Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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Description:: If there are queer games, could there be queer game engines? "Gay Engines" uses queer theory as a means of intervention into the software platforms …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Zegura, Cass (creator); Pozo, Teddy (thesis advisor); Tompkin, James (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Games; Computer games; Game engine; Unity; Twine
Language:: English
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Description:: Without diminishing the importance of political responsibility, the indispensability of collective action, or one’s need and desire to care about our collective future, the aim …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Weatherly, William (creator); Rooney, Ellen (thesis advisor); Smailbegovic, Ada (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Politics and culture; Critical theory; Bereavement; Queer theory; literary studies; critique; affect; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Klein, Melanie; Brown, Wendy, 1955-; Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940; Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957-; Crimp, Douglas; Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky; Bidart, Frank, 1939-; Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
Language:: English
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Description:: This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Russo, Julie L. (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (director); Chun, Wendy (reader); Rosen, Philip (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: fandom; fan fiction; new media; media; Marxism; online communities; television studies; The L Word; Battlestar Galactica; Law and Order; queer; networks; fan studies; media industry; the closet; Convergence; Media studies; Digital media; Communism; Internet; Television; Battlestar Galactica television programs; Law & order (Television program); Queer theory; Lesbians; Labor; Popular culture
Language:: English
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Description:: 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
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Description:: Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom documents the experiences of six queer and/or trans fans of the actual …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Collins, Finch (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (thesis advisor); Pozo, Teddy (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Podcasts; Games; Fantasy games; Oral histories; Fandom; trans theory
Language:: English
Collection:: Modern Culture and Media; Theses and Dissertations; Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom

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