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2004

Social and Behavioral Sciences

William & Mary

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Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber Jan 2004

Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

New Journalism and Direct Cinema reflect a unique conjoined moment in the evolution of nonfiction writing and filmmaking in the United States. I argue that these movements developed as a specific response to the shift from a modern to a postmodern aesthetic, a shift away from faith in a coherent reality at a historical moment, the 1960s. In an attempt to capture reality using new methods that would raise the status of nonfiction, writers and filmmakers in these movements call attention to process and "style." at first glance, these experiments with new styles appear radical; instead, New Journalism and Direct …


Space And Power In Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett Jan 2004

Space And Power In Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


New Deal Housing On The Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism At Swantown And Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll Jan 2004

New Deal Housing On The Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism At Swantown And Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel Jan 2004

(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

" america.jp" explores identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet between 1969 and 2000 through a cultural analysis of Internet code and the creative processes behind it. The dissertation opens with an examination of a real-time Internet Blues jam that linked Japanese and American musicians between Tokyo and Mississippi in 1999. The technological, cultural, and linguistic uncertainties that characterized the Internet jam, combined with the inventive reactions of the musicians who participated, help to introduce the fundamental conceptual question of the dissertation: is code a cultural product and if so can the Internet be considered a distinctly "American" technology?;A comparative …


Spousal Abuse In The Army, James Palmer Jan 2004

Spousal Abuse In The Army, James Palmer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.