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Learning for Survival, Resilience, Well-being and Continuance: An Epistemology and Pedagogy for Environmental Education/Education for Sustainability informed by Māori Culture
The literature suggests that philosophies, worldviews and approaches of indigenous cultures may be key to an urgent shift in paradigm towards holistic ethics, attitudes, values and behaviours essential for an ecologically ... -
Liberalism and Its Populist Excess: Barack Obama, the Tea Party and the Media Field
The remarkable ascendancy of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America in 2008, in the shadows of the financial crisis, was in no small part due to the effective discursive response to the ideological ... -
Media Power, Framing and the New Zealand Press: VSM and Kim Dotcom
This thesis examines the New Zealand press, focusing on newspaper representations of two events: the instating of Voluntary Student Membership (VSM) for New Zealand tertiary institutions in 2011 and the arrest of Finnish-German ... -
Multiplicities and the Subject: Rethinking a Mix-of-Attributes Approach in the Digital World
It has been 30 years since Clark made his call to focus on fundamental structures of media rather than media formats (such as radio or television) and more than 10 years since Eveland proposed a mix-of-attributes approach ... -
Narratives of desperation : 'genre, gender, and Desperate Housewives
This thesis investigates the history of the term 'desperation' when applied to female film and television genres, before examining how the first series Desperate Housewives draws from and adds to this history. In addition ... -
New Zealand Media Constructions of Islam and Muslims: An Analysis of Selected Newspapers Between 2005-2006
This study investigates the representation of Islam and Muslims in three New Zealand newspapers—the Otago Daily Times (ODT), The Press (Press) and The New Zealand Herald (NZH)—in order to identify how Islam and Muslims are ... -
Orienting Feminism Media, Activism and Cultural Representation
This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty. The book focuses on feminist modes of activism, as well as media and cultural ... -
The other side of the contemporary teen queen : an examination of the compelling structures of music video
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 ... -
The Pink Palace, policy and power: Home-making practices and gentrification in Northcote
Cultural practices constitute cultural spaces, which include, or exclude, specific identities. This article examines a set of particular ‘home-making’ cultural practices surrounding gentrification in Northcote, Melbourne. ... -
Postcolonial theory and the faciality machine
This thesis examines theories of colonial stereotypes and spectatorship as they circulate in postcolonial film and media theory. Conventional approaches to the repetitive and easily reproduced characteristics of the colonial ... -
Programming Parents: Care of Supernanny
In 2004 the problem of bad parenting came to the British public’s attention in a string of reality TV programmes about unruly children, exemplified most prominently by Supernanny. Unlike first and second wave makeover ... -
Queer will: Hikkomorias willful subjects
This article considers hikikomori as willful subjects. The hikikomori are a portion of the Japanese population who withdraw into their homes. These are mostly young people (between the ages of 15 and 35) and mostly young ... -
Re-examining Rural Representations in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Documentary
Documentary film enacts a particular viewing position, which enlists spectators in what Elizabeth Cowie describes as the desire to see and know the world through its recorded sights and sounds of reality. This thesis ... -
Realism, Urban Conflict and Spatial Segregation in New Brazilian Cinema
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 ... -
Rethinking Indian Cinema: Toward a Cinema of Multiplicity
This thesis explores the ways in which cinema’s in India have articulated the idea of the Indian Nation, and presents the argument that a national cinema must be necessarily multi-faceted in nature. Nationalism and Nations ...