Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

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Affirmed at the Margins: Lacunary Realism in Contemporary Film and Film Theory

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)
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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-
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Apophenia

Description:: Apophenia explores the unique capacity for the digital world to induce a paranoid state of conspiracy in the minds of those who engage with it. …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Calvelli, John Domenico (creator); Riva, Massimo (thesis advisor); Pozo, Teddy (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Digital media; Games; Alternate reality games; Semiotics and literature; Conspiracy
Language:: English
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Iron Man: American Masculinity, Prosthetized Power, and Digital Dialectics

Description:: Marvel's Iron Man franchise represents technology as a vehicle for global military might, heroic masculinity, and individual enhancement fantasies. Drawing on evolving digital film technologies, …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Huth, Antonia M. (creator); Koch, Gertrud (thesis advisor); Copjec, Joan (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Motion pictures; Digital media; Technology--Military aspects; Marvel; Marvel Comics Group; Iron Man (Fictitious character); Haraway, Donna Jeanne; Superheroes; Masculinity in motion pictures; Masculinity in popular culture; War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media; Subjectivity in motion pictures; Gender identity in motion pictures; Transhumanism
Language:: English
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Maladaptive Media: Life and Other Works of Animation

Description:: This dissertation investigates the creation of “life,” meaning the transformation of a static into a dynamic organization, in what I call works of animation. Although …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Guan, Cassandra (creator); Rosen, Philip (Advisor); Copjec, Joan (Advisor); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940; Aesthetics; Capitalism; China; modernity; science and technology studies; Sovereignty; Cinema; Animation; environmental media; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Soviet Union; Propaganda; Psychoanalytic Film Theory; Animation (Cinematography); Modernism (Art); Mass media--Aesthetics; Mass media and art; Caricature; Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829; Wan, Laiming; Primitive Socialist Accumulation; Science films; Das Blumenwunder; Baroque Art History; Alienation (Philosophy); Nuclear weapons--Testing
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MULTIPLE SELVES

Description:: MULTIPLE SELVES is a multimedia project that layers self portrait photography and video, digital painting, animation, and poetry into a short film and accompanying printed …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Chandrasekaran, Fiona J. (creator); Armstrong, Maralie (thesis advisor); Nakayasu, Sawako (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Poetry; Animation (Cinematography); Photography; multimedia
Language:: English
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Rewriting Suburbia: Televisual Fantasies and New Visions of Black Girlhood

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Description:: A black coming-of-age comedy-drama pilot set in the Obama-era and an accompanying essay that grounds the program in the black televisual archive through relevant theoretical …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Oloko, Semi (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (thesis advisor); Readey, Jonathan (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Subject:: Coming of age; Television comedies; Blacks on television; Obama, Barack; Middle class families; Suburbs
Language:: English
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The Return of History: Twenty-First Century American Cinema and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

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
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Thing of Beauty Walk Away

Description:: When Marianne asks Sonya to cut all her hair off, Sonya does what her best friend asks, but Sonya struggles with the independence and rebelliousness …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Finamore-Rossler, Hannah I. (creator); Montgomery, Jennifer (thesis advisor); Colella, Laura (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Subject:: Animated films
Language:: English
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Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom

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
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