Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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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:: Social media networks enable frictionless transmission of information, creating a new subject of media analysis: the meme, gathered by both an appeal to relatable affect …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Ehrhardt, Evan G. (creator); Li, Jinying (thesis advisor); Ellis, Matthew (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Economics; Social media; Memes; Stock exchanges
Language:: English
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Description:: Social media networks enable frictionless transmission of information, creating a new subject of media analysis: the meme, gathered by both an appeal to relatable affect …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Ehrhardt, Evan G. (creator); Li, Jinying (thesis advisor); Ellis, Matthew (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Economics; Social media; Memes; Stock exchanges
Language:: English
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Description:: What does it mean to bear witness in contemporary Palestinian visual culture? This dissertation analyzes and historicizes Palestinian films and artworks that reconfigure witnessing as …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Estefan, Kareem (creator); Honig, Bonnie (Reader); Azoulay, Ariella (Advisor); Doumani, Beshara (Reader); Chun, Wendy (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Video art; Fabulation; Documentary film; Archives; Speculative fiction; Middle East--Palestine; Art, Palestinian Arab; Palestinian film; visual culture; witnessing; worldbuilding; Afrofuturism; essay-film; Decolonization in art; Indigenous futurism; opacity; repair
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