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Media Studies Students Occasional Papers Spring 2002, School Of Communication, Media & The Arts

Communication, Media & The Arts Undergraduate Publications

Table of Contents:

The Portrait of War in the Movie Musical / Helen Adams -- The Importance of Music in Dances With Wolves / Katherine Haskell -- Nationalism / Paola Baldino -- The Shackles of Society in the Musical Utopia of West Side Story / Richard A. Hribko, Jr. -- Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend: A Story of The Bottle / Kathleen Haughey.

Celebrity Memes, Audioshop, And Participatory Fan Culture: A Case Study On Keanu Reeves Memes, Danielle Nielsen, Diane Sabenacio Nititham

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Contemporary meme culture keeps Keanu Reeves' image at the forefront of our imagination. Numerous Keanu-related memes circulate on the internet, featuring images of him from on and off screen. In this article, we argue that the rise of user-generated content, such as memes and social media, requires us to reconsider how audiences and fans consume, adapt, and circulate Keanu’s stardom. Specifically, we contend that memes and their attending participatory culture make Keanu familiar by placing him in knowable spaces and perpetuating his extraordinary ordinariness. To do so, we examine the 2019 ‘Keanu Reeves Walking in Slow Motion’ video clip from …

Chalk, Talk, And Videotape: Utilizing Ken Burns’S Television Histories In The Classroom, Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribution to OAH Magazine of History (Summer 2002) 16 (4): 16-22.

The Multiplex: The Modern American Motion Picture Theatre As Message, Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribution to "Hark, Ina R. Exhibition, the Film Reader. London: Routledge, 2001. "

Black Or White: A Content Analysis Of Newspaper Coverage Dealing With Nba Players & Race, Daniel Eric Newman

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

A content analysis of The New York Times and The Washington Post was conducted to determine if there were differences in the coverage devoted to African-American and Caucasian players in the National Basketball Association from July 1, 1999, through June 30, 2000.

The study examined 96 randomly chosen articles, 48 from each publication, to determine trends with regard to coverage of each race.

While the hypotheses predicted African-American players would receive more negative coverage than their Caucasian counterparts, the results showed that Caucasian players actually receive slightly more negative coverage.

The results also showed The New York Times is more …

Harold Innis And 'The Bias Of Communication', Edward Comor

FIMS Publications

Fifty years after his death, Harold Innis remains one of the most widely cited but least understood of communication theorists. This is particularly true in relation to his concept of ‘bias’. This paper reconstructs this concept and places it in the context of Innis’ uniquely non-Marxist dialectical materialist methodology. In so doing, the author emphasizes ongoing debates concerning Innis’ work and demonstrates its utility in relation to contemporary analyses of the Internet and related developments.

Penerbitan Dokumentari Televisyen : Kajian Kes Terhadap Siri Salam Nusantara Di Tv 1, Abu Hassan Morad

Student Works (2000-2009)

Penerbitan dokumentari televisyen di negara kita seclang berkembang dengan pesat terutama kerana adanya permintaan daripada stesen-stesen tv tempatan yang disyaratkan supaya menyiarkan hasil-hasil penerbitan syarikat produksi tempatan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mernahami proses pengeluaran sesuatu rancangan televisyen yang berbentuk dokumentari. Kajian ini berfokus pada siri Salam Nusantara iaitu rancangan berbentuk dokumentari yang meninjau mengenai perkembangan masyarakat Islam di negara-negara Asia Tenggara. Kaedah kajian ini adalah melalui kaedah penyertaan, temubual dan analisa kandungan. Penyertaan penyelidik sebagai krew penggambaran memantapkan lagi penyelidikan mengenai penerbitan dokumentari televisyen Salam Nusantara. Kajian ini menwnpukan kepada amalan penerbitan Salam N usantara di dalam pengurusan clan perhubungan, …

On Cultural And Structural Change In Rte Television Drama, Edward Brennan

Articles

No abstract provided.

Ken Burns’S Rebirth Of A Nation: Television, Narrative, And Popular History, Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribtution to "Landy, Marcia. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001."

Visual Communication And Entertainment Through Animation, James T. Hamrock

Graduate Research Papers

Virtual animation is used today for everything including entertainment in motion pictures and video games, advertising on television and the internet, virtual animated videos used for industrial teaching aids, and project approvals for major building construction. Many modem companies are now insisting that new products are created using 3-D modeling and occasionally animation before approving funds for further development.

The research question in this work centers around thoughts and visions being effectively communicated so others can comprehend and share in the same perspective. This research will show the use of technology in answering this important question: Exploration of the literature …

Aspek Pengarahan Dan Sinematografi Dalam Filem-Filem P. Ramlee Dan Hussein Haniff : Satu Kajian Perbandingan, Hamsan Mohamed

Student Works (2000-2009)

Analisis dalam kajian ini adalah usaha mencari tafsiran dari imej. Makna imej dalam kedudukannya bertahap, ditinjau supaya pemikiran kedua-dua orang pengarah iaitu P. Ramlee dan Hussein Hanift dapat ditetapkan. Konsepsi visual seseorang pengarah dalam membangun unsur-unsur plastik sebagai jentera penyampai falsafah dan idealisme, diberi perhatian yang wajar dan tinjauan terhadap aspek tersebut dapat dijadikan ukuran untuk menetapkan tahap penguasaan aspek teknikal-mekanikal dalam bidang perfileman bagi pengarah yang dikaji. Rekaan produksi sebagai unsur yang membentuk wajah sesebuah filem perlu dimanfaatkan dan aspek-aspek seperti rekaan dan pengarahan seni (berkait dengan tonal, atonal, tekstur dan arkitektur), pemilihan latar (set, sub-set, prop, miniature, depth, …

Ua12/2/1 Shout The Century Out, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special homecoming edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Brewer, Jerry. Coming Home to the Hill – Homecoming
• Hall, Rex. Otis Day Helping Hill Shout Out the Century – Big Red’s Roar
• Adams, Robert. Coming Home Like Christmas
• Brown, Abbey. Lowell Harrison A Living History of Western
• Warren, Brandy. Gordon Ford’s Legacy is Donation
• Homecoming 1999
• Gaines, Jim. Buildings Change, But College Friendships Stay the Same
• Logsdon, Jeremy. Alumnus Spends Life Fighting AIDS – Gene Shearer
• A Message from the President – Henry Cherry, Class of 1931 (WKU)
• Grubb, Christy. Jann Aaron Pioneered for Women in the Medical Field
• Eslingers, Justin. …

Another Look At The Portrayal Of Minorities And Women In Prime-Time Television, Tellisa Amos

Dissertations and Theses

This study updates a 10-year longitudinal study investigating TV's portrayal of minorities and women on prime time television. Prior studies focused on the types of roles held by performers. This study extends prior research, examining not only the types of roles held by performers, but also networks' preference for women and minorities and the genre that most often feature women and minorities.

Data were collected for a consecutive five-week period from February 19, 1997 to March 14,1997. From this sample 40 dramas and 115 situation comedies were recorded and coded. Programming was taken from shows that aired in the Pacific …

Revisiting The Recordings Of Wars Past: Remembering The Documentary Trilogy Of John Huston, Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribtution to "Studlar, Gaylyn, David Desser, and John Huston. Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993."

Hypertext Scholarship And Media Studies, James Castonguay

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Media Studies Students Occasional Papers Spring 1998, School Of Communication, Media & The Arts

Communication, Media & The Arts Undergraduate Publications

Table of Contents:

Meeting Aids Criminalization / Terri Williams -- Together/ Brian Young -- Bernard Herrmann: Film Maker / Laurie Freddino -- The Wellesian Character / Matt Fortney -- When 1000 Words and Pictures Don't Matach / Sharon Nagy -- Freed to Kill / Sandra R. Ellison.

A Content Analysis Of Televised Health News Coverage Within The Huntington, West Virginia Designated Market Area, Leigh Suzanne Hall

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Local media should carefully consider whether or not their health information coverage provides current and useful information to people living within their viewing area. Media play an important role in providing Americans with pertinent health information. As Greenberg and Wartenber (1990) suggest, “American people receive two-thirds more cancer prevention information from television than from their physicians.” Therefore, local television media should make a conscious effort to educate themselves about which health diseases and problems most affect people within their viewing area. For example, people living in Appalachia experience health conditions that are not consistent with those experienced in every region …

The Egyptian Cinema, Dalia El Toukhy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Conjuring Post-Worthlessness: Contemporary Web Art And The Postmodern Context: Part 1, Brett Stalbaum

SWITCH

This article is part one of two of an analysis of the Jean Baudrillard's essay, "A Conjuration of Imbeciles". This essay compares the idea of art as a metaphor for French politics and the “uselessness” of contemporary art. A sense of postmodernism is drawn from that comparison and relates to contemporary art shared on the World Wide Web. Inevitable messages and meaning found in art will change, but economics and distribution continues to ground the economy on a global scale. Therefore, contemporary art represented on the web actively dates the practice of art, and the value of the practice is …

Film Language And The Persistence Of Racial Stereotyping In The Last Of The Mohicans (1992), Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribution to the Journal of Contemporary Thought, Vol. 7.

Uncanny Performances In Colonial Narratives: Josephine Baker In "Princess Tam Tam", Elizabeth Coffman

School of Communication: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Implications Of A Feminist Narratology: Temporality, Focalization And Voice In The Films Of Julie Dash, Mona Smith And Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Jennifer Alyce Machiorlatti

Wayne State University Dissertations

This dissertation conducts feminist narrative textual analysis of films by three independent women film-makers-of- color: Julie Dash, Mona Smith and Trinh T. Minh-ha. The research utilizes traditional cinematic narratological methods combined with a feminist perspective. Narratology is the structural/textual study of narrative organization, style and content. Feminism is a theoretical body of inquiry which lends implications of gender difference, power relationships, cinematic stereotypes, and cultural significance to textual analysis. Feminist inquiry contributes a social, cultural, ideological and historical perspective to the taxomony of a structuralist narrative methodology. By combining this contextual perspective with a topological textual method, I propose consideration …

12 Monkeys, Collette Sweeney

SWITCH

The article depicts the visual and conceptual significance of the film “12 Monkeys”, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. In this film, movie genres and tropes are called into question. Terry Gilliam presents a visions of the future, but relies on the conventions of the American Western Formula. Gilliam tales a distinct approach to typical characters, allowing his proragonists to become onlookers to the foreboding issue at play. What Gilliam achieves in his 12 Monkeys is making the viewers “entertain” that the future depicted in the movie may be seen as a warning.

A Survey To Determine How The Media Affected Operational Security Of The 1st Armored Division In Bosnia, Stanford E. Angion

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this study is to survey the commanders and public affairs officers who were mobilized and deployed to Bosnia in 1995 with the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division as part of Operation Joint Endeavor, for their views about how they think the media affected their units’ operational security. Many articles have been written concerning the adversarial relationship between the military and the media, but little scientific research has been published on the effects of the media on military operational security during times of conflict. This study will build on the research previously conducted by Capt. John B. Snyder …

Integrating Students Into The Operation Of A University-Owned Television Station, Christine Taylor

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Most journalism and mass communication programs provide opportunities for students to acquire some "hands-on" experience as undergraduates.

There remains some considerable argument as to whether this "hands-on" educational experience should be part of the academic curriculum. I will review this debate briefly.

Media Studies Students Occasional Papers May 1995, School Of Communication, Media & The Arts

Communication, Media & The Arts Undergraduate Publications

Table of Contents:

Alfred Hitchcock's Villains: Alter Egos and Victims in Lifeboat and Frenzy / César Muñoz -- Sending the Message Home / Timothy M. Brosnan -- Manilow Magic / Julie Ann Sidhu -- Media Ideology in the Soviet Union / Cheryl Casey -- "naDev tlhlnganpu' tu' lu' " (There are Klingons Around Here): An Analysis of Star Trek as an American Myth / César Muñoz.

Seen Through The Media: The Persian Gulf War (Book Review), James Castonguay

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Book review by James Castonguay.

Jeffords, Susan and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds. Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. 9780813520414; 9780813520421 (pbk.)

Feature Films For Communication Courses: A Bibliography, Russell F. Proctor Ii, Scott D. Johnson

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Once upon a time, the only way to answer the question was informally; that is, by offering an opinion or directing the inquirer to someone who had experience in the area. Recently, however, the process has been formalized and expanded through various written materials. Rather than keeping lists of films in our heads, we can now refer people to articles, textbooks, and documents. The new trick is remembering the references for these works in circulation. This article is an attempt to remedy that problem. We offer here a list of resources for those who want ideas for using feature films …

Seduction, Control, & The Search For Authenticity: Madonna's Truth Or Dare, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.

Communications: Faculty Publications

Maddonnas' 1991 film Truth or Dare, based on her 1990 “Blond Ambition” tour—itself a combination of pop music and performance art— defies easy categorization. It is a “docudrama” of sorts: part documentary, part concert film, part dramatic enactment. By combining various filmic styles and traditions. Truth or Dare recreates certain long-standing cultural dichotomies between, for instance, onstage and offstage, public and private, reality and appearance, or truth and artifice. The film replicates such oppositions only to then question their continuing validity. Binary distinctions in Truth or Dare prove more apparent than real, more fleeting than differentiating. Ultimately, I believe, …

Female Spectators (14.1), E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.

Communications: Faculty Publications

This introduction to Female Spectators gives a concise account of the major feminist debates in film studies and argues for more work to be done in incorporating filmmaking practice, spectatorship and textual analysis. All the contributors to this book share a concern to emphasis women’s presence in, rather than absence from, the “cinematic experience”