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Fall 2009
Policy emphasis on education as a medium to alleviate poverty and to achieve development is this thesis’s topic. Long enforcement of this approach has led us not only to believe in the education-for-prosperity link, but also to reproduce it and create a social system that works in line with it....
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Making Feminism Popular: Audience Interpellation in Late Post-Network Era Television (a Case Study of TNT’s THE CLOSER)
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This dissertation explores the serial design model of The Closer. It answers the following question: How does The Closer offer multiple entry points along a spectrum of views on gender and feminism, appeal to a range of viewers, and thus secure popularity? To generate metadata of how The...
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Fall 2017
This study examines ways that both authoritarian capitalism and global flows of culture have shaped the Russian television industry. This dissertation explores three main questions: How does the system of state-directed capitalism shape television production, particularly with regards to...
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2006
Maynes, Warren, Mackey, Margaret
Using the example of the reconstructed history of one adolescent and his intense enthusiasm for the story Highlander (which is told in movies, novelizations, television programs and card games), this article explores questions of what we may and may not understand about what makes a story...
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New capitalization on old music: approaches to the use of Verdi's music in TV advertisements
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Advertisers use music in as much as 90% of television commercials. Classical and opera music play a special role in this medium, as classical music carries with it any number of already established inferences and meanings that may then be altered by the images in the commercial, or imparted upon...
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2014
Ruétalo, Victoria, Lacroix, Denis
The Nosotros television programme has existed in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) since 1982 and has been broadcasting hour-long shows on Shaw Television. The programme, founded by Lito Azócar, represents the views, history and memory of local Latin American communities in Alberta. In keeping with its...
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Nosotros: A Digitization Story Between a University Library and Its Latin American Community
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Collecting latin American and Caribbean materials for a large Canadian university library in the twenty- first century now goes beyond the straight- forward acquisition of traditionally published information sources. the widespread use of approval plans allows academic librarians’ attention to...