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- Description:
- Representative of the phenomenon of media convergence felt across the globe, the state of contemporary Japanese animation (or anime) is characterized by the proliferation, interrelation …
- Year:
- 2008
- Contributor:
- Steinberg, Marc Aaron (creator)
- Doane, Mary Ann (director)
- Rosen, Philip (reader)
- Lamarre, Thomas (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Japanese anime
- consumer culture
- seriality
- Tetsuwan Atomu
- media mix
- media theory
- Character merchandising
- Convergence
- Communication
- Children
- Marketing
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This study provides a conceptual overview of the filmed human figure as a variable object of systematic inquiry. The word “figure” and not “body” is …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Watter, Seth Barry (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- History of Science
- Communication and culture
- Motion pictures
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Debates about the political impact of digital platforms often revolve around a central, limiting dichotomy: Does digital media revitalize or undermine democracy? This project shifts …
- Year:
- 2023
- Contributor:
- Kalinka, Irina (creator)
- Anderson, Amanda (Advisor)
- Koch, Gertrud (Advisor)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Democracy
- Political science
- Digital media
- Mass media
- Computer interfaces
- public sphere
- Platform Studies
- Digital Publics
- Agonism
- Radical Democracy
- Tech-Corporations
- Neoreactionary Thought
- Metaverse
- Public spaces--Political aspects
- Digital Democracy
- Digital Citizenship
- Radical Citizenship
- Algorithmic Governance
- Civic infrastructure
- Civic Life
- User
- Ideology
- Attention Economy
- Platform Capitalism
- Political Imaginaries
- Subjectivity--Political aspects
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation addresses a conceptual form of negativity in the literature, film, and criticism of the United States during the period just following World War …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Tierney, Matthew A. (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Director)
- Chow, Rey (Reader)
- Daniel, Kim (Reader)
- Silverman, Michael (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- American culture
- film theory
- history of criticism
- Literary form
- Media studies
- Intermediality
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- “The Real Form of Trauma” surveys mediated representations of trauma, violence, and history across global cinema and media. The project draws attention to a wide …
- Year:
- 2025
- Contributor:
- Woo, Stephen (creator)
- Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Trauma
- Psychoanalysis
- Documentary film
- Film theory
- Cinema
- Motion pictures and history
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Realist Film theory
- Global Art Cinema
- Slow cinema
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory
- Philosophy of history
- film studies
- trauma theory
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
- Haneke, Michael, 1942-
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1970-
- Forensic Architecture (Project)
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This dissertation project takes as its focus the cultural discourses surrounding what has been called the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism, in which “the political” has …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Ellis, Matthew Lawrence (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Television
- Socialism
- Neoliberalism
- Nostalgia
- Film theory
- Cinema
- Popular culture
- History--Periodization
- Arts--Periodization
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- We are often told that we live in an age of protest, given the rise of political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women’s …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Padmanabhan, Lakshmi (creator)
- Gandhi, Leela (Advisor)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethics
- Photography
- Postcolonialism
- Aesthetics
- South Asia
- temporality
- Critical Race Studies
- Feminist theory
- Experimental films
- Postcolonialism in motion pictures
- Women's rights
- Anti-imperialist movements
- Neoliberalism
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- When Marianne asks Sonya to cut all her hair off, Sonya does what her best friend asks, but Sonya struggles with the independence and rebelliousness …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Finamore-Rossler, Hannah I. (creator)
- Montgomery, Jennifer (thesis advisor)
- Colella, Laura (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Animated films
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Touch/Death/Work: Film Form and the Creation of Images examines how cinema engages the interrelated concepts of touch, death, and work. Through close formal analysis of …
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Garcia, Elizabeth Emma (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Aesthetics
- Hospitals
- community
- Experimental films
- Diagnosis
- Pathology
- Touch
- Film theory
- Metaphysics (Aristotle)
- Work
- Psychanalytic Film Theory
- Artists' films
- Medical films (Motion pictures)
- Nancy, Jean-Luc
- Dialogue in motion pictures
- Experience
- Death and Dying
- Morgues
- Basements
- Obstinacy
- Potentiality
- Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Tim Gunning
- Mary Ann Doane
- Phillip Rosen
- Indexicality
- Film
- Oskar Negt
- Alexander Kluge
- Working to death
- inoperativity
- Dialogue
- relation
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- Design has come to serve as a solution to almost every problem from climate change to college grades. “Toward a Utopia Without Revolution: Developmentalism, Globalization, …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Jung, Seungyeon (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- South Korean History
- Media studies
- Design and history
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Unbound is a digital fiction made of text and images. The images are collages from classic superhero comics and photography. The story combines fiction and …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Struzzieri, E. Pia (Creator)
- Stewart, Michael (advisor)
- Montgomery, Jennifer (reader)
- Brown University (sponsor)
- Subject:
- Superheroes
- fiction
- comics
- hyperfiction
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the shifts in reproduction, knowledge, and power that remap our notion of "life" in contemporary scientific and popular cultures through the uncanny …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Bering-Porter, David (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Chow, Rey (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Film Studies
- New Media
- Media studies
- Digital media
- Zombies
- Race
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This thesis, through a close reading of a selection of films by the director David Cronenberg (specifically: The Brood, Dead Ringers, Crash, A Dangerous Method), …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Maier-Katkin, Hannah (Creator)
- Copjec, Joan (advisor)
- Rambuss, Richard (reader)
- Brown University (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Psychoanalysis
- Cronenberg
- Horror
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation explores the changing terms of neoliberal culture that are affectively registered in our most dominant media form, television. I examine the affective texture …
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributor:
- Hargraves, Hunter R (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Director)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Ouellette, Laurie (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- American television
- affect
- Neoliberalism
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- What does it mean to bear witness in contemporary Palestinian visual culture? This dissertation analyzes and historicizes Palestinian films and artworks that reconfigure witnessing as …
- Year:
- 2022
- Contributor:
- Estefan, Kareem (creator)
- Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Advisor)
- Doumani, Beshara (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Video art
- Fabulation
- Documentary film
- Archives
- Speculative fiction
- Middle East--Palestine
- Art, Palestinian Arab
- Palestinian film
- visual culture
- witnessing
- worldbuilding
- Afrofuturism
- essay-film
- Decolonization in art
- Indigenous futurism
- opacity
- repair
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom documents the experiences of six queer and/or trans fans of the actual …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Collins, Finch (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (thesis advisor)
- Pozo, Teddy (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Queer theory
- Podcasts
- Games
- Fantasy games
- Oral histories
- Fandom
- trans theory
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom
- Description:
- In 1919, the Polish-Jewish refugee Adina flees her home country and boards a steamship to America, seeking solace beneath the promise of Lady Liberty’s torch. …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Laur, Maya (creator)
- Biggs, Lisa (thesis advisor)
- Li, Jinying (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Refugees
- Latin America
- Emigration and immigration
- Theater
- Activism
- asylum seekers
- Guatemalan Civil War (Guatemala : 1960-1996)
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy
- Eastern Europe
- Pogroms
- Jewish Immigration
- Intercultural communication
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Performance Studies
- Bilingualism
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations