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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 ...
Surveying the damage: Political aesthetics of violence after Abu Ghraib
(2012)
From the outstretched hands of an injured Haitian girl who reaches toward the camera to the thumbs up of a U.S. interrogator who stands over the naked body of a detainee, we are inundated, today, with politicized images ...
"We the People Do Not Know what Kind of World We Should Imagine": Archibald MacLeish and Democracy in the 1930's
(2012)
I would like the starting point in this examination of the 1930's work of Archibald MacLeish to be one of simple investigation. In this document I seek to explore the ways in which MacLeish conceived of art, ethics and ...
Perspectives on Iris, Goddess of sea and sky
(2011)
This master's thesis has three principal objectives: 1) to present the history of Iris, from the end of the Dark Ages through Archaic and Classical Greece, 2) to highlight the iconography and material culture most relevant ...
Sound off: Rhythm, rhyme, and voice in rap and hip-hop
(2011)
"Sound Off: Rhythm, Rhyme, and Voice in Rap and Hip-Hop" examines the sonic structure and meaning of rap lyrics. Critically engaging with representative rap artists and recordings from 1979 to 2009 as well as print materials ...
Social perspectives on the zombie revival
(2013)
Times of political, economic and social upheaval in the United States have influenced the popularity of zombie media including films, television series, literature, and video games. The success of George A. Romero's earliest ...
Technically bromantic: The autistic as a "Noble savant" in a homoerotic, post-modern pairing
(2014)
Inspired by the work of Leslie Fiedler - specifically his controversial essay "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in Huck, Honey!" (1948) - this analysis is intended as an examination of the archetype of homoerotic or "bromantic" ...