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- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- 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
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- 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