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- Description:
- This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Soderman, Anton B (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- modernity
- modernism
- gender
- marxism
- politics
- interactivity
- flow
- Csikszentmihalyi
- rendering
- innovation
- representation
- media
- game studies
- postmodernity
- Brecht
- Video games
- Civilization, Modern
- Digital media
- Aesthetics
- Modernism (Art)
- Sex
- Communism
- Capitalism
- Political science
- Clouds
- Computer graphics
- Television
- Ideology
- Computer games
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This thesis works to clarify what an Adornean conception of Autonomous Cinema might look like through incorporating other theorists such as Aldous Huxley and Fredric …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Taylor, Miles H (Creator)
- Rosen, Philip (advisor)
- Koch, Gertrud (reader)
- Brown University (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
- Film
- Aesthetics
- German Cinema
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- My dissertation challenges both the assertion and dismissal of identity politics in the humanities through a queer-diasporic overhaul of the concept of "narcissism." Both the …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Maitra, Aniruddha (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Director)
- Chow, Rey (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Literary Politics
- Otherness
- Narcissism
- Identification
- Ethnicity
- Globalization
- Reading
- Aesthetics
- Other (Philosophy)
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This thesis addresses the poetics and politics of "ambience" and "atmospherics" in contemporary culture. I am interested in how "ambient practices" often associated with the …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Mapes-Frances, Alec (author)
- Bewes, Timothy (advisor)
- Semerene, Diego (reader)
- Brown University (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ambient music (Electronica)
- Digital media
- Poetics
- Aesthetics
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- We are often told that we live in an age of protest, given the rise of political movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Women’s …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Padmanabhan, Lakshmi (creator)
- Gandhi, Leela (Advisor)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethics
- Photography
- Postcolonialism
- Aesthetics
- South Asia
- temporality
- Critical Race Studies
- Feminist theory
- Experimental films
- Postcolonialism in motion pictures
- Women's rights
- Anti-imperialist movements
- Neoliberalism
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Touch/Death/Work: Film Form and the Creation of Images examines how cinema engages the interrelated concepts of touch, death, and work. Through close formal analysis of …
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Garcia, Elizabeth Emma (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Aesthetics
- Hospitals
- community
- Experimental films
- Diagnosis
- Pathology
- Touch
- Film theory
- Metaphysics (Aristotle)
- Work
- Psychanalytic Film Theory
- Artists' films
- Medical films (Motion pictures)
- Nancy, Jean-Luc
- Dialogue in motion pictures
- Experience
- Death and Dying
- Morgues
- Basements
- Obstinacy
- Potentiality
- Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Tim Gunning
- Mary Ann Doane
- Phillip Rosen
- Indexicality
- Film
- Oskar Negt
- Alexander Kluge
- Working to death
- inoperativity
- Dialogue
- relation
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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