolveu entre os anos de 2009 e 2011 e buscou investigar, analisar e discutir em que medida as representações de beleza dos corpos femininos veiculadas nos meios de comunicação funcionam como pedagogias visuais e afetam as noções de beleza corporal feminina das meninas Kaingang. Procurou ainda compreender como essas meninas Kaingang absorvem as práticas de embelezamento e da cultura da cidade ao se relacionarem em diferentes territórios urbanos. Foram analisados aspectos corporais relacionados aos marcadores de gênero, classe social, raça e cor como construções históricas, sociais e culturais. A pesquisa de campo de cunho participante foi embasada em aportes da etnografia e em referenciais teóricos dos Estudos da Infância, Estudos Culturais e da Cultura Visual. As análises foram qualitativas nas quais foram cruzados os dados gerados a partir dos dizeres, desenhos e registros fotográficos das meninas Kaingang. Os resultados demonstraram que as meninas Kaingang da cidade possuem preocupações com a aparência de seus corpos que influenciam em suas feminilidades. Pela forma de lidarem com suas peles e cabelos, suas maneiras de vestir e se comportar as análises denotaram que suas valorações quanto ao que consideram ser belo e feio nos corpos femininos são absorvidas por meio das pedagogias culturais e visuais. A investigação explicitou ainda, que as meninas Kaingang sofrem influências dos ambientes territoriais nos quais circulam. Os meios midiáticos ou mesmo sociais e culturais da cidade reverberam nos valores que atribuem à beleza dos corpos femininos e, consequentemente, em suas identidades femininas infantis.The main objective of this dissertation is clarifying notions of urban Kaingang female children‟s bodily beauty. The investigation was conducted with sixteen four- and twelve-year-old girls living in an Indigenous community at Lomba do Pinheiro in Porto Alegre (RS). The research was developed between 2009 and 2011 and sought to investigate, analyse and discuss how representations for female bodies‟ beauty provided in the media work as visual pedagogies and act on notions of Kaingang girls‟ bodily beauty. It has also sought to understand how these Kaingang girls receive cosmetic practices and the city culture as they live in different urban territories. Bodily aspects concerning gender, class, race, and colour markers were analysed. The participating field research was drawn on ethnographic issues and theoretical referential for Child Studies, Cultural Studies and Visual Culture. Analyses were qualitative and data from Kaingang girls‟ statements, drawings and photographic shots were cross-referenced. The results demonstrated that Kaingang girls are concerned about how their bodies look like, which affect their femininity. In tune to the way they treat their skin and hair, the way they dress and behave, analyses noted that the value of what they regard as beautiful and ugly in female bodies are received through cultural and visual pedagogies. The investigation has also shown that the environment act on Kaingang girls. The city media, society and culture act on values ascribed to female bodily beauty and so their female child identities.
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Watt, Diane P. "Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19973.
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Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues.
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Bonner, Sarah. "Fairy tales and feminism in contemporary visual art and popular culture." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518484.
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Ritter, Amy B. "My Body In Visual Culture." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1398882692.
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Bueno, Eric Allen. "Uma história visual da nudez e sensualidade feminina na revista O Cruzeiro (1966-1970)." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2012. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1426.
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How have the female nudity and sensuality become common visualities in Brazilian Visual Culture? Starting from this question, this research analyzes how women were represented in photo reports in O Cruzeiro magazine during a key moment, the late 1960s. In this period the naked and sensual female body is gaining space in the media along with discussions regarding issues such as divorce and greater sexual freedom. In this research, the team of reporters from O Cruzeiro is presented, ranging from Indalecio Wanderley (the "photographer of misses") to the eclectic Ubiratan Lemos, showing not only how the girls were naked by the photographic eye, but also what was said about them and how it was said. In addition, it is also contemplated the passage of Stanislaw Ponte Preta in the magazine, focusing on one of his creations, the "certinhas" (literally "the right little female ones"), beautiful girls photographed in sexy poses by the photographer Augusto Valentin
Como é que a nudez e sensualidade feminina se tornaram visualidades comuns na Cultura Visual brasileira? Partindo desta problemática, a presente pesquisa analisa a forma como as mulheres foram representadas em fotorreportagens na revista O Cruzeiro em um momento chave, o fim dos anos 1960. Período em que o corpo nu e sensual feminino vai ganhando espaço na mídia e ao mesmo tempo em que se discute a questão do divórcio e da maior liberdade sexual. Na pesquisa, são contemplados a equipe de repórteres de O Cruzeiro e que vai desde Indalécio Wanderley (o "fotógrafo das misses") até o eclético Ubiratan Lemos, mostrando não só como as garotas eram despidas pelo olhar fotográfico, mas também, o que se falava sobre elas e como falavam. Além disso é contemplada a passagem de Stanislaw Ponte Preta na revista, enfocando uma de suas criações, as "Certinhas", lindas garotas fotografadas em poses sensuais pelo fotógrafo Augusto Valentin
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Sardinas, Allison E. "Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, and Jim Crow." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3660.
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This thesis works to establish a literary theory and cultural studies as a theoretical lens with which we can view harmful emerging pop culture phenomena like the so-called alt right. The premise is supposed in three parts, with the first being a simple introduction to the Pepe character and how he is grounded in literary studies through a comparison of Sherlock Holmes and his early fandom. The second part is a survey of the legacy of Jim Crow and I present the evidence that Pepe is very much Crow’s spiritual successor in their shared preoccupation with white anxiety. The third is a discussion of language in which I bridge the use of memes as language with how that language effectively communicates. Ultimately, Pepe the Frog is able to tap into the pop culture collective through a democratizing of language facilitated by digital spaces on the internet, and his proliferation is made readily viral by the racist language he speaks through ala Jim Crow era anxieties.
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Vieira, Keila. "Trans*formations of the Womanly Body : hybrid feminine representation in manga-inspired quadrinhos." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3052/document.
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Nous nous concentrons sur la reproduction visuelle de la « femme » dans le quadrinhos en tant que référence de la période créatif et innovante de la littérature visuelle au Brésil au travers du manga. Cette thèse étudie le fait que la « femme » en tant que personnage principal peut être vu comme un simple critère esthétique pour un regard masculin érotique. Cependant, nous trouvons également dans ces caractéristiques un contrepoids, puisque dans ce référentiel érotique, ces personnages féminins sont devenus un exemple de liberté personnelle d´indépendance et d´autonomie au Brésil. Nous analysons de manière entrelaçé l´immigration au Brésil et au Japon, la représentation visuelle féminin en quadrinhos, manga et manga-inspirés quadrinhos, le fandom et les contradictions fémininesThe visual reproduction of the "woman" in quadrinhos marks a creative and innovative period of the visual literature in Brazil concerning its hybridization with manga. This thesis concerns the fact that this "woman" can be seen as a simple aesthetic criterion for an erotic male gaze. However, we argue that this characteristic becomes a counterweight for women´s personal freedom, independence and autonomy in Brazil. We analyse it through a carnivalization which mark the immigration of Japanese to Brazil and of Brazilian Japanese to Japan with the female visual representation in quadrinhos, manga and manga-inspired quadrinhos, the fandom and feminine contradictions
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Blumberg, Lucy E. "A Tale of Two Sisters: An Exploration of the Marquis de Sade and 21st Century Western Cultural Production." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/717.
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The Marquis de Sade has a notorious reputation amongst academics as a continuous figure of fictional and cultural studies. His characters, stories, and writings carry weight in modern interpretations of gender dynamics, pornographic aesthetics, and the alternative fantastical. This thesis will explore the Marquis de Sade’s most famous characters, Justine and Juliette, as means to define the Marquis’ significance to 21st Century Western culture production, particularly in Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey. Exploring the female protagonists (or main characters) of the separate works, the correlations of subjugation, constructed morality, and the constructs of femininity become important markers for understanding the Marquis’ dissemination of his philosophies on gender, violence, and indulgent sexuality that leads to conversations on pornographic aesthetics in our modern period. Despite being dead for nearly 200 years, the Marquis de Sade’s relevance parades on in ideologies regarding female identity and sexual desires of the extreme.
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Rais, Saadia Subah. "Can You Hear Me? Reflexive Feminist Methodologies and Diasporic Self-Representation in the Digital Age." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71763.
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In this exploratory thesis project, I consider what emerging approaches we can take as social scientists to showcase and critically engage self-representations of diasporic individuals, who often lack visibility and legibility within the dominant cultural archive. Filmmaking as a social research practice can provide rich audiovisual data, physical and social access to materials for nonacademics, and opportunities to document and share subjects' comments and settings without the limitations of transcription. This is especially salient in the emerging media landscape of Web 2.0, where digital communications technology applications (such as Facebook, Skype, and Snapchat) are accessible by a global audience, and can act as tools for cultural identity production by diasporic individuals.
This project documents the experiences of several first- and second-generation Bangladeshi American immigrants in relation to digital communications technology advances within the past decade, for the purposes of collecting and sharing stories of diasporic individuals, offering a venue for self-expression through empathetic interviewing and collaborative oral history methods, and contributing to the American cultural archive in the context of emerging media and academic landscapes. The full project is comprised of this text document, alongside a short documentary film containing portions of audiovisual data from interviews which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9puazpdrw.Master of Science
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Nogueira, Joaquim Luiz. "A construção do corpo feminino na revista O Cruzeiro." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5048.
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Previous issue date: 2008-04-24The analysis of the construction of women s bodies in the magazine called O Cruzeiro ( The Cross) from 1928 to 1940 has been the aim of this research. For the execution of the task, we have submitted the texts to Jean-Marie Floch s theoretical basis and then we have worked upon the cultural, historical and social concepts with reference to the visual index which have made possible to portray the women s bodies with their thematic and plastic parts and their figured side as well . We have researched a lot of shapes, colors, usages and likings related to the women s images on those covers during the historical time that has been studied and the elements which form the physical, cultural, social and economical environment involved in the femininity construction. These factors have helped us describe the changes which happened to women in their everyday lives in the first decades in the 20th century in Brazil
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a construção do corpo feminino na revista O Cruzeiro no período de 1928 a 1940. Para o desenvolvimento dessa análise, submetemos os textos à fundamentação teórica de Jean-Marie Floch e, com base nesse referencial, trabalhamos os conceitos culturais, históricos e sociais, referindo-nos aos índices visuais que possibilitam retratar o corpo feminino, os elementos temáticos e plásticos desse corpo, bem como a sua figuratividade. Nossa leitura investiga a pluralidade de formas, cores, usos e gostos vinculados à imagem da mulher nessas capas durante o período histórico estudado e os elementos que compõem os ambientes materiais, culturais, sociais e econômicos envolvidos na construção da feminilidade, fatores estes que nos ajudam a retratar as mudanças ocorridas no cotidiano da mulher nas primeiras décadas do século 20 no Brasil
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Olsson, Veronica. "Feminism som handelsvara : Semiotisk filmanalys av Libresse reklamfilm wombstories." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43559.
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Denna uppsats har undersökt hur Libresse har använt sig av det retoriska tilltalet för att nå ut och påverka sin avsedda målgrupp i reklamkampanjen #wombstories. En semiotisk filmanalys har genomförts där resultatet har analyserats utifrån teorier om kommodifierad feminism, wokeness och femvertising. Frågeställningen i uppsatsen har varit, Hur används känslomässiga retoriska tilltal i förhållande till kommodifierad feminism, wokeness och femvertising i Libresse reklamfilm #wombstories? Som avgränsning har enbart en sekvens i reklamfilmen analyserats som porträtterar missfall hos ett lesbiskt par. Resultatet visade att Libresse använder sig av musik, ljud, tystnad, animation och skådespeleri för att förhöja känslan av det retoriska tilltalet där patos var det tilltal som var mest påtagligt. Kommodifierad feminism, wokeness och femvertising representerades genom tecken som kännetecknar termen. Slutsatsen blev att representationen blir ett ställningstagande av Libresse där de vill visa att de är allierade med de individer som möts av de största strukturella orättvisorna och sociala diskrimineringarna i samhället.This paper has examined how Libresse have used the rhetorical appeal to reach out and influence their intended target group in the advertising campaign #wombstories. A semiotic film analysis has been carried out where the results have been analysed based on theories of commodified feminism, wokeness and femvertising. The question in the essay has been, How are emotional rhetorical appeals used in relation to commodified feminism, wokeness and femvertising in Libresse commercial #wombstories? As a delimitation, only one sequence in the commercial has been analyzed that portrays miscarriage in a lesbian couple. The result showed that Libresse used music, sound, silence, animation and acting to enhance the sense of the rhetorical appeal in which pathos was the most noticeable. Commodified feminism, wokeness and femvertising were represented by signs that distinguish the terms. The conclusion was that the representation shows that Libresse wants to be allies of the individuals who face the greatest structural injustices and social discrimination in society.
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Ramsey, Anna Brooks, and Anna Brooks Ramsey. "A Million Metaphors for Love: Mending Posthuman Heartache in the Anthropocene." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625681.
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In this research, I investigate multiple entry points for understanding and developing art and visual culture curriculum to respond to the Anthropocene. Informed by posthuman, feminist, and ecological theories, I ask what practices and theory art educators might take up to cultivate emergent artistic practices with students toward responding to the geological, social, and present moment.
Organized around integrating visual art into school and community garden sites, this writing includes curriculum theory, a unit design and reflections on implementation and the writing process. Using autoethnographic and visual art methodologies, I attempt to engage the subjective relational space between myself, my psyche, and the phenomenon of teaching, writing, and embodying this curriculum. Through this research, I wanted to know whether co-facilitating with human and non-human members of school gardens would stabilize affective and relational containers of care and stewardship as part of the learning environment. To this end, I found that co-facilitating with place, including the garden, is a stabilizing environment for myself as a teacher, but can also be conducive to perpetuating Western and white narratives of place.
Another central theme and finding from this data was the lived experiences of grief. Employing autoethnography (Ellis & Bochner, 2000), I reflected on my teaching through my psyche, body, and emotions. I found and analyzed this data through present moment awareness of my embodied response to the experience of writing and facilitating a four-week art curriculum with middle school girls in their school garden. As an emergent response to this grief, I have therefore organized my writing around the notion of mending posthuman heartache in the Anthropocene. This is a call I believe educators should take seriously. The Anthropocene moment is in so many ways the result of deep disconnection and separation, years of violence against the planet, and against humanity in the forms of colonization, patriarchy, white-supremacy, and capitalism.
I hope for this research to contribute to animating art and visual culture education toward affective and critical ecological solutions to the moment we are living in. The implications of this research are not empirical in nature, but rather take up poetic, artistic, and enigmatic qualities of the present to tease out ways of being with, working against, and creatively responding to these times in which we live. To conclude, I believe any practices that cultivate care and affective relationship to place, self, and the other members of our human/non-human communities, such as visual art and gardening practices, can serve as containers and resources for living in the Anthropocene.
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Haghani, Fakhri. "The "New Woman" on the Stage: The Making of a Gendered Public Sphere in Interwar Iran and Egypt." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/19.
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During the interwar period in Iran and Egypt, local and regional manifestation of tajadod/al-jidida (modernity) as a “cultural identity crisis” created the nationalist image and practice of zan-e emrouzi-e shahri/al-mar’a al-jidida al-madani (the urban/secular “New Woman”). The dynamics of the process involved performance art, including the covert medium of journalism and the overt world of the performing arts of music, play, and cinema. The image of the “New Woman” as asl/al-asala (cultural authenticity) connected sonnat/al-sunna (tradition) with the global trends of modernism, linking pre-nineteenth century popular forms of performing arts to new genres, forms, and social experiences of the space of the performing arts. The subversive transnational character of performance art operated across borders to promote both the discourse of modern womanhood in-the-making among intellectuals, and the public practice of women’s presence among the masses. However, the trans-border effects of the medium were limited by local cultural and political ideologies of nationalism. The spectacle of women on the screen addressed national independence and the creation of a national film industry to resist the financial dominance of Europeans. In Iran, zan-e emrouzi-e shahri served the project of founding a modern nation-state, elevating of a culture of the city and urban development, and institutionalizing performing arts, mirroring the upholding of “male-guardianship.” In Egypt, in the absence of an authoritarian modern state and long-term experience of foreign occupations, al-mar’a al-jidida al-madani accompanied the traditional figure of bint al-balad (the countryside girl) to present modern advancements in film production with a traditional accent, to oppose European cultural values, to provide a tangible space for women’s multifaceted anti-colonial maneuvering, and to connect Egypt’s past history to its future. Performance art helped women to convey their cultural nationalism and a sense of imagined identity by letting them see and be seen by each other, create interactions between the artist and the audience, and emphasize music as the heart of a society’s culture and art. A culture of body performance, a female visual public sphere, and a feminine (and feminist) interpretation of cultural authenticity in performance art led women to claim the profession as a legitimate career.
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Gonzales, Sonya Gay. "THE VISUAL RHETORIC OF WOMEN’S TATTOOS: REWRITING WOMEN’S BODIES, RECLAIMING POWER, AND CONSTRUCTING A TATTOO RHETORIC." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/798.
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More often than not, when we think about visual rhetoric, especially in the fields of composition and literature, we imagine such visual texts as video games, advertisements, and graffiti/art. It’s rare that our thoughts turn to tattoos and the idea that women’s tattoos in particular, as visual text, act as a rhetorical device subverting dominant social norms of how heteropatriarchy defines woman and femininity. The dominant notions of how we think about text – writing, rhetoric, and the publication of narrative – facilitates the construction of a tattoo rhetoric. Utilizing a feminist lens, this thesis demonstrates the visual rhetoric of women’s tattoos and the construction of a tattoo rhetoric, drawing from elements of queers of color, women of color, and visual rhetoric scholars, as well as such theorists as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Mikhail Bakhtin. I explore Shelly Jackson’s Skin and the embodied texts of Kat Von D’s tattoos to convey the disidentification from and deconstruction of traditional and dominant notions of writing, rhetoric, and narrative, as well as heteropatriarchal constructs and governance of women, women’s bodies, and femininity. The visual rhetoric of women’s tattoos empowers women to radically challenge mainstream perceptions of feminine beauty, reclaim agency over their own bodies, and construct new meaning of woman and embodied texts. Women’s tattooed bodies facilitate the deconstruction of dominant ideologies of woman, femininity, and of text; the reconstruction of how woman and visual text are defined; and the construction of a tattoo rhetoric.
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Macune, Emily. "Uncovering Alice Bag: An Alternative Punk History." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1242.
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The intention of this thesis is to provide an alternative counter-narrative to the mainstream histories of punk that center white men. By focusing on the contributions of fem queer and POC punks, I aim to legitimize punk music as a form of resistance against systems of oppression that are oppositional to the commodified forms of mainstream punk. Using Alice Bag, as my central case study as a fem queer punk that is often left out of punk historical narratives, I contextualize her work through feminist, queer, and media studies lenses to bridge the gap between academia and forgotten personal experience.
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McGuirk, Hayley. "Picturing American New Women: First-Wave Feminisms in the Art of Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, and Frances Benjamin Johnston." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619434433547669.
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McGuirk, Hayley. "Picturing American New Women: First-Wave Feminisms in the Art of Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, and Frances Benjamin Johnston." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619434433547669.
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Kappelin, Hanna. "Den säljande kvinnan – objekt eller subjekt? : Postfeminismens individualism." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43553.
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Syftet med föreliggande alster var att undersöka huruvida utvecklingen av hur kvinnor exponeras i kommersiella sammanhang går hand i hand med postfeminism eller inte, och om det i sådana fall bidrar till att det fortfarande skapas kommersiellt innehåll utifrån den manliga blicken. Materialet som låg till grund för detta arbete var en av flera bilder från Bianca Ingrossos företag, CAIA Cosmetics, läppstifts reklamkampanj från år 2019. Metoden utgjordes, i grunden, av en semiotisk bildanalys, men med en sociosemiotisk dito som spets. Båda metoderna har likheter och har komponenter som går in i varandra, varpå båda, med utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ analys, spelade roller för mitt resultat. Analysen utfördes med följande forskningsfråga som grund: Hur förhåller sig postfeministisk teori och kommodifierad feminism till aktuell bild ur ett sociosemiotiskt perspektiv? Genom detta arbetes huvudteorier postfeminism, kommodifierad feminism och the male gaze – den manliga blicken – analyserades det valda materialet med kopplingar till pornografiskt bildspråk. Utfallet blev dubbeltydigt då kvinnan i bilden, utifrån applicering utav presenterad teori, både kunde ses som ett passivt objekt men även som ett aktivt subjekt. Makten i vald bild kunde alltså ses både som en kraft utifrån den postfeministiska individualismen samtidigt som det också kan tolkas som ännu ett fall av objektifiering av kvinnor i reklam.The purpose with this essay was to examine whether or not the development of the exposure of women in commercial contexts correlates with postfeminism, and in such case, whether it contributes to the ongoing production of commercial content based on the theory of the male gaze. The fundamental material of this work was one of several images from Bianca Ingrosso's company, CAIA Cosmetics, lipstick advertising campaign from 2019. The method was, basically, a semiotic image analysis, but with an extending, socio-semiotic ditto as a complement. Both methods have similarities and have components that go into each other, which made both of them, based on a qualitative analysis, play important roles for the final results. The analysis was carried out based on the following research question: How does postfeministic theory and commodified feminism relate to the chosen image from a socio-semiotic perspective? Through the main theories of postfeminism, commodified feminism and the theory of the male gaze, the chosen material was analyzed with links to, and in comparison, with, pornographic imagery. The outcome was ambiguous as the woman in the image, based on the application of presented theories, could be seen both as a passive object but also as an active subject. The power in the chosen image could thus be seen both as a feminin force based on postfeminist individualism, while it, at the same time, also can be interpreted as yet another case of objectification of women in commercial advertising.
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Filipsson, Elin. "Jag vill inte se din perfekta frukost när jag sitter i min fåtölj och har brödsmulor på bröstet : En autoetnografisk- och kritisk analys om visuellt material och den egna upplevelsen på plattformen Instagram." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-37027.
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Denna uppsatsen handlar om utmaningen att få distans till ett visuellt material på Instagram och varför ett material betraktas på sättet det görs. Syftet med uppsatsen är på så sätt att hitta en djupare förståelse för min ståndpunkt i det visuella meningsskapandet och hur dagens visuella kultur speglas på Instagram. Uppsatsen uppnår detta genom en kritisk och subjektiv forskningsansats med hjälp av den teoretiska grundeni fenomenologi, feministisk ståndpunktsteori och autoetnografi. Undersökningen sker genom en metodkombination av autoetnografi och kritisk bildanalys där en instagramdagbok kombineras med foton från influensers eller kreatörer. I den autoetnografiska metoden tar jag, uppsatsens författare, ståndpunkten som ung kvinna medan jag i den kritiska bildanalysen tar ståndpunkten som grafisk designer. Metodkombinationen ger ett resultat som visar hur ståndpunkten, objekt och människans erfarenhet kan vara med och påverka en tolkning av ett foto. Resultatet visar även att influensers och kreatörer har en tydlig visuellt kommunicerad självrepresentation på Instagram. Den slutsats som kan dras genom uppsatsen är att den egna ståndpunkten har en avgörande betydelse i en analys av visuellt material, samt att branchen bör överväga ståndpunktens roll och ge betraktaren en större transparens.
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Uzwiak, Beth Ann. "Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/119816.
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Based on fieldwork with human rights organizations in New York City and Belize, Central America, this dissertation explores--through the prism of ethics--how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) represent violence against indigenous women--in text, image, and action--as human rights "evidence." By ethics I mean the deliberate use of morals, stated or unstated, in the representation of human rights abuses. In New York, my research focuses on the production, launch, and circulation of a United Nations shadow report on violence against indigenous women. In Belize, I contextualize indigenous women's experiences of gender violence within an indigenous movement to obtain collective land rights, a national women's movement, and national rhetoric on culture and gender. In both locales, I consider and compare: 1) how the "ethical" stance of NGOs shapes human rights activism; 2) how NGOs create visual and discursive "evidence" to represent violence and indigenous women's experiences; and 3) very real neoliberal state repression that immobilizes social movements for human rights and social justice. My concern is with the ways social movement NGOs struggle to maintain their feminist and social justice objectives as they interface with the demands of a transnational human rights system, and the strategies they use as they suffer from vilification, marginalization or mainstreaming, and lack of resources. Far from protective, human rights claims, explored here as "evidence," often obscure both social inequalities and the response of state-level policies to these inequalities, especially for marginalized women.
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Isbister, Dong. "The “Sent-Down Body” Remembers: Contemporary Chinese Immigrant Women’s Visual and Literary Narratives." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259594428.
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Panzeca, Andrea. "You Don't Have to Be Good." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1979.
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You Don't Have to be Good, is a nonfiction collection of prose, poetry and graphic memoir set in New Orleans, central Florida, and points in between. In this coming-of-age memoir, I recall the abrupt end of my dad's life, the 24 years of my life in which he was alive, and the years after his death—remembering him while living without him in his hometown of New Orleans. Along the way there are meditations on language, race, gender, dreams, addiction, and ecology. My family and I encounter Hurricane Katrina and Mardi Gras, and at least one shuttle launch. These are the stories I find myself telling at parties, and also those I've never voiced until now.
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Bornlöf, Julia. "Bloody Penny Picture Pose : A comparative study on the representation of sexuality and violence within the aesthetics of Victorian Gothic horror." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-175535.
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There is an ongoing fascination with the Victorian era as well as the genre of horror, and the characters originating from the first 18th century Gothic tales still appear in our Western popular culture today. The Victorian Gothic novels contain elements of romanticism and violence which often results in strong undertones of heated sexuality. I argue that it is one of the reasons for the genre’s wide popularity. This thesis examines the representation of femininity and female sexuality within a Victorian horror context by a comparative analyse of illustrations from British 19th century Penny Blood publications with contemporary fashion photographs. The images are analysed by applying Erwin Panofsky’s method of Iconography and with the theoretical framework of feminist visual culture, and historical theories on sexuality, biology and violence. The thesis shows how Gothic visualisations are interpreted and appropriated photographically today, where the latter is darker and more exaggerated than the former. Symbols of sexuality, female agency, dominance and submission are equally found in the Victorian and the contemporary material. However, the Victorian aesthetic has become a platform where a nude, sexual female body in a S&M situation can offer a spectrum of meanings and even symbols of feminism. It is a visual culture where women can fight back, taking revenge on their oppressor and looking fierce when doing so.
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Andreescu, Florentina Carmen. "Transition, Nation, State, and Structure of Fantasy." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/413.
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This research aims to make evident the importance of films serving as a relevant arena for political struggles within a society, struggles that concern highly important concepts such as the nation and the state. This goal is accomplished by building upon the theory of cinematic nationhood and using the method of relational constructivism combined with insight from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The research regards films as forms of communication as well as forms of fantasy. The case this research focuses on is Romania. The case was selected because for a certain period of time the myths of nation and state had been strongly embedded-or nested-- within the social contexts-or commonplaces--specific to Marxism, namely work, equality, and the bourgeois enemy, followed by a swift and radical social discourse change that triggered changes within the topography of commonplaces. The films analyzed represent these changes in order to understand the specific ways in which the myth of nation and state are reflected within films produced during radical economic, social, and political transformations. This research reveals that, despite the social, economic, and political upheavals from the pre- to post-transition eras, the underlying national structure of fantasy remained remarkably unchanged, while the nation and the state changed their social relevance with changes in their position occupied within the structure of fantasy.
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Gontovnik, Monica. "Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female ColombianArtists." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106.
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Straube, Wibke. "Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes : A Transfeminist Reading of Utopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-110049.
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Trans Cinema and its Exit Scapes offers a critical and creative intervention into cultural representations of gendered body dissidence in contemporary film. The study argues for the possibility of finding spaces of “disidentification”, so-called “exit scapes” within the films. Exit scapes disrupt the dominant cinematic regime set up for the trans character, which ties them into stories of discrimination, humiliation and violence. In Trans Cinema, for instance films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Transamerica (2005), Romeos (2011) and Laurence Anyways (2012), scenes of singing, dancing and dreaming allow a different form of engagement with the films. As argued here, they allow a critical re-reading and an affirmative re-imagining of trans embodiment. The aim of this study is to investigate the utopian and hopeful potential within Trans Cinema from a critical transfeminist perspective. While focusing in particular on trans entrants as “spectators” or readers, this study draws on the work of a wide range of feminist and cultural scholars, such as Sara Ahmed, Susan Stryker, José Esteban Muñoz, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Karen Barad and Donna Haraway. The thesis etches out cinematic spatiotemporalities that unfold possibilities of utopian worlding and trans becoming through a set of conceptual innovations. By utilising a critical approach to audio-visuality and feminist film theory, the thesis re-conceptualises haptic spectatorship theory and its critique in western modernist ocularcentricism through a set of conceptual innovations. The methodological tools developed in this thesis, such as the “entrant”, the “exit scape” and “sensible cinematic intra-activity”, feature here as a multisensorial methodology for transdisciplinary transgender studies and feminist film theory as well as visual culture at large.Trans Cinema and its Exit Scapes är en kritisk och kreativ intervention med fokus på kulturella representationer av kroppar som bryter mot en könsbinär ordning i samtida film. Studien argumenterar för möjligheten att hitta utrymmen för “disidentification”, så kallade “exit scapes” inom filmerna. Exit scapes stör den dominanta filmiska ordning som skapats för transkaraktären, en ordning som är förbunden med berättelser om diskriminering, förödmjukelse och våld. Inom Trans Cinema, i filmer som exempelvis Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Transamerica (2005), Romeos (2011) and Laurence Anyways (2012), öppnar scener med sång, dans och drömmar upp för andra former av engagemang med filmerna. Som det argumenteras för i avhandlingen tillåter dessa ett kritiskt omformulerande av, och ett nytt affirmativt sätt att föreställa sig, transkroppslighet. Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka den utopiska och hoppfulla potential som finns inom transfilm utifrån ett kritiskt transfeministiskt perspektiv. Även om studien främst riktar sig till trans entrants som “åskådare” eller läsare, så har den en bred teoretisk bas hämtad från verk av en lång rad feministiska forskare inom kulturfältet, såsom Sara Ahmed, Susan Stryker, José Esteban Muñoz, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Karen Barad och Donna Haraway. Denna avhandling skissar filmiska spatiotemporaliteter, vilka öppnar för möjligheter av utopiska värdsliga och transsubjektiva tillblivelser genom utvecklandet av olika teoretiska begrepp. Genom ett kritiskt förhållningssätt till audiovisualitet och feministisk filmteori, revideras och omformuleras haptisk åskådarskapsteori och dess kritik i en västerländsk okularcentrism genom olika teoretiska innovationer. De metodologiska verktygen som utvecklas i avhandlingen, såsom “the entrant”, “the exit scape” samt “sensible cinematic intra-activity” utgör här funktionen som multisensorisk metodologi för transdisciplinära transstudier, feministisk filmteori samt för visuell kultur i stort.
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Edmundson, Joshua R. "THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/399.
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The ONE Exhibition explores an era in American history marked by intense government sponsored anti-gay persecution and the genesis of the LGBT equality movement. The study begins during World War II, continues through the McCarthy era and the founding of the nation’s first gay magazine, and ends in 1958 with the first gay Supreme Court case in U.S. history.
Central to the story is ONE The Homosexual Magazine, and its founders, as they embarked on a quest for LGBT equality by establishing the first ongoing nationwide forum for gay people in the U.S., and challenged the government’s right to engage in and encourage hateful and discriminatory practices against the LGBT community. Then, when the magazine was banned by the Post Office, the editors and staff took the federal government to court. As such, ONE, Incorporated v. Olesen became the first Supreme Court case in U.S. history that featured the taboo subject of homosexuality, and secured the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech for the gay press. Thus, ONE magazine and its founders were an integral part of a small group of activists who established the foundations of the modern LGBT equality movement.
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(6622946), Bianca Batti. "Worldbuilding in Feminist Game Studies: Toward a Methodology of Disruption." Thesis, 2019.
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This project engages in an intersectional and interdisciplinary tracing of the emerging field of feminist game studies and the epistemologies and methodologies that exist within this field. Through such tracing, this project asks—what are feminist game studies’ epistemological goals and frameworks? What methodologies can the field draw from in order to achieve these epistemological goals? Ultimately, this project argues that feminist game studies enacts an epistemology of feminist worldbuilding—that is, an inclusive, embodied, space-claiming mode of producing knowledge—and achieves this worldbuilding through methodologies of intersectional disruption in order to perform disruptive feminist interventions into video game culture.
In the first chapter of this project, I make use of a methodology of narrative autoethnography to discuss my experience with online harassment as an inroad into interrogating the bodies at risk in gaming spaces in order to make a case for the need for feminist interventions to disrupt the violent structures within video game culture. The second chapter traces the ways hegemonic, patriarchal frameworks in game studies epistemologically deprivilege material, representational analyses of bodies and culture in the study of games and, instead, argues for the implementation of intersectional approaches to video game culture. The third chapter maps the intersectional feminist methodologies that can be implemented in feminist game studies in order to perform generative and disruptive interventions into video game culture and build feminist worlds.
In the fourth chapter, I apply some of these methodologies of disruption to the alienation of mothers in the gaming industry’s workplace culture and representations of mothers in the games Among the Sleep and Horizon Zero Dawn in order to intervene into video game culture’s prejudicial attitudes regarding labor, mothers, and women. The final chapter continues my autoethnographic work through the connection of my experiences with online harassment to previous experiences with gendered violence and trauma in order to underscore the stakes of feminist game studies praxis. In all these ways, I argue that feminist game studies builds worlds by performing interventions into video game culture through intersectional and pluralistic methodologies of disruption, for such methodologies imagine new, inclusive models of existence and futurity in video game culture.
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Calahorrano, Sandy Paola. "The corporeal activism of Nahui Olin and Nidia Díaz: a feminist performance of social defiance." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27359.
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This dissertation analyzes the performance praxis of the Mexican poet Nahui Olin (1893-1978) and the Salvadoran guerrilla leader and author Nidia Díaz (1952-). Through their self-representation in images and texts, these two women subverted the discourse of power characteristic of their respective cultural and historical contexts. Whereas Olin carried out her “corporeal activism” through defiant eroticism; Díaz did so through her stoic stance in the face of incarceration and torture. The dissertation carries out visual analyses enriched by attention to literature, and literary analyses informed by visual culture. In their respective approaches to performance these two figures engage with their sociopolitical contexts as they relate to women’s condition and the quest for spiritual liberation.
The first chapter presents the dissertation’s theoretical framework. Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Elaine Scarry’s theories are crucial to understanding the concepts of body, discourse of power, performance, and pain; Gillian Rose’s approach is essential to analyzing images; Lucia Guerra-Cunningham and Rita Felski are fundamental for addressing women’s writing.
The second chapter focuses on Olin’s activism, evident in her role as a “flapper,” her transgressive nude photographs and her poems written during the Mexican post-revolutionary period and which were influenced by avant-garde movements. My analysis links the key photograph I call “Nahui Olin Andrógina” with her poetry, centering on the trope of androgyny as a mystic state.
The third chapter examines the naïf self-portraits and testimonio found in Díaz’s Nunca estuve sola (in 1988), which she narrates her imprisonment during El Salvador’s civil war of the 1980’s. My analysis centers on the trope of stoicism manifested in her drawing I call “Una ‘mesías’ que deviene en la madre del pueblo” as well as in the prose of her testimonio.
Olin’s erotic activism and Díaz’s armed rebellion both represent attempts to achieve human liberation, including their own as oppressed women, and suggested emancipatory paths that may serve as models for others.
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Ebos, Mary. "Julia Margaret Cameron's Ceylonese photographs : a feminist visual cultural analysis /." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR51698.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Women's Studies.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-370). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR51698
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Du, Preez Amanda Anida. "Gendered bodies and new technologies." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2089.
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Gendered bodies and new technologies has one founding premise, namely that embodiment constitutes a non-negotiable prerequisite for human life. Although this may seem like an obvious statement, it is a statement that needs to be affirmed in the virtual age wherein we live. New technologies in most of its forms tend to discredit the embodied aspects of human life and instead concentrate on the disembodied aspects thereof. Among new technologies the following are specifically noted: microelectronics, telecommunication networks, nano-technology, virtual reality, computer-mediated communications and other forms of computer technologies. In short, “new technologies” refer to all things digital. I explore the issue of embodiment from a gendered perspective, seeing that the female body is the embodiment most likely to be discarded, not only in metaphysical systems, but also in developments within new technologies. The main focus of my gendered analysis is on the visual image and more specifically as it manifests in cinema, advertisements, the Internet, interactive artwork and television. The critical perspective that foregrounds my approach is that of the fairly new field of cyberfeminism. The main concern of cyberfeminism being a critical engagement of women’s position in terms of new technologies. In this regard, cyberfeminism does not perpetuate an anti-technology stance, but rather embraces technology by emphasising the embodied nature of our existence.
I have identified four body types to explore the interactions between bodies and new technologies. They are: the techno-transcendent body; the techno-enhanced body; the marked body and the cyborg body. The four body types differ in the way in which gendered embodiment is negotiated in its interaction with new technologies and these are highlighted and discussed in the four chapters dealing with these four body types.English
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Costa, Maria Isabel Risques Mendes da. "Condição feminina, consagração e (in)visibilidade artística: mulheres de exceção na cultura visual portuguesa." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22358.
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A disparidade de tratamento de género tem perpassado os diversos campos sociais, o que se espelha
igualmente no mundo da arte. Assim pretendemos saber, através de um enquadramento teórico, sobre a
condição feminina e sua reconfiguração. Foi nosso intuito saber como a subalternização das mulheres
ultrapassou barreiras que as catapultaram para uma sobre alternidade e visibilidade social e cultural
operando alterações de fundo sobre a condição feminina na atualidade, combatendo o paradoxo da
desigualdade de género (Roseta, 1998) na sociedade ocidental e, em particular, em Portugal. Para tal,
recorremos à análise de períodos históricos marcantes e influenciadores nessa reconfiguração: décadas
de 60, 70 e 80 em Portugal, Europa e Estados Unidos da América.
Posteriormente analisámos o impacto que essas alterações sociais, jurídicas e políticas operaram no
mundo da cultura e da arte contemporânea em Portugal, com maior especificidade, no que respeita à
alteração da situação das mulheres artistas portuguesas. Refletimos sobre, como foi possível, às artistas
nacionais, passar da invisibilidade à visibilidade, da repressão ao crescimento de uma reputação e uma
consagração artísticas globalmente e, finalmente, uma tomada de consciência sobre quais os principais
fatores, e agentes culturais (curadores e curadoria, galeristas, críticos de arte, "marchands", equipamentos
e políticas culturais), que dificultam e/ou favorecem o percurso das mulheres artistas naqueles planos.
Selecionámos o estudo de caso das mulheres artistas portuguesas na Bienal de Veneza - espaço cultural
internacional de consagração da arte - desde a primeira presença de Portugal (1950) até à atualidade
(2019).Gender inequality has been a feature of the various social fields and has been mirrored in the art world. The first aim of this study is to use a theoretical framework to examine the female condition and how it has been reconfigured. The intention is to understand how women have broken down the barriers of subjugation and been catapulted into a state of extreme alterity and social and cultural visibility that has brought about deep-seated changes in the female condition today, where gender inequality is being fought in western society and Portugal in particular. To that end, historical periods that have defined and influenced this reconfiguration are analysed: 1960s, 70s and 80s in Portugal, Europe and the United States of América. Secondly, the paper looks at the impact of these social, legal and political changes have had on the world of contemporary art and culture in Portugal, more specifically with regarding to the changing situation of Portugal’s female artists. The author will also examine how Portuguese artists were able to emerge from a state of invisibility, moving from repression to the achievement of global artistic recognition. Finally, the growing perception of the main factors and cultural agents (curators and curatorship, gallery owners, art critics, marchands, directors of cultural facilities and cultural policies) that complicate and/or favour the careers of female artists is studied. As a case study, the paper will analyse the role of Portuguese female artists at the Venice Biennale - the world’s leading international cultural and art event.
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Mihai, Diana. "Literary Renderings of Visual Culture: Intermedial Practices and Definitions of Feminine Identity in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Cat's Ete and Surfacing." Dissertação, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/70400.
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Mihai, Diana. "Literary Renderings of Visual Culture: Intermedial Practices and Definitions of Feminine Identity in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Cat's Ete and Surfacing." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/70400.
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Ntombela, Bongani. "Conformity: visual reflection on the social and cultural life of Nguni women." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19793.
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Text in EnglishThis study is a reflection on the culture and social life of Nguni women. The research is the interpretation and representation of how the Nguni culture and social values emerge as source of identity not a simple act of conformity. The manifestation of cultural values is presented through a body of artworks. The artworks seek to expose the complex nature of deep social bonds. These bonds are responsible for the creation of the ultimate value of aesthetic experience within a social and ethical context. The analysis addresses the significance and symbolic nature of traditional wedding rituals in relation to conformity and social identity. Various concepts and themes are discussed to ascertain how participating in these social and cultural performances helps individuals to pursue their own understanding and meaning of their experience within their lived environment. The main question this study addresses is how women make sense of their experience as mothers, wives, members of society and individuals. It is the study of cultural and social phenomena; their nature and meanings, and the focus is on the interpretation of the phenomena in terms of their individual experiences and how they relate lived experience to their identities. This is done by acknowledging the essence of meaningful nature of experiences that lead participating individuals into conformity and submission. Sculptural installation and performance are used to describe concepts in the production of visual presentation of this research. The visual installation in this research provides the symbolic meaning of nature of aesthetic experience which influences individual to connect with the society and thus creating impression of conformity. The reflection on cultural and social experience highlights the dilemma of containing conformity to an act of coercion while leaving the issue of human perception and understanding of value in relation to the experience of the body unattended. A phenomenological approach to this study has helped to address art installation as a stylistic phenomenon that is created and experienced visually in order to represents a relationship between artist and society.
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Ximenes, Alice. "Frankenstein: 200 years of graphic depiction." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/32026.
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Inspired by the bicentennial anniversary of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), by Mary Shelley, this is a visual research that analyses the visual representation of characters of one of the most iconic stories in popular culture. This investigation approaches two recurring themes in the graphic representation of this classic
story that are still relevant in modern days. The first approach takes into consideration a speciesist interpretation of Shelley’s novel and applies it to the graphic evolution of the infamous monster, in this dissertation referred to as the creature. With the support of an academic work analysing the speciesist thinking present in Frankenstein along with a combination of references and methodologies, this approach analyses visual data from the past two hundred
years ranging from book cover designs, to theatre playbills, film posters, political cartoons and other media.
The second approach takes a look into the graphic evolution of the female representation in Frankenstein. Once again, supported by a combination of references and methodologies, this approach investigates the role women played in the history of Frankenstein adaptations in a diverse set of media. Although there has been extensive investigative work about Frankenstein in literature as well as different celebratory events for the bicentennial anniversary, little has been done in terms of focusing on the visual aspect of this classic tale. This fact paved the way to explore the incredibly rich graphic legacy of Frankenstein as a celebratory piece of work.
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Gonçalves, Daniela Baptista. "Livro de mágoas: relação entre texto e imagem na obra de Florbela Espanca: um projeto ilustrado." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/31060.
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A realização do projeto consiste em estabelecer uma relação entre texto e imagem na obra literária Livro de Mágoas, de Florbela Espanca. Considerada uma das poetisas mais importantes de Portugal, destaca-se pela sua obra carregada de feminismo, simbolismo, sentimento e crítica social relativamente ao papel da Mulher portuguesa do início do século XX. Através da ilustração conceptual, são representados visualmente os seus poemas. Um livro ilustrado e o diagrama cronológico da vida e obra de Florbela Espanca têm o objetivo de reconhecer, valorizar e engrandecer a sua obra. Conclui-se que para a concretização de um projeto ilustrativo existem diversos passos que devem ser implementados, desde a criação de ideias até à representação visual, através de um processo conceptual, da linguagem visual, a técnica e a produção. Além disto, demonstra-se como é possível integrar uma causa social através da poesia ilustrada, proporcionando um enriquecimento visual da obra da poetisa.The achievement of this project consists in establishing a relation between text and image, in the literary work Livro de Mágoas, by Florbela Espanca. Considered one of Portugal's most important poets, she stands out for her work loaded with feminism, symbolism, feelings and social criticism in the role of Women of the early twentieth centur in Portugal. Through conceptual illustration, her poems are visually represented, through an illustrated book and a chronological diagram of the life and work of Florbela Espanca, with the purpose of recognizing, enriching, and enhancing her work. It is concluded that, for the accomplishment of an illustration project, there are several steps that must be implemented, from the creation of ideas to the visual representation through a conceptual process, visual language, technique and production. In addition, it is demonstrated how it is possible to integrate a social cause through illustrated poetry, providing a visual enrichment of the work of the poet.
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Gravel-Patry, Fanny. "Orientalisme 2.0 : la Révolution verte iranienne en images." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11971.
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Depuis la colonisation jusqu’aux plus récents conflits qui affectent le « Moyen-Orient », le visuel participe à la création d’une image raciale et sexuelle du monde musulman dans laquelle l’Orient « archaïque » est représenté comme l’opposé moral de l’Occident « moderne ». Ce discours nommé Orientalisme (Saïd 1994) transforme l’Orient en objet du savoir et du regard occidental (Nochlin 1989). La peinture, la photographie, et les expositions universelles sont autant de moyens qui permettent d’instaurer un point de vue privilégié de l’Occident sur l’Orient. Avec le Web 2.0 et les technologies mobiles, le partage d’images fait partie intégrale de notre quotidien et celles-ci nous proviennent de partout et de n’importe qui. En considérant que l’Orientalisme est indissociable des techniques modernes de représentation du monde (Mitchell 2013), le présent mémoire souhaite interroger l’impact de ces nouvelles technologies sur la production, la circulation et la réception des images du dit Orient. Nous concentrerons notre étude sur les images captées et partagées depuis les manifestations de la Révolution verte iranienne de juin 2009, entre autres la vidéo de l’assassinat de la jeune Neda Agha Soltan qui a fait la une des médias occidentaux. En prenant comme base les écrits d’Edward Saïd, que nous réviserons par le biais de lectures féministes, nous verrons que l’Orientalisme visuel mute au rythme des changements politiques, culturels et technologiques qu’il rencontre. En plus d’éclairer les images de notre corpus, la question féministe nous permettra d’élargir la définition et les mécanismes de l’Orientalisme proposés par Saïd. Nous démontrerons que tout en ayant le potentiel de bouleverser l’image que construit l’Occident de l’Orient, le Web 2.0 actualise aussi l’Orientalisme visuel sous de nouveaux modes de production du savoir.From the colonization era until the most recent conflicts in the "Middle East," visual culture contributes to the creation of a racial and sexual image of the muslim world, in which the "archaic" Orient is represented as the moral opponent of "modern" Occident. This discourse entitled Orientalism (Saïd 1994) transforms the Orient into an object of knowledge and of occidental gaze (Nochlin 1989). Painting, photography, and universal exhibitions are but a few of the means through which the West's privileged point of view is constructed over the Orient. With the Web 2.0 and mobile technologies, sharing images from everywhere and everyone has become part of our daily life. Assuming that Orientalism is indissociable from modern techniques of the world's repressentation (Mitchell 2013), this thesis aims to question the impact of such new technologies on the production, circulation and reception of images from the so-called Orient. This study will focus on images captured and shared since the protests of the Iranian Green Movement of June 2009, especially the video of the murder of the young Neda Agha Soltan, which made the headlines of Western media. Building on the writings of Edward Saïd, which will be revised through feminist readings, it will be demonstrated that visual Orientalism evolves in accordance with the political, cultural and technological changes it encounters. The feminist question will not only shed light on the images of this corpus, but also contribute to widen the definition and mechanisms of Orientalism suggested by Saïd. It will be demonstrated that if the Web 2.0 has the potential of disrupting the constructed image of the Orient by the Occident, it also updates visual Orientalism through new modes of knowledge production.
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Tampayeva, Zhamila. "La performance artistique à l’ère de l’ubiquité photographique : le cas de Vanessa Beecroft." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23780.
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La photographie numérique a transformé les comportements sociaux, en devenant un élément important de nos vies quotidiennes. Ne restant pas à l’écart, le milieu de l’art contemporain a suivi cette tendance. La fin des années 1960 marque l’apparition de l’art éphémère, y compris la performance. Сes courants artistiques au 20e siècle ont incité une documentation des œuvres qui est passée par la photographie. Progressivement, elle a pris une position plus forte, intervenant comme support majeur de la création artistique. En documentant ces œuvres, la dimension éphémère de la performance est remplacée par une certaine matérialité qui devient un moyen de posséder ces œuvres. Vanessa Beecroft, une artiste italienne-américaine, est un exemple parfait qui réunit ces tendances et ces paradoxes. Attaquée par les uns qui critiquent son approche qui « exploite » les femmes, elle est glorifiée comme « féministe » par les autres. Sa production artistique efface en effet les frontières entre le monde réel et l’imaginaire, ainsi qu’entre le monde de l’art légitime et celui de la culture populaire, du marché de l’art et du commerce. Dans notre mémoire, nous étudions les photographies prises pendant les performances de Beecroft en tant qu’objets indépendants, ce qui nous permet de pousser l’analyse sociologique de l’œuvre plus loin, démontrant une série de médiations qui sont au cœur de l’œuvre de l’artiste et qui créent la valeur de son œuvre. Enfin, cette analyse nous permet de placer l’œuvre de Beecroft dans un contexte du marché de l’art plus global.Digital photography has transformed our social behaviour and has become an important part of our daily lives. The contemporary art scene also followed this trend. The late 1960s were marked by the emergence of ephemeral art practices, including performance. These twentieth-century artistic trends prompted an intensified usage of photographic documenting in art. The photographic medium has gradually become a major support for ephemeral artistic creation. The ephemeral dimension of photography has thus become more material, which has in turn allowed possessing these works of art. Vanessa Beecroft, an Italian American artist, is a perfect example of this phenomenon, as her art brings together these tendencies and paradoxes. She has been both criticized for her exploitative approach toward women who participate in her performances and glorified as a feminist artist. Her artistic production erases the boundaries between the real world and the imaginary, as well as between the world of legitimate art and that of popular culture, the art market, and commerce. In my thesis, I study the photographs taken during Beecroft’s performances as independent works of art. This allows me to push the sociological analysis further and to trace a series of mediations that are at the heart of her work and that create the value of these artworks. Lastly, this analysis places Beecroft’s work in the global context of the current art market.
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Pádejová, Monika. "Slunce, vzduch a pohyb: výsledek je krása. Obraz přirozeného a kultivovaného ženského těla v meziválečném Československu." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-436537.
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(anglický) The presented master's thesis focuses on the visual representation of the natural and cultivated female body, responding to the hygienic, eugenic and aesthetic requirements of the newly created state. In addition to strengthening the modern national identity, it was to form and represent a positive image of the new womanhood that resulted in the project of a civilized woman in the late 1920s. The new social arrangement required a new type of modern man, and therefore also of a woman. Within it, two seemingly unrelated areas merged - science and visual culture, which pursued to define the ideal of the modern female body: beautiful, healthy, morally and aesthetically appealing. The image of a woman doing sports became the emblem of the newly formed republic. The female body gained added aesthetic value, it became a new ornament and communicative sign, infiltrating into the visual culture beginning with advertising and culminating in fine arts. We focus on the role of modern dance and the personality of Milča Mayerová, a prominent First Republic dancer and symbol of a modern woman, who reflected the changing requirements of the time with her visual representation and publishing activities. Key words (anglický) Body, modernity, womanhood, new woman, visual culture, visual representation,...