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Edgar Allan Poe and popular culture in the age of journalism: Balloon hoaxes, mesmerism, and phrenology
(2010)
This study attends to Edgar Allan Poe's interest in pseudo-science, pseudo-information, and popular culture, such as hot air balloons, mesmerism, and phrenology, and examines both the way he uses them in his work and their ...
The (in)justice of cinema: Glimpses of law at 24 frames per second
(2010)
This project seeks to examine the relationship between film and the law, both formally and in terms of the social and cultural representations of justice and the American legal system they present when applied in tandem. ...
Talking points: Ousmane Sembene's “Mandabi” and “Xala”
(2010)
Senegalese filmmaker and author Ousmane Sembéne helped establish cinema within Africa. Two of his films, Mandabi and Xala , have become classics within African cinema through their usage of African languages and depiction ...
Farm security administration photography and the politics of sideshow spectacle
(2010)
“Farm Security Administration Photography and the Politics of the Sideshow Spectacle” examines the intersection of the FSA’s documentary photographic project and the sideshow as a cultural institution, reading both as ...
The martyr and the traitor: Violence and resistance in world literature and cinema
(2016)
This dissertation examines the way systemic capitalist violence and resistance to it can be articulated through the three figures of the martyr, the disappeared, and the traitor. Focusing on the literary tropes of the ...
The Andalusian faces of Spanishness: Myth, icons and identity in Andalusian theatre of the Second Republic
(2016)
In Spain during the 1930s, the democratically elected Second Republic government imposed progressive reforms designed to modernize the nation. However, conservative factions opposed these changes in favor of a return to ...
Domestic wilderness: American gothic, sexuation, and skepticism
(2016)
“Domestic Wilderness: American Gothic, Sexuation, and Skepticism” asserts that the American gothic tradition is a unique response to European skepticism and that it takes the form of narrativizing the problem of sexual ...
Confrontando caras: Confronting language, facing cultural identity
(2016)
Ethnic identity can be subject to both passive and overt review, which has the potential to cause traumatic fracture of identity. I am a second generation American-Puerto Rican, which can be defined as a person born in the ...
Confrontando caras: Confronting language, facing cultural identity
(2016)
Ethnic identity can be subject to both passive and overt review, which has the potential to cause traumatic fracture of identity. I am a second generation American-Puerto Rican, which can be defined as a person born in the ...
The Andalusian faces of Spanishness: Myth, icons and identity in Andalusian theatre of the Second Republic
(2016)
In Spain during the 1930s, the democratically elected Second Republic government imposed progressive reforms designed to modernize the nation. However, conservative factions opposed these changes in favor of a return to ...