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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"American Film Studies"”.
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… the groundwork for a new genre of Southern film – a hybrid genre that I call Southern maternal horror. By integrating key elements from the genres of maternal melodrama and modern horror into Southern narratives, Southern maternal horror uses the central ambivalence found in both genres – …
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The damned, the bad, and the ugly: Our society's bad (and occasionally sinister) habit of using villains to label, deter, and other
… these characters have a wide reach among the American audience. Theodora is a onedimensional villain whose lack of depth fails to prompt the audience to think critically and perpetuates the patriarchal issues portrayed in the film. The Joker, however, is captivating because he is complex and …
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The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928 - 1973
… However, an analysis of twentieth century American film complicates the historiography of Catholicism. A set of negative stereotypes, instead, have colored the presentation of the religion in cinema that have called attention to aspects of the Catholic character that separated from other …
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Gothic Representations: History, Literature, and Film
… heritage and Victorian upbringing to the American Gothic traditions of the nineteenth century and the contemporary Gothic scene. It will concentrate focus on the classic, most widely recognized Gothic icons, <em>Dracula</em> and <em>Frankenstein</em>, comparing and contrasting the inherent …
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Andrew Sarris and the Politique des Auteurs (1962-1974): An Assessment and an Analysis
… contends that aesthetically important films are the product of an auteur--an equivalent term to author in a work of literature or composer as<strong> </strong>opposed to conductor in a musical composition--and that that auteur is usually the film’s director. The quality of the film …
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
… of hegemonic masculinity in John Farrow’s 1953 film Hondo and John Huston’s 1960 film The Unforgiven, alongside John Ford’s The Searchers, this work explores how filmic versions of masculinity have shaped characters to mimic and enforce social and societal systems that coincidentally adhere to …
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Witch Hazel Advent, The Story of an Ozark Poet
… I shot and edited a half hour long documentary film comprised of interviews and footage of John at his home near Winslow, Arkansas. John is a talented poet, and segments of his poetry are woven throughout the film.</p> <p>The inspiration for this project is deeply rooted in place: the remote …
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GI Jane Versus Sergeant Jane Doe: How Women’s Images In War Movies Contribute To Conflicting Expectations Of Women In Combat
… in the classic Hollywood warrior culture film. The age old question of whether life imitates art or vice versa is important to consider when examining the question of how this popular culture medium contributes to the conflicting expectations of today’s women in combat roles. What is the …
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Rulers, Rhetoric, and Ray-Guns: A Post Colonial Look at 90's Alien Invasion Media
<p>This thesis opens discussion on American alien invasion films of the 90s as a self-critique, a reaction to being an imperial power at the end of the Cold War. The alien menace in these films is not the "other" but rather the U.S. itself being the colonizer or conqueror looking to expand its …
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The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America
<p>In the autumn of 1921, silent film comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of a model and actress named Virginia Rappé. The ensuing scandal created a firestorm of controversy not just around Arbuckle but the entire motion picture industry. Religious and moral …
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Out of True
… process that went into the making of my thesis film,</p> <em><em>Out of True</em></em>. The areas I will cover include Writing, Directing, Production Design, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, as well as Technology and Workflow. Special emphasis will be given to Directing and the new directing …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… figure in fantasy and exists today in the Anglo-American literary imagination as a hero above other heroes. This figure embodies Anglo-American understandings of the Hero's Journey and savior narratives theorized by Joseph Campbell. It is a site of colonial triumph and violence and …
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The Turning Point of Who Shall Be Master: Killer of Sheep, Naming, Gender, and the Gaze of African American Women
<p>Charles Burnett’s 1978 award-winning film <em>Killer of Sheep</em> directly responded to the then-popular Blaxploitation genre, holding a mirror up to post-Watts, 1970s America, while exposing and exploring gender and race issues. Moreover, intentionally or not, Burnett, with this film, …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
<p>Following the 2016 American Presidential election, celebrity endorsements proved to be a more narrow gauge of public opinion than ever. The symbolic alignment with popular musicians, which had long abetted the Democratic Party’s standing with youth and particular identity groups, seemed only to …
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Diversity and Democracy at War: Analyzing Race and Ethnicity in Squad Films from 1940-1960
… Hollywood with the opportunity to produce combat films that roused patriotic spirit amongst the American people. The obvious choice was to continue making the popular squad films that portrayed a group of soldiers working together to overcome a common challenge posed by the war. However, in the …
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“WELL, I’VE WHISPERED ‘RACISM’ IN A POST-RACIAL WORLD”: SATIRE AND THE ABSURDITY OF “POST-RACIAL” AMERICA
… is to look at the works of contemporary African American satirists as they confront post-racial ideology. In looking at the works of Jordan Peele, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, and Boots Riley, thematic threads emerge to form a portrait of dire unrest amongst those non-white identities living in an …
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The Sigh of Triple Consciousness: Blacks Who Blurred the Color Line in Films from the 1930s through the 1950s
… looked subset of racial identity as seen through film narratives from the 1930’s through the 1950’s pre-Civil Rights era. The subcategory of racial identity is the necessity of passing for Black people then identified as Negro. The primary film narratives include <em>Veiled Aristocrats</em> …
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