Motivated by a desire to assess both the positive and negative cultural legacies of classical Hollywood cinema, this thesis focuses on a genre descendant of …
This dissertation examines the role of entertainment films in negotiating the meaning of national identity in interwar Hungary. Fragmented and traumatized by WWI and its …
This thesis endeavors to explore zombie humanization in greater depth by closely analyzing films that prominently feature zombies with advanced mental faculties. With genre theory …
This thesis works to clarify what an Adornean conception of Autonomous Cinema might look like through incorporating other theorists such as Aldous Huxley and Fredric …
KISSING IN THE BACKGROUND is an original screenplay about two queer students discovering their understanding of their identity as members of the LGBTQ+ community. The …
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 …
An investigation into theories and practices of realism, documentary aesthetics and anticapitalist political critique in contemporary Russian cinema via a historical overview and close readings …
“Schaulust: A Study in Light and Sound” is an investigation into the development of a new audiovisual performance platform called Schaulust. This platform pairs custom …
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 …
1. A series of speculative scripts that aim to rewrite exploitive conventions of race films in America. 2. A project that speculates about the extent …
How are we to qualify the “contemporary” in narrative cinema? One of the main purposes of this dissertation is to provide a problematization of broad …
