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Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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A Still Reach

Description:
A project bridging grief in my family and in my home, Hong Kong.
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Li, Florence (creator)
Stewart, Michael (thesis advisor)
Azoulay, Ariella (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Collective memory
family
Memory
Grief
China--Hong Kong
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Cinema’s Unstable Texts: A Historical Analysis of Textual Variation in the Film Industry

Description:
The rhetoric of textual stability tends to inform much of the scholarly writing about moving images, especially those manufactured by Hollywood studios. Analytical and historical …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Skoptsov, Mikhail (creator)
Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Television
Digital media
Motion pictures
Historiography
Textual variation
Motion picture industry--Technological innovations
Technology in motion pictures
Motion pictures--Distribution
Motion pictures and history
Motion picture film--Preservation
Home video systems industry
Television broadcasting of films
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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City of Woes

Description:
City of Woes is short narrative film written and directed by Alexandre Jerard (AJ) Davis. The story follows a lost traveler attempting to escape from …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Davis, Alexandre Jerard (AJ) (Creator)
Udris, David (reader)
Montgomery, Jennifer (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Horror films
Narrative films
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Diagram, Debug, Fold: Computer Programming as a Form of Critique

Description:
Coding, reading, writing, and critique: a description of programming as a formal practice of “diagramming,” i.e. the creation of figures and topologies that traverse multiple …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Kan-Sperling, Olivia (creator)
Szendy, Péter (thesis advisor)
Copjec, Joan (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
critique
Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Derrida, Jacques
Software
Computer programming
Language:
English
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Gay Engines: Imagining a Queer Development Platform for Video Games

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
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Lynching and the Archive: A History

Description:
"Lynching and the Archive: A History," studies lynching images alongside their patterns of circulation as well as the way that they have been presented in …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Johnson, Jane'a D (creator)
Azoulay, Ariella (Advisor)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Nickel, Douglas (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
race
Photography
African Americans
Lynching
White Supremacy
Lynching in art
Whites
Museums--Curatorship
Archives
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Post-Cinema and the Question of Critique

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
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The Climate Proxy: Digital Cultures of Global Warming

Description:
Climate change knowledge emerges from the collection of ecological data on a global scale. Scientists require computer models to aggregate and harmonize disparate forms of …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Pringle, Thomas Patrick (creator)
Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
media theory
Digital media
climate change
Media studies
Documentary film
Global warming
environmental media
digital culture
media genealogy
Environmentalism in mass media
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Toward a Utopia Without Revolution: Developmentalism, Globalization, and Design

Description:
Design has come to serve as a solution to almost every problem from climate change to college grades. “Toward a Utopia Without Revolution: Developmentalism, Globalization, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Jung, Seungyeon (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
Chun, Wendy (Reader)
Li, Jinying (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
South Korean History
Media studies
Design and history
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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