Essays about: "freak"

Found 4 essays containing the word freak.

  1. 1. Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Control and Self-Expression of Modern-Day Freak Show Performers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Dana Stepankova; [2023]
    Keywords : freak; freak shows; BDSM; body suspension; edgework; dark play; subculture; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract Author: Dana Štěpánková Title: Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Control and Self-Expression of ModernDay Freak Show Performers Supervisor: Sébastien Tutenges Master’s Thesis SOCM04, Cultural Criminology, 30 credits Department of Sociology, Spring 2023 Freak shows have been historically depicted as dehumanizing spectacles exhibiting individuals with physical anomalies. Over time, these shows faded away, but human curiosity and fascination with difference and deviance have brought them back in a new form. READ MORE

  3. 2. Vresboken : dåtid, nutid, framtid

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Jenny Puertas Hallberg; [2020]
    Keywords : vresbok; historia; skåne; växtsätt; mytomspunnet; träd;

    Abstract : Det fanns något lockande i ett ovanligt träd som nästan utrotades under 1700-talet, som varit andligt laddat i det förflutna och i att världens största bestånd av denna trädtyp kallad vresbok (Fagus sylvatica f. tortuosa) eller Freak beech som Kraft (1968) kallade den, växer geografiskt nära mig i Skåne. READ MORE

  4. 3. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
    Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE

  5. 4. Viability of Feature Detection on Sony Xperia Z3 using OpenCL

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för kreativa teknologier; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för datalogi och datorsystemteknik

    Author : Max Danielsson; Thomas Sievert; [2015]
    Keywords : GPU; Feature Detection; Feature Description; Embedded Device;

    Abstract : Context. Embedded platforms GPUs are reaching a level of perfor-mance comparable to desktop hardware. Therefore it becomes inter-esting to apply Computer Vision techniques to modern smartphones.The platform holds different challenges, as energy use and heat gen-eration can be an issue depending on load distribution on the device. READ MORE