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American Myth-Busting, Joe Wilkins

Faculty Publications

In this essay, Joe Wilkins discusses the new breed of western films.

Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre, Livia Alexander

Department of Art and Design Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Michelle Birch's Eportfolio, Michelle Birch

ePortfolio Showcase

My ePortfolio best displays my academic and professional achievements as an aspiring producer in the television industry.

Interview Of Gerard Molyneaux, F.S.C., Ph.D., Gerard Molyneaux, Megan Crowe

All Oral Histories

Gerard Molyneaux was born in 1935 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania to John and Anne Elizabeth Molyneaux. He graduated from West Catholic High School in 1951 and began his novitiate in the Christian Brothers, taking final vows in 1953. He graduated from La Salle College in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and in 1959 with a Master of Arts in Theology. He taught at St. John's High School in Washington, DC, Cumberland School in Maryland, Southville Catholic School in Pittsburgh, PA, and in the English Department of Lewis University. He received his Master of Arts degree in English …

Rebekah & Aliya, Mark Hirsch

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Rebekah & Aliya is a multimedia ballet for two dancers, ten musicians, and film based on a story of love, timelessness, and transcendence. Drawing inspiration from literary themes of Jorge Luis Borges as well as composers of the Renaissance and Avant-garde alike, this collaboration with choreographer Madeline Bunke is a four-scene work, alternating between film and live dance, with live music throughout.

Female Solidarity In The Films Of María Novaro: Aquí Sólo Encontramos Amigas, Traci Roberts-Camps

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Review Of Rosario Castellanos: Perspectivas Críticas. Ensayos Inéditos, Edited By Pol Popovic Karic And Fidel Chavez Perez, Traci Roberts-Camps

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

From Playground To Fetish: The Identity Of (The) Mary Jane, Georgina Ruff

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

Cartoon characters Buster Brown and his sister Mary Jane both wore Mary Jane shoes in 1905. The style was practical for active children – easy to don and securely fastened to busy feet. Yet by the turn of the 21^st century, Mary Jane styles have been adopted by the high fashion industry and fetish culture in forms that are considerably less practical for certain forms of activity. This research traces the transition of the Mary Jane through the twentieth century, from the feet of children to the pages of Vogue and ultimately the couch of Freud. Along the way, …

Motion(Less) Pictures: The Cinema Of Stasis, Justin Remeselnik

Wayne State University Dissertations

Since cinema's inception, there has been much disagreement among film theorists about the role of movement in cinema's ontology. For example, while Rudolf Arnheim has argued that motion is a sine qua non of cinema, Roland Barthes has insisted that motion is not as central to cinema's ontology as duration, an experiential "unfolding." In this dissertation, I argue--following Barthes--that movement is merely a contingent, not a necessary, condition of cinema. I further suggest that the very enterprise of prescribing necessary conditions of cinema is myopic, reductive, and reactionary.

In supporting these claims, I interrogate the cinema of stasis, a modality …

Just Playing In The Sandbox: Fan Identities From A Play Perspective, Linda Börzsei

Linda Börzsei

The aim of this research paper is to explore online fan culture from a play perspective and analyse the construction of fan identities through narrative and ludic theories. After giving a short introduction to the different definitions of the 'fan', both from in- and outside of academia, I will analyse fandom by tracing play elements and the essential qualities of play, as defined by Johan Huizinga and Roger Caillois. The paper will proceed with the analysis of the identity construction of fans using narrative and ludic theories, as well as investigating how the appearance of ludic digital media influenced identity …

Apaches And Comanches On Screen, Kenneth Estes Hall

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: A generally accurate appraisal of Western films might claim that Indians as hostiles are grouped into one undifferentiated mass. Popular hostile groups include the Sioux (without much differentiation between tribes or bands, the Apaches, and the Comanches).

Documentary Production & Documentary Problems, Shara K. Lange

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: Making documentary films forces students to engage in the complexities of the genre.

História E Documentário No Cinema De Andrei Tarkóvski, Cassio De Oliveira

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the article, the author discuses the Cinematic history and documentary of Andrei Tarkóvski.

The Russian Cinematic Culture, Oksana Bulgakova

Russian Culture

The cinema has always been subject to keen scrutiny by Russia's rulers. As early as the beginning of this century Russia's last czar, Nikolai Romanov, attempted to nationalize this new and, in his view, threatening medium: "I have always insisted that these cinema-booths are dangerous institutions. Any number of bandits could commit God knows what crimes there, yet they say the people go in droves to watch all kinds of rubbish; I don't know what to do about these places." The plan for a government monopoly over cinema, which would ensure control of production and consumption and thereby protect the …

Michele, The Husband, Michael C. Vocino

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

A short story from an unfinished mystery novel involving scenes from an Italian-American life.

Portraying Migrants’ Experiences In Irish Documentary Film, Agnes Kakasi

Conference Papers

Portraying Migrants’ Experiences in Irish Documentary Film

In this presentation I critically analyse the types of narratives and formal characteristics, as well as the variety of social issues that filmmakers in the Republic of Ireland have engaged in, in creating stories about transnational migration and the immigrant subject in recent Irish documentary film. As a result of the Celtic Tiger economy from the mid-90s until 2008, Ireland has experienced a major transformation in its ethnoscape (Appadurai, 1996) by becoming a ‘country of immigrants’, with an estimated 12% of the population born outside the country. Through the analysis of such documentary …

Historical Realism And Imperialist Nostalgia In Terrence Malick’S The New World, Monika Siebert

English Faculty Publications

The promotional materials for Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005) devote considerable time to detailing the extraordinary effort of the production crew to recreate Werowocomoco, the capital of the Powhatan’s paramount chiefdom, and Fort James, the first surviving English settlement in Virginia, in the period from 1607 to 1617. The hour-long documentary on “The Making of The New World” accompanying the DVD release of the film, for example, chronicles the shared work of a research team of historians, archeologists, linguists, anthropologists, and members of Virginia tribes to represent as faithfully as possible Powhatan and English agriculture, architecture, language, and …

Border Bandits: Hollywood On The Southern Frontier (Book Review), Claudia Ferman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Fojas begins the preface to her book with a reference to May 1, 2006, a date on which American workers recognized International Labor Day by boycotting their jobs and marching to reject a law that repressed undocumented workers at the same time that it proposed the construction of a wall along the whole 700-mile Mexican border. The author claims that this protest marked "a new era in the predicament of workers at the bottom of the labor market" (vii). For Fojas, this moment marks a new visibility for Latinos and immigrant communities.

It is against this historical and political horizon …

German Film And The Frankfurt School (Spring 2012), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

German Film and the Frankfurt School is an introduction to German cinema and media criticism. It will introduce students to important German films that have had a global impact, significant theoretical approaches to those films (especially those from the “Frankfurt School”), and the historical and cultural contexts in which these films and film theories arose. The class is cross-listed in German, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Screen Studies. It provides a survey of an important art-form in German cultural history. Although National Socialism, the Holocaust and the Second World War are not the only themes of the course, they are …

Illusionary Strength: An Analysis Of Female Empowerment In Science Fiction And Horror Films In Fatal Attraction, Aliens, And The Stepford Wives, Jennifer Lynn Ruben

Master of Humanities Capstone Projects

An expanded notion of empowerment along with three specific theories – Beauvoir’s concept of the Other, Speciesism, Cyborg Feminism – is used to analyze the female protagonists and antagonists in the following 1970’s and 1980’s science fiction and horror films: Fatal Attraction, Aliens, and The Stepford Wives. The female protagonists are allowed more access to power as human beings pitted against nonhuman antagonists, but these characters are ultimately not empowering for women because they reinforce rather than undermine the patriarchal structure. Implications for further research encourage a critique of female empowerment based on both gender and species.