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- Description:
- Secrets, secrets, are no fun…. While one may avoid having secrets out of fear that they will fragment relationships, sometimes this damage is desired. This …
- Year:
- 2025
- Contributor:
- Merritte, Kayci (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Perry, Keisha-Khan (Reader)
- Guterl, Matthew (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Violence
- food studies
- Secrecy
- Black Studies
- Household employees
- African American women
- White House
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues for the political and aesthetic significance of a group of contemporary realist films that employ a non-presentational, lacunary aesthetic. Through close analyses …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Theus, Tyler A (creator)
- Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Film theory
- Realist Film theory
- Global Art Cinema
- Bazin, André, 1918-1958
- Jean-Louis Comolli
- Slow cinema
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
- offscreen space
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory
- Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
- Oliveira, Manoel de, 1908-2015
- Tarr, Béla, 1955-
- Herzog, Werner
- Jia, Zhangke, 1970-
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Rangan, Pooja Girish (creator)
- Chow, Rey (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethnography
- Indexicality
- Advocacy
- Animal Studies
- Childhood Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Ethnology
- Indexicals (Semantics)
- Labor
- Humanitarianism
- Human rights
- Media studies
- Visual anthropology
- Biopolitics
- Critical theory
- Culture--Study and teaching
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- “Collective Housework: Post-1970s Feminist Media Cultures and the Crisis of Social Reproduction” examines feminist film and media interventions in the politics of social reproduction and …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Capper, Beth (creator)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Critical Race Studies
- Experimental films
- Neoliberalism
- Documentary film
- Social Reproduction
- Feminist Media
- Nineteen seventies
- Marxist feminism
- Film theory
- women's social movements
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the period 1988-1996 from the perspective of two concurrent yet contrasting occurrences: the arrival of a supposedly final historical stage pronounced by …
- Year:
- 2016
- Contributor:
- Lison, Andrew Evan (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Bewes, Timothy (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- New Media
- Multimedia
- Film Studies
- Cultural Studies
- 1989
- Digital media
- Culture--Study and teaching
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation confronts the changing contours of what we call "cinema" through an examination of uses of the moving image and references to film history …
- Year:
- 2010
- Contributor:
- Balsom, Erika (creator)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- film theory
- contemporary art
- gallery film
- Experimental films
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- The dissertation makes the case that recent digital and performance art practices have compelled a reappraisal of Western feminism, which has become increasingly vulnerable to …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Fisher, Anna W (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Munoz, Jose (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- digital
- contemporary art
- Parasitism
- Feminism
- Performance
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines how producer-distributor trade organizations contributed to the emergence of the American studio system during the 1910s and 1920s. Established to oppose censorship …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Afra, Kia (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- U.S. Film Industry
- Trade Organizations
- NAMPI
- MPPDA
- Hollywood Studio System
- Oligopoly
- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
- Censorship
- Public relations
- Vertical integration
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the politics of intimacy in the New American Cinema (NAC), an independent film culture that emerged in the U.S. at the end …
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributor:
- Guilford, Joshua M (creator)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- New American Cinema
- intimacy studies
- public and private sphere theory
- film studies
- late modernity
- post-WWII American culture
- Jonas Mekas
- Ron Rice
- Pull My Daisy
- On the Bowery
- Guns of the Trees
- The Flower Thief
- Hannah Arendt
- Deborah Nelson
- Homelessness
- Mekas, Jonas > 1922-
- Rice, Ron
- Arendt, Hannah > 1906-1975
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation argues that the everyday is a phenomenon invented along with capitalist modernity and modern technologies of representation, and that cinema is one of …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Liu, Linda A (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- everyday
- everyday life
- cinema
- film theory
- indexicality
- contingency
- kracauer
- local film
- actualities
- art cinema
- global art cinema
- Motion pictures
- Contingency (Philosophy)
- Feminist films
- Actualities (Motion pictures)
- History
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- 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 dissertation provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Sarlin, Paige (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Marxism
- Documentary
- Form
- Communism
- Feminism
- Labor
- Media studies
- Publicity
- Liberalism
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- We are often told that ours is a “late” age. Lateness—as in the “late work” or “late capitalism”—simultaneously suggests something that has survived beyond its …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Noble-Olson, Matthew David (creator)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Film
- Cinema
- Modernity
- Art
- Motion pictures
- Civilization, Modern
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- How do we understand the digital world through narratives about – and narratives that emerge from - social media? Rather than think only about soundtrack …
- Year:
- 2025
- Contributor:
- Maxwell, Alex (creator)
- Li, Jinying (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Digital media
- digital culture
- Ghosts
- Platform Studies
- Digital Platforms
- New Media
- Online social networks
- film studies
- YouTube (Firm)
- screenlife
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- "Lynching and the Archive: A History," studies lynching images alongside their patterns of circulation as well as the way that they have been presented in …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Johnson, Jane'a D (creator)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Nickel, Douglas (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- race
- Photography
- African Americans
- Lynching
- White Supremacy
- Lynching in art
- Whites
- Museums--Curatorship
- Archives
- 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:
- 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
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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