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Agostino, Joseph, e jag@fmrecycling com au. "Workplace identity". Swinburne University of Technology. Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050805.134042.
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There have been a limited number of studies carried out on employee workplace identity. There have been many studies carried out on organizational change; however, they have been carried out mostly from an instrumentalist perspective where the topic of organizational change has been treated in isolation from other aspects of organization. The question of how a relationship exists between employee workplace identity and organizational change has been left unanswered. This thesis applies narrative theory as a conceptual bridge across identity and change. By considering how employees derive a sense of workplace identity from the workplace narratives, and organizational change as the destruction of existing workplace narratives and adoption of new workplace narratives, it is possible to gain new understandings of these concepts. A theory is developed which explains how narrative theory creates a relationship between identity and change. This new theory is further developed to explain how narrative theory creates a relationship between organizational identity, culture, leadership, conflict, and change. The new extended theory is applied to a narrative presentation of empirical data, which offers a powerful explanatory lens for understanding the relationship between these chosen aspects of organization.
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McMaster, Sarah. "Taking fire, making fire : settler colonial understandings of Aboriginal fire practices in Victoria, Australia". Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2019. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/185879.
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In the State of Victoria, Australia, fire has a political dimension that is as vigorous and enduring as its physical presence. This thesis argues that in Victoria, European explorers and settler colonists persistently treated and depicted Aboriginal fire skills and practices in ways that were politically advantageous to themselves, and disadvantageous to Aboriginal peoples. Drawing from nineteenth century diaries, letters, recollections, newspaper articles and official records, this work uses Foucauldian theories to analyse the discourses that shaped and made possible the newcomers’ understandings of Aboriginal fire practices. It argues that explorers and settler colonists sought to replace Aboriginal peoples as Victoria’s fire managers and to restrict the opportunities Aboriginal peoples had to determine burning regimes. They did this physically, by prohibiting, and limiting attempts by Aboriginal peoples to continue precolonial fire practices. They also did it discursively, creating knowledge which constituted the practices as antiquated and incompatible with colonial enterprises, and by forming their own identity as expert settler Victorians, legitimately at home on the land. This thesis stresses that relationships of power between Aboriginal and European peoples were multidimensional and argues that in maintaining a position of dominance, the newcomers variously appropriated, emulated, feared and revered Aboriginal fire practices. It further argues that these efforts to disturb Aboriginal peoples using fire were fuelled only partially by the settler colonial perceptions that Aboriginal-managed fires presented unacceptable physical risks to humans and their assets. Efforts to disturb existing practices were additionally prompted by the newcomers’ political need to effect their seizure of territory, by demonstrating that it was they, not Aboriginal peoples, who controlled fire in Victoria. Drawing from settler colonial theory about the enduring nature of colonising structures and discourse, this thesis suggests that caution is needed to ensure the state’s contemporary use of Aboriginal fire practices does not further perpetuate settler colonial patterns of dominance and control.Doctor of Philosophy
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Kuchinke, Diana. "Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia". Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2018. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/167648.
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Globally, forest birds are under pressure, from agriculture and urban development fragmenting the landscape. Adding to these pressures, changes in the patterns of global climate drivers give rise to an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. In Victoria, Australia, changing weather conditions are resulting in increases in the frequency and extent of bushfires. Furthermore, prescribed burning is applied to the landscape in attempts to not only ameliorate the impacts from bushfire, but as part of a ‘pyrodiversity begets biodiversity’ protocol. These pressures all impact birds by reducing resources for: food, nesting and protection from predators. This thesis investigated bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, against variables of time-since-fire and fire frequency. Bird responses were modelled in terms of: community, foraging guilds and individual species. As a community, birds showed a resilience to both time since fire and fire frequency. Responses by foraging guilds and individual species highlighted some different responses. The common species from each foraging guild showed responses that broadly represent their guild. This thesis highlighted that an effective tool in adaptive management is to predict the trends of our common forest birds, as surrogates for entire bird communities, not just for fire responses, but for a broader reflection on the health of the landscape. The modelling of one species, the Laughing Kookaburra, showed a response to both time since fire and fire frequency, with a reduced abundance in post-fire new-growth vegetation. As this species is noted as being in decline down the east coast of Australia, it is flagged in this thesis as a species of concern. Further, this thesis investigated alpha and beta responses by the forest birds to prescribed burns of different severities. Results suggest that forest birds show little response to small prescribed burns in the landscape, regardless of severity. This may be a result of Heathy Dry Forests’ rapid regeneration post-fire. However, one species that exhibits site fidelity, the White-throated Treecreeper, left areas impacted by high severity prescribed burns. The White-throated Treecreeper’s response flagged the importance of tree hollows being maintained in the landscape, essential for the species that require hollows for roosting and nesting.Doctor of Philosophy
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Cook, Patricia. "Slade's electro-photo marvel : touring film exhibition in late Victorian Britain". Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/211/.
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This thesis explores a little known period of early film exhibition in late Victorian Britain. Employing an historiographic approach to material not previously researched, principally the archive of William D. Slade a successful Cheltenham business man, a largely chronological study of Slade‟s activities has been undertaken. Beginning with his presentations of optical lantern exhibitions in the 1880s and 90s in Cheltenham and Worcester, Slade‟s experience as an amateur in magic lantern exhibition is explored as the background to the paradigm shift he made in December 1896. Immediately after purchasing a Demenÿ -Chronophotographe and films from the recently established Gaumont Company in Paris, Slade, accompanied by his daughter Mary, embarked on a new career as Slade‟s Kinematographical and Optical Entertainments and Concerts. During the first six months of 1897, he put on a series of entertainments in the south-west of England and Derbyshire. Investigating what was taking place in Cheltenham in 1897 revealed that the Borough Council commissioned Robert Paul to take film of the official visit of the Prince of Wales to the town in May 1897. The correspondence between Slade and Gaumont et Cie further disclosed that Léon Gaumont, in company with John Le Couteur of the Photographic Association in London, also came to Cheltenham to film this visit. This explained how Slade was able to exhibit film of the Prince of Wales‟ visit as part of the Cheltenham Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June 1897. Slade subsequently made these films a central feature of his nationwide touring entertainments. In August 1897, Slade entered into a contract with a theatrical agent, Edward Baring, which led to 28 weeks of touring as Slade‟s Electro-Photo Marvel six nights a week throughout England and Scotland, ending in March 1898. An in-depth study of the many exhibitions he presented revealed the wide variety of localities he visited, and furnished new understanding of the importance of the Diamond Jubilee films in attracting a diverse audience in many thriving towns of this period. William Slade, previously unknown, emerges as a significant figure in the diffusion of moving pictures beyond the cities and the music hall, into many different localities of provincial Britain and significantly extends the knowledge of exhibition practices in the two years immediately after the first exhibitions in London.
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Böhnke, Dietmar. "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorian Age in Postmodern British Fiction and Film". trafo, 2010. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A32038.
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Dyer, Rodd MacGregor. "Fire and vegetation management in pasture lands of the Victoria River District, Northern Territory /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16803.pdf.
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Erlich, Jane. "Victor Sjoestroem : four films 1913-1919". Thesis, Royal College of Art, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328287.
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Wills, Timothy Jarrod 1974. "Succession in sand heathland at Loch Sport, Victoria : changes in vegetation, soil seed banks and species traits". Monash University, Dept. of Biological Sciences, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7742.
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Wilson, Barbara Anne, e mikewood@deakin edu au. "The effects of vegetation, fire and other disturbance factors on small mammal, ecology and conservation". Deakin University. School of Science, 1990. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051111.135542.
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The relationship of vegetation and disturbance factors to the distribution, abundance and diversity of small mammals in the eastern Otway region, Victoria were investigated. Antechinus stuartii, Rattus fuscipes and Rattus lutreolus were widely distributed and occurred in the majority of the eleven floristic vegetation groups identified.
Antechinus minimus, Antechinus swainsonnii and Pseudomys novaehollandiae had restricted distributions and were recorded in only two or three vegetation groups. New information on the distribution of the rare species P. novaehollandiae, was obtained and two floristically rich vegetation groups that it preferred were identified.
Species-rich small mammal communities occurred in vegetation communities with high numbers of sclerophyll plant species and high structural diversity. Maximum food resources were considered to be provided in these communities. Local habitat diversity was also correlated with species-richness. Small mammal abundance was maximum in non-sclerophyllous canmunities, where high plant productivity was considered to be important.
For the first time, the presence of the plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi was shown to affect small mammals. It was associated with small mammal communities of low species richness and abundance,
Recovery of small mammal populations after wildfire was slow until the fourth year. Mus musculus reached peak abundance from 2-3 years and then declined rapidly. P. novaehollandiae was the only native species that achieved maximum abundance early in the succession. A. stuartii, R. fuscipes and R. lutreolus approached maximum abundance in mid-succession, while Isoodon obesulus was a mid- to late-successional species. A. minimus survived the fire, but did not persist after one year. The pattern of succession was influenced by attributes of species, such as survival after fire, their ability to disperse and reproduce.
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Manion, Deborah Maria. "The ekphrastic fantastic: gazing at magic portraits in Victorian fiction". Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1360.
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While Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray depicts the quintessential literary portrait endowed with uncanny life and movement, dozens of such magic portraits are featured in Victorian fiction. From the ravishing picture of the title character in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret to the coveted portrait of a Romantic poet in Henry James's The Aspern Papers, imagined portraits in these texts serve as conduits of desire and fear--windows into passions and repressions that reveal not only the images' external effects but their relation to the unconscious of their viewers. My dissertation turns a critical eye on this gallery of ekphrastic pictures--those not actually visible to the reader but rather visualizable through verbal description--to argue that the meditations on representation and desire that these novels and stories perform not only anticipate but augment theories of the image and the gaze developed primarily since the advent of cinema. Though the dissertation benefits from film theory's models of visual exchange, the distinctions between these portraits and images in film open up fertile analytical terrain. Ekphrastic magic portraits provide a unique opportunity to delve into the intersecting realms of word painting and image perception, the optics of desire and subjectivity, to advance critical discourses in visual studies that are framed both historically and theoretically. Using psychoanalytic and narratological methodologies, particularly those relevant to feminist and queer image theory, "The Ekphrastic Fantastic" demonstrates how the fictional visual exchanges on display in magic portrait stories elucidate various power struggles regarding sexuality and narrative structuring. These literary pictures thereby provide new access to the social and artistic commentaries that often subtend Victorian fiction.
Each chapter considers three primary texts and the branch of image theory most relevant to their deployment of magic portraits. Laura Mulvey's foundational essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," provides the point of departure in the first chapter, which looks at Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. The second chapter addresses Margaret Oliphant's "The Portrait," Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman," and James's The Aspern Papers with further feminist insights from Vivian Sobchack and Teresa de Lauretis. The final chapter determines the relationship of principles of visual representation and narrative production of the Aesthetic movement to magic portraits in Walter Pater's "Sebastian van Storck," Vernon Lee's "Oke of Okehurst," and Wilde's Dorian Gray, particularly as they relate to the nascent medium of cinema and the theories that soon as well as later arose to account for the impact of its kinetic mirage. The arc of my argument emphasizes how, as the Victorian period advances, the portraits become increasingly animate and subversive in their challenges to patriarchal gender norms and narrative formulas. In this way, they become the mechanisms by which new models of psycho-sexual relations can be expressed and new social and narrative systems can emerge.
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Thibaudeau, Pascale. "Image, mythe et réalité dans le cinéma de Victor Erice". Poitiers, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995POITA001.
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Analyse des rapports entre image, mythe et réalité dans les trois premiers longs métrages de Victor Erice (el espiritu de la colmena, el sur, et sol del membrillo) avec des références ponctuelles au court-métrage el desafio. Les instruments critiques sont empruntes au structuralisme, a l'anthropologie, a la psychanalyse et a la sémiotique. Une première partie, "la conscience du temps", traite tout d'abord de la transposition temporelle a l'écran et des rythmes internes de chaque film, puis elle s'intéresse a la mythification de l'histoire par l'image, la deuxième partie, "une organisation du monde", réserve une place importante a l'étude de la fragmentation des espaces et de leur recomposition selon des principes symétriques, et s'achève par une réflexion sur les procédés réflexifs, la place de l'énonciation et la problématique de la représentation de la réalitéAn analysis of the relationships between image, myth and reality in the first three feature films of victor erice (el espiritu de la colmena. El sur, et sol del membrillo) with minor references to the short film el desafio. Critical tools are borrowed from structuralism, anthropology, psychaonalysis and semiotics. The first part, "the consciousness of time" deals first with the way time is recreated on the screan and then with the internal rythms which are specific to each film; then it centres on the mythifying of history by means of the image. The second part "an ordering of the world" devotes an important place to the study of space reconstruction according to principles of symmetry and concludes on an analysis of reflexive devices, of the status of enunciation and the question of the representation of reality
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Weber, Johannes [Verfasser], Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Houswitschka e Jörn [Akademischer Betreuer] Glasenapp. "“Like some damned Juggernaut” – The proto-filmic monstrosity of late Victorian literary figures / Johannes Weber. Betreuer: Christoph Houswitschka ; Jörn Glasenapp". Bamberg : University of Bamberg Press, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1078503680/34.
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Masaki, Tomoko. "A history of the toy book : the aesthetic, creative and technological aspects of Victorian popular picture books through the firm of Routledge 1852-1893". Thesis, Roehampton University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364821.
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Poizat-Amar, Mathilde. "L'Eclat du voyage : Blaise Cendrars, Victor Segalen, Albert Londres". Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/54345/.
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La thèse explore les œuvres de Blaise Cendrars, de Victor Segalen et d’Albert Londres sous l’angle de « l’éclat du voyage » et se propose d’analyser les effets produits par la présence du voyage sur un plan diégétique, métadiégétique et stylistique. Chez ces trois auteurs, la notion de voyage dépasse en effet sa vocation thématique pour se faire véritable matière à travailler le langage, le texte et atteindre la sphère de la littérarité en exerçant sur le texte une menace d’éclatement. Le texte affecté par le voyage, loin d’être mis en péril, s’inscrit ainsi dans une modernité littéraire : en prenant le risque, par le détour du voyage, d’une écriture déformant, re-formant, re-définissant la littérature, les trois œuvres examinées illuminent quelques chemins de traverse dans lesquels s’engagent œuvres et critiques contemporaines. Cette étude interroge les premiers écrits de Cendrars (1912-1938) en explorant par quelles voies la présence conjointe du motif du voyage et de l’éclatement conduit à la création d’une représentation fractale du monde. La mise en évidence de trajectoires chaotiques des personnages cendrarsiens au cœur d’un monde ontologiquement fracturé permet l’édification textuelle d’une « anarchitecture » poétique et moderne. L’examen du cycle polynésien de Segalen met en évidence la présence du voyage comme le résultat d’un écart désirant, véritable menace de déchirure entre l’ici et l’ailleurs, soi et l’autre, soi et soi. Cet écart aboutit, à travers une présence textuelle, à la formation d’une poétique littéraire de la diffraction, poussant ainsi l’œuvre aux limites d’un hors-littérature. Enfin, à travers l’étude des reportages d’Albert Londres, la thèse montre comment l’écriture du voyage trouve un regain de force par le détour du reportage.
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Tolsma, Arn Douwe. "The Effects of fire and grazing on the energy reserves of resprouting plants in Victoria's alpine grasslands /". Connect to thesis, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000331.
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Summerhayes, Catherine, e catherine summerhayes@anu edu au. "Film as Cultural Performance". The Australian National University. School of Art, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090210.095136.
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This thesis investigates how Victor Turners concept of cultural performance can be used to explore and analyse the experience of film. Drawing on performance theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology and Bakhtins dialogism, Sections One and Two develop this investigation through a theoretic discussion which relates and yet distinguishes between three levels of performance in film: filmmaking performance, performances as text and cultural performances. The theory is grounded within four films which were researched for this thesis: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994), Rats in the Ranks (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson,1996), beDevil (Tracey Moffatt, 1993) and Link-Up Diary (David MacDougall, 1987). Section Three undertakes the close analyses of the latter two films. These analyses address specific cultural performances that are performed across cultures and which are concerned particularly with Australian societys relationship with indigenous Australians.
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Section One locates Turners concept of cultural performance within his wider theory of social drama and introduces the three-tiered mode of analysis which is developed throughout this thesis. His concept of liminality is also investigated in order to consider specific relationships between performances which take place in film and theatre. Performances which take place in film are located in this Section within the theatrical understanding of performance as for an audience. I describe this relationship between performances in film and theatre through Kristevas interpretation of Bakhtins concept of heteroglossia as intertextuality, especially through her distinction of a transformative intertextuality. Three specific concepts from theatre and performance theory are interrogated for their relevance to film theory:
1. Brechts theory of gest,
2. direct address to the audience in relation to the gaze in film and
3. Rebecca Schneiders conceptualisation of the performance artist.
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Using these three tropes of performance, Section Two develops a theory of performance in film. Besides Turners concept of cultural performance, this theory draws on aspects of several other substantial bodies of work. These works include Richard Schechners performance theory, Michael Taussigs understanding of mimesis, Vivian Sobchacks phenomenology of film, Paul Ricoeurs theory of text as meaningful action, Gadamers concept of meaningful play, Bakhtins conceptualisation of a dialogic text and Catherine Bells theory of ritualised behaviour. The two analyses in Section Three do not rigidly follow the three-tiered process of analysis which is developed in the previous two Sections. They rather focus on the films as sites for particular cultural performances which are specific for each film and which need for their description, different aspects of the theory that is offered through this thesis. These analyses especially draw on my interpretation of David MacDougalls transcultural cinema and Jodi Brooks conceptualisation of a gestural practice in film, which she positions both in terms of Brechts theatrical concept of gest and Walter Benjamins concept of the shock of modernity.
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The film analyses are of one fiction film, beDevil, and one non-fiction film, Link-Up Diary. Both films use audiovisual images of Aboriginal Australians as content. According the terms of this thesis, these people must also be considered as filmmakers. Although this role may constitute varying degrees of authority and power, a film analysis which considers the filmmaking roles of people whose images are present in the filmic text also allows a particular consideration of the social relationships which exist between people who film and people who are filmed. My focus on the cultural performances of these two films allowed an even closer description of this relationship for two reasons. Firstly, both Moffatt and MacDougall respectively present their own images in the films. Secondly, my analyses of these films as cultural performance draw out and describe the different ways in which the two films address the same social drama: the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. My analyses expose how a description of these differences in address can extend beyond the distinction between one film as fiction and the other as non-fiction towards a description of the different ways in which people relate to each other, at both the individual level and at the level of society, through the production and reception of a particular film. While locating these films as cultural performances within in particular sets of social relationships, my consideration of film in this thesis in terms of theatrical performance also enables a description of the experience of film which draws on the social experience of live theatre. The theory developed in this thesis and its application in the analyses of these two films suggest further areas of research which might look more closely at whether or not, or how much people draw from the social practices of live theatre as they live their lives with film a signifying practice which has existed just over one hundred years.
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Breed, Catharina Adriana. "Die herskryf van die roman Die swye van Mario Salviati van Etienne van Heerden as 'n draaiboek, met spesifieke fokus op identiteit, hibriditeit en liminaliteit / C.A. Breed". Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1671.
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Antonsen, Torben. "Sublime pixels : exploring the audience experience in digital special effects cinema : [a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Film] /". ResearchArchive@Victoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1075.
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Beneke, Nanette. "The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens / N. Beneke". Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/582.
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The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or
societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain
moment in time. This concept of reality implies an "interspace" between (con)texts that
could be described as a hybrid (a term that is used to describe the mixing or
intermingling of different aspects or liminal space between various (con)texts. As the
notion of identity is closely related to the interaction of the individual with a specific
context, the main aim of the research was to promote hybridity as a form of identity by
exploring the relationship or dialogue between literature (novel) and film as texts.
For this purpose, a comparison was made between the formation of identity in the novel
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its twentieth century counterpart in film
produced by Twentieth Century Fox (directed by Alfonso Cuaron and adapted by Mitch
Glazer). The main difference between the two texts, the different periods in which the
works were produced, constituted an important point of departure for this study. It also
revealed that the main character of the respective texts, Pip/Finn, possesses a type of
"core personality" of a sense of values that refuses to be repressed, despite the
character's interaction with context as reflected in the interplay between the similarities
and differences between the texts.
The methodological approach was based on the Brockmeier model which suggested an
imbrication of theories such as narratology, semiotics and intertextuality that could all
contribute, in some way, towards the formation of "textual" identity. The analysis ,first
identified three (con)textual aspects/constants in the formation of identity, namely
ideological influences, strategies of writing and social reality, in the novel Great
Expectations, and then proceeded to illustrate the transformation of these contextual
markers in the twentieth century film version. 'The comparison indicated an expansion of
the narrator's/protagonist's historic consciousness in the film that correlated with the
cultural dominants of the specific time: the film's realist mode as opposed to the
postmodernist expansion or fusion of boundaries. The two texts were perceived to be
engaged in a dialogue with no conclusive interpretation, an aspect familiar to the
postmodernist approach.Thesis (Ph.D. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.
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Ramsey, Holly B. "Tolan-designed county courthouses in Indiana". Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1390315.
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The father and son architectural firm of T.J. Tolan & Son and later Brentwood S. Tolan designed seven county courthouses in Indiana, more than any other architectural firm but one. The Tolan firm also designed courthouses throughout the Midwest. Little is known about these architects, except that neither was formally trained. However, the Tolans designed high caliber courthouses that are viewed as some of the best in the state. Using primary and secondary sources, this thesis is an assessment of the courthouses constructed in Indiana by the architectural firm T.J. Tolan & Son and by Brentwood S. Tolan in the context of courthouses constructed in Indiana from the same period.Department of Architecture
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Kaplan, Stacey Meredith 1973. "The modern(ist) short form: Containing class in early 20th century literature and film". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10574.
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ix, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.My dissertation analyzes the overlooked short works of authors and auteurs who do not fit comfortably into the conventional category of modernism due to their subtly experimental aesthetics: the versatile British author Vita Sackville-West, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Bowen, and the British emigrant filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. I focus on the years 1920-1923 to gain an alternative understanding of modernism's annus mirabulus and the years immediately preceding and following it. My first chapter studies the most critically disregarded author of the project: Sackville-West. Her 1922 volume of short stories The Heir: A Love Story deserves attention for its examination of social hierarchies. Although her stories ridicule characters regardless of their class background, those who attempt to change their class status, especially when not sanctioned by heredity, are treated with the greatest contempt. The volume, with the reinforcement of the contracted short form, advocates staying within given class boundaries. The second chapter analyzes social structures in Bowen's first book of short stories, Encounters (1922). Like Sackville-West, Bowen's use of the short form complements her interest in how class hierarchies can confine characters. Bowen's portraits of classed encounters and of characters' encounters with class reveal a sense of anxiety over being confined by social status and a sense of displacement over breaking out of class groups, exposing how class divisions accentuate feelings of alienation and instability. The last chapter examines Chaplin's final short films: "The Idle Class" (1921), "Pay Day (1922), and "The Pilgrim" (1923). While placing Chaplin among the modernists complicates the canon in a positive way, it also reduces the complexity of this man and his art. Chaplin is neither a pyrotechnic modernist nor a traditional sentimentalist. Additionally, Chaplin's shorts are neither socially liberal nor conservative. Rather, Chaplin's short films flirt with experimental techniques and progressive class politics, presenting multiple perspectives on the thematic of social hierarchies. But, in the end, his films reinforce rather than overthrow traditional artistic forms and hierarchical ideas. Studying these artists elucidates how the contracted space of the short form produces the perfect room to present a nuanced portrayal of class.
Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English; Michael Aronson, Member, English; Mark Quigley, Member, English; Jenifer Presto, Outside Member, Comparative Literature
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Soh, Tatcha Charles. "Sens et doublage cinématographique : étude de doublage de "Gone with the wind" (David O. Selznick et Victor Fleming, 1939), d'après le roman de Margaret Mitchell, traduit et doublé en français sous le titre "Autant en emporte le vent"". Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030169.
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Doublage afin de rendre compte du mécanisme intellectuel mis en œuvre au cours d'un film, nous avons étudié le processus intellectuel de la compréhension et de la déverbalisation en vue d'une réexpression équivalente en version double. à partir d'exemples extraits d'"Autant en emporte le vent", cette analyse a permis d'expliquer les mécanismes de la constitution du sens en doublage, et de présenter les grands types de synchronisme (phonétique, syntaxique et artistique) dont dépend la qualité du doublage. L'étude nous a permis de montrer qu'en dépit de la complexité du texte de doublage qui est le produit de l'association de l'image et du son imposant le respect des différents synchronismes, le sens, objet du doublage et de toute traduction doit être cerné et réexprimé naturellement et spontanémentIn order to analyse the intellectual mechanism at work in the process of film dubbing, we have studied the intellectual process of film comprehension for an equivalent rewording of the dubbed version of the film. Basing our examples on extracts of "Gone with the wind", this study enables us to explain the mechanism through which meaning is formed and reworded during the process of film dubbing. We also analyse the major types of synchronisation (phonetic, syntactic and artistic) on which dubbing quality also depends. Finally, this study also enables us to show that regardless of the complexity of the film dubbing text which is an association of sound and image entailing the respect of synchronisation, meaning, which is at the heart of any form of translation, be it written or dubbed, should be clearly understood and reworded naturally and spontaneously
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Lima, NatÃlia Sampaio Alencar. "Alice in Wonderland da literatura para o cinema: um estudo da traduÃÃo da era vitoriana e do nonsense literÃrio de Lewis Carroll para o cinematogrÃfico no estilo burtoniano". Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17909.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
nÃo hÃEsta pesquisa busca analisar os elementos utilizados por Tim Burton para representar a Era Vitoriana atravÃs do figurino, meio de transporte e decoraÃÃo. Trabalharemos tambÃm com a traduÃÃo em imagens do nonsense em sua adaptaÃÃo fÃlmica Alice in Wonderland (2010). Nessa perspectiva, o presente trabalho resulta de um estudo comparativo entre o filme e a obra na qual se baseia, o cÃnone da literatura infantil Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland de Lewis Carroll (1865). Para tanto, faremos um cotejo entre as duas obras à luz das teorias de Elizabeth Sewell (2015), Wim Tigges, (1988) e Susan Stewart (1980) que alicerÃam o gÃnero literÃrio nonsense. LanÃaremos mÃo da versÃo literÃria Lewis Carroll: The Complete Fully Illustrated Works de 1995 da editora Gramercy, contendo toda a obra de Lewis Carroll com ilustraÃÃes originais. Isso, a fim de viabilizar e facilitar a comparaÃÃo com as figuras presentes no texto literÃrio, quando necessÃrio, para investigar se houve aproximaÃÃo na representaÃÃo visual feita pelo diretor.
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Markodimitrakis, Michail-Chrysovalantis. "Gothic Agents Of Revolt: The Female Rebel In Pan's Labyrinth, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460074928.
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Christensen, Jessie Louise. "Beyond Fidelity: The Translation Process in Two Adaptations of Juan Marsé’s El embrujo de Shanghai". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/906.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
In the past, the study of film adapted from literature has focused largely on the question of fidelity. This thesis explores new ways to look at the relationship between literature and film by showing how concepts from the field of translation studies, particularly literary translation, can enrich the study of adaptation theory. An application is made to the case of Spanish novelist Juan Marsé’s work El embrujo de Shanghai, which has been adapted to film by Fernando Trueba and to screenplay by Victor Érice. Rather than taking a hierarchical approach to the novel and its two variations, a comparative approach is used that seeks to understand the unique choices of each director and how his vision can illuminate the source novel. An adaptation of a novel does not diminish its source; instead, it opens up a space for dialogue between the two works, thus enriching the world of both literature and film.
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Davies, Llewellyn Willis. "‘LOOK’ AND LOOK BACK: Using an auto/biographical lens to study the Australian documentary film industry, 1970 - 2010". Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154339.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
While much has been written on the Australian film and television
industry, little has been presented by actual producers,
filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within
that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it
has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the
debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the
gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion,
synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution
from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful.
The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the
voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen
adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly
producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This
is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate
chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with
particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and
developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010.
Within these two voices are three layers against which this
history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the
pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature
films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types
and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary
within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of
the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form
the vertical structure within which industry issues are
discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of
production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’.
Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both
state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the
thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has
depended on government support through subsidy, funding
mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and
legislative provisions.
This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding
them with the determinants of the market and funding, and
immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and
policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.
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Anderson, Kelly King. "Pretend Play at Home: Creating An Educationally Enriched Environment for Emergent Literacy Among Preschool-Aged Children". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd962.pdf.
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Mancini, Jacopo. "L'homme qui rit: metamorfosi di una storia". Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/14034/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
La presente tesi di laurea ha come oggetto lo studio dell’universo narrativo che si è sviluppato a partire dal romanzo “L’homme qui rit” di Victor Hugo (1869). L’analisi comprende le produzioni televisive, le rappresentazioni teatrali, le opere dei disegnatori, ma è particolarmente focalizzata sugli adattamenti cinematografici: l’attenzione si concentra su “The Man Who Laughs” di Paul Leni (Usa, 1928), un lungometraggio dell’epoca muta in bianco e nero, che costituisce la tappa più importante di tutto il percorso.
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Lupold, Eva Marie. "Literary Laboratories: A Cautious Celebration of the Child-Cyborg from Romanticism to Modernism". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1339976082.
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Berry, Laurence Edward. "The Spatial Ecology of Fire Refuges in the Victorian Central Highlands". Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111389.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
The spatial and temporal pattern of fire occurrence within
landscapes is a principal
factor influencing species distributions and a core driver of
biodiversity. However,
climate change, land use change, invasive species and detrimental
land management
practices are altering the distribution, frequency, scale and
intensity of large wildfires
globally. This poses a major challenge to biodiversity management
as ecosystems adapt
to novel patterns of fire occurrence. Within fire-affected
landscapes, areas which
experience unique disturbance regimes may act as refuges for
biota, reducing the
impacts of fire on species and increasing their likelihood of
survival. However, very few
studies have attempted to quantify the desirable spatial
attributes of such areas within
fire mosaics for faunal conservation. This thesis aimed to
quantify the ecological role
of fire refuges by examining the factors responsible for refuge
establishment, how the
spatial properties of refuges influence their use by fauna, and
the mechanisms
underpinning faunal responses.
To investigate the factors responsible for the spatial
distribution of fire refuges in
montane forests I tested the operational validity of a
pre-constructed fire simulation
model with actual fire severity patterns produced following a
large fire in the modelled
landscapes. I found that for fires which occurred in extreme fire
conditions, severity
patterns were largely determined by stochastic factors, such as
weather. When fire
conditions were moderate, physical landscape properties appeared
to mediate fire
severity distribution. The study highlighted that fire refuges
are a potentially
ecologically important outcome of large wildfires. I recommend
that detrimental land management practices are minimized to
enable the ecological processes relevant to the
establishment and subsequent use of fire refuges to be
maintained.
In recently burnt Mountain Ash forests in south-eastern
Australia, I examined how fire
severity, patch size and landscape context influenced the
abundance of arboreal
marsupials. We aimed to determine if fire refuges are an
important mechanism for
facilitating the survival within extensively burnt landscapes. I
found the mountain
brushtail possum had a positive response to a particular kind of
topographic refuge
(unburnt peninsulas connected to larger areas of unburnt forest),
whereas the greater
glider had a negative response to fire in the landscape. The
study highlighted the need
for a more developed understanding of how post-fire habitat
patterns facilitate species
survival within burnt landscapes.
In a correlative landscape-scale study, I examined how bird use
of potential refuges was
influenced by 1) the size and connectivity of each refuge, 2) the
extent of fire severities
at different scales in the surrounding landscape, and 3) the
interaction between severity
patterns, vegetation structure and environmental gradients. I
found that unburnt mesic
gullies facilitated the retention of forest birds within
extensively burnt montane forest
landscapes. The study presented a key advance, in that the
effects of fire-induced
habitat patterns on the distribution of fauna varied between
areas depending on their
spatial relationships with key biotic and abiotic landscape
patterns. I demonstrated that
developing contingent theory by examining ecological interactions
between fire induced
habitat patterns and biotic and abiotic gradients is essential to
understanding complex
faunal responses to fire.
Using GPS telemetry within a replicated landscape scale study
design, I examined how
the spatial patterns of fire severity created by a large wildfire
influenced the spatio
temporal movement patterns of an arboreal marsupial, the Mountain
Brushtail Possum,
Trichosurus cunninghammi. I found a difference in temporal
movement dynamics,
habitat selection and spatial movement patters between forested
landscapes which were
burnt to differing extents. Forest systems recently burnt at high
severity may provide
suitable habitat for some species, if protected from subsequent
disturbance such as
salvage logging. However, spatial and temporal patterns of
habitat selection and use
differed considerably between burnt and undisturbed landscapes.
The spatial outcomes
of ecological disturbances such as wildfires have the potential
to alter the behaviour and
functional roles of fauna across large areas.
Employing a qualitative research approach, I identified the
barriers and enablers to
spatially managing fire for biodiversity. I then developed a
conceptual framework and
set of key steps to achieve the integration of spatial approaches
to fire into management.
I identified that spatial approaches to fire management must
co-exist within a complex
system of social and ecological feedbacks between landscapes,
academic research,
socio-political land management systems, and environmental
pressures. I suggest that
the integration of spatial approaches to fire can be achieved by
developing community
understanding of fire science, improving the relevance of fire
research outputs to land
management, amending existing government policy approaches and
refining
management tools, structures, scales and monitoring to meet
biodiversity and fire risk
objectives. The insights into fire refuge ecology provided by the papers in
this thesis are highly
relevant to faunal conservation. Collectively, this thesis
constitutes an important
contribution to global forest fire ecology and management and has
implications for both
understanding the impacts of ecosystem disturbances on faunal
persistence and
distributions, and for developing effective future research and
conservation strategies.
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Proverbs, Wendy Marjorie. "Designing culture: intersections of Indigenous culture at the First Peoples House, University of Victoria". Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3763.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
In 1997 the University of Victoria began to develop a vision for a First Peoples House
with the objective of constructing a welcoming Coast Salish home on the university
campus. This vision was realized in 2009 when the First Peoples House opened to the
university community and public. Goals stemming from early discussions of a First
Peoples House included a house that would support Indigenous culture, community
events, and showcase Indigenous art. The First Peoples House represents a case study of
how Indigenous artists and their material culture intersect with new Indigenous
architecture. This paper is a supporting document to accompany a documentary film
showcasing Indigenous artists and key players who participated in the development of the
First Peoples House. The purpose of this paper and film is to document developmental
stages of the First Peoples House that includes material culture—“art”—embedded within
the architecture of the house. Nine interviews include the artistic vision of six artists
whose work is represented in the house, and three individuals who were involved in early
developmental and current phases of the First Peoples House. The research is placed in a
historical context respecting the relationship between Indigenous architecture, residential
schools, space and place and material culture. Film adds another dimension to the scope
of this paper. Together, the paper and film form a visual and critical analysis highlighting
historical shifts along with contemporary understandings of cultural narratives, material
culture, Indigenous culture and architecture as integrated within the First Peoples House
at the University of Victoria.Graduate
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Blair, David. "Comparisons of vegetation recovery post-fire, logging and salvage logging in the Victorian Central Highlands". Phd thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/163768.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
ABSTRACT
Disturbance is an important ecological driver of plant community composition and adaption. My research was in the Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests of the Central Highlands in Victoria where the primary forms of disturbance are wildfire and clearfell logging. Three large conflagrations in 1939, 1983 and 2009 resulted in uniformly aged stands of Eucalyptus regnans. My research, comprising four interrelated studies, uses these major fire events and recent logging, to compare the recovery attributes of the plants in Mountain Ash forest.
Chapter one compares plant species richness and functional group responses to logging and fire of different intensities. I found species richness declined across a 'disturbance gradient' of low severity fire (30.1species/site), high severity fire (28.9spp/site), clearfell logging (25.1spp/site) and salvage logging (21.7spp/site). The greatest differences between the effects of fire and logging are on sprouting species including ferns and midstorey trees, with logging causing a simplification of the forest biota. Species losses are attributed to the mechanical disturbance of harvesting and the fire/logging disturbance sequence.
Chapter two studies growth rates of tree ferns, Cyathea australis and Dicksonia antarctica. Five years after the 2009 fires, I measured the new growth of 335 tree ferns and found Cyathea australis averaged 73(+/- 22)mm/year of growth, while Dicksonia antarctica averaged 33(+/- 13)mm/year. An unexpected finding was higher growth rates in taller tree ferns, increasing with height by 5-6mm/yr/m in both species. The non-linear growth is explained by the taller ferns being exposed to greater amounts of sunlight as the dense regeneration progressively shaded the shorter ferns.
In Chapter three, I use a chronosequence from the major fire events of 2009, 1983, 1939 and 1851 to determine how species richness and functional groups differ in forests of different ages. Species richness is highest in the youngest cohort (17.1species/plot) when many early successional species are still present. The 1983 and 1939 cohorts have the lowest species richness (12.9 and 12.5 species/plot respectively) while the 1851 cohort has 13.4spp/plot. Sprouting species such as ferns and midstorey trees were most common in the older cohorts, while seeding species dominated the youngest. The presence of 12 species unique to the two oldest cohorts suggests Relay Floristics may best describe the successional pathway of this forest.
Chapter four examined how forest age prior to a disturbance affects subsequent regeneration cohorts. Using forest burned in 2009 that was 26, 70 and 158+ years of age at the time of the fire, I found species richness decreased with forest age (25.7, 22.7 and 20.7 species/site respectively). The diverse seeding species group, was most abundant in the youngest cohort, while sprouting species including ferns were the only functional group to increase with forest age.
My research concludes that Mountain Ash forests are resilient to fire, however, keystone species that resprout, like tree ferns and midstorey trees are susceptible to logging. Sprouting species increase with time since disturbance and as with other biological legacies, sprouting species need to be carefully managed for during logging operations.
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McDonald, Kathryn. "Perspectives on effectiveness: what works in a juvenile fire awareness and intervention program?" Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/16037/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Deliberate lighting of fires by juveniles is both a public health concern and a community issue. This collaborative multiagency project aimed to establish best practice guidelines for child and youth firesetter programs in Australia.
The study proceeded in two parts. Firstly, the practices and perceived effectiveness of the Victorian Juvenile Fire Awareness and Intervention Program (JFAIP) were investigated and contrasted with other Australian and
overseas programs (US, Canada and NZ). Reviewing the literature, extensive interviewing, comparative analysis of approaches and site visits enabled the development of criteria associated with juvenile firesetter programs that were well designed, well implemented, and appeared to provide effective interventions.
Secondly, pre and post fire-specific and psychosocial risk factors were investigated with a sample of 29 firesetter boys (7-13 years)referred to the JFAIP using the firesetting risk interview (FRI) and children’s firesetting interview (CFI). Children’s recidivism was also prospectively followed-up for 12 months. Pre and post findings on the FRI suggested that all JFAIP clients benefited from the intervention. From the parent’s perspective, lower fire-specific risk factors were reported after the intervention, but as expected psychosocial risks remained unchanged. From the child’s perspective on the CFI, some fire-specific risk variables had improved. Of the 29 children in the sample, nine participants were dentified as recidivists. Thus a third of the sample, although receiving an intervention, continued to light fires. Recidivist and nonrecidivist children were also compared on FRI and CFI and significant differences were found in both fire-specific and psychosocial risk factors.
The study highlighted that high risk and low risk clients participate in fire safety education programs in Australia. Low risk clients benefited from a fire safety intervention emphasising education. Thus, fire safety education programs may be appropriate as a sole intervention with some firesetters under certain conditions. However, about a third of the JFAIP clients were recidivists and would benefit from additional interventions. It is recommended that juvenile firesetting programs follow best practice guidelines.
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Barnett, Michelle L. "Risk Factors and Incidence of Residential Fire Experiences Reported Retrospectively". Thesis, 2008. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1987/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
The frequency of all residential fires that are attended by the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade is routinely recorded and hence well known. However, the frequency of residential fires which are not attended, including
instances where the occupant of a dwelling has extinguished the fire or the fire has self-extinguished, has not previously been investigated in an Australian sample. This project includes two studies: in the first study the aim
was to develop the Fire Safety Awareness and Experience Interview Schedule and to determine whether the risk factors for attended fires (in which there are fatalities or injuries) are different to the risk factors of residential fires not attended to by the fire brigade. Additionally, the first study aimed to determine the incidence of unattended residential fires by retrospective report from adults since the age of 18. The second study aim was to determine whether correct and regular maintenance behaviours were being carried out by occupants who own a smoke alarm. Five hundred participants, recruited from four shopping centers located in Melbourne, Victoria, completed the Fire Safety Awareness and Experience
Interview Schedule. The questionnaire collected information on all residential fire experiences, including attended and unattended fires, since the age 18. Results showed that participants had approximately a 50% chance of
experiencing either an attended or unattended residential fire within their adult lifetime; and the mean annual probability of having an unattended fire experience (0.8 fires per 100 adult years) was higher than the probability of having an attended fire experience (0.37 fires per 100 adult years). In addition, of all residential fires in which fire service attendance status was known, the vast
majority of fires (78%) were unattended. Results also revealed the vast majority of unattended fires were caused when cooking was left unsupervised by the cook; and oil or food was usually the first material ignited. Of concern is the number of instances in which the unattended fire was extinguished via dangerous actions (i.e. moving the
burning object the sink or floor of the home). It is therefore important to educate people on how to safely fight a cooking fire should one occur and occupants should be encouraged to have a fire blanket in an accessible
location in their kitchens. Findings from Study Two revealed that the vast majority of the sample (96%)
reported owning a smoke alarm. However, over one third of owners are not testing their alarms and 17% are not carrying out battery changes. Overall, the results from this project can be used to help prevent cooking fires in Australia and the developed interview schedule can be used to collect comparison data from other States and Territories. Furthermore, the development instrument
can be used to collect unattended home fire data internationally.
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Summerhayes, Catherine. "Film as Cultural Performance". Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49365.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This thesis investigates how Victor Turner’s concept of ‘cultural performance’ can be used to explore and analyse the experience of film. Drawing on performance theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology and Bakhtin’s dialogism, Sections One and Two develop this investigation through a theoretic discussion which relates and yet distinguishes between three levels of ‘performance’ in film: filmmaking performance, performances as text and cultural performances. The theory is grounded within four films which were researched for this thesis: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994), Rats in the Ranks (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson,1996), beDevil (Tracey Moffatt, 1993) and Link-Up Diary (David MacDougall, 1987). Section Three undertakes the close analyses of the latter two films. These analyses address specific cultural performances that are performed ‘across’ cultures and which are concerned particularly with Australian society’s relationship with indigenous Australians. ...
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Godfredson, Jeffrey. "An International Comparison of Emergency Medical Services Delivery Systems: Which Produces The Optimum Outcome For The Patient?" Thesis, 2018. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/37851/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This thesis was written to address a problem with ambulance service delivery
times in Victoria, Australia. For a number of years, ambulance response times have
been increasing to unacceptable levels. As a result of the ever-increasing problem it was
appropriate to see if the are other alternative solutions producing better results. There
are a number of different service delivery models for Emergency Medical Services
(EMS) around the world. The main two are the Anglo/American model (also known as
scoop and run) and the Franco/German model (also known a stay and play). There are
also two major delivery agencies; the British model of a separate third party public
sector service as used in UK, Australia and New Zealand or the fire service model
where the fire service is the main delivery agency such as most of Asia, Europe and
North America. Which model provides the best outcome for the patient? Such research
has not been done in the past. The research will also examine if the Metropolitan Fire
brigade has capacity to undertake possible EMS roles.
A number of case studies were undertaken and explored with key issues of
response times, patient outcomes, skills and new technologies compared. The results,
particularly of response time show that in Victoria the response time for fire EMS (8.3
minutes) to medical emergencies is similar to that provided by fire services delivering
EMS in North America. The MFB in Victoria is providing the equivalent of first
responder; the American and Canadian fire services are delivering Advanced Life
Support (ALS). The response times for Basic Life Support (BLS) in Victoria provided
by ambulance service are over twice as long (8.3 minutes for fire compared to 18.2
minutes for Victorian Ambulance at the 90%). The US and Canadian Fire Services
provide EMS response time considerably lower than Ambulance Victoria, some as low
as 7.43 minutes. UK Ambulance (on which the Victorian model is based) also provides
response time considerably less than Ambulance Victoria. The issue of whether the fire
service in Victoria has capacity to undertake further EMS delivery was explored and
whilst it has the capacity it is doubtful it could be delivered in the current industrial
environment with the union having the capability of vetoing managerial decisions.
The research raised fundamental questions regarding the effective use of scarce
public sector resources and agencies working across organisational boundaries in the
interests of serving the public. Data analysis involved pattern matching, explanation
building and time series analysis to identify trends and commonalities across the cases.
A number of themes emerged including continued increases in call volumes, challenges
meeting response times and the development of proactive programs to reduce the
impact of these trends.
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Wright, Shane. "The impact of change on corporate service staff in a public safety agency". Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18227/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) Melbourne, is at the crossroads. Change is
sweeping the economic and political environment within which international fire
services operate. The MFB is not insulated from this change. Unless alternative
productivity strategies can be achieved, the emergency response sector of the Brigade
will suffer the same fate as the corporate sector of the MFB and other statutory
authorities. Downsizing within this sector has been occurring in response to the above
conditions over the past four years.
This study investigates the impact of change upon public safety agencies in general,
then compares data gathered on the MFB against this to:
• Identify the level of organisational commitment that currently exists;
• Develop an understanding of the impact of downsizing upon public sector
employees.
This study reviews the body of literature concerned with culture and change,
downsizing and outsourcing and examines and builds upon the framework of previous
research, particularly in the area of downsizing and its impact upon survivors.
The study was designed as a one shot correlational study. A questionnaire was designed
and administered to the population. Responses were analysed and discussed in context
with the referenced literature.
This study extends previous research in that it compares those findings with current
findings. Low morale, job insecurity, poor communication and negativity have been
identified as consistent with that of previous research (Brockner 1992; Brockner, Grover
and Blonder 1988; Cascio 1993). In other areas the findings vary from previous
research, in that organisational commitment remains high, contrary to the literature.
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Kurt, Esma. "The Young Firelighter: Profile Characteristics and Recidivism Risk Factors". Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25851/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Firelighting behaviour amongst children and adolescents poses a significant concern for
the well-being of the young person and their wider communities. Often difficult to
detect, young firelighters account for a fifth of the fires lit in Australia. The focus of this
study was to explore the characteristics and profiles of young firelighters in an
Australian sample and to determine the rate of recidivism and identify variables that
may predict firelighting recidivism risk.
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Ortlieb, Paulina Elizabeth. "The importance of counter-culture in art and life". Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5881.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Punk rock provided not only a watershed of creativity, innovation and a do-it-yourself spirit to a culture saturated in the mainstream, it physically brought like-minded people together in a community, or rather extended family, which in today’s hyper-d.i.y. culture, is progressively declining. As early as the 1940s, theorists such as Adorno and Horkheimer warned us about alienation in a society increasingly dependent on technology. By looking to punk, and other resilient and robust counter-cultures, perhaps we can find solutions to the pitfalls of the ‘culture industry’ (Adorno, Horkheimer, 1944).
My thesis, consisting of a feature-length documentary film and textual analysis, is a culmination of: ethnographic research into the punk scene in my own community; theoretical research into the sociology, ethnography and subculture theory; and my own subjectivity. My personal findings are presented to offer insight into punk philosophy and to spur discourse, rather than deliver an objective account or didactic reproach.Graduate