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Bad Girls Video Come And Go, But A Lying Girl Can Never Be Fenced In, Alexandra Juhasz CUNY Brooklyn College

Bad Girls Video Come And Go, But A Lying Girl Can Never Be Fenced In, Alexandra Juhasz

Publications and Research

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The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie Santa Clara University

The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie

Pop Culture Intersections

It is the objective of this article to present evidence from several researches that were done by many scholars in different environment that distinctly demonstrates the negative impact of social media in three main categories. First, social media fosters a false sense of online "connections" and superficial friendships leading to emotional and psychological problems. The Second harm of social media is that it can become easily addictive taking away family and personal time as well as diminish interpersonal skills, leading to antisocial behavior. Lastly, social media has become a tool for criminals, predators and terrorists enabling them to commit illegal …

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Sex In Japan: It’S A Straight Man’S World, Kaileigh Nicklas College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University

Sex In Japan: It’S A Straight Man’S World, Kaileigh Nicklas

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Japanese feminism directly impacts the social image of non-male sexuality in Japanese literature and pop-culture through highlighting gender roles, ingrained misogyny, and violence toward non-male oriented sex. This project will specifically focus on the power dynamics of sex in Japanese society through gender roles, female sexuality, and the rise of Japanese feminist movement. An observation of sexuality in Japan from such female works as The Apprenticeship of the Big Toe P and Snakes and Earrings in contrast to male works such as Norwegian Wood and Memoirs of a Geisha provide further insights to the role that sex plays in the …

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The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism And Masturbation In Nudist Imagery And Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam The Graduate Center, City University of New York

The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism And Masturbation In Nudist Imagery And Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Nudist magazines and newsletters were among the first commercial, legal, and widely-available images of nudity which circulated in the late Comstock Era. To evade censorship, producers developed framing strategies that obscured the sexualized nature of these images, even as they also enabled the viewing practices their sales relied upon. This dissertation traces these framing strategies as they evolved through nudist still-imagery, camp films, and nudie cuties, and considers the evolution of spectatorial pleasures associated with Russ Meyer's early nudie cuties.

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An Analysis Of Lgbtq+ Representation In Television And Film, Katelyn Thomson Wilfrid Laurier University

An Analysis Of Lgbtq+ Representation In Television And Film, Katelyn Thomson

Bridges: An Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Connections

As LGBTQ+ representation in television and film increases, viewers must continue to question if this representation is accurate and enough to represent a whole spectrum of individuals. TV and film hold a powerful role in shaping societies perceptions, biases and stereotypes of a community and individuals. This essay analyzes TV and film representations to provide the reader with a better understanding of the power and impact that accurate representations of LGBTQ+ can have on the community and society as a whole. By looking at the issue through the lenses of queer theories, scripting theory, in addition to Stuart Hall and …

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Rape Culture In Disney Animated Princess Movies, Patricia Paulson Minnesota State University, Mankato

Rape Culture In Disney Animated Princess Movies, Patricia Paulson

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Gender stereotypes, rape myths, and rape culture are perpetuated in U.S. media, including media aimed at young people. Previous research in the areas of gender, gender stereotypes, portrayals of gender in movies, Disney movies, rape myths, and rape culture are all examined. Prior to this research, no study had been conducted to determine if the characteristics of rape culture are portrayed in Disney animated princess movies. For this research, an ethnographic content analysis is conducted on all thirteen of the Disney animated princess movies to determine if the characteristics associated with rape culture are portrayed in these movies. The findings …

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The Role Of Women In Film: Supporting The Men -- An Analysis Of How Culture Influences The Changing Discourse On Gender Representations In Film, Jocelyn Nichole Murphy University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Role Of Women In Film: Supporting The Men -- An Analysis Of How Culture Influences The Changing Discourse On Gender Representations In Film, Jocelyn Nichole Murphy

Journalism Undergraduate Honors Theses

Women are underrepresented in film. Racial minorities are underrepresented in film. White men are vastly overrepresented in film. How do these facts affect audiences that are so demographically different from what is portrayed onscreen? This study serves to examine how character representations in film relate to the demographics of the audience viewing them, and how these portrayals have changed over a 20-year span. Considering the depictions of women in the context of social gender movements of the last two decades will provide a deeper understanding of the attitudes toward female characters, as well as factors that shape the themes and …

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Fair And Lovely: Standards Of Beauty, Globalization, And The Modern Indian Woman, Rebecca Gelles SIT Study Abroad

Fair And Lovely: Standards Of Beauty, Globalization, And The Modern Indian Woman, Rebecca Gelles

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

With the expansion of globalization in the modern era, ideas from individual cultures are more easily able to spread to other parts of the world. One set of cultural standards that may be spreading to India is that of beauty, where a media with an increasingly Western style shares television space with advertisements from corporations that are often foreign in origin. This study seeks to examine exactly what influence this globalized media has on its viewers, and, in particular, on their perspectives on beauty. In addition, since the ability to conform to cultural standards affects how people view themselves, this …

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Fuitina: Love, Sex, And Rape In Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Fuitina: Love, Sex, And Rape In Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The term fuitina in Sicilian dialect is a word used to describe a form of abduction, and is a variation of the more formal Italian term fuga, meaning a flight or escape. Fuitina, was essentially a sanctioned bride theft. Often, after the abduction of a woman, the abductor would seek a reparatory or rehabilitating marriage that would restore the woman’s “honor” and absolve the man of bride theft. Until 1981, the Italian legal system supported the practice of fuitina and rarely prosecuted men who kidnapped and raped women under the guise of this tradition. The practice of fuitina and …

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Trapped In The Mouse House: How Disney Has Portrayed Racism And Sexism In Its Princess Films, Jessica L. Laemle Gettysburg College

Trapped In The Mouse House: How Disney Has Portrayed Racism And Sexism In Its Princess Films, Jessica L. Laemle

Student Publications

This paper analyzes the history of one of the most popular entertainment companies in the world, Disney. Through the discussion of multiple princess films, from the beginning of Disney to the more current films, I analyze the ongoing racism and sexism that is presented in these timeless Disney films. I will discuss the implications that this racism and sexism has on the children who view these films and what responsibility Disney has as a worldwide company in terms of what it displays to its audience.

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Impact Of Personalized Interactive Storytelling On Suspension Of Disbelief In Clinical Simulation, Audra Xenakis 2023 Abilene Christian University

Impact Of Personalized Interactive Storytelling On Suspension Of Disbelief In Clinical Simulation, Audra Xenakis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The literature review found suspension of disbelief (SOD) in clinical simulation heavily weighted on educators alone within high-fidelity environments. The project examined a co-created narrative background story applied to a simulated patient’s clinical profile to determine achieving an improved connectedness toward the simulated patient leading to enhanced SOD and enhanced levels of learning and reaction. The studied population was third-semester associate degree nursing students over 18 years of age with prior clinical simulation experience who were not repeating the semester. The research methodology used a quantitative experimental design with cluster sampling, randomization, and post-Likert-scored questionnaires. The intervention group co-created personalized …

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Chilean Cinema In The 21st Century World (Review), James L. Richie IV 2023 University of Louisville

Chilean Cinema In The 21st Century World (Review), James L. Richie Iv

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

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Doubt, Joshua Rodriguez, Ben Scholle 2023 Lindenwood University

Doubt, Joshua Rodriguez, Ben Scholle

2023 Student Academic Showcase

"Doubt" follows a depressed and isolated young man who must contend with the physical manifestation of his depression and self doubt. Through this narrative, our protagonist learns truths about the human condition, and the lies that we all tell ourselves to keep us more expanding as human beings. The story follows and details how depression and trauma can flare up at inopportune times and places, and how we must accept ourselves and those around us for our/their flaws in order to grow as people. Strength is looking our failures and insecurities in the eyes and moving forward regardless., despite the …

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Banshees Of Late Capitalism: War, Ecology, & Alienation, Bryant W. Sculos 2023 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Banshees Of Late Capitalism: War, Ecology, & Alienation, Bryant W. Sculos

Class, Race and Corporate Power

This review essay explores the concepts of war, ecology/human-nonhuman relations, and alienation through a critical analysis of McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).

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Documentary Review: The Janes (2022), Katelyn M. Campbell 2023 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Documentary Review: The Janes (2022), Katelyn M. Campbell

Feminist Pedagogy

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Tár, Sherry Coman 2023 Martin Luther University College, Waterloo, ON

Tár, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Tár (2022), directed by Todd Field.

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Fellowship Application Sample, Angela Ahlgren 2023 Bowling Green State University

Fellowship Application Sample, Angela Ahlgren

ICS Fellow Applications

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The Evolution Of Computer Generated Images And Special Effects Design In The Jurassic Park Trilogy, Samantha Renee Pearson 2023 Whittier College

The Evolution Of Computer Generated Images And Special Effects Design In The Jurassic Park Trilogy, Samantha Renee Pearson

Whittier Scholars Program

Based on Michael Crichton’s unpublished novel, The Andromeda Strain, the awe-inspiring Jurassic Park trilogy (1993-2001) emerged from Steven Spielburg’s determination to make extinct characters come to life again. Early on in their careers, Crichton and Spielburg met at Universal Studios while working on Duel (1971) with ambitions to direct a film that would completely immerse their audience into a dinosaur-encompassing world. About five years later, Spielberg attempted to form a digital rendering for his film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but later concluded that “‘The technology wasn’t there yet'” (Mottram 20).

Fast-forward to 1990, Spielburg was fixated on …

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Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, And Empire In Revelation And This Is The End, Meredith J.C. Warren 2023 University of Sheffield

Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, And Empire In Revelation And This Is The End, Meredith J.C. Warren

Journal of Religion & Film

The Book of Revelation is one of the most borrowed-from texts of the New Testament when it comes to popular culture. Although there are dozens of other ancient apocalyptic writings, it is John’s apocalyptic visions that directly inform contemporary ideas of apocalypse. The apocalyptic comedy This Is The End (Dir. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, 2013) not only invokes imagery from Revelation but also adapts portions of the text in its portrayal of the end times. However, it also reproduces and expands upon the use of sexual violence as a means of punishment found in Revelation. This paper will examine …

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Baraka: A World Without Words: A Guided Meditation, Wanda E. Avila 2023 Independent Scholar

Baraka: A World Without Words: A Guided Meditation, Wanda E. Avila

Journal of Religion & Film

Baraka: A World Beyond Words (1992) is a guided meditation that aims to induce the transcendent experience in the viewer. Through the eyes of a Zen Buddhist monk, the viewer is invited to meditate on the various phenomena that testify to the existence of the transcendent (the first eight chapters), to experience the everyday world where the transcendent is painfully absent (the next eleven chapters), and to finally arrive at stasis (the last two chapters). This paper is a description of and commentary on each of the 21 chapters of the film.

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Art Cinema And India’S Forgotten Futures: Film And History In The Postcolony, Vijay Mishra 2023 Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

Art Cinema And India’S Forgotten Futures: Film And History In The Postcolony, Vijay Mishra

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony (Columbia University Press, 2021).

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The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, And Film, Matthew Kingcroft 2023 Simon Fraser University

The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, And Film, Matthew Kingcroft

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Joel Mayward, The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film (Routledge, 2023).

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Natalia, Dereck Daschke 2023 Truman State University

Natalia, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Natalia (2023), directed by Elizabeth Mirzaei.

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Lars Von Trier’S Cinema: Excess, Evil, And The Prophetic Voice, Jeanette solano 2023 California State University - Fullerton

Lars Von Trier’S Cinema: Excess, Evil, And The Prophetic Voice, Jeanette Solano

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran, Lars Von Trier’s Cinema: Excess, Evil, and the Prophetic Voice (Routledge, 2021).

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Timothy Bewes. Free Indirect: The Novel In A Postfictional Age. Columbia U.P., 2022., Emily Hall 2023 None

Timothy Bewes. Free Indirect: The Novel In A Postfictional Age. Columbia U.P., 2022., Emily Hall

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Timothy Bewes. Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age. Columbia U.P., 2022. 315 pp.

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Anne Donadey. The Algerian War In Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012. Lexington Books, 2020., Anna Rocca 2023 Salem State University

Anne Donadey. The Algerian War In Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012. Lexington Books, 2020., Anna Rocca

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Anne Donadey. The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012. Lexington Books, 2020. 246 pp.

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Vania Barraza And Carl Fischer, Editors. Chilean Cinema In The Twenty-First-Century World. Wayne State Up, 2020., Paul Ardoin 2023 University of Texas at San Antonio

Vania Barraza And Carl Fischer, Editors. Chilean Cinema In The Twenty-First-Century World. Wayne State Up, 2020., Paul Ardoin

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Vania Barraza and Carl Fischer, editors. Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World. Wayne State UP, 2020. 376 pp.

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Review Of The New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, May 12-17, 2022, Steven W. Thomas 2023 Wagner College

Review Of The New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, May 12-17, 2022, Steven W. Thomas

The Journal of Social Encounters

No abstract provided.

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"Morality Sucks": The Final Generation In 1980s Horror Cinema, Lily Mae Bruscini 2023 Rhode Island College

"Morality Sucks": The Final Generation In 1980s Horror Cinema, Lily Mae Bruscini

Honors Projects Overview

The Final Girl term, created by Carol Clover, tried to identify the surviving victim as a virtuous and chaste girl, eventually masculinized in overcoming her killer. 1980s horror cinema portrays characters being plagued by normative society. The main cast of protagonists in these films are teens in late adolescence, and/or early adulthood. These teenagers are targeted because of their substance abuse, sexual tendencies, and their independence. As a way to explore Clover's theory of the Final Girl, this essay uses Lee Edleman's theory of reproductive futurism to understand the generational conflict through three selected films: A Nightmare on Elm Street …

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Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching Bell Hooks “No Love In The Wild”, NaImah H. Ford 2023 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching Bell Hooks “No Love In The Wild”, Naimah H. Ford

Feminist Pedagogy

This original teaching activity discusses bell hooks’ film review of Beasts of The Southern Wild and explains how it can be used to encourage students to recognize how popular culture reproduces and reinforces disturbing paradigms. This original teaching activity, based on hooks’ review “No Love in The Wild,” encourages students to be informed while navigating visual images in popular culture. This activity also explains how hooks’ film review and the film can be used to empower students with strategies to analyze film and other visual images that are seemingly progressive but support the strictures and structures that reinforce patriarchy, racism, …

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Alexandra Juhasz CUNY Brooklyn College

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Katelyn Thomson Wilfrid Laurier University

Riva Tukachinsky Chapman University

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