Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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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
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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
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