Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Springer, John Parris, 1955-"

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    • A view of the hallway : spectatorship and the trandsgender character 

      Lawson, Caitlin (2012)
      This thesis aims to reevaluate theories of the spectatorial gaze in light of films that feature transgender characters. Such theories, in particular those of Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doane, and Teresa de Lauretis, rely on ...

    • Blood on white picket fences: the American dream in George A. Romero's living dead nightmare 

      Mallard, Marcus J. (2010)
      George A. Romero has been called the "Father of the Modern Zombie Movie." His 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead, sparked an entirely new sub-genre of horror cinema. Along with this new medium of fright came a new way ...

    • De(con)structive time : visual style and temporal simultaneity in the works of Gaspar Noe?ü. 

      Collins, Brian W. (2013)
      Despite the popularity of director Gaspar Noe?ü's films, little critical attention has been give to the overall style or common themes within his work as a whole, which also includes short films and music videos. Instead ...

    • Dirty laundry. 

      Collins, L. Ranell (2010)
      Abstract excerpt: This play in two acts focuses on Ruth, a woman who cares for her elderly mother suffering from dementia. After meeting Wes, a hospice nurse, Ruth rekindles her dreams of becoming a writer and going to ...

    • Eldora. 

      Campbell, Julie (2013)
      Fourteen-year-old Dowty Ritter, an orphan, escapes the confines of the Sioux City, Iowa, orphanage he has lived in since his father's death three years earlier. Heading for Des Moines, with hopes of joining the army, Dowty ...

    • Hemingway : insights on military leadership. 

      Dillon, Shawn (2014)
      The literature of Ernest Hemingway is rich with military lessons derived from his lifetime of proximity to war and his understanding of soldiers and leaders at all levels as presented through his characters. Hemingway wrote ...

    • In the shadow of the giant : the impact of the industrial city on identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature 

      Dostal, Michelle T. (2014)
      The Industrial Era in America ushered in a time of unprecedented economic growth, yet unfortunately, the industrial-consumer culture created by this growth fostered a devaluation of the American individual during this time ...

    • Indiana Jones and the displaced daddy : Spielberg's quest for the good father, adulthood, and God. 

      Catron, Evan (2010)
      "The Indiana Jones films define adventure as perpetual adolescence: idealized yet stifling emotional maturation. The series consequently resonates with the search for a good father and a confirmation for modernist man that ...

    • Jamal Garcia. 

      Contreras-Almeida, Nora (2013)

    • Lenin : a screenplay. 

      Nelson, Jake (2015)
      LENIN is a historical screenplay that follows the aging revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, as he goes from living in poverty/isolation to becoming one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. The story focuses on Lenin's ...

    • Murder/rapture 

      Spruill, Jeffery (2008)
      Lenny and Ira discover that they are good at and that they enjoy murder when Ira accidentally kills a stranger. They begin killing people by the scores until Lenny falls in love with a young, vibrant charity worker.

    • Princess Sultana : a reflection of Saudi society. 

      Khayat, Daniah (2011)
      The story of Sultana in Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia, written by Jean Sasson, proposes an autobiography of a woman in the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Assuming the voice of a woman who ...

    • Sheiks and sherifs : western portrayals of the middle east between the World Wars. 

      Yuill, Brendon (2018)
      Oftentimes, when there are analyses of E. M. Hull's The Sheik or discussions of Lowell Thomas's presentations over Lawrence of Arabia, the intertextual nature between these works--as well as the historical and cultural ...

    • Spandex cinema : three approaches to comic book film adaptation. 

      Smith, Benjamin (2009)
      Adapting graphic novels requires new approaches in the theoretical models currently available to film theorists. Comic book films must be dissected beyond references to character, setting, plot, or story; analysis must ...

    • The black jessamine 

      Reckinger, Steven (2008)
      The play follows a prosperous family in an Oklahoma rural town. Garret Bedford is the owner of a large oil company. The town was founded on the Bedfords' wealth, therefore the residents regard Garret as a saint. However,Garret ...

    • The prayer closet warriors. 

      Gillham, Jennifer (2007)
      Seventh grader Maddie enters her hall closet to pray and finds herself standing in a field in heaven. There she discovers that she can save her school from the Anti-Nagah, the light eater. To do so Maddie must pass three ...

    • The rhetoric of the economically disadvantaged : analyzing a marginalized discourse. 

      Aragon, Brianna (2017)
      Those who engage in contemporary begging activities compose and enact public rhetoric daily across the United States, and the collection and analysis of rhetoric from this discourse community is particularly important in ...

    • Three women of Tennessee Williams. 

      Poarch, Megan L. (2010)
      The life and works of the playwright, Tennessee Williams will impact the lives of readers for centuries to come. His life affected the style in which he wrote, and the characters that he wrote were closely based on some ...

    • Victims of patriarchy : failed masculinity in nineteenth-century American literature. 

      Pruitt, Jennifer (2012)
      The United States was built upon foundations of patriarchy which called for men to demonstrate their masculinity publicly. In the nineteenth-century, as middle- and upper-class Americans began to populate cities, there ...

    • Yaeger's game: how Bank Night helped movie exhibitors following the Great Depression 

      Stuckey, Jeffrey (2010)
      "In the immediate years following the 1929 stock market crash, thousands of movie theaters across the United States closed their doors due to lack of business. Understandably, most Americans struggled to maintain whatever ...