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Alien Nation, Adam Hoole
Alien Nation, Adam Hoole
Masters Theses
Can we (re)write our own subjectivity? What is lost in translation when we attempt to remake ourselves through speech acts? These questions are perhaps the most unsolvable and fundamental to inquiries into the operations of subjectivity. Nevertheless, they are questions I am to encounter and explore in this paper through a singular case study of the Manus Island Regional Processing Center. Founded in 2001, the Manus Island Processing Center served as a place for Australia to indefinitely detain refugees off-shore. The Processing Center was also a contentious site of violence and protest, of stillness and chaos, of love and despair. …
"The Sound And Color Will Translate . . . To The Visual": Sound In The Adaptations Of John Huston, Bryce Allen Patton
"The Sound And Color Will Translate . . . To The Visual": Sound In The Adaptations Of John Huston, Bryce Allen Patton
Masters Theses
My thesis focuses on the relationship between sound and adaptation in the work of American filmmaker John Huston. By focusing on three films, from three distinct periods of Huston’s career, I demonstrate how Huston’s use of sound in his adaptations evolved throughout his career. Each chapter focuses on one particular aspect of Huston’s use of sound but also comments on other auditory elements present in each film. My introduction serves as an overview of Huston’s adaptive process. The main focus of the first chapter centers on Huston’s use of speech throughout his adaptation of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre …
The Abstraction Of Meaning In The Digital Landscape And The Communities That Form There, Genevieve Gilliland
The Abstraction Of Meaning In The Digital Landscape And The Communities That Form There, Genevieve Gilliland
Masters Theses
Computer-mediated technologies are changing how we communicate; the boundaries between oral, visual, and verbal communication, already difficult to distinguish, has blurred, becoming a construction with its own grammar and diction. One such visual/verbal-mixed unit of communication is the internet meme, an image, text, video, or performance meant to be circulated within digital communities. This open-ended medium begs for rhetorical study in this evolving digital landscape. Preceding scholarship that has blended the field of rhetoric with internet memes has tended to focus on a study of circulation (Mills; Taecharungroj and Nueangjamnong; Guadagno, et al.) or the use of specific forms and …