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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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Collective Housework: Post-1970s Feminist Media Cultures and the Crisis of Social Reproduction

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
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Hope for the Hopeless: Loss, Disappointment, Critique

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
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?: Corporate Memes & Youth Resistance

Description:
Memes have become something of a vernacular language for young people online, as the proper understanding and usage of a meme displays subcultural knowledge and …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Goetzen, Nina (creator)
Pozo, Teddy (thesis advisor)
McGrath, Jim (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social media
Digital media--Social aspects
Memes
Digital media
Corporations
youth culture
authenticity
Branding (Marketing)
Subculture
Youth--Political activity
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Reconciling Spectatorial Resistance in Hindi Cinema

Description:
Bollywood stands out as a subset of Indian cinema that has permeated the global cultural imaginary like no other. It’s dual status as a dominant …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Venkatesh, Kripa (creator)
Rosen, Philip (thesis advisor)
Fruzzetti, Lina (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Bollywood
Resistance
Spectator
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Reinventions of Life: The Cinematic Avant-Gardes in the Age of Spectacle and Biopower

Description:
This dissertation reevaluates the history and legacies of the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Focusing on postwar cinema, I reconsider one of the avant-garde’s central preoccupations – the …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Berger, Kenneth (creator)
Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
Copjec, Joan (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Biopolitics
Aesthetics
Spectacle
Critique
Life
Refusal
Avant-Garde
Cinema
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Road Sounds: A Sonic Ethnography of Contemporary Transportation Infrastructure in New England

Description:
This project is a study of transportation infrastructure, how it sounds, and how people hear it; it consists of a collection of 16 audio files …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Neuman-Hammond, Eli (creator)
Cokes, Tony (thesis advisor)
Armstrong, Maralie (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Anthropology
Transportation
Sound recordings
Media studies
Sound
audio
infrastructure
Interstate Highway System
New England
Automobiles
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Speculative

Description:
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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