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- Description:
- A project bridging grief in my family and in my home, Hong Kong.
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Li, Florence (creator)
- Stewart, Michael (thesis advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Collective memory
- family
- Memory
- Grief
- China--Hong Kong
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This thesis argues that the work of contemporary writer Tan Lin proposes, through the figure of “ambient textuality,” an intervention into existing theories of “ambience” …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Kan-Sperling, Lucia (creator)
- Redfield, Marc (thesis advisor)
- Bewes, Timothy (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Media studies
- Experimental poetry
- Digital media
- Derrida, Jacques
- Cybernetics
- Contemporary literature
- Semiotics and literature
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Posthumanism
- Metaphor
- Experimental fiction
- Ecocriticism in literature
- Ambient music
- Ubiquitous computing
- information
- Literary form
- Tan Lin
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Motivated by a desire to assess both the positive and negative cultural legacies of classical Hollywood cinema, this thesis focuses on a genre descendant of …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Falkenberg, Elizabeth (creator)
- Copjec, Joan (thesis advisor)
- Thompson, Levi (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Indigenous peoples
- Indians of North America
- Film
- Feature films
- accent
- Motion pictures
- Smoke signals (Motion picture)
- american cinema
- California--Los Angeles--Hollywood
- road movie
- Road films
- Western films
- Eyre, Chris, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Apophenia explores the unique capacity for the digital world to induce a paranoid state of conspiracy in the minds of those who engage with it. …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Calvelli, John Domenico (creator)
- Riva, Massimo (thesis advisor)
- Pozo, Teddy (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Digital media
- Games
- Alternate reality games
- Semiotics and literature
- Conspiracy
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Rangan, Pooja Girish (creator)
- Chow, Rey (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethnography
- Indexicality
- Advocacy
- Animal Studies
- Childhood Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Ethnology
- Indexicals (Semantics)
- Labor
- Humanitarianism
- Human rights
- Media studies
- Visual anthropology
- Biopolitics
- Critical theory
- Culture--Study and teaching
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- City of Woes is short narrative film written and directed by Alexandre Jerard (AJ) Davis. The story follows a lost traveler attempting to escape from …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Davis, Alexandre Jerard (AJ) (Creator)
- Udris, David (reader)
- Montgomery, Jennifer (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Horror films
- Narrative films
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the period 1988-1996 from the perspective of two concurrent yet contrasting occurrences: the arrival of a supposedly final historical stage pronounced by …
- Year:
- 2016
- Contributor:
- Lison, Andrew Evan (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Bewes, Timothy (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- New Media
- Multimedia
- Film Studies
- Cultural Studies
- 1989
- Digital media
- Culture--Study and teaching
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- “Look, a Negro!” The famous deictic cited by Frantz Fanon indicates both the spectacular and banal appearance of racial blackness in our field of vision. …
- Year:
- 2016
- Contributor:
- Monk-Payton, Brandeise L (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Director)
- Guterl, Matthew (Reader)
- Bogues, Barrymore (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- media
- celebrity
- Race
- Television
- Fame
- Publicity
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Coding, reading, writing, and critique: a description of programming as a formal practice of “diagramming,” i.e. the creation of figures and topologies that traverse multiple …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Kan-Sperling, Olivia (creator)
- Szendy, Péter (thesis advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- critique
- Programming languages (Electronic computers)
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Derrida, Jacques
- Software
- Computer programming
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This thesis explores what I call the SoundCloud digital underground, a flourishing online music scene which fuses hyperpop and SoundCloud rap. I argue that artists …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Fleissig, Leo (creator)
- moore, madison (thesis advisor)
- Weheliye, Alexander G. (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- media studies
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation confronts the changing contours of what we call "cinema" through an examination of uses of the moving image and references to film history …
- Year:
- 2010
- Contributor:
- Balsom, Erika (creator)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- film theory
- contemporary art
- gallery film
- Experimental films
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- The dissertation makes the case that recent digital and performance art practices have compelled a reappraisal of Western feminism, which has become increasingly vulnerable to …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Fisher, Anna W (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Munoz, Jose (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- digital
- contemporary art
- Parasitism
- Feminism
- Performance
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- If there are queer games, could there be queer game engines? "Gay Engines" uses queer theory as a means of intervention into the software platforms …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Zegura, Cass (creator)
- Pozo, Teddy (thesis advisor)
- Tompkin, James (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Queer theory
- Games
- Computer games
- Game engine
- Unity
- Twine
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines how producer-distributor trade organizations contributed to the emergence of the American studio system during the 1910s and 1920s. Established to oppose censorship …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Afra, Kia (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- U.S. Film Industry
- Trade Organizations
- NAMPI
- MPPDA
- Hollywood Studio System
- Oligopoly
- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
- Censorship
- Public relations
- Vertical integration
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the politics of intimacy in the New American Cinema (NAC), an independent film culture that emerged in the U.S. at the end …
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributor:
- Guilford, Joshua M (creator)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- New American Cinema
- intimacy studies
- public and private sphere theory
- film studies
- late modernity
- post-WWII American culture
- Jonas Mekas
- Ron Rice
- Pull My Daisy
- On the Bowery
- Guns of the Trees
- The Flower Thief
- Hannah Arendt
- Deborah Nelson
- Homelessness
- Mekas, Jonas > 1922-
- Rice, Ron
- Arendt, Hannah > 1906-1975
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Without diminishing the importance of political responsibility, the indispensability of collective action, or one’s need and desire to care about our collective future, the aim …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Weatherly, William (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (thesis advisor)
- Smailbegovic, Ada (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Politics and culture
- Critical theory
- Bereavement
- Queer theory
- literary studies
- critique
- affect
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Klein, Melanie
- Brown, Wendy, 1955-
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
- Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957-
- Crimp, Douglas
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
- Bidart, Frank, 1939-
- Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- 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)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Social media
- Digital media--Social aspects
- Memes
- Digital media
- Corporations
- youth culture
- authenticity
- Branding (Marketing)
- Subculture
- Youth--Political activity
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations