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"Canned History": American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1927-1945

Description:
By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Clark, Joseph E.J. (creator)
Smulyan, Susan (Director)
Rosen, Philip (Director)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
newsreel
documentary
film history
moviegoing
media history
cultural history
Lindbergh
Sino-Japanese War
Motion picture journalism
Documentary films
Mass media and history
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
United States
Language:
English
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance

Description:
Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance considers how love has been used in attempts to sell consumer goods; how cultural …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Burbank-Gilb, Elizabeth (creator)
Smulyan, Susan (Director)
Buhle, Mari Jo (Reader)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
cultural history
consumer culture
romantic love
20th century
Advertising
Language:
English
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Bicentennial Memory: Postmodernity, Media, and Historical Subjectivity, 1966-1976

Description:
This dissertation looks at different forms of historical practice to argue that the 1970s saw a significant transformation in the ways that individuals, groups, and …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Rymsza-Pawlowska, Malgorzata Joanna (creator)
Smulyan, Susan (Director)
Lubar, Steven (Reader)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
preservation
reenactment
1970s
identity
Memory
Historic preservation
Historical reenactments
Nineteen seventies
Group identity
History
Language:
English
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Cinema’s Unstable Texts: A Historical Analysis of Textual Variation in the Film Industry

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
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Collective Housework: Post-1970s Feminist Media Cultures and the Crisis of Social Reproduction

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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Feminist Impositions: Performing Parasites in Contemporary Digital and Performance Art

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
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Hollywood's Trade Organizations: How Competition and Collaboration Forged a Vertically-Integrated Oligopoly, 1915-1928

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
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Images between Images: Cinematic Inventions of the Everyday

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
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Interview-Work: The Genealogy of a Cultural Form

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
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Live Ghosts Now and Direct Messages from the Past: Screenlives and the Temporality of Ghosting

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
Twitter
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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Lynching and the Archive: A History

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
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Racial Technics: Media and Machines in the Long Civil Rights Era

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
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
Theses and Dissertations
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The Real Form of Trauma: On the Limits of Reading Violence Across Global Cinema and Media

Description:
“The Real Form of Trauma” surveys mediated representations of trauma, violence, and history across global cinema and media. The project draws attention to a wide …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Woo, Stephen (creator)
Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
Li, Jinying (Reader)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Trauma
Psychoanalysis
Documentary film
Film theory
Cinema
Motion pictures and history
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Realist Film theory
Global Art Cinema
Slow cinema
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Philosophy of history
film studies
trauma theory
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
Haneke, Michael, 1942-
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1970-
Forensic Architecture (Project)
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
Theses and Dissertations
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The Return of History: Twenty-First Century American Cinema and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

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
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
Theses and Dissertations
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Theatre Crossing Television: An inquiry into the theory and practice of intermedial performance from the 1960s to the present

Description:
Normally, we think of theatre and television as different modes or genres, and even as diametrically opposed; Theatre Crossing Television analyses the theatre-like qualities of …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Starner, Andrew (creator)
Golub, Spencer (Advisor)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Ybarra, Patricia (Reader)
Ridout, Nicholas (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
performance
Technology
Television
media and performance
intermediality
community
immersive
visual studies
flatness
Collection:
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Turkish Cosmo Girls, Soap Fans and Guitar Heroes: Resistive Pleasures of Turkish Women Consuming and Producing Transnational American Popular Culture

Description:
This dissertation investigates Turkish redefinitions of traditional gender norms through the re-contextualizations of transnational American culture in the period between 1988 and 2009. Through an …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Onaran, Aslihan Tokgoz (creator)
Smulyan, Susan (Director)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Rosen, Philip (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Popular culture studies
media ethnography
transnational feminism
localization
Turkish women
Globalization
Language:
English
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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