W.O.C. In Da Biz,
2013
Chapman University
W.O.C. In Da Biz, Graeme Aegerter, Ellen Butterworth, Katie Davidson
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
Writings and art addressing intersectionalities of music, gender, and race, focusing on M.I.A., Janelle Monae, and Ciara Princess Harris.
What You Need To Know About Sex,
2013
Chapman University
What You Need To Know About Sex, Lauren Gardner, Paula Pearl, Jessie Roth, Cristina Smith
Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive
Writings and artwork examining messages about sex and contraception in the media, intimate partner violence, sexuality and gender in popular music, and sexuality.
Migrant Stories And Italian Colonialism: A Report On Two Documentaries,
2013
Stony Brook University
Migrant Stories And Italian Colonialism: A Report On Two Documentaries, Simone Brioni Dr.
Department of English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Notes On The Politics Of The Auteur: Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, And The Spectator,
2013
Colby College
Notes On The Politics Of The Auteur: Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, And The Spectator, Michael Perreault
Honors Theses
What is an author, and what does it matter? Questions about authority in the cinema have been the subject of debate since the late 1940s, when Alexandre Astruc posited the notion of the camera-stylo in France. A slightly reductive understanding of the term “auteur”—a term that Cahiers du Cinéma would later adopt—states that, with the shadow of the World War II era of censorship still looming in the 1950s, the many individual voices of the cinema needed to be both heard and promoted. Namely, the director should be regarded as (and should consider his or her primary objective to …
A Soldier's Home,
2013
Eastern Illinois University
Rushmore’S Max Fischer And Dwight Macdonald’S “Midcult”,
2013
Arcadia University
Rushmore’S Max Fischer And Dwight Macdonald’S “Midcult”, Emily A. Pugh
Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works
This essay attempts to explain the theory of Dwight Macdonald's Midcult from his essay Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain and presents examples of the concept in Wes Anderson’s film Rushmore (1998). Midcult is described a hybrid of cultures in our society between High Culture and Masscult. Midcult presents itself as part of the High Culture but corrupts High Culture standards by being formulaic and without any standards except for popularity (Macdonald, 398). Rushmore details the life of Max Fischer, a prep school student who strives for recognition. Within the film Max exemplifies the concept of Midcult by …
"You Might Be A Redneck If" You Consider Yourself One?,
2013
Arcadia University
"You Might Be A Redneck If" You Consider Yourself One?, Danielle Bartholomew
Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works
No abstract provided.
What I Want To Do Before I Die,
2013
Abilene Christian University
What I Want To Do Before I Die, Landon Brady Saunders
Landon Saunders Documents
Saunders outlines a basic plan for Heartbeat and for himself after he steps down from Heartbeat.
Monumental Melodrama: Mikhail Kalatozov’S Retrospective Return To 1920s Agitprop Cinema In I Am Cuba,
2013
Bryn Mawr College
Monumental Melodrama: Mikhail Kalatozov’S Retrospective Return To 1920s Agitprop Cinema In I Am Cuba, Tim Harte
Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship
This article explores the revival of silent film tropes, particularly silent-era melodrama, in the later films of Mikhail Kalatozov. Kalatozov, a Soviet filmmaker who began his career at the tail end of the silent era, created several masterful works in the post-Stalin era that conspicuously hark en back to Soviet cinema of the 1920s, most significantly The Cranes are Flying and I Am Cuba. This article probes the melodramatic essence of I Am Cuba, a film celebrating the Cuban revolution of the 1950s, as the author discusses the ways in which melodrama, homage to silent Soviet cinema, and …
Evolution Of Film Trailers,
2013
Whittier College
Evolution Of Film Trailers, Robert Llewellyn
Whittier Scholars Program
This project is a research paper on the history and evolution of film trailers beginning in the 1910s. The author mentions how trailers are directed towards different demographics. Different movie trailers such as King Kong, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Psycho, and Easy Rider and many others are used as examples throughout the paper. The era from the 50’s to the 70’s is thoroughly discussed as being a transitional period. Additionally, the paper touches base on the political events that occurred and how they affected films topics. The project includes a journal of the author’s journey through the …
On Familiarity And Defamiliarization In The Use Of Appropriated Material In Film, And Its Consequences On Narration : A Study Of Artavazd Peleshian's Our Century, Johan Grimonprez's Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y And Adam Curtis' It Felt Like A Kiss,
2013
University at Albany, State University of New York
On Familiarity And Defamiliarization In The Use Of Appropriated Material In Film, And Its Consequences On Narration : A Study Of Artavazd Peleshian's Our Century, Johan Grimonprez's Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y And Adam Curtis' It Felt Like A Kiss, Maureen Anderson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The text presented here is a study of the editing and appropriation techniques of three constructivist films and their affect on narrative: Artavazd Peleshian's Our Century, Johan Grimonprez's dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Adam Curtis' It Felt Like a Kiss. An analysis of these techniques is done through the lens of the Russian Formalists, Victor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin and their respective concepts of defamiliarization and familiarization. Attention is paid to formal analysis in relation to historical context.
The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film,
2013
University of Mississippi
The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film, Steven Clayton Saunders
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
How does one make a region horrific? For well over half of a century, the American South has functioned as a site for national anxieties over race and modernization. This study uses an inter-disciplinary approach in order to understand the various forces involved in the construction of the South in American horror cinema. Particular attention is paid to the influence that images of the civil rights movement have had on the development and evolution of the South as a horrific and terrifying space for the rest of the nation. It focuses on four main subcategories of the genre: the white …
Seeing The Unseen: Underrepresented Groups In Prime-Time Television,
2013
Eastern Michigan University
Seeing The Unseen: Underrepresented Groups In Prime-Time Television, Cherese E. Colston
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
Television is considered America's No. 1 pastime, occupying an average of four hours and 39 minutes of a person's time every day (Stelter, 2008). A majority of viewers are tuned in during prime time to live vicariously through their favorite fictional characters who reflect friends, family or even themselves. However, is prime-time television really representing everyone? The purpose of this study is to discover whether a media format as influential as TV reflects the people of the United States. This will be accomplished through coding the prime-time programing on major broadcast networks ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and the CW.
Introduction: A Game's Study Manifesto,
2013
Old Dominion University
Introduction: A Game's Study Manifesto, Jason C. Thompson, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications
In the epigraph to this collection, we return to a foundational text of the western literary canon, Homer’s Odyssey, and see in Penelope’s “bow contest” an illustrative moment in the history of game culture. Having fought in the Trojan War and having survived his ten-year trek home, the weary Odysseus cannot simply show up—the returning hero must rout the odious suitors whom Penelope has forestalled. In order to buy more time for vengeance, Odysseus disguises himself as an old beggar; in order to buy more time for deferral, Penelope creates an unwinnable game: she will marry the suitor able …
Gay For Play: Theorizing Lgbtq Characters In Game Studies,
2013
Old Dominion University
Gay For Play: Theorizing Lgbtq Characters In Game Studies, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications
Despite, and perhaps because of, popular press reactions to stereotypical depictions of beefy boys and busty babes in video games, the realm of gender, sex, and sexuality remains a lacuna in the emerging field of game studies. Of particular interest is the notion of performance and the ways this impacts both on gender and on game play. The combination might be expected to offer a very interesting way of approaching LGBTQ characters in digital games, especially given the recent inclusion of such characters in some popular and well-studied game franchises, including Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar 1997-present), Jade Empire (BioWare 2005-08) …
Audience Response To The Nature/Society Binary In Kurosawa’S Dersu Uzala: An Observational Online Ethnography,
2013
University of Kentucky
Audience Response To The Nature/Society Binary In Kurosawa’S Dersu Uzala: An Observational Online Ethnography, Laura L. Sharp
Theses and Dissertations--Geography
Geographers researching cinema have predominantly been interested in how geographic meaning is constructed and negotiated within film, but have been less productive in accounting for how these constructs are received by viewers. Using the method of observational online ethnography, I therefore investigate how fans in online reviews have interpreted the nature/society binary in the film Dersu Uzala. Working from a social constructionist view of nature I begin by deconstructing the binary as it appears in Dersu Uzala before proceeding to illustrate the way this constitutive absence is made up for by the visuality of the film’s landscapes and techniques of …
Salvation: An Exploration,
2013
Claremont McKenna College
Salvation: An Exploration, Kelsey Rose Weber
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis explores how women in different religious communities relate to the concept of Salvation. Focusing on Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, this short experimental film, and supplement paper, seek to provide an alternative point of view that translates this unique experience for women in religions that use heavily gendered language and that are rooted in traditional patriarchal cultures. By using the experimental film medium, viewers are able to perceive religion and film in a new way that pushes the viewer to give their own interpretation of the imagery on screen. It also allows viewers to give the imagery meaning …
New Media, An Academic Perspective,
2013
Claremont McKenna College
New Media, An Academic Perspective, Dashiel D. Escrofani
CMC Senior Theses
This Senior Thesis is intended to provide a new perspective about New Media as its own medium and discuss the implications of having one world-wide medium by which to communicate with others.
Native Newspapers: The Emergence Of The American Indian Press 1960-Present,
2013
Claremont McKenna College
Native Newspapers: The Emergence Of The American Indian Press 1960-Present, Russell M. Page
CMC Senior Theses
During the 1960s and 1970s, tribes across Indian Country struggled for tribal sovereignty against “termination” policies that aimed to disintegrate the federal government’s trust responsibilities and treaty obligations to tribes and assimilate all Indians into mainstream society. Individual tribes, pan-Indian organizations, and militant Red Power activists rose up in resistance to these policies and fought for self-determination: a preservation of Indian distinctiveness and social and political autonomy. This thesis examines a crucial, but often overlooked, element of the self-determination movement. Hundreds of tribal and national-scope activist newspapers emerged during this era and became the authentic voices of American Indians and …
The Synthesizer: Modernist And Technological Transformations In Film Sound And Contemporary Music,
2013
Claremont McKenna College
The Synthesizer: Modernist And Technological Transformations In Film Sound And Contemporary Music, Dusin J. Green
CMC Senior Theses
The invention of the synthesizer meant the possibility of achieving virtually any sound in one mechanism, a superbly convenient device for musical creativity. Perhaps the perfect space for this approval of sound creativity was in the modern electronic film score. The synthesizer also flourished in popular music immediately following its emergence, but a common form began to solidify itself among synthesizer music. Shortly after, improvements in electronic instrument technology led to the democratization of electronic music and equipment, ultimately leading to electronic music as the new mainstream.
