Browsing School of Creative Arts by Title
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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, ... -
Seek : composition portfolio and commentaries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2010)This thesis serves as an accompanying commentary for a portfolio of ten musical compositions composed between 2005 and 2009. The works presented incorporate a broad range of forces and performance contexts, from live ... -
Somatic practice in performance : the Maya Lila project of Joan Davis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Drawing on post-positivist and new paradigm research methodologies, I examine the Maya Lila project of Irish contemporary dancer and choreographer Joan Davis. In Maya Lila, Davis places somatic practices usually used in a ... -
Template morphology and serial invariants : compositional procedures in Stravinsky's late sketch collections, 1958-66
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2001)This thesis employs unpublished holograph sketch and draft material now in the possession of the Paul Sacher Stiflung, Basel, to investigate how serial deployment and the exploitation of row properties in the later works ... -
The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015)In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This ... -
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 ... -
The construction of history and childhood in literature and film for children in Ireland, 1990-2003
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2006)This thesis examines the construction of and relationship between childhood and history in Irish children’s texts. The project takes a multi-disciplinary approach, focussing on the construction of history and of childhood ... -
The drama of Oscar Wilde : contesting Victorian gender dynamics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2014)This thesis will analyse Oscar Wilde’s dramatic characters and propose that he challenged the typical Victorian gender roles on the stage, and re-imagined more modern modes of masculinity and femininity in his plays. In ... -
The eighteenth-century music manuscripts at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin: sources, lineage, and relationship to other collections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Drama, Film and Music., 2002)This thesis examines the music manuscripts copied before 1800 that survive in the music library at St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin. Prior to this study, these manuscripts had not been investigated in a comprehensive way. ... -
The globalisation of Robert Lepage : Québécois cultural politics and contemporary theatre practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2005)This thesis is an analysis of four productions by the quebecois theatre artist Robert Lepage, and of their reception. 1 chose these productions because they broadly cover the span of Lepage's career to date (1980s: Vinci ... -
The Irish Catholic family in exile : ideological narratives and the uncanny home
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)This thesis uses the dramatic model of the Irish Catholic family as a microcosm through which to examine the ways in which cultural and political ideologies have shaped a particular value-determined narrative of Irish ... -
The Northern revival and the Ulster literary theatre
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The past is myself : constructions of history and memory in the Abbey 2004 Centenary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to position the events of the 2004 centenary of the Irish National Theatre Society, known as abbeyonehundred, within the context of Irish institutional and cultural history. Interdisciplinary ... -
The playfellow of Judas, J.M. Synge : Plays, politics and pre-Christian Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This dissertation provides a cultural materialist reading of J.M. Synge's dramatisation of the cultural residue of pre-Christian Ireland in five of his seven plays: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), ... -
The role of rhythm in the construction and articulation of form in the late works of Alban Berg
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2004)This thesis examines rhythmic construction in the works composed by Alban Berg between the years 1923 and 1935. It begins by discussing the type of rhythmic and motivic development which was an intrinsic part of the technique ... -
The thrill of estrangement' : ethnicity and theatrical reality in Les Amertumes, Combat de Negre et de Chiens and Quai Ouest by Bernard-Marie Koltes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This thesis consists of an analysis of ethnicity and modes of theatrical reality in three plays by French dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltes, made possible by a convergence of critical strategies from postcolonialism, phenomenology ... -
The vernacular church music of William Byrd : a reappraisal of chronology, authenticity and context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)This aim of this thesis is a unified reappraisal of the vernacular church music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623). Specific objectives include the elimination of opera dubia, the distinguishing of adapted consort works from ... -
The woman with a garden : unearthing the artistry and activism of Constance Markievicz 1908-1927
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Constance Markievicz, one of Ireland's founding figures, would not define herself solely as a journalist nor playwright yet her playtexts and rhetorical outputs were just as much a part of her activism as her military ... -
Theatrical Elements and Musical Dramaturgy: Exploring the Use of Literary Texts to Develop Narrative Features, Theatricality, and Symbolism in Music Composition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2023)This dissertation features a portfolio of seven original compositions of experimental music theatre (Voices, The Chariot, The Masque of the Red Death, The Night Journey, Sea Holly, Cassandra, and Epiclesis), exploring the ... -
Toward perpetual peace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2012)This is a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in music composition. In the opening part (A), 1 comment on my musical background, environment and influences, including a shorter comment on the orchestra piece ...