Browsing Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Porter, Michael J."
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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. ... -
Queer affluence, popular media, and the matter of the openly gay spokesperson
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This dissertation looks at queer representation in the media and highlights a particular representational strategy that is used in a stereotypical fashion. My first chapter does two things. First, it centers on an exemplar ...