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An Exploration Of Artist Housing In Greater Boston, Ma, Clairessa Morrow Dec 2018

An Exploration Of Artist Housing In Greater Boston, Ma, Clairessa Morrow

Honors Projects

Boston is a city bursting with art and culture. However, many of the artists and craftspeople who create this environment are being driven out by external factors. This project examines the personal experiences of artists in the Boston area to gain their insight on present issues and their perceptions for the future.


Did Hollywood Take Theatre "By Hook Or By Crook?", Catherine S. Wright Dec 2018

Did Hollywood Take Theatre "By Hook Or By Crook?", Catherine S. Wright

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Hollywood and Theatre have been partners in producing entertainment for over 100 years. The relationship was fruitful for both parties, but Hollywood moguls and playwrights battled over ownership of the work and crafting of its creative nucleus, story and character. Theatre was the dominant entertainment right before the rise of motion pictures. Once Hollywood’s talkies closed the curtain on silent films, playwrights had a high creative worth to movie makers. In the cinema, story and dialogue were essential for its survival and growth. Playwrights were courted by the Hollywood studio heads but were not offered equal partnership as they were …


Denial: David Irving, And The Complexities Of Representing A Holocaust Denier, Kirril Shields, Ted Nannicelli, Henry Theriault Dec 2018

Denial: David Irving, And The Complexities Of Representing A Holocaust Denier, Kirril Shields, Ted Nannicelli, Henry Theriault

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Mick Jackson’s 2016 film Denial, based on the libel case brought against Deborah Lipstatd’s publisher by David Irving, was discussed as a panel event at the 13th International Association of Genocide Scholars conference, held at the University of Queensland on the evening of July 12, 2017. Dr. Kirril Shields presented on the difficulty of representation, addressing the film’s portrayal of David Irving. Dr. Ted Nannicelli followed with a discussion centered on the film’s use of cinematic rhetoric as positioned in various examples throughout Denial. Dr. Henry Theriault gave the final paper, examining the philosophy of the act of …


Reason (Vivek), J. Barton Scott Oct 2018

Reason (Vivek), J. Barton Scott

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Reason (Vivek) (2018), directed by Anand Patwardhan.


Bonding Images: Photography And Film As Acts Of Perpetration, Christophe Busch Oct 2018

Bonding Images: Photography And Film As Acts Of Perpetration, Christophe Busch

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Historical and contemporary cases of collective violence show an incremental use of photography and film to capture and disseminate violent acts. Recording cruelty during conflict seems to be a highly ritualised practice that urges the question what communicative and psychological functions these acts have? Why and how does perpetrator photography shape a binding moral world that divides 'us' versus 'them'? These visualising acts are commonly seen as proof of power that desensitises the perpetrators and dehumanises the victims. This contribution focuses on the imagery of the Holocaust, looks into the functions that capturing and sharing cruelty has on the evolution …


“María Llena Eres De Gracia” Y Una Desconocida: La Fortaleza Del Espíritu Humano, Yaakov Oliveira Aug 2018

“María Llena Eres De Gracia” Y Una Desconocida: La Fortaleza Del Espíritu Humano, Yaakov Oliveira

Best Integrated Writing

The compassion for, and understanding of, The Other, without bias, is the most revealing attribute of this paper. Given that immigration, and undocumented people constantly coming to the US, has become a national issue, it is inspiring to see that there still are ways of evaluating the problematic--with objectivity--yet with admiration. This writer is capable of seeing with the inner eyes, perceiving the colloquialisms of the Spanish language, the traits of the culture, and the emotion of both narratives that he is comparing. At the end of the day, film and art remain as the bridge between cultures.


Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom In Fascist Italy, Book Review, Peter Catapano Jul 2018

Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom In Fascist Italy, Book Review, Peter Catapano

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Complete Issue Jun 2018

Complete Issue

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

The complete issue 1 of volume 8, Landscapes Journal.


Habsburg’S Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 To The Present), Hannes Leidinger Jun 2018

Habsburg’S Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 To The Present), Hannes Leidinger

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

A divergent survey of scholarship on World War I cinema produced in succession countries of the Habsburg Empire. This untapped body of film records a contentious phase in world history, from the perspective of an often misunderstood, yet pivotal, region. The volume gathers scholarly essays exploring the intersections between the political, historical, and aesthetic, as expressed in the region’s various “moving pictures,” with sustained attention to the relationship between artistic representation and collective memory.


Remembering World War I In 2014: Films And Tv Productions In Austria And A New Path Of Visual Memory, Karin Moser Jun 2018

Remembering World War I In 2014: Films And Tv Productions In Austria And A New Path Of Visual Memory, Karin Moser

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


World War I In Hungarian Motion Picture History, 1914 To 1945, Márton Kurutz Jun 2018

World War I In Hungarian Motion Picture History, 1914 To 1945, Márton Kurutz

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


’The Empire Means Order’: Images Of The Austrio-Hungarian Monarchy In Romanian Fictional Films About The First World War, Enikö Dácz Jun 2018

’The Empire Means Order’: Images Of The Austrio-Hungarian Monarchy In Romanian Fictional Films About The First World War, Enikö Dácz

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Preface To Habsburg’S Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 To The Present), Günther Bischof Jun 2018

Preface To Habsburg’S Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 To The Present), Günther Bischof

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


The First World War In The Czech And Slovak Cinema, Václav Šmidrkal Jun 2018

The First World War In The Czech And Slovak Cinema, Václav Šmidrkal

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Habsburg’S Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 To The Present), Hannes Leidinger Jun 2018

Introduction To Habsburg’S Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 To The Present), Hannes Leidinger

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Films About World War I In Hungary After 1945, László Deák-Sárosi Jun 2018

Films About World War I In Hungary After 1945, László Deák-Sárosi

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


The Contact Zone: In Search Of The Galician Theater Of War In German Cinemas Of The 1920s, Philipp Stiasny Jun 2018

The Contact Zone: In Search Of The Galician Theater Of War In German Cinemas Of The 1920s, Philipp Stiasny

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


The Decaying Empire And The Human Dilemmas: The Last War Of Austria-Hungary In Polish Cinematography From 1918 Onwards, Piotr Szlanta Jun 2018

The Decaying Empire And The Human Dilemmas: The Last War Of Austria-Hungary In Polish Cinematography From 1918 Onwards, Piotr Szlanta

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Postscript: A Cinema Of Liminality, Thomas Ballhausen Jun 2018

Postscript: A Cinema Of Liminality, Thomas Ballhausen

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Habsburg’S Last War In Austrian Films, 1918 To The Present, Hannes Leidinger Jun 2018

Habsburg’S Last War In Austrian Films, 1918 To The Present, Hannes Leidinger

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


The Fall Of The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy In Serbian Films, Aleksandar Erdeljanović Jun 2018

The Fall Of The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy In Serbian Films, Aleksandar Erdeljanović

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


The Rediscovery Of A Forgotten War: The First World War In Slovene Film And Documentary Production, Karin Almasy Jun 2018

The Rediscovery Of A Forgotten War: The First World War In Slovene Film And Documentary Production, Karin Almasy

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Traces Of Austria-Hungary And The First World War In Tsarist/Soviet/Russian Cinematography, Verena Moritz Jun 2018

Traces Of Austria-Hungary And The First World War In Tsarist/Soviet/Russian Cinematography, Verena Moritz

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Without A Name And A Face: The Austrian Enemy In Interwar Italian Cinema, Francesco Bono Jun 2018

Without A Name And A Face: The Austrian Enemy In Interwar Italian Cinema, Francesco Bono

Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present)

No abstract provided.


Evolutions Of The Soldier Hero: Eastwood’S American Sniper And The Iraq War, Justin Gillingham May 2018

Evolutions Of The Soldier Hero: Eastwood’S American Sniper And The Iraq War, Justin Gillingham

Honors Projects

Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (2014) tells the story of Chris Kyle. However, it also participates in an extensive cinematic traditional by making use of the soldier-hero archetype. The soldier-hero is a cinematic historical figure representing a member of the armed services whose characteristics reflect the war in which they participate. Beginning with World War I, and then moving through World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq, the soldier-hero archetype develops in an iterative manner with each respective war. Eastwood’s film, taking place in the Iraq War film genre, both fulfills and breaks away from conventions traditionally ascribed to Iraq War films. …


“After-Ozymandias”: The Colonization Of Symbols And The American Monument, H. R. Membreno-Canales May 2018

“After-Ozymandias”: The Colonization Of Symbols And The American Monument, H. R. Membreno-Canales

Theses and Dissertations

After-Ozymandias examines the visual rhetoric of American patriotism through its many symbols, including flags and monuments. My thesis project consists of photographs of empty plinths, objects, products and archival materials. Countless relics remain today memorializing leaders and empires that inevitably declined, from antiquity to modern times. Looking back at distant history feels like a luxury, though: the question for our time in America is whether we have the strength of mind as a society to scrutinize our history, warts and all.


Strange Woods, Song Park May 2018

Strange Woods, Song Park

Graduate School of Art Theses

I am interested in searching for images of women that have not been adequately represented in visual art. As a visual artist, I am directed by my sense of sight to investigate and know something. I like to challenge myself to visualize things that do not already have a visual representation. It has been frustrating for me to create images of women, and I have experienced a deep ambivalence in response to the different images of women I have encountered. The socially and culturally constructed images of women that I have internalized and those that have developed from my own …


Instituting Protest (Film), Joshua Eisenberg May 2018

Instituting Protest (Film), Joshua Eisenberg

Theses and Dissertations

The road-trip story of one man looking at how first and fourteenth amendment rights have effected college campuses over time in the United States, while also looking at the possibility of revoking a diploma from a white nationalist for having different views than ones preferential to a certain college.


The Mythological Perspective Of Modern Media: Cross-Cultural Consciousness And Modern Myths, Rebecca E. Evans May 2018

The Mythological Perspective Of Modern Media: Cross-Cultural Consciousness And Modern Myths, Rebecca E. Evans

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This piece assesses the cultural implications of modern narratives that incorporate classical mythology, specifically focusing on the hero’s journey. When the similarities of different myths across different cultures are analyzed, it becomes clear that there are modern analogs that incorporate mythic qualities and cultural values. These mythic foundations are analyzed here in popular works like Harry Potter, Star Trek, and Legend of Zelda, where the hero’s journey becomes an almost universal experience that inspires cross-cultural consciousness. The hero’s journey has evolved from a simple literary tool into a cross-cultural touchstone that shapes narratives into familiar works of cultural significance across …


Building Brand Kurdistan: Helly Luv, The Gender Of Nationhood, And The War On Terror, Nicholas S. Glastonbury May 2018

Building Brand Kurdistan: Helly Luv, The Gender Of Nationhood, And The War On Terror, Nicholas S. Glastonbury

Publications and Research

In the early 2000s, the Kurdistan Regional Government hired a US-based firm to begin a public relations campaign called “The Other Iraq.” Since that time, it has worked with a number of PR and lobbying firms to build a cultural, political, and financial apparatus that I refer to as Brand Kurdistan. This apparatus aims to prove to Western audiencesthat the Kurds are a liberal exception in an illiberal Middle East, and to build prospects of KRG’s eventual national independence. This article explores the connections between Brand Kurdistan and the gendering of Kurdish nationalism, focusing particularly on Kurdish pop diva Helly …