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Pathos, Spring 2023, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Stephanie Gresham

Pathos, Winter 2023, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell

Pathos, Fall 2022, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell

Pathos, Spring 2022, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell

Pathos, Fall 2021, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell

"The Caucasian Persuasion Here In The 'Dale": Othering, White Normality, And Post-Racialism In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Isaiah Lee

University Honors Theses

This thesis engages the construction of race within the television landscape of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to investigate how well-meaning, progressive media either reinvents or repudiates racial stereotype. This paper also examines the figure of the Other, as it is evoked in horror, and utilizes Hazel Carby's conception of the fantasized black subject to analyze the setting and characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with an eye towards the inherent assumptions the show makes about race. Ultimately, I argue that Buffy's representation of race assumes a white normality, flattening its non-white characters under the guise of inherent difference, even …

Pathos, Spring 2021, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell

Breaking The Feedback Loop: Experimental Filmmakers Confronting Everyday Surveillance Technologies, Taz Coffey

University Honors Theses

Along with shifts in how surveillance technologies work to control and capitalize on everyday life comes a need to understand and critique them. What past and present paranoid dystopian stories and other pop-culture parables seem to leave out is any thoughtful consideration of how surveillance racializes bodies and consolidates power in favor of racist hegemony, specifically in a post-9/11 context. We often fail to question in what ways popular discourse on surveillance and resistance to surveillance practices reinforce violence against--and consolidate control over--marginalized populations. Part of this almost willful negligence is symptomatic of visibility’s status as a both taken-for-granted and …

Pathos, Winter 2021, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Claire Miller

Pathos, Fall 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Interim Editor-in-Chief: Claire Miller

Pathos, Spring 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Claire Miller

Pathos, Winter 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Pathos, Fall 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Pathos, Spring 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Pathos, Winter 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Pathos, Fall 2018, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Pathos, Spring 2018, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Volume 12 No. 3

Pathos, Winter 2017-2018, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

Volume 12 No. 2

Pathos, Spring 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Jessica Moore

Volume 11 No. 3

Pathos, Winter 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Jessica Moore

Volume 11 No. 2

Pathos, Fall 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Jessica Moore

Volume 11 No. 1

Pathos, Spring 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Philip King

Volume 10 No. 3

Pathos, Winter 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Philip King

Volume 10 No. 2

Pathos, Fall 2015, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Philip King

Volume 10 No. 1

Delinquent Youth: The Ofuna New Wave, Basil Swartzfager

Anthós

In 1960 the Japanese film studio Shochiku Co. announced "the Ofuna New Wave" a revolution in Japanese filmmaking similar to France’s immensely popular Nouvelle Vague. This paper attempts to discover whether this Ofuna New Wave was simply a marketing ploy Shochiku developed in order to attract a larger youth market, or whether it constitutes a legitimate artistic movement along the lines of France’s New Wave. The methods used were a combination of primary research of four Shochiku films released in 1960 as well as secondary historical research regarding the studio and time period. The Shochiku films were then compared to …

Pathos, Winter 2015, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Brook Horn

Volume 9 No.2

Pathos, Fall 2014, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Brooke Horn

Volume 9 No.1

Pathos, Spring 2014, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Ryan de Laureal

Volume 8 No.3

Pathos, Winter 2014, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Kate Marshall

Volume 8 No.2

Pathos, Fall 2013, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Kate Marshall

Volume 8 No.1