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Decolonial Dreamwork: Spectatorship, Affect and Indigeneity in Performance

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“Decolonial Dreamwork: Spectatorship, Affect and Indigeneity in Performance” analyzes the use of performance art, dance and theater to consider the problem of colonial inheritance in ...
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2018
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Mengesha, Lilian Gabrielle (creator) Ybarra, Patricia (Advisor) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Alvarado, Leticia (Reader) Allen, Chadwick (Reader) Brown University. Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
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Affect theory Performance art Performance theory Critical Indigenous Studies Indigenous Feminism Belmore, Rebecca Galindo, Regina José, 1974- Lara Kramer Mojica, Monique, 1954- Howe, LeAnne Fusco, Coco Spectatorship Indigeneity
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Disorientations: Theatricality and Contemporary Asian American Performance

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This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers ...
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2013
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Mok, Christine Y (creator) Ybarra, Patricia (Director) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Kim, Daniel (Reader) Lim, Eng Beng (Reader) Brown University. Theatre Studies (sponsor)
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theatricality theatre racial identity representation identity formation Performance Asian Americans Theater Photography Dance Literature
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Entertaining the Movement: Jane Fonda, GI Resistance, and the FTA

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This dissertation reframes contemporary investments in political performance through an analysis of the politics and practices of the FTA, a GI-oriented antiwar variety show led ...
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2014
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Goss, Lindsay Evan (creator) Ybarra, Patricia (Director) Ybarra, Patricia (Reader) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Ridout, Nicholas (Reader) Brown University. Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
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Theatre history U.S. history Vietnam War political theatre Jane Fonda Bob Hope USO 1960s political protest spectatorship Vietnam War (1961-1975) Nineteen sixties
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Feminist Impositions: Performing Parasites in Contemporary Digital and Performance Art

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The dissertation makes the case that recent digital and performance art practices have compelled a reappraisal of Western feminism, which has become increasingly vulnerable to ...
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2012
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Fisher, Anna W (creator) Chun, Wendy (Director) Joyrich, Lynne (Reader) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Munoz, Jose (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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digital contemporary art Parasitism Feminism Performance
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Out of Concern: Performance Modes of Engaging with the World

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"The world of the play”, “making a world onstage”: these are common ways of talking about what happens in a theatre. But what do we ...
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2018
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Jucan, Ioana Bogdana (creator) Golub, Spencer (Advisor) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader) Ophir, Adi (Reader) Brown University. Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
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Globalization Capitalism performance philosophy feminist thought and practice world-making modernity habits of thinking and living performativity ecology media and performance
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Performing Disemployment: Disability Performance and Theatrical Labor in the United States since the 1970s

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“Performing Disemployment” argues that theatre and performance practices emerged as the critical nexus between disability politics and the politics of work in the United States ...
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2017
Contributors:
McKelvey, Patrick T (creator) Ybarra, Patricia (Director) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Self, Robert (Reader) Passanante Elman, Julie (Reader) Brown University. Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
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disability performance work theatre crip queer
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Rhythmanalysis of the Earth, the Animal, and the Machine

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This dissertation adopts Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis as an artistic methodology and applies it to ecologies of more-than-human agency. Each of three pieces addresses a ...
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2018
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House, Brian James (creator) Chun, Wendy (Advisor) Winkler, Todd (Advisor) Osborn, Ed (Reader) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Brown University. Department of Music (sponsor)
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Urbanism Performance art Artificial intelligence Rats Gold mines and mining Musical meter and rhythm Sound installations (Art) Transduction
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The Live and the Life-Like: Theatre, Performance, Animation

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The Live and the Life-Like: Theater, Performance, Animation explores intersections of stage and screen as it seeks to reveal the laboring, performing body across aesthetic ...
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2014
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Vermy, Hans R (creator) Golub, Spencer (Director) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Winkler, Todd (Reader) Koch, Gertrud (Reader) Brown University. Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
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animation theatre Performance Theater
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The Untimely Image: On Feminist Inactivism and Postcolonial Ethics

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We are often told that we live in an age of protest, given the rise of political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women ...
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2018
Contributors:
Padmanabhan, Lakshmi (creator) Gandhi, Leela (Advisor) Rooney, Ellen (Advisor) Azoulay, Ariella (Reader) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Ethics Photography Postcolonialism Aesthetics South Asia temporality Critical Race Studies Feminist theory Experimental films Postcolonialism in motion pictures Women's rights Anti-imperialist movements Neoliberalism
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Theatricality of the Closet: Clothing Controversies in Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan

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Using three cases of fashion controversy that took place across the globe during a very small window of time (1868-1872), I articulate ways in which ...
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2013
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Carriger, Michelle Liu (creator) Ybarra, Patricia (Director) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Bernstein, Robin (Reader) Brown University. Theatre Studies (sponsor)
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theatricality clothing sexuality Victorian Britain Meiji Historiography Fashion Sex Performance
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Viscerally Uncomfortable TV: Affective Spectatorship and Televisual Neoliberalism

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This dissertation explores the changing terms of neoliberal culture that are affectively registered in our most dominant media form, television. I examine the affective texture ...
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2015
Contributors:
Hargraves, Hunter R (creator) Joyrich, Lynne (Director) Chun, Wendy (Reader) Schneider, Rebecca (Reader) Ouellette, Laurie (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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American television affect Neoliberalism
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