University of the Pacific
Hanyang University (ERICA), Korea
East Tennessee State Universtiy
Bowling Green State University
University of Washington Tacoma
Loyola Marymount University
Edith Cowan University
The University of San Francisco
Western Michigan University
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Letting The Body Lead,
2020
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Letting The Body Lead, Amanda Boggs
Masters Theses
Letting the Body Lead is an exhibition and workshop series that focuses on embodiment in social context and invites attendees to engage with the work, both as viewers and active participants. Embodiment in social context refers to the understanding of lived experiences in the body. Within my creative practice, I explore the body's creativity, knowledge, and agency while bridging and brining together the fields of fine arts, movement-based and socially just art making. I believe in the transformative potential of how movement and contemplative practices can support a more liberated way of being both within an individual and, by ...
Contemporary MoʻOlelo: Filling The Literature Stream With Pacific Water,
2020
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Contemporary MoʻOlelo: Filling The Literature Stream With Pacific Water, Kalilinoe Detwiler
Horizons
Introduction: This paper discusses the essentialness of drawing from moʻolelo and traditional knowledge in creative works and conducting the production of those works through an Indigenous lens. Methods: I first identify the discourse community through which the research and conclusions are oriented, which is the Native Hawaiian community interested in telling stories through new mediums. I identify a concern of this community which is the number of storytellers who use Hawaiʻi as a backdrop for stories that misrepresent the community and culture in the entertainment industry as a commodity. Results: Through the research, I identify the harm of allowing non-Indigenous ...
El Abrazo De La Serpiente O Un Mise-En-Scène Sin Fronteras,
2020
University of Colorado Boulder
El Abrazo De La Serpiente O Un Mise-En-Scène Sin Fronteras, Sandra Ortiz-València
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
El abrazo de la serpiente es una de las obras cumbre del cine latino americano que más reconocimiento internacional ha obtenido, pero ¿por qué el filme de Ciro Guerra fascinó a un público tan amplio y diverso, obteniendo premios en lugares tan alejados y dispares como Montreal o Yereván, por nombrar alguno? Esta presentación realiza un análisis en profundidad de la puesta en escena en El abrazo para explicar el lenguaje audiovisual con el que el filme de Ciro Guerra construye una narrativa cinematográfica alejada de las formas dominantes, pero habilitada para emocionar a audiencias de todo el mundo. Tomando ...
Plastic Goes Concrete: "Plasticnic" And "Plasticpoems", Two Animated Poetry Videos About Plastic Pollution,
2020
Simon Fraser University
Plastic Goes Concrete: "Plasticnic" And "Plasticpoems", Two Animated Poetry Videos About Plastic Pollution, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Nhat Truong, Tisha Deb Pillai
The Goose
The author describes the creation of two short animated video poems about plastic pollution that originated in concrete/visual poems. "Plasticnic" is a humorous and colourful narrated video based on a shaped poem depicting how we enjoy nature while simultaneously harming it through plastic consumption. "Plasticpoems" is a text-based, unnarrated animated video poem about plastic pollution based on two shaped/visual/concrete poems.
Toward A Fluid Cinematic Spectatorship And Desire: Revisiting Laura Mulvey’S Psychoanalytic Film Theories,
2020
The University of Western Ontario
Toward A Fluid Cinematic Spectatorship And Desire: Revisiting Laura Mulvey’S Psychoanalytic Film Theories, Taylor Ashton Mcgoey
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis project re-evaluates Laura Mulvey’s film theories regarding psychoanalysis and the “male gaze,” first found in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). By re-evaluating the limitations of Mulvey’s use of the Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic model this project seeks to understand the desires and processes of identification of cinematic spectators who reject the ideological imperative of the “male gaze”. As many critics have noted, Mulvey’s initial examination of cinema does not account for LGBTQ+ spectators and/or black spectators who occupy looking relations that reject cis-normative and heteronormative white Hollywood cinematic conventions. From this ...
十九大之際，從影片《戰狼Ⅱ》淺談個人主義,
2020
Lingnan University
十九大之際，從影片《戰狼Ⅱ》淺談個人主義, Huoma Man Shan
Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南
二零一七年《戰狼Ⅱ》（以下簡稱：《戰2》）的上映，不僅刷新了中國票房資本紀錄，也被國內外多家主流媒體作為一種文化現象廣為報導。這位由吳京老師自導自演的「Captain China」，身披五星紅旗，腳踏雇傭士軍，一騎當千、百毒不侵、萬夫莫當地穿梭於各種槍林彈雨。他以一個近乎完美的個人英雄主義形象，懷著為搜尋殺害未婚妻真凶的內心執著，用精通十八班武藝這特種兵的身份，幫助解決了一個國際危機，片中盧靖姍(Celina Jade)飾演的混血美女無國界醫生猶如「007幫女郎」般伴其左右。
盜亦有道 : 關於中國網絡字幕組的記憶和敘述 (2001-2020),
2020
Lingnan University
盜亦有道 : 關於中國網絡字幕組的記憶和敘述 (2001-2020), Yayuan Ma
Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南
二零零一年中國加入世界貿易組織（WTO），在與世界接軌的同時，也抓緊時機大力發展文化產業以輸出文化產品和價值理念。同年，互聯網開始在中國普及，以翻譯歐美日韓影視劇爲主的網絡字幕組應運而生、發展壯大，且因工作高效和免費服務而廣受互聯網用戶追捧和好評。網絡字幕組以游走於法律灰色地帶的方式為中國互聯網用戶引入海量影視劇資源，而中國官方從起初的視而不見到為加强知識版權和文化審查而接連打擊、查封字幕組，並把字幕組在跨文化傳播上的巨大貢獻排除在中國文化產業發展的敘述邏輯之外
《過春天》 : 關口上的春耕春收,
2020
Lingnan University
《過春天》 : 關口上的春耕春收, Ziyan Chen
Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南
電影《過春天》（下簡稱《過》）是導演白雪的處女作，講述了十六歲少女佩佩為完成和閨蜜一起去日本看雪的約定，冒險成為「水貨客」的獨特經歷（過春天，2020）。在影片正式公映前，已連續獲得了多項國際大獎（電影大暴走，2019）。《過》的劇情落地在香港和深圳，兩個比鄰而居卻因「一國兩制」被分隔成為境外、境內的不同行政區域的城市。
The Modes Of Intervention In Alvin Lucier’S I Am Sitting In A Room,
2020
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Modes Of Intervention In Alvin Lucier’S I Am Sitting In A Room, Daniel Fox
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room (1969) is an icon of experimental music and sound art. The sizable literature addressing the aesthetic and philosophical implications of this piece rarely discusses the performance practice beyond what is indicated in the score itself. This is problematic for two reasons: 1) The meaning that is derived from the piece often hinges not just on what sounds are obtained, but on how they are obtained. 2) Over the past 50 years, changes in the performance practice have altered what constitutes the work: magnetic tape was used until 2000 when it was ...
Resistimos,
2020
CUNY Hunter College
Resistimos, Diana Quiñones Rivera
School of Arts & Sciences Theses
Resistimos (We Resist) is a documentary about the current socio-economic and political issues in Puerto Rico, as seen through the lives of people practicing Bomba music. Bomba is an Afro Puerto Rican music and dance tradition that was born out of the struggle and survival of enslaved people all over the island. Resistimos documents the resurgence of this music as a tool to fight corruption, gender inequality and the austerity measures imposed in Puerto Rico by the US Fiscal Control Board in 2016.
Cinema "Turns": Catalan Creative Documentary,
2020
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cinema "Turns": Catalan Creative Documentary, Celia Sainz Delgado
Masters Theses
This thesis focuses on four women-directed films as a way to illustrate some characteristics shared by the new Catalan creative documentary: El cielo gira ( The Sky Turns, dir. Mercedes Álvarez, 2004), Nedar (Swim, dir. Carla Subirana, 2008), La plaga (The Plague, dir. Neus Ballús, 2013), and Penèlope (Penelope, dir. Eva Vila, 2018). My aim is to highlight their alternative cinematographic strategies, which stray from the hegemonic discourses of documentary filmmaking. In so doing, I analyze these films from three different angles: the relationship between the filmmaker and the material world; the alternative modalities of time; and the haptic connection between ...
Election Day — Documentary,
2020
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Election Day — Documentary, John Thomas Tarpley
Theses and Dissertations
Election Day is a three-channel documentary chronicling the places, personalities, and tone of Little Rock, Arkansas, during its titular midterm Election Day in November 2018. Throughout the course of the day, the film branches across the city, capturing mini-narratives, bits of conversation, and tableau of civic activity in the public sphere. It is less concerned with the quantitative facts of the day as it is with conveying the transitory social expressions and moods of a modern, southern city on a uniquely American day. This project represents my continued documentary interest in creating inclusive, contemporary local portraits and counter-historical chronicles of ...
A Screenplay For Bystander Intervention For Sexual Harassment Scenarios For College Students,
2020
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
A Screenplay For Bystander Intervention For Sexual Harassment Scenarios For College Students, Shanti Herzog
Journalism
This project was developed to describe the drafting of a screenplay for an interactive, virtual reality sexual harassment training module for students of the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. The research began with the examination of the prevalent and persisting issue of sexual harassment within college campus communities, and how to present college students with the tools to intervene as bystanders, thus encouraging them to intervene when encountering sexual harassment scenarios. The resulting screenplay was written to provide college students at Cal Poly with strategies to identify and take action when encountering sexual harassment, especially in small group gatherings ...
I Think Of Your Mother,
2020
CUNY Hunter College
I Think Of Your Mother, Natalie Elizabeth Conn
School of Arts & Sciences Theses
I Think of Your Mother is a short observational film that documents Valentine’s Day weekend at a 131-year old, family-owned-and-operated flower shop in East Elmhurst, Queens. The once thriving business of providing flowers for funerals at the nearby St. Michael’s Cemetery has diminished, but seven days a week the 92-year old owner, Gladys, still answers the phone and takes orders while her family tries to accommodate her way of doing things. As they struggle to keep the store relevant, the film captures a family business that has persevered, if not necessarily triumphed, over the profound changes taking place ...
Time Machine Research And Approach,
2020
CUNY Hunter College
Time Machine Research And Approach, Tarek Bouraque
School of Arts & Sciences Theses
Time Machine is a hybrid documentary that explores the logics of enslavement, colonialism, eurocentrism and their interconnectedness in our globalized world. Mustapha Azemmouri, born in 1502, undertakes a journey to the 21st century to recount his own story of enslavement and exploration, and reflects on a collective puzzle of 500 years of hidden history.
The Life Of Dan,
2020
CUNY Hunter College
The Life Of Dan, Jeremy S. Levine
School of Arts & Sciences Theses
The Life of Dan is a hybrid film about the complications of brotherly love and working through the horrors of the past. The film explores past traumas between brothers Dan and Jeremy through their shared love of horror films. As they work through unsettled moments from their childhoods, building towards Dan’s temporary hospitalization, the documentary transforms into a horror film about mental illness and traumatic memory.
All Good, Father,
2020
CUNY Hunter College
All Good, Father, Chieh-Chun Lee
School of Arts & Sciences Theses
All Good, Father is a 50-minute documentary film about how my love-bound, intimate relationship with my father is entangled with his social values surrounding my sexual identity and his expectations for me in his old age.
The Theory Of Dispositions In Filmmaking And Leadership,
2020
Minnesota State University Moorhead
The Theory Of Dispositions In Filmmaking And Leadership, Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Dissertations, Theses, and Projects
Inclusive media arts education should be accessible for all young people so that they can be successful citizens of this media-rich, media-saturated world. Issues surrounding access and exclusion are complex. What barriers contribute to exclusion within media arts education programs? The purpose of this study is to determine how best to create more inclusion in media arts education through leadership practices. More specifically, how do we become more inclusive in filmmaking practice, and what is the role of leadership in that endeavor? This study strives to determine how leadership best serves a highly successful inclusive media arts organization, and to ...
You Were There : An Exploration And Analysis Of The Filmmaking Process,
2020
University of Mississippi
You Were There : An Exploration And Analysis Of The Filmmaking Process, Regan Emfinger
Honors Theses
This thesis explores the process of writing, shooting, and editing my short film You Were There. My process involved scriptwriting with several revisions, shooting with a cast and crew, and editing the raw footage. This paper will not only serve as a timeline leading up to the final product of the film but also will explain the function of each artistic choice. This paper will also outline the biggest lessons I learned about fictional narratives, and discuss the successes and failures of the film as a whole. I also plan on discussing how those lessons will further my academic and ...
Female Leaders Navigate The Arts, Post 'Me Too',
2020
James Madison University
Female Leaders Navigate The Arts, Post 'Me Too', Peyton Kennedy
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
As the lights dim and the curtain rises on a theatrical production, there are roles to fill onstage and off. Perhaps the most important roles in modern theatre are those of leadership. Leaders in the arts have the power to influence company communication, shape the culture of the rehearsal room and navigate through a crisis. However, leadership and power can be manipulated, as the world witnessed through the ‘me too’ movement. As allegations rose against prominent leaders, the push for change strengthened. We are now three years past Hollywood’s ignition of the ‘me too’ movement, which prompts the question ...
