Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?: Corporate Memes & Youth Resistance

Description:: Memes have become something of a vernacular language for young people online, as the proper understanding and usage of a meme displays subcultural knowledge and …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Goetzen, Nina (creator); Pozo, Teddy (thesis advisor); McGrath, Jim (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Subject:: Social media; Digital media--Social aspects; Memes; Digital media; Corporations; youth culture; authenticity; Branding (Marketing); Subculture; Youth--Political activity
Language:: English
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Images between Images: Cinematic Inventions of the Everyday

Description:: This dissertation argues that the everyday is a phenomenon invented along with capitalist modernity and modern technologies of representation, and that cinema is one of …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Liu, Linda A (creator); Rosen, Philip (Director); Doane, Mary Ann (Reader); Joyrich, Lynne (Reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: everyday; everyday life; cinema; film theory; indexicality; contingency; kracauer; local film; actualities; art cinema; global art cinema; Motion pictures; Contingency (Philosophy); Feminist films; Actualities (Motion pictures); History
Language:: English
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Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities

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Description:: This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Russo, Julie L. (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (director); Chun, Wendy (reader); Rosen, Philip (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: fandom; fan fiction; new media; media; Marxism; online communities; television studies; The L Word; Battlestar Galactica; Law and Order; queer; networks; fan studies; media industry; the closet; Convergence; Media studies; Digital media; Communism; Internet; Television; Battlestar Galactica television programs; Law & order (Television program); Queer theory; Lesbians; Labor; Popular culture
Language:: English
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Interpreting Video Games through the Lens of Modernity

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Description:: This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Soderman, Anton B (creator); Chun, Wendy (Director); Doane, Mary Ann (Reader); Rosen, Philip (Reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: modernity; modernism; gender; marxism; politics; interactivity; flow; Csikszentmihalyi; rendering; innovation; representation; media; game studies; postmodernity; Brecht; Video games; Civilization, Modern; Digital media; Aesthetics; Modernism (Art); Sex; Communism; Capitalism; Political science; Clouds; Computer graphics; Television; Ideology; Computer games
Language:: English
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Interview-Work: The Genealogy of a Cultural Form

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Description:: This dissertation provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Sarlin, Paige (creator); Rosen, Philip (Director); Joyrich, Lynne (Reader); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Marxism; Documentary; Form; Communism; Feminism; Labor; Media studies; Publicity; Liberalism
Language:: English
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Iron Man: American Masculinity, Prosthetized Power, and Digital Dialectics

Description:: Marvel's Iron Man franchise represents technology as a vehicle for global military might, heroic masculinity, and individual enhancement fantasies. Drawing on evolving digital film technologies, …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Huth, Antonia M. (creator); Koch, Gertrud (thesis advisor); Copjec, Joan (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Motion pictures; Digital media; Technology--Military aspects; Marvel; Marvel Comics Group; Iron Man (Fictitious character); Haraway, Donna Jeanne; Superheroes; Masculinity in motion pictures; Masculinity in popular culture; War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media; Subjectivity in motion pictures; Gender identity in motion pictures; Transhumanism
Language:: English
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Kein Kino: Autonomous Film after Adorno

Description:: This thesis works to clarify what an Adornean conception of Autonomous Cinema might look like through incorporating other theorists such as Aldous Huxley and Fredric …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Taylor, Miles H (Creator); Rosen, Philip (advisor); Koch, Gertrud (reader); Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969; Film; Aesthetics; German Cinema
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Kissing in the Background

Description:: KISSING IN THE BACKGROUND is an original screenplay about two queer students discovering their understanding of their identity as members of the LGBTQ+ community. The …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Lummis, Kate (creator); Udris, David (thesis advisor); Joyrich, Lynne (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Film; Screenplays
Language:: English
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Late Cinema: Avantgarde, Medium, Capital

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Description:: We are often told that ours is a “late” age. Lateness—as in the “late work” or “late capitalism”—simultaneously suggests something that has survived beyond its …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Noble-Olson, Matthew David (creator); Doane, Mary Ann (Director); Rosen, Philip (Reader); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Film; Cinema; Modernity; Art; Motion pictures; Civilization, Modern
Language:: English
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Live Ghosts Now and Direct Messages from the Past: Screenlives and the Temporality of Ghosting

Description:: How do we understand the digital world through narratives about – and narratives that emerge from - social media? Rather than think only about soundtrack …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Maxwell, Alex (creator); Li, Jinying (Advisor); Joyrich, Lynne (Reader); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Digital media; digital culture; Ghosts; Twitter; Platform Studies; Digital Platforms; New Media; Online social networks; film studies; YouTube (Firm); screenlife
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Lynching and the Archive: A History

Description:: "Lynching and the Archive: A History," studies lynching images alongside their patterns of circulation as well as the way that they have been presented in …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Johnson, Jane'a D (creator); Azoulay, Ariella (Advisor); Joyrich, Lynne (Reader); Nickel, Douglas (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: race; Photography; African Americans; Lynching; White Supremacy; Lynching in art; Whites; Museums--Curatorship; Archives
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Making Black Lives Matter: on the circulation of images of black death on social media

Description:: With the 'massification' of digital media technologies comes their entanglements not only with our lives but that moment which defines each life, death itself. To …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Bramble, Victor (author); Azoulay, Ariella (advisor); Bogues, Barrymore (reader); Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Social media; Digital media; Violence; Anti-Blackness
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Maladaptive Media: Life and Other Works of Animation

Description:: This dissertation investigates the creation of “life,” meaning the transformation of a static into a dynamic organization, in what I call works of animation. Although …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Guan, Cassandra (creator); Rosen, Philip (Advisor); Copjec, Joan (Advisor); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940; Aesthetics; Capitalism; China; modernity; science and technology studies; Sovereignty; Cinema; Animation; environmental media; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Soviet Union; Propaganda; Psychoanalytic Film Theory; Animation (Cinematography); Modernism (Art); Mass media--Aesthetics; Mass media and art; Caricature; Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829; Wan, Laiming; Primitive Socialist Accumulation; Science films; Das Blumenwunder; Baroque Art History; Alienation (Philosophy); Nuclear weapons--Testing
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Mediating Reproduction: Feminism, Reproductive Labor, and the Question of Value in the Televisual-Digital Economy

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Description:: Feminist and anti-colonial movements of the post-war era reconfigured and politicized the concept of reproductive labor. Simultaneously, an industry of broadcast television and advertising arose …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Austin, Arlen William (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader); Schneider, Rebecca (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Television; Digital media; Feminist theory; Media studies; Italian feminism; Marxism and culture; Labor theory of value
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Memenomics: A Pseudo-Economic Theory of the Collectively Absurd

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Description:: Social media networks enable frictionless transmission of information, creating a new subject of media analysis: the meme, gathered by both an appeal to relatable affect …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Ehrhardt, Evan G. (creator); Li, Jinying (thesis advisor); Ellis, Matthew (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Economics; Social media; Memes; Stock exchanges
Language:: English
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Memenomics: A Pseudo-Economic Theory of the Collectively Absurd

Description:: Social media networks enable frictionless transmission of information, creating a new subject of media analysis: the meme, gathered by both an appeal to relatable affect …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Ehrhardt, Evan G. (creator); Li, Jinying (thesis advisor); Ellis, Matthew (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Economics; Social media; Memes; Stock exchanges
Language:: English
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Moving Images and Moving Bodies: Mediating Fitness in America from Postwar to Present

Description:: This dissertation examines a variety of media objects, from the 1950s exercise television program of Jack LaLanne to the 1980s VHS tapes of Jane Fonda, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Contess, Katherine (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Rieppel, Lukas (Reader); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Exercise; Television; Digital media; body; Physical fitness; Wearable technology
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MULTIPLE SELVES

Description:: MULTIPLE SELVES is a multimedia project that layers self portrait photography and video, digital painting, animation, and poetry into a short film and accompanying printed …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Chandrasekaran, Fiona J. (creator); Armstrong, Maralie (thesis advisor); Nakayasu, Sawako (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Poetry; Animation (Cinematography); Photography; multimedia
Language:: English
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My Baby is a Computer: Personal Devices, Obstetric Technologies, Historical Critique

Description:: Metaphors of descent, birth, childhood, family, and reproduction are routinely applied to emergent technologies. This dissertation contends that in the second half of the 20th …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Rowson, Rose (creator); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Chun, Wendy (Reader); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Li, Jinying (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: History; Biopolitics; history of technology; American History; Feminist theory; Obstetrics; Media studies; Social Reproduction; Family; ultrasound; Biography; Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging; Media history; History of computing; Media Archaeology; Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011; Apple Computer, Inc.; Lisa computer; Microcomputers; Donald, Ian, 1910-1987; Video display terminals--Safety measures; Video display terminals; Fetal Personhood; Intrauterine contraceptives; United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Smith College Archives; Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives; Feminism (Women's liberation movement); New Media; Paternity testing; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; National Women's Health Network (U.S.); 9to5; Gender and Sexuality
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Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine

Description:: Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine deconstructs common anthropocentric assumptions that cast settler colonization and climate disaster within distinctive trajectories of study. Throughout, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Razek, Sherena (creator); Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha (Advisor); Gómez-Barris, Macarena (Reader); Doumani, Beshara (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Indigeneity; Middle East--Palestine; visual culture; environmental humanities; transnational feminism; elemental media
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