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Female performances and representation in the Hollywood musical, 1929 - 1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis explores the evolution of female performance paradigms and representation in Hollywood musicals from 1929 to 1940. In particular, it considers how the paradigmatic representation of femininity within the musical ... -
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. ... -
From avant-garde to negentropy : an aesthetic deployment of Bernard Stiegler's genealogy of the sensible
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2016)This thesis mobilises Bernard Stiegler’s call for a genealogy of the sensible in order to elucidate a peculiar phenomenon in art, which is the increase in the autonomy and efficacy of technology in the making and production ... -
Hacking Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine: Unpacking the code and community behind an early software-based music visualizer
(2019)Foreshadowing in purpose and execution the music visualizers that were widely distributed with software media players during the early 2000s, Jeff Minter’s Virtual Light Machine (VLM) was distributed in the firmware of the ... -
Historically revealing : a cultural analysis of four recovered plays by Irish women, 1900-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)This thesis concerns the retrieval and analysis of four plays written in two distinct collaborative configurations by early twentieth-century Irish women, Geraldine Cummins (1890-1968), Susanne Day (1876-1964) and Hester ... -
The Histories of Charles Burney and John Hawkins: A Cultural Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)The Histories of Charles Burney and John Hawkins are examined with reference to the observation by Carl Dahlhaus (1983) and Warren Dwight Allen (1939/62) that written history reflects the culture of the age in which it is ... -
"Impossible Speech" - Monologue Drama in Ireland from 1964 - 2016: Form and Per(form)ativity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to critique a body of monologue drama by Irish playwrights during the period 1964 to 2016. Building on the recent work of Irish and international scholars on monologue drama and performance, it ... -
An Intercultural Theory of the Comic Spirit: Insider/Outsider Dynamics and Representation in Theatre and Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This dissertation commences with an enquiry into the origins of comedy in Greek fertility rituals and nature, drawing upon theories of play, ritual, and community to explicate case studies that have been decidedly sourced ... -
Interleaving as Cultural Technique in the Audio CD and the End of Archaeophonography
(2021)This article discusses a significant if imperceptible feature of how audio compact discs (CDs) inscribe sound: interleaving. It shows how CDs materialize interleaving—the microtemporal re-ordering of data—as a cultural ... -
Issues of gender in the texts of Ulster theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)This thesis is neither a history nor an exact socio/political documentary of Ulster Theatre. However, within textual readings, both discourses are employed to examine issues of gender within a context of more familiar ... -
Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation
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Landscapes, voices and corporealities of excess in the theatre of Marina Carr
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This Ph. D. thesis concerns the plays of contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr from 1989-1998. In the first section of this introduction I will contextualise the background, career and plays of Marina Carr within the ... -
Let her speak too : Shakespeare's shrews and the modern stage
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)This thesis takes as its starting point those of Shakespeare's female characters who are upbraided by other characters for speaking inappropriately, or too much, who are, in effect 'shrew' figures. The plays concerned span ... -
Leur vie d homme presque, d homme tout juste, d homme assez Une étude de l hybridation des créatures beckettiennes dans le contexte de l Anthropocène
(2020)This article offers a re-contextualisation of Beckett’s creatures in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration which leads to the introduction of a new vocabulary in order to conceptualise his hybrid creatures. After the ... -
Mamulengo Puppet Theatre in the socio-culture context of twentieth-century Brazil
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)Mamulengo is a popular form of puppet theatre in Pernambuco, a state located in the Northeast region of Brazil. It seems to have originated about two centuries ago, and even today, it remains a significant form of entertainment ... -
Melting the Boundaries: The integration of ethnic instruments into western art music
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2021)Melting the Boundaries: The Integration of Ethnic Instruments into Western Art Music Margaret Collins Stoop PhD Dissertation, Music Composition Trinity College Dublin Abstract This dissertation presents eight original ... -
Misrecognition, planning and cultural capitalism : independent theatremaking in Ireland, 1990-2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)This dissertation presents a critique of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of the fields and practices of cultural production through an examination of the case study of independent theatremaking in Ireland between 1990 and 2007. ...