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  • Right-wing youth violence in reunited Germany

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    Derksen, Ulrike
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    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

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

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    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

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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Chernik, Abra Fortune
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    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

  • Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

    Creator:
    Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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    Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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    , Hugh Hefner, and the Age of Consensus. Abstract approved:/ Jon Lewis Post World War II victory culture

  • Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

    Creator:
    Rust, Stephen
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    Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
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    Contemporary Educational Theory and American Cultural Politics Abstract approved: Jon Lewis Responsible

  • The control, resistance, and evolution of digital artifacts: a materialist study of internet culture

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    Villemarette, Chris
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    My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between decentralized networks over which digital media are used and the control mechanisms placed on those networks and digital media. The resisting digital media and the control mechanisms placed on them push each other toward further decentralization. The aspects of...
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    : Jon Lewis My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between