On Playful Theft: Master Thieves and Trolling the (Art) Establishment

dc.contributor.advisorOstmeier, Dorothee
dc.contributor.authorPanther, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-18T23:09:35Z
dc.date.available2015-08-18T23:09:35Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-18
dc.description.abstractThis thesis places art heists in the context of their journalistic and online commentaries to examine their implications for subversive anti-capitalist criticism. The 2012 Rotterdam Art Heist functions as a case study that demonstrates how online trolling participates in the production of a culture that undermines the conventional dualisms between popular and high culture. By linking crime and its commentaries to game and performance theories the thesis promotes pop culture against its devaluation by 20th century cultural critics Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. Hence, it argues for folklore’s role in critically rethinking the scholarship on the work of these acclaimed cultural critics. Anti-establishment perspectives are set against bourgeois moments in the Frankfurt School’s critical theory.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19308
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectAnti-Capitalismen_US
dc.subjectCrimeen_US
dc.subjectFilmen_US
dc.subjectHeisten_US
dc.subjectPlayen_US
dc.subjectTrollingen_US
dc.titleOn Playful Theft: Master Thieves and Trolling the (Art) Establishment
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineFolklore Program
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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