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A New Approach To An Old Story: How Generation Y Views And Disseminates Echoes Of Vietnam Films As Seen In Videos Created By Troops In Iraq, Lindsey Ann Hagan
A New Approach To An Old Story: How Generation Y Views And Disseminates Echoes Of Vietnam Films As Seen In Videos Created By Troops In Iraq, Lindsey Ann Hagan
Communication Theses
This is an examination of how the fictional representation and re-creation of past wars is colliding with the personal video presentations of the Iraq War. It raises questions about how war and art are experienced in a new way and also how “instant history” is made available to the public. Personally recorded footage of the everyday experience of war has altered the way in which society views war and copes with its aftereffects because Generation Y has become a computer based generation. This is a reception study that will show how Generation Y has used the Baby Boomers’ input about …
Re-Mediating The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Use Of Films To Facilitate Dialogue, Elana Shefrin
Re-Mediating The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Use Of Films To Facilitate Dialogue, Elana Shefrin
Communication Dissertations
With the objective of outlining a decision-making process for the selection, evaluation, and application of films for invigorating Palestinian-Israeli dialogue encounters, this project researches, collates, and weaves together the historico-political narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the artistic worldviews of the Israeli and Palestinian national cinemas, and the procedural designs of successful Track II dialogue interventions. Using a tailored version of Lucien Goldmann’s method of homologic textual analysis, three Palestinian and three Israeli popular film texts are analyzed along the dimensions of Historico-Political Contextuality, Socio-Cultural Intertextuality, and Ethno-National Textuality. Then, applying the six “best practices” criteria gleaned from thriving dialogue programs, …