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Fall 2011
The practice of appropriating a sign, icon or trope with an already-established meaning and investing it with a new meaning to produce a sign that retains both original and revised meanings is one example of what scholar Henry Louis Gates calls “Signifyin(g)”. I argue herein that musician George...
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Spring 2023
This thesis offers an iconographical analysis of the album cover of Temple of Shadows by Brazilian power metal band Angra, situating it within the context of heavy metal visual culture. It argues, through a post-colonial lens, that instead of focusing on religious blasphemy, violence, and...