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- Description:
- This dissertation argues for the political and aesthetic significance of a group of contemporary realist films that employ a non-presentational, lacunary aesthetic. Through close analyses …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Theus, Tyler A (creator)
- Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Film theory
- Realist Film theory
- Global Art Cinema
- Bazin, André, 1918-1958
- Jean-Louis Comolli
- Slow cinema
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
- offscreen space
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory
- Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
- Oliveira, Manoel de, 1908-2015
- Tarr, Béla, 1955-
- Herzog, Werner
- Jia, Zhangke, 1970-
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- “Collective Housework: Post-1970s Feminist Media Cultures and the Crisis of Social Reproduction” examines feminist film and media interventions in the politics of social reproduction and …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Capper, Beth (creator)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Critical Race Studies
- Experimental films
- Neoliberalism
- Documentary film
- Social Reproduction
- Feminist Media
- Nineteen seventies
- Marxist feminism
- Film theory
- women's social movements
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This dissertation evaluates how the advent of digital technologies have implicated film and media studies in recent debates over the legacy of critical theory and …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Lee, Nathan (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Copjec, Joan (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Critical theory
- media theory
- Literary theory
- Affect theory
- digital aesthetics
- Film theory
- Critique
- Cinema
- Postcritique
- Poststructuralism
- Animation
- Apparatus
- 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:
- 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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