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Bedeviled Beauty: My Journey Through White American Theater Institutions, J'Aila C. Price
Bedeviled Beauty: My Journey Through White American Theater Institutions, J'Aila C. Price
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Game console: Oculus Quest
World: American Theater Institutions
Player: Minority
Place: United States
Level: “Ain’t no way.”
This thesis explores the contrast between the Westernized philosophies ingrained in my education and my identity as a Black female artist. It sheds light on the difficulties of pursuing higher education in the arts and the gaps that arise from limited exposure to culturally diverse Black resources, revealing the systemic issues in Western performance education. The paper also discusses the insights gained from my journey as a Black female artist, focusing on my thesis performance of Blood at the Root, which is …
It's Me, Sarah, Fabiola Y. Andrade Chinchilla
It's Me, Sarah, Fabiola Y. Andrade Chinchilla
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This paper describes the making of It’s Me, Sarah, a University of New Orleans thesis film. It explores the process of creating the film in three parts. Part one will examine the pre-production, including the writing and preparation for the shoot. Part two will detail the production, including the shooting affairs. Part three will cover the post-production process, which will include the editing. The document will then reference these three segments regarding the film’s theme and will conclude by evaluating whether the final film achieves its intended conception.
Lost In Space No Longer: The Visionary Union Of 'The Wire', Brett Dupré
Lost In Space No Longer: The Visionary Union Of 'The Wire', Brett Dupré
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In its serial space, David Simon’s The Wire season two relates the seemingly “disconnected” union men, foreign sex worker women, and African-American drug traders and crosses constructed boundaries of race, gender, sexuality, and geography to evoke the possibility of a transnational working class. The Wire’s serialized narrative trespasses the limitations of money and numbers games and of individual characters to build, scene by scene, what Roderick Ferguson calls in Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique “the location for new and emergent identifications and social relations” (108).