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Marey Sue: Perpetuating Mary Sue Stereotype In The Star Wars Trilogy, Samantha Wiser

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

My Plan B thesis addresses the gendered portrayal of the female character Rey in the most recent three Star Wars films released between 2015 and 2019. The latest trilogy is comprised of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. These films present the character Rey, who brings many firsts to the series. She is the first woman to be the central character in a Star Wars trilogy, she is the first woman to use the Force, and she is also the first woman to wield a lightsaber. Despite her firsts, Rey still draws criticism for …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Publications Discussing The Construction Females Heroism Worldwide (1958-2021), Cut Novita Srikandi

International Review of Humanities Studies

The number of gender studies related to female heroism varies, however to the best of our knowledge, no bibliometric studies have been conducted to examine research trend related to the construction of female heroism in history. Therefore, the aims of this research to investigate the trend of publication related to the female heroism by utilizing bibliometric analysis which become parameter to evaluate and visualize the worldwide publication focus on the development of gender studies. Herein, we identified 753 research articles in English from Scopus database which were published from 1958 – 2021. According to our findings, we highlighted that the …

Film Review: I’M No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí), Jose Castro

History in the Making

No abstract provided.

Film Review: Secrets Of The Saqqara Tomb, Erika Kelley

History in the Making

No abstract provided.

Rush Limbaugh, David Swistock, John Nielsen, Devin Gillen

History in the Making

No abstract provided.

Toxic Masculinity: An Outcome Of Colonialism And Its Effects On The Latinx/Chicanx Lgbtq+ Community, Monica Martinez

McNair Research Journal SJSU

This research examines masculinity in the Latinx community within the U.S. Much of the theory behind masculinity involves discussing toxic masculinity and machismo. To do this, I look at film, poetry, and literature to discuss how toxic masculinity affects Queer Latinxs. Although this research focuses on fictional characters and the analysis of fictional works, these characters’ stories do not fall far from current LGBTQ+ Latinxs who may be experiencing the same issues. I examine La Mission, Mosquita y Mari, Gun Hill Road, “I am Joaquin,” “La Loca de la Raza Cosmica,” Rain God, and What Night …

Add Women And Stir: Female Presidents In Pop Culture, 2012-2016, Angela Laflen, Michelle Smith, Kristin Bayer, Riana Ramirez, Jessica Recce, Molly Scott

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal

In this article, we argue that there was a representational shift in popular culture representations of female presidents following Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary run, from earlier representations that were entirely preoccupied with gender to more recent depictions that tried to set aside “the gender question.” We explore three representations of female presidents produced since 2012 that can illuminate popular understandings of gender and the presidency between the 2008 and 2016 elections: Veep, State of Affairs, and Scandal. While all three texts attempt to normalize images of female presidents and break from earlier representations by treating a female …

Ambedo: Immersive Storytelling Through Augmented Reality, Dr. Diane Derr, Law Alsobrook, Sadia Mir

Frameless

The territory of locative media, coupled with augmented reality, offers unique opportunities to excavate and unpack rich historic events, in immersive storytelling. In September of 1943, during World War II, approximately 5,200 Italian soldiers were massacred on the Greek island of Kefalonia by Nazi troops. This massacre is credited as one of the largest ever prisoner-of-war massacres in recent history (Lamb, 1996) and left an indelible mark on the island of Kefalonia. In 2019, Configuring Kommos: Narrative, Event, Place and Memory, an interdisciplinary research project, began an investigation into the triangulation of narrative within the complexity of this tragic …

Ikkuma: An Artistic Vr Storytelling Experience, Yangli Liu

Frameless

Ikkuma is an interactive storytelling experience utilizing Tilt Brush and Unity. It is about a land being swallowed by the sea, where conflict cracks ice and fire tears families apart. Ikkuma is the Inuvialuit word for fire, a central element to the work. The fundamental theme of Ikkuma is global warming and its impact on the Arctic ecosystem. The players must learn to tame the fire in their hearts and the Inuit traditional knowledge if they hope to survive the harsh yet fragile Arctic tundra.

Nature, Technology, And Ruined Women: Ecofeminism And Princess Mononoke, Wendi Sierra, Alysah Berwald, Melissa Guck, Erica Maeder

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal

This article examines the popular anime Princess Mononoke through the lens of ecofeminism. In particular, we provide a close reading of the two female lead characters, San and Lady Eboshi, to demonstrate the problematic gender tropes that are often woven into films about ecological issues.

Confronting Student Resistance To Ecofeminism: Three Perspectives, Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez, Holly Kent, Colleen Martell

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal

Teaching ecofeminism is a dynamic, vital practice, demanding a great deal of both educators and students. At the heart of this essay is the question: how can we teach ecofeminism effectively? In this work, we reflect on our successes and failures teaching ecofeminism within various topics and in different settings. While each co-author of this piece brings ecofeminism into our classrooms, we do so in very different ways and have diverse approaches to making ecofeminist theories and ideas feel vital, necessary, and relevant for our students. In our essay, we aim to offer some productive and provocative suggestions and ideas …

دور "المواطن الصحفي" في التغطية الإخبارية, خليل عبدالله علي أستاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى معرفة تأثير المواطن الصحفي على عملية التغطية الإخبارية، والوقوف على أبرز التحولات الرقمية في عالم الأخبار بجانب التعرف على أسس ومعايير التغطية الإخبارية. اتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، واستخدمت الملاحظة والاستبانة كأدوات علمية لجمع المعلومات، وتوصلت الدراسة لعدد من النتائج أهمها :

• 80% من أفراد العينة المبحوثة أشاروا إلى أن المواطن الصحفي يتصف بالمهنية في نقل الأخبار.
• كشفت الدراسة أن الأخبار السياسية تشكل نسبة عالية من اهتمامات المواطن الصحفي في التغطية الإخبارية.

وبناءً على النتائج أوصت الدراسة بالآتى:

- ضرورة الاستفادة من قدرات المواطنيين الصحفيين في وسائل الإعلام المختلفة.

- ضرورة قيام المؤسسات الإعلامية بتدريب …

اتجاهات الجمهور الفلسطيني نحو تأثير الدراما التركية المدبلجة على القيم الاجتماعية والجمالية في المجتمع الفلسطيني "قطاع غزة أنموذجاً", رائد محمد أبو ربيع استاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

هَدَفُ البحثِ التَّعرُّفُ على مدى متابعة الدراما التركية المدبلجة، ودوافع متابعتها، واتجاهات الجمهور الفلسطيني نحو تأثيرها على القيم الاجتماعية والجمالية في المجتمع الفلسطيني، ويعد هذا البحث من البحوث الوصفية، حيث استخدم الباحث المنهج المسحي؛ لمسح الجمهور، من مجتمع البحث، حيث تم أخذ عينة متاحه (ذكوراً وإناثاً ) من قطاع غزة تقدر ب(500) مفردة .

أهم النتائج: أظهرت الدراسة مدى المتابعة العالية من المبحوثين للدراما التركية المدبلجة، التي جاءت بدافع المتعة والتسلية، كما اعتقد المبحوثون أن الدراما التركية هدفت إلى كسب تأييد المجتمعات العربية لتركيا، وأنها غزو ثقافي، وأنها محاولة لإرجاع أمجاد الدولة العثمانية، واعتقد بعض المبحوثين أن الدراما التركية …

James Mahony (C.1816-1859): The Illustrated London News, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Lgbtq+ Representation In Television And Film, Katelyn Thomson

Bridges: An Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Connections

As LGBTQ+ representation in television and film increases, viewers must continue to question if this representation is accurate and enough to represent a whole spectrum of individuals. TV and film hold a powerful role in shaping societies perceptions, biases and stereotypes of a community and individuals. This essay analyzes TV and film representations to provide the reader with a better understanding of the power and impact that accurate representations of LGBTQ+ can have on the community and society as a whole. By looking at the issue through the lenses of queer theories, scripting theory, in addition to Stuart Hall and …

Post-Gender Performance In Billie's "Project Body Hair", Kelsey Dux

McNair Scholars Program

As the first shaving company to show women's body hair, Billie appears to be challenging traditional binary gender norms in advertising with a new mode called "post-gender advertising." Analyzing Billie’s 2018 ad "Project Body Hair," I argue that traditional/binary gender performances compete with post-gender/nonbinary performances, reinforcing essential femininity norms while appearing to resist them.

الأطر الخبرية لقضية حصار غزة في المواقع الإلكترونية للصحف الأمريكية دراسة تحليلية مقارنة, طلعت عبد الحميد عيسى استاذ مشارك, محمد حسام منصور

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على الأطر الخبرية لتغطية المواقع الإلكترونية للصحف الأمريكية لقضية حصار غزة، ومدى اهتمامها بهذه القضية، بالإضافة إلى التعرف على الشخصيات المحورية، وأطر الأسباب والحلول، وأهم آليات وأدوات التأطير المختلفة التي اعتمدت عليها مواقع الدراسة في تغطيتها لهذه القضية.

وهي دراسة وصفية استخدمت منهج الدراسات المسحية، وفي إطاره استخدم الباحثان أسلوب تحليل المضمون، ومنهج العلاقات المتبادلة الذي في إطاره تم استخدام أسلوب المقارنة المنهجية، واعتمدت الدراسة على أداتي استمارة تحليل المضمون المبنية على نظرية الأطر الخبرية، واختار الباحثان الموقع الالكتروني لصحيفة النيويورك تايمز، والموقع الإلكتروني لصحيفة الواشنطن بوست، خلال المدة بين 14 يونيو 2007م إلى 3 …

دور القنوات الفضائية الفلسطينية في تعزيز قيم المواطنة من وجهة نظر طلبة الجامعات بمحافظات غزة, يحيى ابراهيم المدهون استاذ مساعد, خليل عبدالله علي استاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى معرفة دور الفضائيات الفلسطينية في تعزيز قيم المواطنة من وجهة نظر طلبة الجامعات بمحافظات غزة في ضوء عدد من المتغيرات منها: النوع، والجامعة، وتكونت عينة الدراسة من (777) طالباً وطالبة من طلبة كليات وأقسام الإعلام في جامعات (الأزهر، والإسلامية، والأقصى، وفلسطين، وغزة، والكلية الجامعية). واتبعت الدراسة منهج المسح الإعلامي، واستخدمت الاستبانة كأداة للدراسة. ولقد أظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن الفضائيات الفلسطينية لها دور في تعزيز قيم المواطنة بوزن نسبي (77.7%) وهي درجة مرتفعة، وفيها تبين أن مجال (تعزيز الانتماء الوطني) جاء في المرتبة الأولى بوزن نسبي (80.5%)، ومجال (تعزيز الوحدة الوطنية) جاء في المرتبة الثانية بوزن …

Discovering Caroline, Jon Meyers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

DISCOVERING CAROLINE is the script for an ensemble, a feature-length supernatural drama, set in 1899. Caroline, presumed dead at birth, returns forty years later to the scene of that tragedy, a university nursing school training hospital, where her birth mother still works as a lunch lady. Surrounded by a dozen other characters (thirteen if you count the pig), played against a backdrop of a handful of supernatural events, this script explores familiar love, romantic love, inappropriate love, truth, deceit, death, and the consequences on others when these life events intertwine throughout seventy-seven scenes. Included here is an introduction as well …

The Truth(S) Behind “True Crime”: Examining The Role Of Narrative In The Retellings Of The Rafay Family Murders, Samantha L. Richard

FIMS Major Projects and Creative Projects

In April of 1995, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched their second ever “Mr. Big” operation: one that involves an intricate interrogation technique designed to elicit a confession from suspected criminals in cases where physical evidence cannot link the accused to the crime. The targets of this operation were suspected murderers Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay. The highly publicized case was discussed extensively through traditional news coverage, as well as in various stories of the true crime genre. Through the use of narrative theory, this paper examines the role of narrative in the retelling of the Rafay family murders. …

Activity: How Does It Feel To Be Misrepresented. Equity, Diversity & Inclusion In Teaching Media, Shara K. Lange

ETSU Faculty Works

How does it feel to be misrepresented? was originally part of a series of assignments about integrating ethics into production course that I wrote about for the Journal of Media Education. Here it has been adapted as a stand-alone exercise for EDIT Media’s teaching materials database. This assignment was designed for entry-level production students who were preparing to embark on the production of their first documentary project.

One of the first hands-on production assignments for entry level production students is to interview each other. However, in order to integrate ethics conversations into the teaching production, in this exercise, I added …

Mother Monsters And Monster Mothers From Dracula To Stranger Things, Melissa Dinsman

Publications and Research

Netflix’s hit show Stranger Things is an homage to 1970s and 1980s sci-fi and horror, including Alien and Aliens, Carrie, the Star Wars trilogy, and Poltergeist, as well as buddy adventure films like Goonies and Stand by Me. But it is also, in its obsessive presentation of monsters as mothers and mothers as monsters, a show that takes its 1980s mothering cues straight out of Bram Stoker’s 1890s. Despite its 2016 production date, the Duffer Brother’s Stranger Things presents viewers with very old fashioned ideas of mothering, with Joyce Byers (Wynona Ryder) as the single, but exceedingly pro-active mom from …

Revenge Of The Lawn, Jason James Wallin

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

A great irony of the present moment involves the return of objects long thought rallied to the will of man. As growing consensus in climate change research submits, the world presumably given to the mastery of man today returns as an alien force of material and conceptual upheaval. It is against this backdrop of rapid ecological transformation and its cultural impacts that Revenge of the Lawn is situated. As a work of speculative philo-fiction, Revenge of the Lawn surveys the horror of being “read” from the vantage of the non-human as it exists astride and yet withdraws from human melodrama …

Readings Of (Non-)Consumption In Jan-Ole Gerster's Oh Boy (2012), Christopher Etheredge

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis consists of a series of close readings of consumptive acts in Jan-Ole Gerster’s debut film, Oh Boy (2012). I argue that the analysis of consumptive acts enables the viewer to develop a more nuanced understanding of the characters and their relationships to one another. Furthermore, these consumptive acts shift our understanding of other themes present within the film, such as the characters’ confrontations with their past and with feelings of guilt. Confrontations with the past have played a large role in many scholars’ and interpreters’ understanding of the film, as it encourages in some ways reading Oh Boy …

Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia, Alaina Claire Feldman, Clayton Press, Solange Farkas, Gabriel Bogossian

Publications and Research

Bilingual catalogue for the exhibition "Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia" presented at Baruch College's Mishkin Gallery.

Imagine The Ethical Dilemmas Faced By Student Filmmakers. Equity, Diversity & Inclusion In Teaching Media, Shara K. Lange

ETSU Faculty Works

Imagine the Ethical Dilemmas Faced by Student Filmmakers was originally part of a series of assignments about integrating ethics into an entry-level production course that I wrote about for the Journal of Media Education. Here, it has been adapted as a stand-alone exercise for EDIT Media’s teaching materials database. The guide to ethical decision making referenced in this article comes from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University.

This assignment was designed for entry-level production students who were preparing to embark on the production of their first documentary project.

A Static Code Analysis And Pattern Recognition Algorithm-Driven, Quantitative, Mathematical Model-Oriented Risk Assessment Framework Of Cloud-Based Health Information Applications, Dennis B. Park

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

According to a survey, the healthcare industry is one of the least cloud-adopting industries. The low adoption reflects the healthcare industry's ongoing concerns about the security of the cloud. Business applications, according to another survey, are among the most vulnerable components of business information systems. Many risk assessment frameworks available today, particularly for health information applications, require significant customization before they can be used. This study created a new framework to assess cloud risks specifically for their health information applications, utilizing data-driven risk assessment methodologies to avoid surveys, interviews, and meetings for data collection. For the feasibility study, the open-source …

The Ideology Of The Carceral State: Examining The Prison Through Film, Ryan Phillips

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Mass incarceration began almost fifty years ago and has proliferated to the point that the United States is the world leader in incarceration. Much work has been done that examines the history and nature of mass incarceration and the carceral state. However, an area that has received far less attention is how people think about prisons. To address this gap, I ground my analysis in the works of Louis Althusser, Slavoj Zizek, and Mark Fisher to formulate “Carceral Realism”, which I argue is the ideology of mass incarceration. To better understand the nature of this ideology, I employ a content …

الصورة الذهنية للإعلام الإذاعي الحزبي لدى الجمهور الفلسطيني, يحيى ابراهيم المدهون استاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

هدفت الدراسة التعرف إلى الصورة الذهنية للإعلام الإذاعي الفلسطيني، وتحديداً الإذاعات الحزبية (الأقصى، القدس، الشعب، الوطن) من وجهة نظر طلبة الإعلام في جامعة الأزهر– غزة، واعتمدت الدراسة على منهج المسح الإعلامي، واستخدمت الاستبانه كأداة للدراسة، تم تطبيقها على عينة عشوائية مكونة من (103) طالب وطالبة من طلبة الإعلام في كلية الدراسات المتوسطة - جامعة الأزهر- غزة.

وتوصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج أهمها:

• § إن الصورة الذهنية المتكونة في أذهان المبحوثين عن الإعلام الإذاعي الفلسطيني هي صورة ذهنية وسطية (محايدة) ما بين (مؤيد ومعارض)، يحملها جمهور عينة الدراسة نحو الإذاعات الفلسطينية الحزبية، وهي صورة مشوشة وضبابية وغير مستقرة في …

Telepathic Visions: On Alvin Yapan’S An Kubo Sa Kawayanan (2015), Christian Jil R. Benitez

Filipino Faculty Publications

This article considers the practice of encouraged gazing in Alvin Yapan's An Kubo sa Kawayanan (“The Hut in the Bamboo Grove”) (2015) as a possible exercise on revering things. As such, it is wagered to be instructive towards a reunderstanding of vision as a form of material encounter with things beyond their mere objectification. Sense of sight is argued to be a human telepathic ability, that is, a distance (tele) feeling (pathein) with and for thigns, despite and because of their indeterminate materialities. Through looking closely at the rhetorical engagements of Yapan's Kubo with its various …