Essays about: "Queer Culture"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 essays containing the words Queer Culture.

1. 16. 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

3. 17. Anti-Oppression and Academia: Applying critical methodologies to study identity and student experiences in university settings

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Lena Weber; Anna Hermanson; [2015]
   Keywords : Identity; Anti-Oppression; Student Experience; Critical Race Theory; Feminist Theory; Queer Methodologies; Participatory Action Research; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : With increasing frequency we hear calls from activists and academics alike to tackle the structural roots of the current global social-ecological crisis. For those of us situated within academia, this provides an opportunity to critically examine how underlying processes related to the roots of this crisis manifest in and are perpetuated by our own institutions, and how to make academic programs within the ‘pipeline’ into environmental work more attractive and accessible to diverse voices. READ MORE

4. 18. Performing Jewellery : Jewellery, decoration, gender and performance

   University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab/Metallformgivning

   Author : Carolina Gimeno; [2014]
   Keywords : jewellery; gender; performativity; decoration; femininity; intimacy; public; attraction; bewilderment; bodily; body; woman; wearability; decorating;

   Abstract : This essay is about the act of wearing contemporary jewellery has as a way of communication between human beings. I investigate the act of decorating the body as an important and basic human need. READ MORE

5. 19. MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS: GENDER TROUBLE AT WORK? - A popular culture study of gender in management consulting -

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sandra Johanna Van Andel; Laura El-Khatib; [2012]
   Keywords : management consulting; popular culture; gender performativity; masculinities; femininity; queer; television; parody; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to add to the conceptual understanding of gender in management consulting, as portrayed through the lens of popular culture. It is further aimed to highlight the reciprocal relationship between popular culture research and the study of organization/ management consulting studies. READ MORE

6. 20. Queer as Folk - Representation of Gay Language in Popular Culture

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Mats-Erik Augustsson; [2011-07-04]
   Keywords : self-managed; code-switching; gay speech; gay vocabulary; in-group; out-group;

   Abstract : This study investigates how gay vocabulary and code-switching is portrayed in the North American television series Queer as Folk. The search for gay vocabulary was conducted through viewing the entire series searching for words and expressions documented in previous research. READ MORE