Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Click, Melissa A., 1971-"
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Between cultural diversity and fantasy : hybridity, pop cosmopolitanism and transnational media fandom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examines the complex, multidirectional process of media transnationalization and online media fandom within the new media environment, ... -
Culturally speaking : media, intimacy, and the vocal dimension of race and gender
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project examines the racial and gendered meanings of vocal sound, focusing specifically on the ways voices and their cultural associations are ... -
Exploring audience responses to self-reflexivity in television narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Self-reflexivity refers to "the process by which texts, both literary and filmic, foreground their own production, their authorship, their intertextual influences, their reception, or their enunciation" (Stam, 1985, p. ... -
The mediated myth of rock and roll
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study deconstructs the cultural myth (Barthes, 1957) of rock and roll as constructed by television and film (forms) and negotiated through musicians' experiences and personal understandings (concepts). It does so ... -
Working hard or working class? : neoliberalism and working-class representation in contemporary television
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Neoliberalism, an economic philosophy that promotes principles of the free market and private, individual responsibility, has become a pervasive way to organize cultural and political life. This study used neoliberalism ...