Browsing Humanities by Subject "Embodiment"
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The cinematic witch : the development of the witch in popular horror films
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)The film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) established certain conventions related to the witch horror film genre. These conventions are specifically related to the witch’s body and her supernatural abilities and ... -
Embodiment in the poetry of Gabeba Baderoon
(2012)This dissertation examines the relation between embodiment and language, knowledge and memory, as explored in the poetry of South African poet Gabeba Baderoon. In her three published collections of poetry, namely, The ... -
Improvisation through Dalcroze-inspired activities in beginner student jazz ensembles : a hermeneutic phenomenology
(2014)This dissertation investigated the meanings students from beginner jazz ensembles ascribe to learning jazz improvisation through Dalcroze-inspired activities. Over the course of ten weeks, students from three respective ... -
The representation of the female body/embodiment in selected mainstream American films
(North-West University, 2014)In her article “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” (1975) Laura Mulvey explains how film portrays the female characters as passive sexualised objects, on display for the male (erotic) gaze. Although, Mulvey did make ... -
Towards a Merleau-Pontian account of the phenomenon of digital technology : from disembodiment to the Embodied Screen
(North-West University, 2018)Digital technology is a contemporaneous, encompassing phenomenon that necessitates philosophical investigation, particularly with regard to how the individual relates to digital technology artefacts. However, contemporary ...