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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 ...
Government violence & the Latin American plaza
(2010)
The Latin American plaza is a space fraught with violence due to historic precedent and government control. Violence occurs against plaza users due to and despite the seeming liberty offered by the plaza atmosphere. This ...
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 ...
Italian opera from Verdi to Verismo: Boito and la Scapigliatura
(2010)
The Scapigliatura : literally, existential disheveledness, designates an ambiguous, reformist movement in Italian art, literature, and music ca. 1858-1895. A veritable chameleon on the surface, at once seeming avant-garde, ...
Documenting ethnic cleansing in North America: Creating unseen tears
(2010)
Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native American Residential/Boarding Schools in Western New York addresses unresolved issues stemming from centuries of genocidal policy. Southern Ontario's Mohawk Institute and New York's Thomas ...
Symbol and structure: Palaces, paradigms and the rise of palatial civilization on Crete
(2010)
This paper will attempt to explore three main phases of theoretical development concerning the rise of palatial civilization on Crete. When Arthur Evans excavated Knossos at the turn of the twentieth century major changes ...
Life, death, and heroes: The use of epic themes in the relief pithoi of the Boiotian-Tenian group
(2010)
This thesis offers a close examination of a selection of 7th century BCE narrative Boiotian-Tenian relief pithoi found in funerary contexts. Through a consideration of the iconography, deposition and use contexts, and the ...
Local area network: Community involvement, social capital, and glocalization at NetU
(2010)
Ethnographic and interview data from a long-term study of "NetU," a wired community and college, are used to investigate the effects of computer-mediated communication on social relationships. During the course of this ...