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From Paintbrush To Screen: Intermediality In Luchino Visconti And Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinematic Worlds, Zoey Pather
From Paintbrush To Screen: Intermediality In Luchino Visconti And Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinematic Worlds, Zoey Pather
Senior Projects Spring 2024
An exploration of role of intermediality and pictorial citations within two prominent post-war Italian directors, Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" (1963) and "Senso" (1954), and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "La Ricotta" (1963) and "Teorema" (1968).
The Art Of Animation: How Animation Is Creating A Better Film Industry, Judah Cooper
The Art Of Animation: How Animation Is Creating A Better Film Industry, Judah Cooper
Senior Honors Theses
With the progression of streaming services in recent years, the art form of animation has gained traction, continuing to develop into exceedingly creative forms through the work of talented artists. Animation has developed alongside the film industry, achieving great success in the process. This thesis will define animation and its place within visual effects, critically analyze categories of character design, theme, and story while demonstrating their relationship with animation, and contrast animation with live action films to understand its strengths and differentiations. The research concludes that animation has great benefits to offer the film industry and should be continued to …
..., Claire Alfonso
..., Claire Alfonso
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Words are fickle, easily misunderstood, and often put us at a loss... but we all have so much we feel we need to express. This begs the question: Is there any safe way of communication? Can anything ever really be communicated how you mean it? Will you ever see the reflection of what you feel, think, and dream outside of yourself? In response to this existential dilemma, I imagine an alternative language of images, sounds, color, feelings, and non-identification. My thesis is a meditation on the issues with standard language and the idea of alternative language. In my argument I …
Culture In Disney Films: A Comparative Analysis Of Color, Composition And Rhythm, Megan Paul
Culture In Disney Films: A Comparative Analysis Of Color, Composition And Rhythm, Megan Paul
Interior Design Undergraduate Honors Theses
As a student of design, I take inspiration from everything around me. The media I consume, the places I visit, and the people I meet.By choice or not, I and my generation are subject to the various forms of pop culture, film is one of them. Film is one of few art forms which combines several methods and elements of design to produce a cohesive result, as opposed to a singular medium. This forms the connection to design thinking and is the foundation for the study.
Another critical component to pop culture is the ability to reach the masses. Due …
The Making Of Everyday Hollywood: 1930s Film Influence On Everyday Women’S Fashion In Nebraska, Anna Naomi Kuhlman
The Making Of Everyday Hollywood: 1930s Film Influence On Everyday Women’S Fashion In Nebraska, Anna Naomi Kuhlman
Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This research examines the influence of film fashions on middle-class, Nebraskan women’s dress during the Great Depression (1932-1940). The Great Depression challenged the middle class: while standards of living remained high, the economic means to achieve those standards diminished. Despite the crisis, women strove to keep up with current fashion trends. While previous literature has examined how Hollywood directly affected trends and styles of the 1930s in major American metropolitan contexts, the manifestation of trends in the dress of middle to lower socio-economic classes in Middle America remains under-examined. Against the backdrop of Depression-era hardships specific to Nebraska’s agricultural economy, …
Remixing The Archives: Indigenous Interpretations Of History And The Future, Marcella Ernest
Remixing The Archives: Indigenous Interpretations Of History And The Future, Marcella Ernest
American Studies ETDs
This dissertation examines how Native art makes critical interventions that are aesthetically and intellectually arranged with the intention of displacing the master narratives. The project tracks how film and photography—historically used by non-Native people as a tool of colonialism—are being reclaimed by the visual and sonic scholarship of contemporary Native artists. The project shows how multidisciplinary artists use technology to remix audiovisual archives from a specific time in American history: portrait photography and ethnographic filmmaking at the turn of the twentieth century, Hollywood’s frontier representations of Indianness in twentieth-century motion pictures, social guidance classroom films from the 1950s, and digital …
Duik Bassel In Usage In After Effects And An Animated Short Film, Kennedy L. Galpin
Duik Bassel In Usage In After Effects And An Animated Short Film, Kennedy L. Galpin
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis was made with the goal of creating a 2D short film in the end, with mainly using a program that is not normally used for character animation: Adobe After Effects. With the usage of an originally French plugin called DuIK Bassel (v16.0.9), I was able to create a model in Adobe Photoshop and then put it into After Effects. When the files were imported, the plugin would then assist in the rigging process, wherein I would be able to create the character’s rig and make the 2D model within the program. This document discusses the entire creation of …
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-02, Palestinian Voices: Lyd In Exile, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-02, Palestinian Voices: Lyd In Exile, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
April 2, 6pm
Free and open to the public
Location: Somers Room
The Palestinian Voices series is organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a talk by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, and a screening of their work-in-progress documentary Lyd In Exile. Younis and Friedland have spent over three years researching and filming Lyd In Exile, and are in post-production. They will screen clips from their film and …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-22, No Mas Bebes, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-22, No Mas Bebes, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
No Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Marginalized and fearful, many of these mothers spoke no English, and charged that they had been coerced into tubal ligation — having their tubes tied — by doctors during the late stages of labor. Often the procedure was performed after asking the mothers under duress.
The mothers’ cause …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-21, Free To Rock, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-21, Free To Rock, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET) PALMTN Davis Auditorium
FREE TO ROCK is a documentary film directed by 4-time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Rock & Roll spread like an uncontrollable virus across Eastern Europe despite Communist attempts to outlaw it. Thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western freedoms and embraced this music as the Sound of Freedom, helped fuel the nonviolent implosion of the Soviet regime. Free to Rock features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West and the Soviet Union …
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
February 6, 6pm
Location: Payne Room
Free and open to the public.
In conjunction with the exhibition This Place
Part of the Palestinian Voices series, organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a lecture by Issam Nassar on the history of Palestinian photography. Nassar is a historian of the Modern Middle East and of Photography at Illinois State University. His work focuses on the modern Middle East and the history …
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-13, Documentary On Human Trafficking Screened At Bow Tie Cinema, Wendy Liberatore
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-13, Documentary On Human Trafficking Screened At Bow Tie Cinema, Wendy Liberatore
MDOCS Publications
"Documentary on human trafficking to be screened at Bow Tie Criterion"
The Times Union
October 23, 2017
Author: Wendy Liberatore
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-22, Saratoga Springs Conference, Staff Report
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-22, Saratoga Springs Conference, Staff Report
MDOCS Publications
"Saratoga Springs conference, film screening to target sex trafficking"
The Saratogian
October 22, 2017
Author: Staff Report
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-10, Untouchable, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-10, Untouchable, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
"Untouchable" Film Screening with Meerkat Media
Tue, October 10 @ 6:30pm, Emerson Aud
Followed by a panel discussion led by Meerkat Media
ABOUT THE FILM:
When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws in the nation. UNTOUCHABLE chronicles his crusade, and its impact on the lives of several of the 800,000 people forced to live under the kinds of laws he has championed.
Mdocs Poster-2017-09-30, States Of Incarceration September 30th Events, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-09-30, States Of Incarceration September 30th Events, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION, States of Incarceration Saturday, September 30
9 a.m.–noon MASS STORY LAB: What is a prison for? Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, second floor
Work alongside community members to collaborate on creative strategies to strengthen communities while improving our criminal justice system.
Hear from storytellers who have been personally impacted by mass incarceration, and are interested in rehabilitation. Following the stories, audience members will be invited to participate in an interactive design process where community leaders and members collaborate on creative strategies to strengthen communities while improving our criminal justice system.
Through facilitated dialogue, we will form connections to create healing, …
Mdocs Publication-2017-09-02, States Of Incarceration, Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
Mdocs Publication-2017-09-02, States Of Incarceration, Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
MDOCS Publications
"States of Incarceration: Mount McGregor stories are part of national exhibit"
The Post Star
September 2, 2017
Author: Kathleen Phaeln-Tomaselli
Mdocs Publication-2017-08-31, Exhibit Spotlights Mass Incaceration, Indiana Nash
Mdocs Publication-2017-08-31, Exhibit Spotlights Mass Incaceration, Indiana Nash
MDOCS Publications
"Exhibit spotlights mass incarceration"
The Daily Gazette
August 31, 2017
Author: Indiana Nash
Mdocs Publication-2017-07-20, Radio Dreams, Anonymous Anonymous
Mdocs Publication-2017-07-20, Radio Dreams, Anonymous Anonymous
MDOCS Publications
"Radio Dreams: Skidmore Radio Offers Youth Program"
The Saratoga Today Newspaper
July 20, 2017
Author:
Mdocs Publication-2017-06-08, Photographer To Showcase Project At Skidmore, Joseph Phalen
Mdocs Publication-2017-06-08, Photographer To Showcase Project At Skidmore, Joseph Phalen
MDOCS Publications
"Photographer to showcase project at Skidmore"
The Saratogian
June 8, 2017
Author: Joseph Phelan
Mdocs Publication-2017-05-12, Skidmore Student Reveals Archiving Project, Anonymous Anonymous
Mdocs Publication-2017-05-12, Skidmore Student Reveals Archiving Project, Anonymous Anonymous
MDOCS Publications
"Skidmore Student Reveals Two Year Archiving Project of Senior Center"
Saratoga Today
May 12, 2017
Author:
Mdocs Publication-2017-03-08, Skidmore Grad To Talk About 'Buffet' Film, Bill Buell
Mdocs Publication-2017-03-08, Skidmore Grad To Talk About 'Buffet' Film, Bill Buell
MDOCS Publications
"Skidmore Grad to talk about 'Buffet' film"
The Daily Gazette
March 8, 2017
Author: Bill Buell
Mdocs Publication-2017-03-01, Emmy-Award Winning Producer To Screen Documentary, Anonymous Anonymous
Mdocs Publication-2017-03-01, Emmy-Award Winning Producer To Screen Documentary, Anonymous Anonymous
MDOCS Publications
"Emmy-award winning producer to screen documentary at Skidmore College"
The Saratogian
March 2, 2017
Author:
Mdocs Poster-2017-02-13, After Trujillo, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-02-13, After Trujillo, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Screening: "Despues De Trujillo"
Monday, February 13, 2017, at 6PM-8PM, Davis Auditorium
Después De Trujillo (After Trujillo) (2016) draws on media archives and filmmaking expertise to explore the connection between landscape and memory in the Dominican Republic.
The documentary film, which was first shown in the DR last fall, probes the relationships between dictatorship, modern architecture, and cultural memory.
Narrated by Dominicans, this journey through modern monuments, memory gardens, and contemporary ruins, reveals landscapes where the ghost of the Trujillo regime lingers.
Directors Lisa Blackmore and Jorge Domínguez Dubuc will be present for a discussion after the screening.
This event …
Mdocs Poster-2016-12-13, Student Showcase, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2016-12-13, Student Showcase, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
MDOCS Student Work Showcases
Tue, December 13 @ 6-8pm, Davis: Act I
Wed, December 14 @ 6-8pm, Davis: Act II
Check out what the students in DS courses have been up to this semester. For two nights, an array of video, audio, and multimedia work will be presented in Emerson auditorium.
Event organized by students in DS 251B: Festival Programming Followed by a reception with light snacks and refreshments.
Mdocs Publicaton- 2016-11-06, Photographer Touches The Soul Of Rock'n'Roll, Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
Mdocs Publicaton- 2016-11-06, Photographer Touches The Soul Of Rock'n'Roll, Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
MDOCS Publications
"Photographer touches the soul of rock'n'roll with Grateful Dead, Phish, Neil Young and many more"
The Post Star
November 6, 2016
Author: Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
Mdocs Publication-2016-10-31, Rock Photographer Jay Blakesberg Speaks, Wendy Liberatore
Mdocs Publication-2016-10-31, Rock Photographer Jay Blakesberg Speaks, Wendy Liberatore
MDOCS Publications
"Rock Photographer Jay Blakesberg speaks at Skidmore College"
The Times Union
October 31, 2016
Author: Wendy Liberatore
Mdocs Banner-2016-09-01, Project Vis Events, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Banner-2016-09-01, Project Vis Events, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
List of all Fall 2016 Project VIS Events. Events include:
Ethics Bowl: The Ethics and Law in Media Production
Tue, September 27 @ 6-8pm, Emerson
Tackle the issues facing today's non-fiction storytellers and prepare yourself for the roadblocks to public use that media creators may come to realize only after wrapping production--often too late to resolve crucial rights and relationships. The session will combine brief presentations on law, ethics and methods with background and tips and group discussion by attendees who will grapple with a real-world case and come together to present solutions.
This hands-on training session is a …
Mdocs Program-2016-06-16, Storytellers' Spring St. Gallery, Nicky Tavares
Mdocs Program-2016-06-16, Storytellers' Spring St. Gallery, Nicky Tavares
MDOCS Publications
No abstract provided.
Mdocs Poster-2016-04-20, Student Showcases 2015-16, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2016-04-20, Student Showcases 2015-16, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Wed Apr 20: Video Projects 6:30-8pm, Emerson Auditorium
Fri Apr 29, Tang Art Party 8pm-midnight, Tang Museum
Contemporary Time-Based Media: presenting media installations
Intro to Audio: live on air via FM transmitter 2-5:30pm
Tue May 3, Video Storytelling 5-7pm, Somers Room, Tang Museum
Wed May 4, Academic Festival 3-4:20pm, Palamountain 300
Evidence-based audio, video, and exhibit projects from Doc Studies
Wed May 11, Audio Doc 1:30-4:30pm, LI 113
Mdocs Poster-2016-03-31, Virgin Blacktop Screening, Sam Marks
Mdocs Poster-2016-03-31, Virgin Blacktop Screening, Sam Marks
MDOCS Publications
Test Screening of Virgin Blacktop with local filmmaker Charlie Samuels.
Thu March 31 @ 7pm, Palamountain 202
This sneak peek screening of a feature length hybrid documentary 21 years in the making is to provide the director with audience critique and feedback. A personal coming-of-age story made with real film reel about a crew of wildly diverse kids from the suburbs of New York City in the 1970's who had nothing in common but skateboarding yet forged lifelong friendships.