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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 ...
Copyright Date:: 2011
Contributors:: Soderman, Anton B (creator) Chun, Wendy (Director) Doane, Mary Ann (Reader) Rosen, Philip (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Keywords:: 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

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Description:: Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema ...
Copyright Date:: 2014
Contributors:: Hennefeld, Margaret D (creator) Rosen, Philip (Director) Rooney, Ellen (Reader) Doane, Mary Ann (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Keywords:: Film Gender and Sexuality Modernity Theory Politics Media Civilization, Modern Political science Feminism

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Description:: Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of ...
Copyright Date:: 2016
Contributors:: Mehta, Rijuta (creator) Rooney, Ellen (Director) Azoulay, Ariella (Reader) Honig, Bonnie (Reader) Gandhi, Leela (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Keywords:: colonialism politics World politics Photography Literature Reading Archives Political science

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Description:: Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of ...
Contributors:: Mehta, Rijuta (creator) Rooney, Ellen (Director) Azoulay, Ariella (Reader) Honig, Bonnie (Reader) Gandhi, Leela (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Keywords:: colonialism politics World politics Photography Literature Reading Archives Political science

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Description:: Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of ...
Contributors:: Mehta, Rijuta (creator) Rooney, Ellen (Director) Azoulay, Ariella (Reader) Honig, Bonnie (Reader) Gandhi, Leela (Reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Keywords:: colonialism politics World politics Photography Literature Reading Archives Political science

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