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Fascist Aesthetics From 1940 To Contemporary Times, Anna M. Gellerman
Fascist Aesthetics From 1940 To Contemporary Times, Anna M. Gellerman
Publications and Research
Movies and literature all over the world share some common aesthetics: militarization, romanticization of death, beauty of perfection, and even purity. What most don't think about is how these tropes rose to popularity due to Nazi Germany's propaganda films. This work describes these fascist aesthetics, and uses famous publications from the 1940s until now to paint just how common these themes are.
The Somewhere We Wish Were Nowhere: Dystopian Realities And (Un)Democratic Imaginaries, Benjamin B. Taylor
The Somewhere We Wish Were Nowhere: Dystopian Realities And (Un)Democratic Imaginaries, Benjamin B. Taylor
Senior Independent Study Theses
How do political practices influence mass culture? Conversely, how does mass culture influence political practice? This project addresses these questions by turning to the concepts of utopia and dystopia. Imagined utopic and dystopic visions express both the hopes and anxieties of the societies producing them. Dystopias also highlight the mechanisms of power that function within particular social orders. Through readings of Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, I demonstrate how utopia and dystopia function and how we can respond to dystopic realities by theorizing solutions that are more conducive to the …
Simply Genre Films: Extracting “King Lear” From “House Of Strangers” And “Broken Lance", Sophia G. I. Funk
Simply Genre Films: Extracting “King Lear” From “House Of Strangers” And “Broken Lance", Sophia G. I. Funk
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate and refute Yvonne Griggs’ claims that the films “House of Strangers” (1949) and “Broken Lance” (1954) are as Griggs deems “genre-based adaptations” of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” I argue that the films, although they have some essential elements of “King Lear,” lack intentionality and reception, pivotal components in determining viability as a Shakespearean film adaptation. Using Griggs’ book as my critical background, I will show that these films are better classified under their respective genre categories, Western and film noir, not as “King Lear” genre adaptations. I will …
The Divided Reception Of The Help, Suzanne W. Jones
The Divided Reception Of The Help, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
The reception of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (2009) calls to mind the reception of two other novels about race relations by southern white writers: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (1936) and William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967). Like Gone With the Wind, The Help has been a pop culture phenomenon— prominent in bookstores and box offices, and the “darling of book clubs everywhere.” In January 2012 when I asked students in my Women in Modern Literature class what was the best book they had recently read by a woman, most named either The Help or The Hunger …
Multimedia Use In Small News Organizations, Robyn K. Keriazes
Multimedia Use In Small News Organizations, Robyn K. Keriazes
Honors Theses and Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Boy At The Keyhole Watching Bombshells, Claudia Springer
The Boy At The Keyhole Watching Bombshells, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
Discusses 3 films ( Hope and Glory, Empire of the Sun, and Radio Days) that associate the Oedipal crisis with war. By placing boys at the age where they discover sexual differences, the films conflate wartime and sexual trauma.
Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam (Spanish Translation), Claudia Springer
Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam (Spanish Translation), Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Black Women Filmmakers, Claudia Springer
Ethnocentric Circles: A Short History Of Ethnographic Film, Claudia Springer
Ethnocentric Circles: A Short History Of Ethnographic Film, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam, Claudia Springer
Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Review Of Bodies Of Subversion: A Secret History Of Women And Tattoo, Claudia Springer
Review Of Bodies Of Subversion: A Secret History Of Women And Tattoo, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Watch The Birdie: Image-Making And Wildlife Conservation, Claudia Springer
Watch The Birdie: Image-Making And Wildlife Conservation, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
Photography and the modern wildlife conservation movement became entwined soon after their shared emergence in the middle of the 19th century. This article analyzes how photography, film, video, and digital imaging have shaped the movement and continue to exert influence. Images often dictate our knowledge of animal species in the wild, but they can be deceptive, and they have hindered as well as helped conservation efforts. The profusion of wildlife conservation imagery and continued politicized debates over appropriate strategies make it important to investigate the conflicted alliance between mechanical reproduction and the conservation movement.
Vietnam: A Television History And The Equivocal Nature Of Objectivity, Claudia Springer
Vietnam: A Television History And The Equivocal Nature Of Objectivity, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Reporters, Women, And The Third World In 1980s Film, Claudia Springer
Reporters, Women, And The Third World In 1980s Film, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
The Seduction Of The Surface: From Alice To Crash, Claudia Springer
The Seduction Of The Surface: From Alice To Crash, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Review Of Independent Black, Chicano, And Asian Filmmaking In Los Angeles, A Panel At The Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Summer 1982, Claudia Springer
Review Of Independent Black, Chicano, And Asian Filmmaking In Los Angeles, A Panel At The Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Summer 1982, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Rachel Berwick: Economies Of Desire, Claudia Springer
Rachel Berwick: Economies Of Desire, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Antiwar Film As Spectacle: Contradictions Of The Combat Sequence, Claudia Springer
Antiwar Film As Spectacle: Contradictions Of The Combat Sequence, Claudia Springer
Claudia Springer
No abstract provided.
Test Candidates’ Attitudes And Their Relationship To Demographic And Experiential Variables: The Case Of Overseas Trained Teachers In Nsw, Australia, Judith (Judie) L. Cross Dr, Jill C. Murray Dr, Mehdi Riazi Assoc. Prof.
Test Candidates’ Attitudes And Their Relationship To Demographic And Experiential Variables: The Case Of Overseas Trained Teachers In Nsw, Australia, Judith (Judie) L. Cross Dr, Jill C. Murray Dr, Mehdi Riazi Assoc. Prof.
Judith (Judie) L Cross
One measure of the impact of a high-stakes test is the attitudes that test takers hold towards it. It has been suggested that positive attitudes produce beneficial effects while real or anticipated negative experiences can result in the development of attitudes that erode confidence and potentially impact negatively on performance. This study investigated test taker attitudes by exploring the opinions, beliefs, and feelings of a group of overseas trained teachers preparing for a professional gate-keeping test, and examining correlations between attitudes and demographic and experiential factors. The participants were 105 candidates who were enrolled in a preparation course for the …
Challenges And Strategies Of Mobile Advertising In India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Challenges And Strategies Of Mobile Advertising In India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Ratnesh Dwivedi
Advertising is paid communication through a medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including: television, radio, movies, magazines, newspapers, the Internet and today’s growing mobile advertising. Advertisements can also be seen on the seats of grocery carts, on the walls of an airport walkway, on the sides of buses, heard in telephone hold messages and instore PA systems but get paid for reading SMS on our mobile phones .It is the new way of marketing strategy for reaching subscribers. Mobile advertising is the business of encouraging …
Learning English Through Interactive Weblogs: Student Experiences Blogging In The Secondary Esl Classroom, Glori H. Smith
Learning English Through Interactive Weblogs: Student Experiences Blogging In The Secondary Esl Classroom, Glori H. Smith
Theses and Dissertations
This qualitative action research project examined the experiences of high school English language learners as they created personal weblogs and responded to queries on a class weblog. The data from the project demonstrates that blogging as a classroom writing activity is effective in helping students to obtain, process and construct the English language.