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Item Content under pressure : experiments in portraying an artist through documentary(2014-12) Yang, Jing, M.F.A.; Raval, P. J. (Paul James); Stekler, Paul J; Campbell, Craig A; Lewis, AnneContent Under Pressure is my thesis film for my MFA degree in the Department of Radio, TV and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. The film is a short documentary that portraits an Austin-based street artist and mother named Roshi K. The title “Content Under Pressure” has three layers of meanings. The first layer of meaning is the literal meaning of Roshi’s street art content that is produced with paint cans with a lot of pressure in them. The second layer of meaning is Roshi’s life during the production of the film was under a lot of pressure. The third layer of meaning is that the film is the content of my filmmaking practice under a lot of pressure myself, from the challenges I faced during the process of making it, and the pressure to finish my thesis film in pursuit of my MFA degree. The report chronologically records the process of making the film from the initial concept to the finished film, and all my struggles, excitements and lessons learned in the journey of making it.Item Daughtering and daughterhood : an explanatory study of the role of adult daughters in relation to mothers(2016-08) Alford, Allison McGuire; Maxwell, Madeline M.; Donovan, Erin; Menchaca, Martha; Vangelisti, AnitaThis study investigated the role of an adult daughter in mid-life, a time in a woman’s life when she has a personal relationship with her mother based upon shared interests more than dependence for care. Using interactional role theory (Turner, 2001), this study explored the understanding a daughter has for her role as an adult daughter in everyday encounters with her mother. Participants in this study described that when in situations that call for daughtering, they enact the adult daughter role. For this study, adult daughter participants (N = 33) ranging in age from 25-45 years old participated in face-to-face interviews to discuss their role as an adult daughter to their mothers. All participants had a living, healthy mother age 70 or younger. From daughters’ discussions of everyday communication with their mothers, layers of meaning were uncovered which related to the adult daughter role. Using role theory as a guide, thematic analysis revealed six themes of meaning. These findings contribute to an understanding of the social construction of an important role, which daughters learn over a lifetime and which they use to communicate within a family. Discussions of daughtering were challenging to participants due to borrowed vocabulary for describing this role, narrow role awareness, and a low valuation of the work of daughtering. When sorting role influences, daughters noted their mothers and a variety of other sources that inform role expectations. This finding prompted a new manner for evaluating daughters as a daughterhood, or community of role players collectively enacting the same role. Finally, participant responses revealed new ways to conceive of the social construction of the adult daughter role and the practice of daughtering and daughterhood, with outcomes including a variety of comportments for performing daughtering. Implications for future research by communication scholars, as well as for practitioners who work with adult daughter-mother pairs, will be presented with other results from this study.Item The Effect of Adolescent-Parent Relationships on Adolescent Religiosity(2013-12-06) Clanton, Thomas RayThe relationship between adolescents and their parents has a significant impact on their positive development into adulthood. This study analyzes data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) in order to determine if an adolescent?s relationship with his or her parents has an impact on the religiosity of adolescents between the ages of 17-24 years old. This study contends that religion can be an important aspect of positive youth development for older adolescents. Utilizing data from the NSYR, two major factors describing adolescent religiosity were discovered: adolescent religious importance and adolescent respect for religion. The adolescent-parent relationship factors of mother-adolescent and father-adolescent relationships were tested against the two factors of adolescent religiosity to determine the effect of adolescent-parent relationships on adolescent religiosity. The study determined that adolescent-parent relationships have only a minimal effect on adolescent religiosity of adolescents 17-24 years old. This is an important finding that provides researchers and practitioners a glimpse into the influences of religion on older adolescents.