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Item Domestic Titus(2009-05-15) Brinkman, Ashley MarieCritical examinations of William Shakespeare?s Titus Andronicus almost always occlude questions of the domestic. Yet, a major portion of the play?s action takes place in a house and the methods of the characters? revenge can be construed as domestic. More simply, in Titus, household properties and domestic rituals are transformed into instruments of vengeance. With a particular focus on the cultural and historical conditions governing literary production in early modern England, this thesis draws on previous scholarly work and examines the intersection of domesticity and revenge in Titus. The thesis is divided into two sections, each of which addresses different, though overlapping, ways in which domesticity ? broadly speaking ? operates in the play. The first section examines the play?s two competing revenge plots, demonstrating that not only are they domestic in nature, but also that many of the play?s features align closely with generic traits and devices integral to plays classified as ?Domestic Tragedies.? The second section focuses on Titus Andronicus? Senecan roots and examines carefully the function(s) of the domestic setting in Titus as well as Seneca?s Thyestes, one of Shakespeare?s sources. I explore the ways in which the play?s domestic setting is distinctly Senecan and discuss Shakespeare?s alterations to his Latin source. While the house becomes a site of domestic and dynastic anxiety in both Seneca?s Thyestes and Shakespeare?s Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare?s play evinces a concern with domestic privacy that Seneca?s does not.Item Flown(2015-08) Blumberg, Mark A.; Kelban, Stuart; Raval, PJ; Legge, MurrayA personal account of writing and directing the thesis film "Flown" while enrolled in the Radio-Television-Film program at The University of Texas, Austin.Item Friends with benefits : on documenting the struggle of a friend(2016-08) Onsando, Weslie; Garrison, Andrew; Spiro, Ellen; Straubhaar, JosephSelené is a 24-minute documentary film about a 24-year-old drug addict’s struggle to reconcile her addictions with her faith in God. The following report gives an account of the documentary’s conception and actualization. It also highlights the filmmaker’s intention and reflection throughout the creative process. Supplementary materials include the original proposal for the film as well as screenshots from the completed documentary.Item Geosocial Dating Apps and the Romantic Lives of Young Gay and Bisexual Men(2017-04-18) Arthur, Tim W.; Douglas, Karen; Cabaniss, Emily; Constance, DouglasThis study explores the role of geosocial dating applications in the romantic lives of young gay and bisexual men. Technology is rapidly changing the way individuals seek romantic and sexual partners. Due to social stigma surrounding homosexuality, virtual mediums have been popular among the LGBT community since their inception. Young gay and bisexual men are among the most likely to use virtual dating mediums. Ten one-on-one, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with participants ranging in age from twenty-three to twenty-nine years old. Using a quasi-inductive, grounded theory approach, transcripts of the interviews were analyzed and coded for relevant themes. Erving Goffman’s theories on the presentation of self, stigma, and the interaction order, combined with the conceptualization of dating apps as partner markets, provided the theoretical framework for data analysis and discussion. Findings suggest that geosocial dating apps offer users a mixed bag of benefits and challenges. Men are able to interact with one another while retaining control over the release of identifying information. However, the ability to withhold or mask personal details about themselves can also create interactional challenges and impediments to relationship formation and retention.Item Make no assumptions : an invitation to the theatre(2014-05) Wilson, Steven M.; Rasmussen, SarahAn in-depth look at my how my desire to make no assumptions with regards to creating art led me to invitation as a guiding principle when directing for the theatre. This thesis will cite examples from three productions I’ve directed as a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin.Item Mnemosyne rising - the genesis of a sci-fi short film(2009-12) Alvarez, Miguel Angel; Shea, Andrew Brendan; Schatz, Thomas; Ramirez-Berg, Charles; Smith, AlexThis report will summarize the process of writing, developing, directing, and finishing the 35mm short film, Mnemosyne Rising. This film was produced as my graduate thesis film in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts in Film Production degree.Item Sleep paralysis(2013-05) Jackfert, Matthew Damous; Pinkston, RussellSleep Paralysis was written to be performed by a chamber orchestra of 17 performers total. The piece runs between 11 and 12 minutes and has a distinct programmatic approach. This piece attempts to convey the emotions and feelings one might experience when he or she is stricken with sleep paralysis—a condition where one wakes up during sleep but cannot move. Thus, this piece is set up as a dream gone badly. Harmonic and rhythmic tension increase throughout the piece until it reaches a moment of “paralysis” where the harmonies are static and melodies and themes appear in a dream-like fashion. Eventually, the ever-mounting tension resolves to free the listener of the paralysis; however, one should not assume that the paralysis is gone forever.Item Study of CO2 Mobility Control Using Cross-linked Gel Conformance Control and CO2 Viscosifiers in Heterogeneous Media(2011-10-21) Cai, ShuzongCO2 has been widely used as a displacement fluid in both immiscible and miscible displacement processes to obtain tertiary recovery from the field. There are several problems associated with the application of CO2 flooding, especially when there is a significant presence of heterogeneous elements, such as fractures, channels and high permeability streaks within the reservoir. With flooding, CO2 will finger through the target zone while leaving most of the residual/trapped oil untouched. As a result, early gas breakthrough has been a very common problem in CO2-related projects, reducing the overall sweep efficiency of CO2 flooding. This research aims at improving the CO2 flood efficiency using cross-linked gel conformance control and CO2 viscosifier technique. A series of coreflood experiment studies have been performed to investigate the possibility of applying CO2 mobility control techniques. Corresponding simulation works have also been carried out to predict the benefits of applying CO2 mobility control techniques in the field. In the laboratory study, the CO2 coreflood system was integrated with the CT (Computed Tomography)-scanner and obtained real-time coreflood images of the CO2 saturation distributions in the core. This system was applied to the research of both cross-linked polymer gel treatment and CO2 viscosifier study and produced images with sharp phase contrasts. For the gel conformance study, promising results were obtained by applying cross-linked gel to eliminate permeability contrast and diverting CO2 into low permeability regions to obtain incremental oil recovery; also studied were the gel strength in terms of leak-off extent with the aid of CT (Computed Tomography) images. For the CO2 viscosifier research, we tested several potential viscosifier chemicals and found out PVAc (Polyvinylacetate)/toluene combination to be the most promising. The follow-up study clearly demonstrates the superiority of viscosified CO2 over neat CO2 in terms of sweep efficiency. This research serves as a preliminary study in understanding advanced CO2 mobility control techniques and will provide insights to future studies on this topic.