"It Came In Little Waves": Feminist Imagery In Chantal Akerman's Je, Tu, Il, Elle +,
2018
Bucknell University
"It Came In Little Waves": Feminist Imagery In Chantal Akerman's Je, Tu, Il, Elle +, Staci C. Dubow
Honors Theses
Chantal Akerman writes, “she who seeks shall find, find all too well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.”[1] This thesis addresses the films of Chantal Akerman from a theoretical feminist film perspective. There are many lenses through which Akerman’s rich body of work can be viewed, and I would argue that she herself never intended for it to be understood in just one way. I wish to situate Akerman’s films, in particular her 1974 Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1h 30m), within a discourse of other feminist film theorists and makers that were further rooted in …
Little Trees,
2018
Bucknell University
Little Trees, Maxwell Kane
Honors Theses
I believe in the power of film as a medium of storytelling. My desire to head a year-long production as well as create a moving story that underlined my interest in sibling relationships motivated me to create a short film as my honors thesis. My film, Little Trees, emphasizes themes such as alienation and growth within a broken household. My ultimate goal is to become an artist who creates meaningful cinema by telling deeply personal stories, and creating Little Trees was a successful first step in that process.
The Power Of Queer Representation In The Media,
2018
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
The Power Of Queer Representation In The Media, Jack Harris
Audre Lorde Prize
This paper examines the lack of representation of the queer community in today's film and television productions. Recent work such as The CW's The 100 and Nickelodeon's The Legend of Korra are used to create an intersectional analysis of the tropes associated with queer characters and the effect that queer representation has on viewers. The intersectionality of queer rights and feminism is mapped out in an effort to understand the root of the issue and, in that discovery, find solutions for the future.
Too Intimate To Speak : Regional Cinemas And Literatures,
2018
King’s College London
Too Intimate To Speak : Regional Cinemas And Literatures, Victor Fan
Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報
In this essay, I look back at a moment in Chinese literature and cinema, the 1930s and 1940s, when writers, filmmakers, and critics were driven by a series of political crises to conceptualize the relationship between “mother language” and “national language” from a very different perspective than Song’s. I do so by scrutinizing film and literary criticisms from this period. A national language, literature, and cinema are not static, unified, and internally coherent entities that naturally subsume their regional counterparts under them. While Putonghua 普通話 (literally, common language) required—and still requires—an ongoing process of putong hua 普通化 (communalization), regional topolects, …
Transnational Film Production And The Tourist Gaze : On Hou Hsiao-Hsien’S Café Lumière And Flight Of The Red Balloon,
2018
National Tsing Hua University
Transnational Film Production And The Tourist Gaze : On Hou Hsiao-Hsien’S Café Lumière And Flight Of The Red Balloon, Shr-Tzung, Elliott Shie
Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報
This article attempts to reexamine the multiple forms of displacement in and of the film to which the new historical era gave rise, and thereby critically engage with the questions of transnational capital flow, global tourism and spectatorship, and textual migration in the case of intertextuality.
Lost At Home : Jia Zhangke’S Journey Toward Modernity,
2018
University of San Francisco
Lost At Home : Jia Zhangke’S Journey Toward Modernity, Wei Menkus
Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報
In this essay, I take a close look at three of Jia’s films that have prominently engaged the topic of home in relation to place, identity, and nation: Still Life 三峽好人 (2006), 24 City 24城記 (2008), and A Touch of Sin 天註定 (2013). Set at the turn of the twenty-first century, these films employ various modes of representation concerning the reality of space. Still Life, a quiet and contemplative cinematic essay on change and obsolescence, tracks two strangers’ separate journeys to the Three Gorges city of Fengjie as they look for their missing spouses in the disappearing land. 24 City …
"Can You Still Feel It?": A Visual Poem,
2018
Whittier College
"Can You Still Feel It?": A Visual Poem, Aubrey Bang-Guerin
Whittier Scholars Program
Aubrey Bang-Guerin's "Can You Still Feel It?": A Visual Poem is a short, visual poem that will artistically depict the lingering struggles of a bully victim, and how those experiences continue to plague her 7 years later. The visual poem is a combination of Slam Poetry with a heavy imagery based short film on the detrimental long-term effects of bullying in adolescence. The combination of Slam poetry's popularity and film's timelessness creates an easily digestible format of extremely heavy information. "Can You Still Feel It?": A Visual Poem utilizes Bang-Guerin's own experiences and poetry to make a powerful piece of …
Disney’S Magical Moments: Animated Vs Live Action,
2018
Whittier College
Disney’S Magical Moments: Animated Vs Live Action, Mauricio Romero
Whittier Scholars Program
What I hope to accomplish within my senior project is the actual progress within the Disney company. Will these changes to these films actually bring a different perspective to the audience about the Disney company. Or will they create new problems that they will be branded for once again. By looking at the originals critics and choices within the actual film and the advertisement I will see which has more critical success to the general public and if they were successful with the changes they tried to make. Specifically looking at their Princess films since those are most of the …
Like Me: Generation Z, Instagram, And Self-Branding Practices,
2018
Scripps College
Like Me: Generation Z, Instagram, And Self-Branding Practices, Emily Longley
Scripps Senior Theses
The newest generation, raised and immersed in today's hyper-consumer culture, has learned to define the self within a neoliberal and capitalist framework in which self-branding and ascribing to hegemonic principles appears imperative to one’s personal success.
Rape Culture In Disney Animated Princess Movies,
2018
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 …
Rape, Revenge, Reclamation: An Analysis Of Female Agency In American Rape-Revenge Films,
2018
Eastern Michigan University
Rape, Revenge, Reclamation: An Analysis Of Female Agency In American Rape-Revenge Films, Marissa Connell
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
In this thesis, I will analyze five films that have a rape-revenge narrative: Ms. 45 (1981), M.F.A. (2017), I Spit on Your Grave (1978), I Spit on Your Grave (2010), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). I will argue that the violent actions taken by the female protagonist during her revenge against her rapist(s) serve to allow her to reclaim her agency that was stolen from her during the rape(s). I will show that the rape-revenge narrative is more diverse than it might seem, as the five films I analyze deal with rape, and responses to rape, in …
Queer Slashers,
2018
Wayne State University
Queer Slashers, Peter Marra
Wayne State University Dissertations
Queer Slashers argues that slasher films invite queer engagements by staging collisions between a sexually deviant outsider, the "slasher" figure, and icons of American normativity: heterosexual teenage couples, suburbia, the prom, and summer camp, among others. To do so, Queer Slashers draws on horror and slasher scholarship along with queer theory and LGBT history. Slasher scholarship has already considered the ways in which gender plays an important role in the construction of the slasher formula. Much of this work has focused on the representation of women, especially patterns of violence against women. Queer Slashers seeks to make additional observations about …
Movie Review: Wind River It Addresses Violence Against Native Women, Law Enforcement & Other Issues, But Mostly It’S About Relationships,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Movie Review: Wind River It Addresses Violence Against Native Women, Law Enforcement & Other Issues, But Mostly It’S About Relationships, Darla Jackson
Other Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
My Eyes Due See,
2018
Virginia Commonwealth University
My Eyes Due See, Johannes J. Barfield
Theses and Dissertations
My Eyes Due See is a multidimensional examination of the “black experience” in America. The installation is composed of a single-channel video, a music composition that utilizes music samples and live instrumentation, and sculptures made up of car parts and broomsedge grass. Each of these elements arranged in space share a nuanced and complicated view of blackness through the lens of a black man decoding personal history and American history simultaneously. Autonomy is the overarching theme throughout the work as it pertains to race, identity, urban and rural environments, and the relationship between generational trauma and nostalgia.
Wonder Woman: A Case Study For Critical Media Literacy,
2018
University of Montana, Missoula
Wonder Woman: A Case Study For Critical Media Literacy, Adriana N. Fehrs
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
To better grasp the messages Wonder Woman is sending to its audience, a Critical Media Literacy (CML), ideological, and feminist framework is used to examine whether, and if so how, Wonder Woman succumbs to stereotypes that are often portrayed in the media. These theories will be used in the ensuing project to build a curriculum aimed at high school students.The curriculum positions students to examine the hegemonic ideologies that are represented in pop culture, specifically Wonder Woman.
New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics And The Collection,
2018
Loyola University Chicago
New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics And The Collection, Elizabeth Coffman, Erica Stein
School of Communication: Faculty Publications and Other Works
New Day Films was founded in 1972 - on the cusp of sweeping changes in documentary and feminist filmmaking practice - by four documentarists who were unable to gain distribution in the bottleneck of the New York nonfiction filmmaking scene (Figure 1). Despite these challenges, their films abot1t the everyday texture of women's lives were in demand with audiences as the women's movement grew across the country.' Today, New Day is one of the most financially stable nontheatrical distribution collectives in North America, boasting more than 165 members and $1rn in yearly revenues.2 Films distributed by the collective have been …
The First But Hopefully Not The Last: How The Last Of Us Redefines The Survival Horror Video Game Genre,
2018
The College of Wooster
The First But Hopefully Not The Last: How The Last Of Us Redefines The Survival Horror Video Game Genre, Joseph T. Gonzales
Senior Independent Study Theses
For this study, I applied generic criticism, which looks at how a text subverts and adheres to patterns and formats in its respective genre, to analyze how The Last of Us redefined the survival horror video game genre through its narrative. Although some tropes are present in the game and are necessary to stay tonally consistent to the genre, I argued that much of the focus of the game is shifted from the typical situational horror of the monsters and violence to the overall narrative, effective dialogue, strategic use of cinematic elements, and character development throughout the course of the …
การพัฒนาทักษะการแสดงเพื่อสร้างตัวละครผู้หญิงจีน ในการแสดงเรื่อง รายละเอียด ไม่ได้ ร่างกาย อยาก ของชิน วุน ปิง ตามหลักการแสดงของไมเคิล เชคอฟ,
2018
คณะอักษรศาสตร์
การพัฒนาทักษะการแสดงเพื่อสร้างตัวละครผู้หญิงจีน ในการแสดงเรื่อง รายละเอียด ไม่ได้ ร่างกาย อยาก ของชิน วุน ปิง ตามหลักการแสดงของไมเคิล เชคอฟ, กุนทรา ไชยชาญ
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาและสังเคราะห์การนำหลักการแสดงของไมเคิล เชคอฟมาใช้เพื่อสร้างตัวละคร ผู้หญิงจีนในการแสดงเรื่อง รายละเอียด ไม่ได้ ร่างกาย อยาก โดยมุ่งเน้นไปที่การค้นหาและสร้างความเข้มข้นทางความรู้สึกภายในที่ มีลักษณะซับซ้อน เนื่องจากการหล่อหลอมอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมที่มีความแตกต่างจากตัวผู้แสดง ผู้วิจัยเริ่มต้นจากการทำงานศึกษาบทละครเพื่อนำมาประกอบการสร้างตัวละคร หลังจากนั้นใช้หลักการแสดงของไมเคิล เชคอฟเป็นหลักในการค้นหา พัฒนาและสร้างสรรค์ตัวละครระหว่างการฝึกซ้อมจนกระทั่งถึงวันนำเสนอผลงาน โดยเก็บรวบรวม ข้อมูลเพื่อนำมาประเมินผลจากการจดบันทึก บันทึกวีดีโอ แบบสอบถาม การเสวนาและบทสัมภาษณ์ผู้ชมและผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้าน ศิลปะการแสดงในวันนำเสนอผลงาน ระหว่างการดำเนินงานผู้วิจัยค้นพบว่าหลักการแสดงของไมเคิล เชคอฟเป็นหลักการแสดงที่ช่วยพัฒนาทักษะการแสดง ของนักแสดงและทำให้นักแสดงตระหนักถึงพลังแห่งจินตนาการ นำไปสู่การทำงานกับตัวละครอย่างสร้างสรรค์และไร้ขีดจำกัด ช่วย ให้นักแสดงสามารถก้าวข้ามข้อจำกัดของตนเองไปสู่การสร้างตัวละครอย่างสร้างสรรค์ จากการประเมินผลการวิจัย ผู้วิจัยพบว่าหลักสำคัญของนักแสดงในการทำงานกับตัวละครที่มีความแตกต่างทาง วัฒนธรรมกับนักแสดง คือ การศึกษาบทละครเพื่อทำความเข้าใจบริบททางสังคม การเมืองและวัฒนธรรมเพื่อสร้างตัวละครให้มี ความสมจริงน่าเชื่อถือ และการศึกษาเทคนิคการแสดงที่เหมาะสมกับนักแสดงและตัวละครเพื่อช่วยให้นักแสดงสามารถเข้าถึง บทบาทของตัวละครได้อย่างสมบูรณ์ สิ่งเหล่านี้จะสามารถทำให้นักแสดงเชื่อมโยงการทำงานกับตัวละครได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ส่งผลให้ลักษณะตัวละครที่ แสดงออกมีความน่าสนใจ มีลักษณะเฉพาะ และทำให้ผู้ชมสามารถเข้าถึงตัวละครได้ง่าย สามารถสร้างตัวละครได้สอดคล้องกับบท ละครได้อย่างน่าเชื่อถือและสมจริง
A Teacher Goes Gothic: Walter White, Heisenberg And The Dark Revenge Of Science,
2018
Jacksonville State University
A Teacher Goes Gothic: Walter White, Heisenberg And The Dark Revenge Of Science, J. Patrick Mcgrail, Ewa Mcgrail, Alicja Rieger
Research, Publications & Creative Work
Much has been written on the natures and personalities of teachers in educational research and publications (Carter, 2009; Beck, 2012; Bulman, 2015; Dalton, 2013; Gillard, 2012; Kelly & Caughlan, 2011). However, mass media can have a powerful influence on how people see teachers. The television series Breaking Bad (Gilligan, 2007-2013) and its representation of teachers, has contributed a unique – if warped -perspective on the subject of teachers and teaching in America. In this article, we argue that three important Gothic and mythic fables from literature are harbingers of Walter White and his transformation – the Faust legend, as told …
I Am An Author: Performing Authorship In Literary Culture,
2018
Virginia Commonwealth University
I Am An Author: Performing Authorship In Literary Culture, Justin R. Greene
Theses and Dissertations
Authorship is not merely an act of putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard; it is a social identity performance that includes the use of multiple media. Authors must be hyper- visible to cut through the dearth of information, entertainment options, and personae vying for attention in our supersaturated media environment. As they enter the literary world, writers consciously create characters and narratives around themselves, and through the consistent and believable enactment of these features, authors are born. In this dissertation, I analyze the performance of authorship in U.S. literary culture through an interdisciplinary framework. My work pulls from …
