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Capitalist Childhood In Film: Modes Of Critique, Susan Ferguson
Capitalist Childhood In Film: Modes Of Critique, Susan Ferguson
Journalism
This paper explores the latent political meanings of cinematic representations of capitalist childhood. The films it examines—three adaptations of the Oliver Twist story, Slumdog Millionnaire and a lesser-known Korean film, Treeless Mountain—have much in common: they feature abandoned or orphaned child characters who negotiate precarious existences in a rapacious crisis-ridden capitalist world. But the filmmakers’ evolving imaginings of childhood—from the Victorian vulnerable child to more postmodern understandings of children as agents in their own right—invite distinct political responses. While the Dickensian mode of critique rests problematically on an abstract idealized notion of childhood, attempts to update the image of childhood …
Life Facing Bars: A Film Documentary, Matthew Yoon
Best Practices In Social Media: How Newspapers Can Utilize Social Media Networks, Holly Dickson
Best Practices In Social Media: How Newspapers Can Utilize Social Media Networks, Holly Dickson
Journalism
The following study investigates the best social media practices available for newspapers, with the goal of increasing social media followers and interaction, and gaining increased traffic and readers on a newspapers website. By taking the conclusions about best practices made in the study, the study also works to specifically form best practices recommendations for Mustang Daily, the student-run daily newspaper at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. This study focuses on the best practices available in current social media by consulting existing literature on the subject and interviewing experts in the fields of media and social media. …