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Bi Erasure And Bi Invisibility In Media And Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
Bi Erasure And Bi Invisibility In Media And Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This project examines the bisexual erasure and invisibility that is found in film, television, literature, and in the field of reproduction. Even though bisexual people make up a large portion of the LGBTQ community, because of bi invisibility, they tend to get lost in the cause. This website offers information about bi invisibility, highlights obstacles faced by bisexuals, provides resources for bisexuals, and includes some fun topics for bisexual people. It also has a page of bisexual testimonies: real bi people with real bi stories. There is evidence of erasure and invisibility, especially in children’s books and the field of …
Urban Space, Genre And Subjectivity In African And Latin American Cinema, Matthew Marcus
Urban Space, Genre And Subjectivity In African And Latin American Cinema, Matthew Marcus
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This project studies twelve African and Latin American films from a range of eras and countries, with an emphasis on their treatment of urban space, their manipulation of genre elements, and their approaches to character subjectivity. The analysis draws on major works of urban theory by Henri Lefebvre, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, and others in order to investigate the relationship between cinema and the urban experience. As the films in the study are mostly set in cities that are not discussed by the theorists, the analysis entails testing their theories against the realities of these other settings, as …
Cashing Out (Documentary), Girard Tecson
Cashing Out (Documentary), Girard Tecson
Theses and Dissertations
My 30-minute documentary film, Cashing Out, explores my journey into the world of sneaker culture and the major impact it made in my life.