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Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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An American Accented Cinema: Indigenous-Centered Road Movies

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
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Kein Kino: Autonomous Film after Adorno

Description:
This thesis works to clarify what an Adornean conception of Autonomous Cinema might look like through incorporating other theorists such as Aldous Huxley and Fredric …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Taylor, Miles H (Creator)
Rosen, Philip (advisor)
Koch, Gertrud (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
Film
Aesthetics
German Cinema
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Kissing in the Background

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KISSING IN THE BACKGROUND is an original screenplay about two queer students discovering their understanding of their identity as members of the LGBTQ+ community. The …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Lummis, Kate (creator)
Udris, David (thesis advisor)
Joyrich, Lynne (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Film
Screenplays
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Late Cinema: Avantgarde, Medium, Capital

Description:
We are often told that ours is a “late” age. Lateness—as in the “late work” or “late capitalism”—simultaneously suggests something that has survived beyond its …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Noble-Olson, Matthew David (creator)
Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
Rosen, Philip (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Film
Cinema
Modernity
Art
Motion pictures
Civilization, Modern
Language:
English
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

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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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Touch/Death/Work: Film Form and the Creation of Images

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
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