Browsing by Author "Menne, Jeff"
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Demille Indians: The Native American experience in classical Hollywood
Floyd, Jacob (2018-05)Native American actors in Studio Hollywood were engaged in extensive work to form and shape their persona through extensive off screen performance. An outsize presence in studio publicity provided Native actors with notoriety ... -
Disgustingly Queer: George Kuchar's Video Diaries
Deegan, Elizabeth M. (2018-05-01)In the realm of underground film and video, George Kuchar is primarily discussed in connection with his twin brother, Mike, and their trash-spectacular narratives that injected the queer underground movement in the 1960s ... -
El Hollywood: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, and Guillermo Del Toro
Lungu, Ana-Maria (2018-07-01)The three Mexican filmmakers, Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Guillermo del Toro, dubbed The Three Amigos by scholar Deborah Shaw, have received a lot of critical attention in recent years. While the term ... -
Female Authorship in the Slumber Party Massacre Trilogy
Broyles, Lyndsey (2019-05-01)The Slumber Party Massacre series is the only horror franchise exclusively written and directed by women. In a genre so closely associated with gender representation, especially misogynistic sexual violence against women, ... -
Lynch and non-Lynch: A cinematic engagement with process philosophies east and west
Osburn, Skyler (2018-05-04)David Lynch's films often slip through the cracks of traditional philosophizing and film-theorization. This project attempts to bring non-western intellectual paradigms and post-structuralist interventions into a productive ... -
Marginalized Masculinity: The Aging Actor�s Search for Relevancy Through Intertextuality
Radzinski, Ian Maxwell (2015-07-01)Throughout recent cinema, the masculine male identity has been showcased on-screen by various film stars both within the action genre and outside it. Specifically, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van ... -
Not Quite Satisfied: Theoretical Curiosity and Queer Africa
Smith, Dakoda (2017-05-01)Curiosity is often prescribed as a cure for one's lack of awareness or knowledge. After tracing the operation of curiosity by recovering moments from the stories in which the affect of curiosity reveals itself to be ... -
Painting En Abyme: Tracing the Uses of Painting in New Hollywood Cinema
Rinard, Michelle Lynn (2015-05-01)In the period of the New Hollywood in cinema, four directors created films that incorporated paintings and artworks within their scenes: Mike Nichols� The Graduate (1967); John Frankenheimer�s Seconds (1966); Stanley ... -
Raunchy, female-led comedies: Challenging the comedic tradition
Valentine, Taryn (2019-04-26)Due to the rise of women-led comedies focused on female friendship and homosocial bonding in the past decade, I am interested in studying this emerging subgenre of film. In this time frame, multiple comedies starring two ... -
Show and prove: The cinematic aesthetics of hip-hop
Gilley, David Shane (2019-12)One of the most important and far-reaching artistic movements of the 20th century, hip-hop transformed many areas of popular culture, from cartoons to fashion, visual arts to music composition. Its influence upon film and ... -
Space, representation, and realism in contemporary European art cinema
Dillard, Clayton (2021-05)This dissertation analyzes a select group of contemporary films that can generally be categorized as European art cinema by focusing on how space, representation, and realism operate within them. The study concentrates on ... -
Stan Brakhage and the Institutions of the Avant-Garde
George, Tyler A. (2018-05-01)This paper maps the social and institutional support utilized by Stan Brakhage in his avant-garde filmmaking career. In some ways typical of the avant-garde's trajectory from the underground to the university, Brakhage ... -
Watch that man: Gender representation and queer performance in glam rock
Edmondson, Hannah (2019-05-03)Glam rock, though considered by many music critics chiefly as a historical movement, is a sensibility which is appropriated frequently in the present moment. Its original icons were overwhelmingly male—pattern being subverted ...