Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Arts (MA)"
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A body of one's own: Representations of women's bodies in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Anne Sexton, and breaking free of the gendering patriarchy
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Waxing, shaving, plucking, eye-brow tinting, hair dying, makeup, diets, plastic surgery – if all women were instantaneously in love with their natural bodies, millions of people would be out of work. For centuries, women’s ... -
A cliff in Denmark: An adapturgical exploration of Hamlet
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The story of Hamlet is commonly attributed to William Shakespeare and has been adapted consistently by playwrights, poets, novelists, musicians, artists, and filmmakers since the Elizabethan playwright’s day. However, ... -
A Collective Documentary? A case study of audio-visual UGC surrounding the Christchurch earthquakes
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis centres upon the study of the audio-visual user-generated content (UGC) relating to the series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012 in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The analysis of ... -
A Village in my Hand
(University of Waikato, 2013)Since its arrival, the cell phone has been transforming culture and the ways in which we live, exist and interact with life. With minimal access to telecommunications, since 2006 it has become ubiquitous in Samoa. Using ... -
Adaptation from Novels into Films: A Study of Six Examples, with an Accompanying Screenplay and Self-analysis.
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This thesis consists of two primary components: a study of six novels and their respective adaptations into popular commercial films, and my attempt at writing a partial screenplay adaptation of my own previously written ... -
Air Force Pataka: Fifty years of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Hamilton: A history of the Te Rapa Air Force Base 1942-1992
(The University of Waikato, 1993)As a boy growing up in Hamilton in the 1970s, I can remember the hundreds of times we drove past the Te Rapa Air Force Base, and how each time I searched intently for a glimpse of the Grumman Avenger parked inside the ... -
An explorative study of the encoding/decoding model in respect to television news in Papua New Guinea
(University of Waikato, 2014)Television in Papua New Guinea strives to exist in a pluralistic society characterised by diverse local cultures and traditions that blend with Western influences. It is important to understand the role of television and ... -
An investigation into the value proposition of classical music: The creative value chain, music as work and value measurement in a New Zealand context of opera, orchestra and composition
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Composition and performance of classical music provides a service offering that simultaneously fulfils the artistic goals of composer, performer and audience whilst contributing to education, community, the economy, and ... -
An Analysis of Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis explores the representation of the characters and content in the electronic game Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault first published in 2004. The thesis examines the history of conflict themed games and current ... -
Anime: Fear and Anxiety in Texhnolyzed Worlds
(University of Waikato, 2010)This is a study of primarily post-millennial Japanese Anime texts, drawn from the science-fiction genre of the medium. The key interest of this study is the prevalence of the dystopian attitude toward technology that has ... -
Antarctica: an inchoate threat to New Zealand’s Security: implications for national policy and the Armed Services
(The University of Waikato, 2005)National interest has always exerted a significant influence over the geopolitical affairs of Antarctica. During the first half of the twentieth century national interest was fuelled by the inimical politics of whaling, ... -
Applying Kaupapa Māori Processes to Documentary Film.
(The University of Waikato, 2007)This thesis explores the application of Kaupapa Māori processes to documentary filmmaking through practiced-led research. The need for this research came to light through the experience of witnessing unacceptable behaviour ... -
Are You Listening? The Voice of Waitaha, A Forgotten People.
(The University of Waikato, 2006)This thesis is a study of Waitaha, a Bay of Plenty iwi that has been marginalized through the loss of most of its land, much of its language, tikanga, and mana. The purpose of the work is to communicate, through the 'voice' ... -
Aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft's Religious Thought
(The University of Waikato, 2007)The works of Mary Wollstonecraft have been largely utilized in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries within the domain of feminist studies. They were influential throughout the 'feminist movement' of the 1960s and 1970s ... -
Austerity Measures: Presenting Food in British Writing, 1939-1954
(University of Waikato, 2016)Rationing measures in force in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the Second World War in December of 1939 until July of 1954 ostensibly ensured an egalitarian access to food and resulted in a general levelling-up ... -
Australian Legends: historical explorations of Australian masculinity and film 1970-1995.
(The University of Waikato, 2010)The twin purpose of this research is to explore films as historically specific cultural texts, rather than representations of one historical moment, and to engage with historiographical debates surrounding representations ... -
Barry Barclay: the Reflection of Maori and Pakeha Identities
(University of Waikato, 2017)This Media and Screen Studies thesis tries to investigate the identifications of Barry Barclay (1944-2008) - a New Zealand filmmaker, thinker and poet, of Māori and Pākeha ethnic background - who identified as Māori in the ... -
Believable Worlds: The Rules, Role and Function of Magic in Fantasy Novels
(University of Waikato, 2016)Contemporary fantasy fiction is a genre that has captured the minds of readers and authors for many decades. It places stories about fantastical events and peoples in the realms of an imaginary world that follows its own ... -
Birth, Death, and Marriage in the Garden: Canterbury Colonial Women Gardeners, 1850–1914
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis presents a study of the role of gardens in the life stages of colonial women of Canterbury. Using the framework of the expected life-cycle of middle- and upper-class Victorian women (birth, marriage, death), ... -
Blurring the Lines? International Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisations and the Military use of Aid and Development in Afghanistan
(The University of Waikato, 2010)This thesis explores the theory that International Humanitarian Non-governmental Organisations (IHNGOs) have increasingly become part of the world-ordering security agenda of developed western states since the end of the ...
