Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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Description:: This dissertation stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and holism in their theoretical and therapeutic guises. It queries the curious allure of systems thinking for contemporary …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Shalloe, Harper (creator); Copjec, Joan (Advisor); Weinstein, Deborah (Reader); Hui Kyong Chun, Wendy (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: health; Psychoanalysis; Holism
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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)
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Description:: This thesis, through a close reading of a selection of films by the director David Cronenberg (specifically: The Brood, Dead Ringers, Crash, A Dangerous Method), …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Maier-Katkin, Hannah (Creator); Copjec, Joan (advisor); Rambuss, Richard (reader); Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Psychoanalysis; Cronenberg; Horror
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