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Narcissism and the Scene of Reading: Towards a Global Politics of Local Aesthetics

Description:
My dissertation challenges both the assertion and dismissal of identity politics in the humanities through a queer-diasporic overhaul of the concept of "narcissism." Both the …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Maitra, Aniruddha (creator)
Joyrich, Lynne (Director)
Chow, Rey (Reader)
Chun, Wendy (Reader)
Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literary Politics
Otherness
Narcissism
Identification
Ethnicity
Globalization
Reading
Aesthetics
Other (Philosophy)
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Neural Media: Ascribing, Animating, and Artificializing Intelligence

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This dissertation takes as its focus three episodes when the notion of neural networks was not only deployed as a solution to the problem of …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Lepage-Richer, Théo (creator)
Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
Rieppel, Lukas (Reader)
Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cybernetics
History of Medicine
Digital media
science and technology studies
Artificial intelligence
Media history
History of computing
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934
McCulloch, Warren S. (Warren Sturgis), 1898-1969
Hinton, Geoffrey E.
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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The politics of ambiguity

Description:
A project originating from a large-scale research paper in 2014, The Politics of Ambiguity explores the ambiguous networks of Turkish society and social movements in …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Gallo, Phoebe A. (author)
Joyrich, Lynne (advisor)
Chun, Wendy (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Digital networks
Social movements
Turkey
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Politics of Scatter: Dust and Forensic Media

Description:
Politics of Scatter: Dust and Forensic Media examines the media of forensics, with a focus on the importance of dust to the establishment of evidence …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Huggins, Julia Marie (creator)
Hui Kyong Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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theses
Subject:
DNA
Communication and culture
science and technology studies
Colonialism
Media studies
environmental media
Forensic sciences
History of Forensics
Solar Geoengineering
Atmospheric science
Critical legal studies
Detective and mystery fiction
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Post-Cinema and the Question of Critique

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This dissertation evaluates how the advent of digital technologies have implicated film and media studies in recent debates over the legacy of critical theory and …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Lee, Nathan (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
Rosen, Philip (Reader)
Copjec, Joan (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Critical theory
media theory
Literary theory
Affect theory
digital aesthetics
Film theory
Critique
Cinema
Postcritique
Poststructuralism
Animation
Apparatus
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Racial Technics: Media and Machines in the Long Civil Rights Era

Description:
Racial Technics is a cultural, historical, and theoretical study that traces how competing conceptions of humanity and human freedom have been articulated at the nexus …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Litwack, Michael Ian (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
race
American modernity
Humanism
Cybernetics
media theory
black freedom struggle
Television
Wynter, Sylvia
philosophy of technology
Communication and culture
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Reading machines: ambient writing and the poetics of atmospheric media

Description:
This thesis addresses the poetics and politics of "ambience" and "atmospherics" in contemporary culture. I am interested in how "ambient practices" often associated with the …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Mapes-Frances, Alec (author)
Bewes, Timothy (advisor)
Semerene, Diego (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ambient music (Electronica)
Digital media
Poetics
Aesthetics
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Reconciling Spectatorial Resistance in Hindi Cinema

Description:
Bollywood stands out as a subset of Indian cinema that has permeated the global cultural imaginary like no other. It’s dual status as a dominant …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Venkatesh, Kripa (creator)
Rosen, Philip (thesis advisor)
Fruzzetti, Lina (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Bollywood
Resistance
Spectator
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Reinventions of Life: The Cinematic Avant-Gardes in the Age of Spectacle and Biopower

Description:
This dissertation reevaluates the history and legacies of the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Focusing on postwar cinema, I reconsider one of the avant-garde’s central preoccupations – the …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Berger, Kenneth (creator)
Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
Copjec, Joan (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Biopolitics
Aesthetics
Spectacle
Critique
Life
Refusal
Avant-Garde
Cinema
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Rendering Justice: Media, Testimony, and Witnessing in the American Court of Public Opinion

Description:
This dissertation contends that American society is currently witnessing the rise of what I have termed the jurified spectator: the individual media user who perceives …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Lawrence, Heather Thompson (creator)
Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
Guterl, Matthew (Reader)
Mills, Mara (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
media theory
Digital media
Feminist theory
Racial justice
Popular culture
visual culture
American culture
True crime
trial narratives
conspiracy theory
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Rewriting Suburbia: Televisual Fantasies and New Visions of Black Girlhood

Description:
A black coming-of-age comedy-drama pilot set in the Obama-era and an accompanying essay that grounds the program in the black televisual archive through relevant theoretical …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Oloko, Semi (creator)
Joyrich, Lynne (thesis advisor)
Readey, Jonathan (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Coming of age
Television comedies
Blacks on television
Obama, Barack
Middle class families
Suburbs
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Road Sounds: A Sonic Ethnography of Contemporary Transportation Infrastructure in New England

Description:
This project is a study of transportation infrastructure, how it sounds, and how people hear it; it consists of a collection of 16 audio files …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Neuman-Hammond, Eli (creator)
Cokes, Tony (thesis advisor)
Armstrong, Maralie (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Anthropology
Transportation
Sound recordings
Media studies
Sound
audio
infrastructure
Interstate Highway System
New England
Automobiles
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Roma De Profundis: Post-Economic Miracle Rome and the Films of Dario Argento (1970-1982)

Description:
This dissertation examines three films by the Italian horror-thriller director Dario Argento set in Rome during the period of social and historical transformation following 1968 …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Siegel, Michael Loren (creator)
Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
Rosen, Philip (Reader)
Riva, Massimo (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Dario Argento
Urbanity and Cinema
Modern Roman History
Italian Cinema
Architecture and the Moving Image
Horror Cinema
Sessantotto
1968
Urban geography
Argento, Dario
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Sick, Sad World: Holism and Less-than-human Thought

Description:
This dissertation stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and holism in their theoretical and therapeutic guises. It queries the curious allure of systems thinking for contemporary …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Shalloe, Harper (creator)
Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
Weinstein, Deborah (Reader)
Hui Kyong Chun, Wendy (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
health
Psychoanalysis
Holism
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Description:
Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Hennefeld, Margaret D (creator)
Rosen, Philip (Director)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Film
Gender and Sexuality
Modernity
Theory
Politics
Media
Civilization, Modern
Political science
Feminism
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Speculative

Description:
1. A series of speculative scripts that aim to rewrite exploitive conventions of race films in America. 2. A project that speculates about the extent …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Chib, Marisa (creator)
Arnold, Mary-Kim (thesis advisor)
Cokes, Anthony (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Film
Motion picture plays
Motion picture authorship
Screenwriters
Screenplays
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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The Anticolonial Snapshot: South Asian Disruptions

Description:
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Mehta, Rijuta (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Director)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
Gandhi, Leela (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
colonialism
politics
World politics
Photography
Literature
Reading
Archives
Political science
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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The Anticolonial Snapshot: South Asian Disruptions

Description:
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Mehta, Rijuta (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Director)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
Gandhi, Leela (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
colonialism
politics
World politics
Photography
Literature
Reading
Archives
Political science
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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The Anticolonial Snapshot: South Asian Disruptions

Description:
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Mehta, Rijuta (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Director)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
Gandhi, Leela (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
colonialism
politics
World politics
Photography
Literature
Reading
Archives
Political science
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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The Climate Proxy: Digital Cultures of Global Warming

Description:
Climate change knowledge emerges from the collection of ecological data on a global scale. Scientists require computer models to aggregate and harmonize disparate forms of …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Pringle, Thomas Patrick (creator)
Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
media theory
Digital media
climate change
Media studies
Documentary film
Global warming
environmental media
digital culture
media genealogy
Environmentalism in mass media
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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