School of Creative Arts: Recent submissions
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Review of book Till Dawn Comes with a Song
(2020)“His grip was firm when he took the note to read the third time. The message stared at him. He stared back at it. The warning was brief and clear-cut. They would kill him if he was not very careful.” These are the opening ... -
Finding Visual Music in its Twentieth Century History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2020)Visual fine art and music are typically considered to be separate disciplines and separate art forms. This, however, is not the case for visual music. Visual music straddles both visual art and music. Visual music has ... -
Paralanguage and The Beatles
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2020)Scholarship concerning popular song has lent itself to studies throughout the arts and humanities, but it has not received a close study oriented through paralanguage. That is the nonverbal characteristics of speech that ... -
Virtual Play: Beckettian Experiments in Virtual Reality
(2018)The past ten years have seen extensive experimentation with Beckett and new technological media at Trinity College Dublin. Research projects have included the stage adaptation and installation of a teleplay (Ghost Trio, ... -
White Cottage / White House : Irish-American masculinities and spaces of home in Hollywood cinema 1930 - 1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis examines constructions of Irish-American masculinity in classical Hollywood cinema's sound era (1930-1960) across five, chronologically-structured 'modes': James Cagney at Warner Bros; the Catholic priest; ... -
The vernacular church music of William Byrd : a reappraisal of chronology, authenticity and context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)This aim of this thesis is a unified reappraisal of the vernacular church music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623). Specific objectives include the elimination of opera dubia, the distinguishing of adapted consort works from ... -
Translating the Tragic: Mimetic Transformation of Attic Tragedies on the Contemporary Stage
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)The present study seeks to answer a fundamental series of questions related to the act of translation immanent to theatrical productions in general: which factors bring the real action into being during a performance? How ... -
Narrative and ideology in contemporary Hollywood cinema, 1990-1999
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between ideology and the narrative structure of popular Hollywood cinema in the 1990s, particularly the manner in which a closed narrative structure serves ... -
Issues of gender in the texts of Ulster theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)This thesis is neither a history nor an exact socio/political documentary of Ulster Theatre. However, within textual readings, both discourses are employed to examine issues of gender within a context of more familiar ... -
The thrill of estrangement' : ethnicity and theatrical reality in Les Amertumes, Combat de Negre et de Chiens and Quai Ouest by Bernard-Marie Koltes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This thesis consists of an analysis of ethnicity and modes of theatrical reality in three plays by French dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltes, made possible by a convergence of critical strategies from postcolonialism, phenomenology ... -
Mamulengo Puppet Theatre in the socio-culture context of twentieth-century Brazil
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)Mamulengo is a popular form of puppet theatre in Pernambuco, a state located in the Northeast region of Brazil. It seems to have originated about two centuries ago, and even today, it remains a significant form of entertainment ... -
The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, 1814-1922
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2019)The Chapel Royal of Dublin Castle, the household chapel of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was opened for worship on Christmas Day 1814. It was established in imitation of the Chapel Royal of St James’s Palace, London, and ... -
Affective Encounters: A Study of Immersive Performance and Digital Culture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This thesis presents a study of immersive performance and digital culture. As a whole, the thesis considers the aesthetic experience offered by a certain strand of contemporary immersive theatre which I have identified and ... -
Same Frame, New Picture: Changing Gender, Ethnic and Cultural Representation in Hollywood Genre Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This study explores the potential of a Hollywood genre film to disestablish those retrogressive gender, ethnic and cultural representations that are frequently encoded in the tropes of Hollywood genre cinema. To that end, ... -
The Fourth Wave fights back: Deconstructing the Performativity of rape culture through contemporary Irish theatre, performance and society
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This dissertation seeks to examine and deconstruct contemporary rape culture. It explores, and builds on, the three preceding waves of the feminist movement, and contextualises established theories of hegemonic masculinity. ... -
Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)If language is subjective, if the sign is unstable, if meaning is endlessly deferred, how is it possible to assume a position of moral critique? Confronted by persistent social crisis, the American theatre and opera ... -
The body sonic : performance of the voice in Paula Meehan's lyrical theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The thesis investigates the dramatic repertoire of contemporary Irish poet and playwright, Paula Meehan (b. 1955). The five chapters explore Paula Meehan’s eight original plays and her theatre collaborations. To explore ... -
Premise and compositional working-out : an examination through analysis of Ligeti's changing style
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2002)In many of his interviews and writings from the mid-eighties, Ligeti talks of a crisis in his compositional output, and his move to a simpler style. This thesis takes the form of three detailed analyses of works which span ... -
Evolving Sounds
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)Abstract This work concerns the role of musical time and space in relation to the body of compositions that form part of this research. Although these two areas are immense, they are nonetheless unavoidable in music ... -
On going on : the ethic of impossibility in the performance of Samuel Beckett's prose
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2009)This dissertation presents a history of performances of the prose of Samuel Beckett and illuminates a theory of prose performance through readings of his work. Unifying a phenomenological reading of prose performance with ...
