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  • Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

    Creator:
    Christian, Mary Ann
    Abstract:
    The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
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    Masters Thesis
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    over Speech and Pornography AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary Ann Christian for the degree of

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    example, Ann Kaplan (1978) analyzes women infilm noir, a film genre perhaps more condemning of women