Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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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
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Description:: “Look, a Negro!” The famous deictic cited by Frantz Fanon indicates both the spectacular and banal appearance of racial blackness in our field of vision. …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Monk-Payton, Brandeise L (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Director); Guterl, Matthew (Reader); Bogues, Barrymore (Reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: media; celebrity; Race; Television; Fame; Publicity
Language:: English
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Description:: This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Russo, Julie L. (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (director); Chun, Wendy (reader); Rosen, Philip (reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: fandom; fan fiction; new media; media; Marxism; online communities; television studies; The L Word; Battlestar Galactica; Law and Order; queer; networks; fan studies; media industry; the closet; Convergence; Media studies; Digital media; Communism; Internet; Television; Battlestar Galactica television programs; Law & order (Television program); Queer theory; Lesbians; Labor; Popular culture
Language:: English
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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
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Description:: Feminist and anti-colonial movements of the post-war era reconfigured and politicized the concept of reproductive labor. Simultaneously, an industry of broadcast television and advertising arose …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Austin, Arlen William (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader); Schneider, Rebecca (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Television; Digital media; Feminist theory; Media studies; Italian feminism; Marxism and culture; Labor theory of value
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Description:: This dissertation examines a variety of media objects, from the 1950s exercise television program of Jack LaLanne to the 1980s VHS tapes of Jane Fonda, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Contess, Katherine (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Rieppel, Lukas (Reader); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Exercise; Television; Digital media; body; Physical fitness; Wearable technology
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Description:: Racial Technics is a cultural, historical, and theoretical study that traces how competing conceptions of humanity and human freedom have been articulated at the nexus …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Litwack, Michael Ian (creator); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader); Joyrich, Lynne (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: race; American modernity; Humanism; Cybernetics; media theory; black freedom struggle; Television; Wynter, Sylvia; philosophy of technology; Communication and culture
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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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