Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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WOMEN IN HORROR: On the Screen, In the Scene, Behind the Screams

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Year: 2021, 2021
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Vosper, Amy Jane Jessica, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): McGuire, Kelly, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The objective of this dissertation is to measure the influence of the contemporary influx of women's involvement in the horror genre in three dimensional capacities: female representation in horror films, female representation as active, participatory spectators and female representation in the industrial production of horror. Through the combined approach of theoretical and… more
Full Text: WOMEN IN HORROR: On the Screen, In the Scene, Behind the Screams A doctoral dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science …

A Socioloegal Mediation of Rave Sound System Technologies

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Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Lilko, Matthew R, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The central scholarly contribution of this dissertation develops through bringing the theories of Michel Foucault to bear in a sociolegal study of rave culture's criminalization by the United Kingdom's 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. My methodology develops rave as a cultural keyword. This keyword navigates through a quasi-materialist definition of rave as a… more
Full Text: A SOCIOLEGAL MEDIATION OF RAVE SOUND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …

Finding Space, Making Place: Understanding the Importance of Social Space to Local Punk Communities

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Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Green, Katie Victoria, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Independent music venues are important hubs of social activity and cultural</p><p>production around which local punk scenes are both physically and conceptually</p><p>organized. Through interactions with participants over extended periods of time, these</p><p>spaces become meaningful places that are imbued with the energy, history and memories</p… more
Full Text: FINDING SPACE, MAKING PLACE: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SPACE TO LOCAL PUNK COMMUNITIES A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the …

Politics of Memory: Re(construction) of the Past in Post-socialist Vietnam

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Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Nguyen, Hoa Thi Thanh, Thesis advisor (ths): McLachlan, Ian, Degree committee member (dgc): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Nguyen-Marshall, Van, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>In dialogue with the critical scholarship on war and remembrance, my research deals with the construction, contestation and negotiation of collective memory in contemporary Vietnam with a focus on commemorations devoted to dead soldiers. Utilizing the methodologies of cultural studies and ethnography, this research seeks to comprehend the politics of memory which characterize collective… more
Full Text: POLITICS OF MEMORY: (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST IN POST-SOCIALIST VIETNAM A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …

The Anarchist Periodical Press in the United States: An Intertextual Study of Prison Blossoms, Free Society, and The Demonstrator

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Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Greenwood, Laura, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Stavro, Elaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Bordo, Jonathan, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This dissertation focuses on the English-language anarchist periodical press in the United States in the 1890s and early 1900s. Each of the three chapters of this dissertation examines one anarchist paper and its coverage of a specific issue. The first chapter focuses on Prison Blossoms, which was started by Alexander Berkman, Carl Nold, and Henry Bauer and written and circulated in the… more
Full Text: The Anarchist Periodical Press in the United States: An Intertextual Study of Prison Blossoms, Free Society, and The Demonstrator A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor …

The Technology of Consent: American Science Fiction and Cultural Crisis in the 1980s

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Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Andrews, Chad, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The 1980s in the United States have come into focus as years of extensive ideological and socioeconomic fracture. A conservative movement arose to counter the progressive gains of previous decades, neoliberalism became the nation's economic mantra, and détente was jettisoned in favour of military build-up. Such developments materialized out of a multitude of conflicts, a cultural… more
Full Text: THE TECHNOLOGY OF CONSENT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND CULTURAL CRISIS IN THE 1980s A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …

The Transcendental Turn: Kant's Critical Philosophy, Contemporary Theory, And Popular Culture

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mitchell, Kevin Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Holdsworth, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This dissertation traces the concept of transcendentalism from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to Michel Foucault's historical a priori and Pierre Bourdieu's field and habitus, with implicit reference to Deleuze's `transcendental empiricism,' and the influence this trajectory has had on contemporary theory and culture. This general conceptual framework is… more
Full Text:         THE  TRANSCENDENTAL  TURN:   KANT’S  CRITICAL  PHILOSOPHY,  CONTEMPORARY  THEORY,  AND  POPULAR   CULTURE         A  Dissertation  Submitted  to  the  Committee  on  Graduate  Studies  in  Partial   Fulfillment  of  the  Requirements  for  the …