When a woman gains a foothold as a hero, as a warrior or tough woman in popular culture, the gender order is threatened. For the warrior woman's identity to be legitimated she must perform a coherent subjectivity that ...
This thesis investigates the role of the music video in the construction of star image. Specifically, I examine the intertextual nature of the star images of pop stars Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. In their early ...
Abdullah, Aida Nasirah(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)
The opportunities that websites offer to Environmental Non Governmental Organisations (ENGOs), from information dissemination to deliberation and from service delivery to mobilisation, have led scholars to anticipate that ...
The New Brazilian Cinema (from the mid-1990s) has been celebrated as a period of re-birth for the national film industry. Not only has there been a considerable increase in film releases, but during this period, Brazilian ...
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women struggled to find a public voice amidst an oppressive patriarchal culture. Women turned to private writing forms in order to find a voice, and thus the diary and the letter ...