Echo Xu | No One Enters,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Echo Xu | No One Enters, Echo Xu, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Reem Al-Ani | Down Below, Up Above, And Beyond,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Reem Al-Ani | Down Below, Up Above, And Beyond, Reem Al-Ani, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Elise Williams | Deliver Me, Again (But Cleaner) (Please),
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Elise Williams | Deliver Me, Again (But Cleaner) (Please), Elise Mollie Williams, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Alexandra Reintjes | God Watches With Her Back Turned,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Alexandra Reintjes | God Watches With Her Back Turned, Alexandra Reintjes, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Dylan Gabriel | Alez, Belle Bagay,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Dylan Gabriel | Alez, Belle Bagay, Dylan Gabriel, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Elsie Zhao | Remnants,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Elsie Zhao | Remnants, Elsie Zhao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Henry Deng | Fleeting,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Henry Deng | Fleeting, Henry Deng, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Rokyi Li | Lost In Transformation,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Rokyi Li | Lost In Transformation, Rokyi Li, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Cris Gao | To Kill The Dead Boy In The Pool,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Cris Gao | To Kill The Dead Boy In The Pool, Cris Gao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Statements
No abstract provided.
Video Through | Finals Screening Poster,
2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Video Through | Finals Screening Poster, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab
Student Work
No abstract provided.
The Signs Of Cinema: Exploring The Effects Of Signifying God In Shadowlands, Bad Times At The El Royale, And The Tree Of Life,
2024
Liberty University
The Signs Of Cinema: Exploring The Effects Of Signifying God In Shadowlands, Bad Times At The El Royale, And The Tree Of Life, Eric Wescott Smith
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the cinematic semiosis of God, to understand how God is signified through the film medium, and to explore possible effects of this signification on the American Christian mythos. This qualitative study was conducted as an artifactual analysis study. The selected artifacts were three films and two works of literature. The film artifacts were Shadowlands, Bad Times at the El Royale, and The Tree of Life. The literature artifacts were A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis and The Book of Job. The practice of close reading was given to each artifact …
Fake News: Finding Truth In Strategic Communication,
2024
Liberty University
Fake News: Finding Truth In Strategic Communication, Anne Damisa
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
Fake news is an old phenomenon that has become a new obsession and a menace to society due to technological advancement and the proliferation of social media, which has changed traditional journalism norms. As the spread of false information has increased these past few years, it has become increasingly difficult for information consumers to distinguish between facts and fakes. A comprehensive systematic literature review to extract themes revealed the major factors responsible for spreading fake news. This qualitative interpretative meta-synthesis (QIMS) aims to better understand and offer solutions to combat fake news. This Ph.D. dissertation will serve as a guide …
Systemization & Survival -- “Houston, We Have A Problem” – Business Lessons From Apollo 13,
2024
1. University of Dar es Salaam Business School 2. University of Agder
Systemization & Survival -- “Houston, We Have A Problem” – Business Lessons From Apollo 13, Judith Jacob Iddy, Njeru Zakayo
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
In the business world, there are different factors that determine whether a business will survive or not. Apollo 13 film perfectly demonstrates what every business undergoes throughout its lifecycle. Apollo 13 spacecraft started its journey to the moon successfully with the mission being to land on the moon. Unfortunately, within a very short period of time, Apollo 13 started to experience a series of problems that required quick actions and decisions to be made with the involvement of different sets of technical skills. Ultimately, by using the prototype and systems which NASA had established for Apollo 13, the teams managed …
Viewing The World Through The Prism Of Cross-Cultural Romances: Film Review Of Christmas As Usual (2023) And Further Reflections,
2024
University of Rhode Island
Viewing The World Through The Prism Of Cross-Cultural Romances: Film Review Of Christmas As Usual (2023) And Further Reflections, Raja Ramanathan
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Flavors And Frailties Of Globalization,
2024
University of Rhode Island
Flavors And Frailties Of Globalization, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Deniz Atik
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Cinema And Ritual: Decolonial Feminist Approaches To Image-Making In The Americas And The Caribbean,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
Cinema And Ritual: Decolonial Feminist Approaches To Image-Making In The Americas And The Caribbean, Natalie M. Erazo
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This thesis project is composed of an open-access syllabus hosted on a CUNY commons site, as well as a paper that examines various films and texts responding to the theme of cinema and ritual. Referenced films will focus on ritual as a decolonial feminist methodological framework, rooted primarily in Afro-descended and Indigenous cosmovisions within Latin America and the Caribbean. From a dance ritual spell warding off U.S. imperialism in present-day Puerto Rico, to a poetic visual eulogy for murdered women in rural Mexico, to a community prayer to Yemaya bringing relief for water scarcity in Cuba to a cautionary tale …
Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography And Film Networks, 1950-1989,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography And Film Networks, 1950-1989, Maria T. Quinata
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation tracks three moments from 1950 to 1989, when images were put to work by Black photographers and filmmakers to stake individual and communal claims to Britain and Britishness: first, through the emergence of photographic portraiture taken in domestic living spaces during the 1950s to 1970s; second, through the Black Panther Movement and their use of photography in the late 1960s to mid 1970s, and last, with the efflorescence of Black film and video collectives in the 1980s. At each of these moments, I attend to the simultaneous production, negotiation, and co-mingling of new social identities that were diasporic, …
Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations Of The Romantic,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations Of The Romantic, Sandra Moyano Ariza
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation investigates the highly computed and accelerated experiences of digital love as well as their cultural and artistic representations in order to shed light on the human and more-than-human entanglements producing the algorithmic love experience. The recent turn to love in critical theory and cultural studies examines how love circulates in neoliberal societies and in the subjective processes of the users, foregrounding the control of populations and the very much lamented “end of love” (Illouz 2019). My study of love supplements the neoliberalist critique of algorithmic love with a posthuman and media theory approach that attends to the material …
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
As an artist and Film Studies student, I saw the capstone option as an opportunity to consolidate academia with the art of filmmaking into one project. This became Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness, an experimental short film written, directed, and edited by me. It is a film influenced by early avant-garde cinema, German expressionism, and film noir. Composed of pieces of unrelated footage and featuring an ambiguous, non-linear, and mostly silent narrative, the editing of the film prompted me to ask myself questions about its genre. Its hybridity made it possible to position the film within different categories, but there …
Tarot Fabula: Radical Digital Cards, Shuffled Narrative Structures, And Playing The Future In An Era Of Algorithms,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
Tarot Fabula: Radical Digital Cards, Shuffled Narrative Structures, And Playing The Future In An Era Of Algorithms, Rachel M.L. Dixon
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Since their earliest recorded use in the 1400s, tarot cards figure as objects for game play, artistic creativity, spiritual divination, and self-discovery. Tarot Fabula (https://tarot-fabula.com) introduces a ludic, interactive website interface that challenges 20th century tarot reading practices as linear narratives. Statistically random reshufflings of tarot decks from archival collections prompt the reader to become a narrative co-creator, drawing them into conversation with traditional reading and interpretive practices as they remix narrative elements portrayed on the cards. Tarot Fabula’s shuffling and reshuffling of cards as historical objects merges contemporary computational methods for generating random results with an interrogation of …
