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Same Frame, New Picture: Changing Gender, Ethnic and Cultural Representation in Hollywood Genre Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This study explores the potential of a Hollywood genre film to disestablish those retrogressive gender, ethnic and cultural representations that are frequently encoded in the tropes of Hollywood genre cinema. To that end, ... -
The Fourth Wave fights back: Deconstructing the Performativity of rape culture through contemporary Irish theatre, performance and society
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This dissertation seeks to examine and deconstruct contemporary rape culture. It explores, and builds on, the three preceding waves of the feminist movement, and contextualises established theories of hegemonic masculinity. ... -
Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)If language is subjective, if the sign is unstable, if meaning is endlessly deferred, how is it possible to assume a position of moral critique? Confronted by persistent social crisis, the American theatre and opera director ... -
The body sonic : performance of the voice in Paula Meehan's lyrical theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The thesis investigates the dramatic repertoire of contemporary Irish poet and playwright, Paula Meehan (b. 1955). The five chapters explore Paula Meehan’s eight original plays and her theatre collaborations. To explore ... -
Premise and compositional working-out : an examination through analysis of Ligeti's changing style
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2002)In many of his interviews and writings from the mid-eighties, Ligeti talks of a crisis in his compositional output, and his move to a simpler style. This thesis takes the form of three detailed analyses of works which span ...
