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  • Abandoning the girl show ghetto : introducing and incorporating care ethics to girls' animation

    Creator:
    Hughes, Adam C.
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    In regards to animation created and aimed at them, girls are largely underserved and underrepresented. This underrepresentation leads to decreased socio-cultural capital in adulthood and a feeling of sacrificed childhood. Although there is a common consensus in entertainment toward girls as a potentially deficient audience, philosophy and applied ethics open...
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    Masters Thesis
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    interest in more adult pursuits including make-up, fashion, and reality television. In a business media

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
    Abstract:
    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

  • Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

    Creator:
    Divelbiss, John D.
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    This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Common Core State Standards but is essential for English/language arts classrooms in the 21st century