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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Art As Politics? How Fox News Manufactures Its Hosts’ Performances To Acquire Cable Prestige, Matthew Mcguirk
Art As Politics? How Fox News Manufactures Its Hosts’ Performances To Acquire Cable Prestige, Matthew Mcguirk
The Graduate Review
Fox News is the most popular cable news network in the United States, drawing millions of conservative viewers who trust it more than any other outlet. Although many of the network’s claims are subject to controversy or rooted in falsities, these viewers continue watching, offering a never-before-seen devotion to the network. Using Fox’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as insight from Karl Marx and Walter Benjamin, this paper demonstrates how Fox manufactures its hosts’ performances to advance its fetishizing of the commodity of cable prestige.
Practical Femininity: The Student Development Of Legally Blonde’S Elle Woods, Elizabeth S. Rodericks
Practical Femininity: The Student Development Of Legally Blonde’S Elle Woods, Elizabeth S. Rodericks
The Graduate Review
College experiences often involve challenges that can provide the impetus for personal and professional growth. Likewise, Elle Woods of the film Legally Blonde undergoes multiple significant changes in her sense of identity, morality, and ability to take charge of her own life after she is forced to radically change her perspective and priorities. This paper covers her development as a law student and individual according to the student development theories of Chickering’s Seven Vectors of Identity Development, Gilligan’s Theory of Women’s Moral Development, and Baxter Magolda’s Self-Authorship Theory. As a result of her growth, Elle Woods flourishes into a confident, …
Radios Life Expectancy, Edward Krikorian
Radios Life Expectancy, Edward Krikorian
Honors Program Theses and Projects
The purpose of this paper is to predict the future of the radio industry by evaluating its origins and current status in society. The invention of radio served a significant importance as to how we communicate on a daily basis, and it still lives on today. The broadcasting system is currently used to communicate to thousands of people at once, but that wasn’t the case during its initiation. The “Founding Fathers” of radio such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Lee Deforest and Edward Howard Armstrong allowed us to communicate with others over radio waves. I have examined the history of …
Vengeance Is Ours: Safe Spaces And Critical Empathy In Horror Films, David S. Hooker
Vengeance Is Ours: Safe Spaces And Critical Empathy In Horror Films, David S. Hooker
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Many genres of film seek to bring viewers to heightened emotional states, perhaps this is most true of horror films. Although often displaying extreme violence, such films paradoxically provide openings for critically empathetic viewings which allow viewers with diverse backgrounds and experiences to identify with victims and survivors and transcend elements of subjective identity. This project analyzes the capacity of horror films, including those of William Friedkin, David Cronenberg, Brian DePalma and others, to offer viewers space in which to be critically empathetic. Regarding gender issues in the genre as outlined by such scholars as Carol J. Clover, and the …
Stranger Danger: The Inversion Of Suburban Stranger-Danger Symbolism In Stranger Things, Gregory Shea
Stranger Danger: The Inversion Of Suburban Stranger-Danger Symbolism In Stranger Things, Gregory Shea
The Graduate Review
A dramatic shift took place in the suburban conception of children in America during the early 1980s. The high-profile abductions and murders of a small number of children led to a profound shift in suburban thinking about child safety. Suburban parents embarked on a wild search for methods of safeguarding their children against the largely symbolic threats of stranger danger, but, in the end, many of the reactions to stranger danger only served to disempower children in the suburbs. In this paper, I contend that Matt and Ross Duffer’s Stranger Things enters into a symbolic discourse with the stranger danger …
Manipulations Of Stereotypes And Horror Clichés To Criticize Post-Racial White Liberalism In Jordan Peele’S Get Out , Jillian Boger
Manipulations Of Stereotypes And Horror Clichés To Criticize Post-Racial White Liberalism In Jordan Peele’S Get Out , Jillian Boger
The Graduate Review
In Jordan Peele’s 2017 horror movie Get Out, Peele makes both white liberalism and the horror genre targets of satire. The subversion of traditional horror clichés and tropes such as Carol Clover’s Final Girl and body stealing/identity theft allows Peele to parody the genre as well as reorient audiences against stereotypes of blackness. In order to discuss the subversion of expectations, it is important to first identify moments of codeswitching. Another point of importance is noticing how Chris Washington’s role as Get Out’s Final Girl challenges stereotypical representations of black masculinity in other media. Additionally, to discuss automatic revulsion towards …
Film Genre And David Fincher's Gone Girl, Emily Vanleuvan
Film Genre And David Fincher's Gone Girl, Emily Vanleuvan
Master’s Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Film Not Found: Current Cinematic Representation Of Fat Females And Scripting The Self, Amy Pistone
Film Not Found: Current Cinematic Representation Of Fat Females And Scripting The Self, Amy Pistone
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Grafton Ave.: A Screenplay, Christopher Porazzo
Grafton Ave.: A Screenplay, Christopher Porazzo
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Behind The Scenes: A Look At Socio-Cultural Messages In Situation Comedies And Their Effects On Gendered Messages, Victoria S. Hogan
Behind The Scenes: A Look At Socio-Cultural Messages In Situation Comedies And Their Effects On Gendered Messages, Victoria S. Hogan
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Specific values, characteristics and behaviors are expected for men and women in American society. Previous research has shown that gender stereotypes on television programs are believed to influence society's “perception of appropriate sex roles” and reinforce negative notions about the role of women in society (Fullteron et al. 2000). According to Lee & Shaw (2010), matters have not changed much. Television uses speech that creates images of and attitudes towards women that prevent equality. This study undertakes a content analysis of two prime-time television shows, 2 Broke Girls and Happy Endings. The objective of this research is to analyze the …
Inhuman Temporality: Koyaanisqatsi, Matthew Bell
Inhuman Temporality: Koyaanisqatsi, Matthew Bell
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
The Art Of Japanese Noh Theatre In Akira Kurosawa’S Throne Of Blood, Minae Yamamoto Savas
The Art Of Japanese Noh Theatre In Akira Kurosawa’S Throne Of Blood, Minae Yamamoto Savas
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
No Country For Moral Men, William J. Devlin
Selfless: Buffy's Anya And The Problem Of Identity, Victoria Large
Selfless: Buffy's Anya And The Problem Of Identity, Victoria Large
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
One Ring To Rule Them All: Power And Surveillance In The Film Adaptation Of The Lord Of The Rings, Cherylynn Silva
One Ring To Rule Them All: Power And Surveillance In The Film Adaptation Of The Lord Of The Rings, Cherylynn Silva
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Cultural Commentary: Millenarian Visions In Spanish Cinema, Leora Lev
Cultural Commentary: Millenarian Visions In Spanish Cinema, Leora Lev
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Comedy And Perversity: Some American Films Of The 1980s, Michael Boyd
Comedy And Perversity: Some American Films Of The 1980s, Michael Boyd
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Cultural Commentary: Looking For Orson Welles, Joseph Liggera
Cultural Commentary: Looking For Orson Welles, Joseph Liggera
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.