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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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Description:: Listing of events commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Year:: 2006
Genre:: clippings (information artifacts)
Subject:: community; arts; culture; recovery; housing; modular; Gentilly; race; French Quarter Central Business District; flooding; activism; homeland security; CC-Garden District; health; memorial; ACORN; youth; United Nations; church; Madonna; Guy Ritchie; Wynton Marsalis; Lower Ninth ward; Emeril Lagasse; levees; documentary; business; food; Uptown-Carrollton; deaths; Algiers; Stevie Wonder; Earth; Algiers > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States; Lower Ninth Ward > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States; CC-Garden District > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States; Gentilly > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States; Uptown-Carrollton > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States
Collection:: Hurricane Katrina Archive

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Description:: Community documentary program to tell the stories of the neighborhoods.
Year:: 2006
Contributor:: Neighborhood Story Project (creator)
Genre:: pamphlets
Subject:: community; documentary; culture; neigHBOrhood story project; education; youth; evacuees; Mid-City; Lower Ninth ward; Shreveport; Houston; Texas; Lower Ninth Ward > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States; Mid-City > Louisiana > New Orleans > United States
Collection:: Hurricane Katrina Archive

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Description:: Photo-Poetics brings together the study of photography and poetry that works in and theorizes the documentary mode. It intervenes in the genre of documentary poetry, …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Grandy, Claire (creator); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Khalip, Jacques (Reader); Smailbegović, Ada (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American poetry; Photography; Romanticism; documentary
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Furuhata, Yuriko (creator); Chow, Rey (director); Bensmaïa, Réda (director); Doane, Mary Ann (reader); Lamarre, Thomas (reader); Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Avant-garde; documentary; film theory; actuality; Marxism; Hanada Kiyoteru; Abe Kôbô; Matsumoto Toshio; Oshima Nagisa; Wakamatsu Kôji; Avant garde; Documentary films; Actualities (Motion pictures); Communism; Hanada, Kiyoteru > 1909-1974; Abe, Kōbō > 1924-1993; Ōshima, Nagisa > 1932-2013; Wakamatsu, Kōji > 1936-2012; Japan
Language:: English
Collection:: Comparative Literature; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Full-page advertisement from the Times-picayune for Spike Lee's film When the levees broke.
Year:: 2006
Contributor:: Home Box Office (Firm) (creator)
Genre:: clippings (information artifacts)
Subject:: documentary; levees; Spike Lee; HBO
Collection:: Hurricane Katrina Archive

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Description:: Lewis Hine employed a variety of narrative strategies to create a persuasive and moving 'social photography' in the early twentieth century. Despite the longstanding supposition …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Quick, Kathy Anne (creator); Doane, Mary Ann (Director); Nickel, Douglas (Reader); Kriz, Dian (Reader); Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: documentary; narrative; Lewis Hine; Photography
Language:: English
Collection:: History of Art and Architecture; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Flier advertising the world premier screening (Wed., Aug. 16) of Spike Lee's film When the levees broke.
Year:: 2006
Contributor:: Home Box Office (Firm) (creator)
Genre:: fliers (printed matter)
Subject:: Spike Lee; HBO; levees; arts; culture; documentary
Collection:: Hurricane Katrina Archive

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