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    • En La Sombra: Cinema Culture and Modern Women in Mexico City, 1917-1931 

      Sanchez, Courtney Aspen (University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)
      This dissertation is about cinema culture, modern femininity, and Mexico City between 1917 and 1931. It is a story about movie makers, movie spectators, and the movie texts that mediated between them. It is a study of ...
    • Classified by Genre: Rhetorical Genrefication in Cinema 

      Swanson, Carl Joseph (University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)
      This dissertation argues for a rethinking and expansion of film genre theory. As the variety of media exhibition platforms expands and as discourse about films permeates a greater number of communication media, the use of ...
    • Documenting Drill Music: Understanding Black Masculine Performances in Hip-Hop 

      Green, Demetrius (University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)
      When it comes to analyzing stereotypical representations of black masculinity in contemporary media, commercial hip-hop and the imagery associated with many of the artists is filled with caricatures of black men. The images ...
    • CinemaCon: Identifying the Voice of the Film Exhibition Industry Through the National Association of Theatre Owners’ Field-Configuring Event, 2011-2018 

      Pitzer, Juli Stone (University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)
      This dissertation examines the film exhibition industry’s main field-configuring event, CinemaCon (2011-2018), deemed the largest convention and trade show in the world with over 4,000 participating delegates each year. ...
    • Strategies of Digital Surrealism in Contemporary Western Cinema 

      Kartashov, Andrei (University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)
      This thesis joins an ongoing discussion of cinema’s identity in the digital age. The new technology, which by now has become standard for moving images of any kind, has put into question existing assumptions and created ...
    • Producing Gayness: The 1990s “Gay Boom” in Japanese Media 

      Ogawa, Sho (University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)
      This dissertation examines the gay boom in the Japan, where various media from magazines, novels, television shows, to feature films reported on and represented male homosexuality in scale that was unprecedented and is ...
    • SECRET SUPERSTARS AND OTHERWORLDLY WIZARDS: Gender Biased Hiding of Extraordinary Abilities in Girl-Powered Disney Channel Sitcoms from the 2000s 

      Hodel, Christina Hereiti (University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)
      Conformity messaging and subversive practices potentially harmful to healthy models of feminine identity are critical interpretations of the differential depiction of the hiding and usage of tween girl characters’ extraordinary ...
    • RABINAL ACHI. Scenographic Design of a traditional Mayan Play 

      Rodríguez-Montero, Pamela (University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)
      The Mayan dance-drama Rabinal Achí is one of the most important remaining pre-Columbian artistic expressions today. The script of the play is written in the Mayan language of K’iche’ and is performed every year at the end ...
    • Beyond The Phantom Edit: A Critical History and Practical Analysis of Fan Edits 

      Wille, Joshua (University of Kansas, 2017-09-31)
      Fan edits are essentially unauthorized alternative versions of films made by fans, whom I define as people with intense interest in films and related media. Unlike traditional film editing, which is characterized by a new ...
    • More Than Movies: Social Formations in Informal Networks of Media Sharing 

      Van Esler, Michael W. (University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)
      This project examines the social structures, formations, and practices of informal networks of media sharing (INMSs) through both historical and sociological lenses. INMSs are comprised of individuals who distribute and ...
    • Embodied Spectatorship: Phenomenological Turn in Contemporary Film Theory 

      Glushneva, Iuliia (University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)
      Since the early 1990s, film theorists have been particularly interested in the studies of film experience and relations between viewers and films. In contrast to the classical and post-1960s film studies of spectatorship, ...
    • Remembering What We Lost: Ecomemory, Visual Ecomedia, and the Discourse of Environmental Concern 

      Woodson, Mary Beth (University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)
      In this study I examine the evolving discourse of environmental concerns within visual ecological media that utilizes what I define as ecological memory—ecomemory. As part of this examination, I analyze the forms ecological ...
    • Rushing Towards Death: Alienation and Doom in the 1940s American Crime Film 

      Unruh, Isley Demetrius (University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)
      While the criminals found in classic American crime films take many forms, from frontier outlaws to big city gangsters, they all serve, on some level, as surrogates for audiences’ darker impulses and desires. And, while ...
    • Lucem Ferre 

      Tawde, Lopeeta Sudhakar (University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)
      Lucem Ferre, a Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition was influenced by an interpretation of bioluminescence, a chemical process in which a living organism catalyzes and releases light from within; this process is also ...
    • The Development of the Post-Classical Hollywood Sports Business Film Trend: A Socio-Historic Approach 

      Sutera, David Micheal (University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)
      This dissertation examines the development of an emerging trend in contemporary sports film production identified as the post-classical Hollywood sports business film. Post-classical Hollywood sports business films stand ...
    • Wild Yonder 

      Raymer, Mark Alister (University of Kansas, 2016-01-01)
      Wild Yonder is a body of large mixed media, collage wall hangings made from scrapes fabric, textiles, prints, drawings, and rubbings. All these elements come together to form a post-apocalyptic world in each piece, populated ...
    • Reimagining the Explicit Image: A Discourse on Transgressive Self-Expression and the Fe-male Body 

      Nixon, Patricia Ann (University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)
      My studio practice focuses on the intersection of sexuality and art. More specifically, I am locating my queer identity through a theoretical lens where pleasure, gender, and power come to the forefront in this Thesis. I ...
    • Extant Fragments 

      McKenna, Edward Patrick (University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)
      Extant Fragments explores the social context of the artist’s studio space and the importance of developing an art making process that is personal. The studio becomes a metaphor for the confines of daily life and the art ...
    • Bare: A Pop Opera 

      McNamara, Casey (University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)
      Suicide is the second leading cause for LGBT adolescents. Religious groups are the most outspoken against the LGBT community, leading LGBT youth to have a negative self worth. Many religious groups stick to their respective ...
    • Dystopian Performatives: Negative Affect/Emotion in the Work of Sarah Kane 

      Knowles, Scott Knowles (University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)
      "Dystopian Performatives: Negative Affect/Emotion in the Work of Sarah Kane" seeks to combine three areas of theoretical inquiry to understand the way that affect/emotion operates on an audience in the theatre: affect/emotion ...