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  • Comparative Look at Spectator Identification in Films and Video Games

    Creator:
    Reiner, Taylor
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    Often, characters of entertainment works, such as movies, books, or video games, display traits that people find relatable. In certain cases, a spectator of a work will develop such a strong psychological bond with a character that they identify with them. Identification with fictional characters is usually a subconscious act...
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    Games. Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________________ Jon Lewis

  • Right-wing youth violence in reunited Germany

    Creator:
    Derksen, Ulrike
    Abstract:
    Violent right-wing groups have emerged in the German youth scene since reunification in 1990. By the early 1990's, many groups of people have had to face racist violence and harassment as a threatening part of everyday life. With the social, political, economic, demographical and ideological changes which have taken place...
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    , 1996. Title: Right-Wing Youth Violence in Reunited Germany. Abstract approved: Jon Lewis

  • The Auteur Perspective of David Fincher

    Creator:
    Kitamura, Garrett
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    Director David Fincher’s films contain many distinct elements that set his work apart, but one of the most instantly recognizable elements is his visual style – specifically, his camerawork. The level of control and purposefulness that Fincher exhibits in his films qualify Fincher as the auteur, or “author,” of his...
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    :_____________________________________________________ Jon Lewis Director David Fincher’s films contain many distinct elements that set his

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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    approved: ____________________________________________________________________ Jon Lewis This

  • Writing With Light : An Exploration of Cinematography and Visual Storytelling

    Creator:
    Hodaie, Austin A.
    Abstract:
    Mastering the art and craft of cinematography is a lifelong endeavor requiring an unfaltering amount of passion and commitment to developing creative and technical skills of visual storytelling. Like authors of literature, cinematographers are writers. However, instead of words a cinematographer speaks a visual language using light and camerawork. In...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    :_____________________________________________________ Jon Lewis Mastering the art and craft of cinematography is a lifelong endeavor requiring an

  • The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

    Creator:
    Dawson, Katherine
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    My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
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    : ______________________________________ Jon Lewis My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    : Artificial Intelligence and Cyberpunk. Abstract approved: Jon Lewis This thesis examines the ways in which

  • Remaking myths and subverting the mainstream : teen girls come of age on and off the screen

    Creator:
    Hentges, Sarah Duncan
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    For at least 30 years American culture has failed to provide empowering myths and symbols to its adolescents as they come of age and try to make sense of their selves, sexuality and the culture that surrounds them. This lack of myths and symbols is especially harmful to girls and...
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    discourse. But as Jon Lewis concludes from Ann Kaplan's work on MTV (and from Mills and Ewen's

  • The Empathetic Melancholy of Celluloid Decay

    Creator:
    Schuster, Andrea L.
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    As digital video pushes celluloid film further into obsolescence, many artists and viewers mourn the loss of what they consider a more organic medium. Photochemical film is subject to decay due to variables of care and the inevitability of time, and film’s embodied vulnerabilities are similar to those of the...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Jon Lewis As digital video pushes celluloid film further into obsolescence, many artists

  • Eva Nightingale

    Creator:
    Chernik, Abra Fortune
    Abstract:
    Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of Eden myth set in modern times and seen from Eve's point of view. The script centers on life after Eden, life after trespass and loss, when Eva (like Eve before her) must choose between despair and hope, self-destruction...
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    . Abstract approved: Jon Lewis Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of