Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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Description:: Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine deconstructs common anthropocentric assumptions that cast settler colonization and climate disaster within distinctive trajectories of study. Throughout, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Razek, Sherena (creator); Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha (Advisor); Gómez-Barris, Macarena (Reader); Doumani, Beshara (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Indigeneity; Middle East--Palestine; visual culture; environmental humanities; transnational feminism; elemental media
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Description:: This dissertation contends that American society is currently witnessing the rise of what I have termed the jurified spectator: the individual media user who perceives …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Lawrence, Heather Thompson (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Guterl, Matthew (Reader); Mills, Mara (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: media theory; Digital media; Feminist theory; Racial justice; Popular culture; visual culture; American culture; True crime; trial narratives; conspiracy theory
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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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