Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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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
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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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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
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