Browsing OSU - Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Takacs, Stacy"
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Comic Book Villain's Body: Deviant Sexuality and Gender-Transgression
Hunt, Kathleen Nicole (2015-05-01)Oftentimes, superheroes are recognized in the fields of visual rhetoric, popular culture, and literature as means for persuading and influencing masculine identity. With the explosive popularity of comic books and the ... -
Effects of media literacy instruction: Recognizing and analyzing racial stereotypes in media
Dunlop, Janet Cooper (2007-05)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to determine whether media literacy instruction that encourages critical consumption of media also affects students' abilities to recognize, deconstruct and analyze ... -
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 ... -
For unlawful carnal knowledge: The Satanic Panic in the United States, 1968-2000
Hanna, Joshua (2021-05)This thesis examines the use of new and emerging media by the religious right during the 1970s to spread the ideology and discourse of the Satanic Panic and the anti-rock movement. While other scholars have discussed such ... -
From Bates To Bush: The New Slasher Film
Cooper, James Fenimore (Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)This essay suggests that recent film criticism and genre scholarship neglects the historical and theoretical connection between so-called "Torture Porn" and the 1980s slasher film. The creation of this altogether new generic ... -
Lessons from my friend Sue Davis: Preserving an Okie queer’s legacy of resilience, resistance, and returning home
Clementine, Arlowe Sue (2022-07)This paper examines the life and legacy of Queer Okie Sue Davis. Utilizing oral history interviews and autoethnography methods, Clementine highlights the history of one Oklahoma Lesbian who grew up in post-World War II ... -
Narrative triage: Veterans, disability, race, and the popular fiction of the Cold War
Young, Jared (2022-07)This dissertation argues that there are a series of disability narratives embedded James Jones, Norman Mailer, and John Oliver Killens’ novels that undermine the cultural myths revolving around soldiers’ bodies. Following ... -
President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
Nadeau, Peter Mark (2016-05)In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Through "star-spangled Eyes": Lew Puller's Fortunate Son and the Myth of Resolution
Higgins, Jason Aaron (2016-05-01)My research explores the problems of resolution in Lewis B. Puller Jr.�s Fortunate Son and suggests that this literary device in war-trauma narratives is often a fictionalized, misrepresentation of the realities of ... -
Use of student disciplinary referrals by high school teachers as it relates to empathy and classroom management
Skvarla, Lauren (2008-05)Scope and Method of Study: Student disciplinary referrals result in students missing valuable classroom experiences. The purpose of this research was to study teachers at three urban high schools in terms of number of ...