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“‘The Most Fabricated Exception’: Islam, Immigration And The White-Saviour Narrative In Laurent Cantet’S The Class.”, Elizabeth Toohey

Publications and Research

This article suggests that the acclaim director Laurent Cantet received for his 2008 award winning film “The Class” obscures the way this film reinforces the very undercurrents in French culture he sets out to critique. Rather than unearthing or mirroring the racial dynamics of twenty-first-century Paris, Cantet brings to the film a set of fascinations and anxieties latent in the French imagination about blackness, Islam and Arab culture. His preoccupations and preconceptions with race, religion and nationality appear first in the portrayal of Muslim immigrants as threatening; next, in his image of a ‘white saviour’ bent on rescuing racial minorities; …

Deconstruction Of The Romantic Comedy In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Mary E. Crivelli

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This research seeks to unpack the narrative of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend using semiotics, particularly through Roland Barthes' work in Mythologies and A Lover's Discourse. The goal of this research is to demonstrate long-form storytelling's ability to interrogate and revisit criticism through consideration of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's role as an ongoing satire of romantic comedies. This research culminated in a thesis discussing the semiotic myths that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend interrogates, and the process of deconstruction that occurs within the text. The thesis applied the "fragments" identified in Barthes' A Lover’s Discourse to corresponding scenes in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, with a focus on the …

Storms Named After People, Sarah E. Ballard

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Storms Named After People is a coming-of-age film about loneliness, Florida's disposition during holidays, freedom within abandonment, and how one translates time and space when alone.

I intend for this film to capture a unique and authentic representation of young women that I find difficult to come by in mainstream cinema. Some other things I plan to accomplish with Storms Named After people include subverting the audience's expectations, challenging tired stereotypes of women and various relationships among them, capturing loneliness from an optimistic point of view and embracing availability within a micro-budget filmmaking process. A final product that accomplishes all …

Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives Of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, And Jim Crow, Allison E. Sardinas

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis works to establish a literary theory and cultural studies as a theoretical lens with which we can view harmful emerging pop culture phenomena like the so-called alt right. The premise is supposed in three parts, with the first being a simple introduction to the Pepe character and how he is grounded in literary studies through a comparison of Sherlock Holmes and his early fandom. The second part is a survey of the legacy of Jim Crow and I present the evidence that Pepe is very much Crow’s spiritual successor in their shared preoccupation with white anxiety. The third …

A Bollywood Commercial For Ireland: Filming Ek Tha Tiger In Dublin, Giovanna Rampazzo

Books/Book chapters

The spectacular representation of overseas locations has traditionally been a generic trope of Hindi cinema (AKA Bollywood). Notably, stunning places unfamiliar to Indian audiences are constantly featured in commercial Indian films, mostly for their visual qualities, in order to add a further element of entertainment to the story.

Shuksan Story: An Original Soundtrack Composition, Jonathan (Jonathan Mahan) Ross

WWU Graduate School Collection

This thesis centers around a composition written to score a documentary called “Shuksan Story,” a film documentary about the revitalization of Shuksan Middle School in Bellingham, WA. To satisfy the needs of the documentary, the composition includes four sections, including a set all in the same key signature, a set featuring the main theme, stand-alone pieces, and brief “stingers”. The project also includes recordings of all compositions: performed, mixed and finalized by the composer. The intention is that the filmmaker will edit these pieces into the completed project. This paper outlines the historical context of Shuksan Middle School and its …

The Beloved: A Documentary Film On The History And Aftermath Of Fremantle’S Rajneesh Sannyasin Community – And – Hidden Realities: Transcendental Structures In Documentary Film: An Exegesis, Joseph London

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This creative work and its associated exegesis examines the concept of what I have termed a ‘transcendental structure’ in relation to a documentary film form, and what outcomes, specific to a non-fiction mode of representation, result from the application of this structure. A transcendental structure in film has a long history of investigation and interpretation in narrative fiction film theory and practice, but is substantially absent from documentary scholarship. The topic appears, in different forms, in the critical writings of Zavattini (1940), Bazin (1946), Pasolini (1965), Schrader (1972), Deleuze (1985), and more recently, Perez (1998) and Minghelli (2016). All of …

Your Iphone Cannot Escape History, And Neither Can You: Self-Reflexive Design For A Mobile History Learning Game, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

This chapter focuses on the design approach used in the self-reflexive finale of the mobile augmented reality history game Jewish Time Jump: New York. In the finale, the iOS device itself and the player using it are implicated in the historical moment and theme of the game. The author-designer-researcher drew from self-reflexive traditions in theater, cinema, and nonmobile games to craft the reveal of the connection between the mobile device and the history that the learners were studying. Through centering on this particular design element, the author demonstrates how self-reflexivity can be deployed in a mobile learning experience to …

Why Can't They Let A Girl Marry One Man?: The Origins Of Lucy Westenra's Suitors, Leah Davydov

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Medievalism In True Blood, Natalie Grinnell

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Gender And The Apotropaic In Charles Keeping's Illustrations To Dracula, Alice Mills

Journal of Dracula Studies

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The Outer Space Film As A Mythology For Human Destiny, Alexander Samir Habiby

Senior Projects Spring 2018

The modern outer space film uniquely explores the future and destiny of humanity as shown in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Contact, and Interstellar through their themes and invocation of the sublime. It functions as a modern mythology for human destiny.

Between Precarity And Belonging: Mapping Queer Representations In A Heterosexual World, Ariel Florence Bleakley

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

It Shines A Certain Way. To A Certain Place: The Works Of Native Filmmakers, Mae B. Vader

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Dream Of Nothing In 10 Chapters, William Hardt Wrubel

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

#Representationmatters: A Study Of Masculinity In The Avengers Movies, Lauren F. Cooke

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Sweet Embrace, Sabrina Kissack

Senior Projects Spring 2018

sweet embrace is an attempt to paint the remnants of spectacle in a slow moving and inconclusive world. The characters exist in a state of obsessive observation, edging towards what they are drawn to but never taking it. The event does not occur on screen, but there is a sense that it has already happened. Perhaps it has happened in the dimension we can see and perhaps in another that has overflowed into the the world of the film. The glitter, the jewels, the hair, the blood, the paint, the glove all serve as markers of the event. They are …

Dread And The Undead: Old Norse Zombies, Arthurian Adventures, And Horror Movies, Mikaela Torraca Kohan

Senior Projects Fall 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

#Lonelymovie Or The Continuation Of Our Brand And The Good Feelings It Produces, Theodore Philip Rosen

Senior Projects Fall 2018

#LonelyMovie or the Continuation of our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces

A Senior Project submitted to

The Division of the Arts

Bard College

By Theodore Rosen

#LonelyMovie or the Continuation of our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces

A Senior Project submitted to

The Division of the Arts

Bard College

By Theodore Rosen

#LonelyMovie or the Continuation of our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces

A Senior Project submitted to

The Division of the Arts

Bard College

By Theodore Rosen

#LonelyMovie Artist Statement

Artist’s List:

1. Stevie Wonder

2. Mario

3. Bowser

4. Cartoon Network

5. Jack Link’s

6. Takashi Murakami

7. Gatorade …

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Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-Cultural Encounters In East Asian Film [Book Review], Espena Darlene Machell

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this exceptional book, Felicia Chan dives deep into the complexities of cosmopolitanism and cinema, questioning the meaning of ‘foreignness’ and aspirations of ‘belonging’ in the global context. Grounded on the premise that transnational cinema, or cinema in general, is an important platform for the production, imagination, and interrogation of cosmopolitan ideals, the book focuses on East Asian cinemas from China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, challenging notions of definitive cultural boundaries. The book offers a way to understand cross-cultural encounters that emphasises the nuances and subjectivities of cultural imaginaries that cinema itself advances and challenges at the same time. …