Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Zeros and Ones: Digital Video Aesthetics and Geopolitical Economy in Blackhat, Everett Barnett
The Boundaries of Melodramatic Film Music: Redefining Home through the Score of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, Meredith Donovan
Slot Machine Addiction: The Untold Story of Contradictions Between Self and America's Neoliberal Risk Society, Melanie C. Falconer
From Displacement to Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenology of Sound in Classic Film Noir, Thomas Goodchild
The Rust Belt Gothic: Charting the Affective Politics of Deindustrialization and the Emergence of a Great Lakes Horror Genre in Film, Micheal B. Raines
Unveiling Estrangement: The Ambivalence of Iranian Cultural Identity in Documentary Films, Vahid Valikhani
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Dreaming to Get Out the “Sunken Place”: Fantasy, Film, and the Inner-White- I(Eye), Jordan Battle
The 'Charm and Distinction' of Proverbs: The Duality of the Gem Analogy in Erasmus's Adagia, Blythe Broecker Creelan
Selective Framing and Narrative as Anthropocentric Agents in Yellowstone: America’s Eden, Breanna Lee Hansen
Losing the Streaming Wars: What Netflix loses in Television Narrative and Participatory Fan Cultures, Annabelle G. Naudin
Reading Rent: Interracial Relationships and Racial Hierarchies, Susanna A. Perez-Field
From Counter-Strike to Counterterrorism: How the Cheater Reconfigures Our Understanding of Asymmetric Warfare, Enya C. Silva
Motherhood in the Multiverse: Melodrama and Asian American Identity in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, Aditya Sudhakaran
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Surviving a Broken System: Synergies between Solidarity Economies and Sustainable Development Goals, Julie Beach
Digital Realness: Queer Intimacy in ContraPoints, William S. Beaman
Complex Identities: Putting Casey Plett’s Fiction in a Trans and Religious Studies Context, Catherine Brown
Ambient Athleticism: Politicizing Akira’s Accelerationist Olympiad, Thomas G. Chaplin
Harmony of Difference: Theorizing Rashid Johnson's New Universalism in the Grids of Antoine's Organ, Mark Fredricks
_Las Vidas Negras_: Examining Identity Among Afro-Latinos in the US in the twilight of Black Lives Matter, Victor Garcia
Pronk Poppenhuis: Establishing and Destabilizing Agency Among Seventeenth-Century Burgher Wives in the Dutch Republic, Emily M. Gregoire
Conquistas and Chronicles: A Social History of the Fernando de Soto Expedition of Conquest, 1538-1543, Morgan Norman Greig
Queering the Weeki Wachee Mermaid and Its Renewed Aesthetic Value, Jacqueline D. Merveille
Visions of Entanglement and Escape: In-Visible Voice in the Films of Terrence Malick and George Lucas, Michael Lee Taber
The Hybridization of Home: Establishing Place Between the Garrison and the Wilderness in Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative, Brooke M. Weltch
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Montage Music Videos: Racial Utopianism vs. Abstract Cowboys and the Question of Cultural Montage, Alan E. Blanchard
The Value of Sleep: Aura and Aesthetics of Cohabitation in Juha Lilja's Revision of Warhol, Christopher Costabile
Threatened by the Outback: Landscape and Ecology in the Australian New Wave, Richard T. Dyer
Restarting Plural Modernity: The Lyrical Tradition of the Hometown in Kaili Blues, Huadong Fan
Bad Bunny’s Purplewashing as Gender Violence in Reggaeton: A Feminist Analysis of SOLO DE MI and YO PERREO SOLA, Dairíne Hoban
From Mythology to Pop Culture: Myth, Representation, and the Historiography of the Amazon Warrior Woman in Ancient Art and Modern Media, James William Poorman
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Lost Without a Connection: Analyzing Netflix's Maniac in the Digital Streaming Age, Eric Bruce
Redefining Representations of Trauma & Modes of Witnessing in Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers, Mariana Delgado
Roots in Antiquity: A Comparative Study of Two Cultures, Lara Younes Freajah
Recurring Scream: Trauma in Wes Craven's Slasher, Ben Muntananuchat
I'm Going Digital: Potentials for Online Communities Through Internet Remix, Justin N. Nguyen
The Concept of Freedom in American Literature at the Dawn of the Nation, Mykhailo Pylynskyi
How Audiovisual Composition Reveals Gendered Limitations and Possibilities in Lady Bird in the Wake of #MeToo, Chandler Micah Reeder
Horror’s Aesthetic Exchange: Immersion, Abstraction and Annihilation, Ashley Morgan Steinbach
Roots of Coded Metaphor in John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica, Joshua Michael Zintel
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Blaxploitation’s Revolutionary Sexuality: Rethinking Images of Male Hypersexuality in Sweetback & Shaft, Austin D. Cook
Plasticity in Animated Children’s Cartoons: The Neoliberal Transforming Bodies and Static Worlds of OK KO and Gumball, Rachel E. Cox
Baltimore Mobility: The Wire, Local Documentary, and the Politics of Distance, Richard M. Farrell
Adaptations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain, Morgan J. Macey
The Peruvian minstrel: an analysis of the representations of blackness in the performance of El Negro Mama from 1995 to 2016, Ana Lucía Mosquera Rosado
An Ecology of Care: Training in Dependence and Caretaking in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Elizabeth Rossbach
Anti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theory, Maxximilian Seijo
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Performing "Hurt" : Aging, Disability, and Popular Music as Mediated Product and Lived-Experience in Johnny Cash's Final Recordings, Adam Davidson
The Promised Body: Diet Culture, the Fat Subject, and Ambivalence as Resistance, Jennifer Dolan
The Revival Western and, Kevin Thomas McKenna
Concerning Virtual Reality and Corporealized Media: Exploring Video Game Aesthetics and Phenomenology, Matthew Morales
"He Didn't Mean It": What Kubrick's, Kelley O'Brien
Failing to Move Forward: Journalism, Media, and Affect in David Fincher's, Nicholas Orlando
Eliminating the Uncertainty of Hong Kong in 1990s: Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China (1, 2, 3), Zhanwen Peng
A Woman's Place in Jazz in the 21st Century, Valerie T. Simuro
Cool Moms & Cool Media: Returning to, Morgan Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Get Ye A Copper Kettle: Appalachia, Moonshine, and a Postcolonial World, Christopher David Adkins
The Dislocated Spectator's Relationship to Enchanted Objects in Early Film and Modernist Poetry, Rachel Christine Ekblad
Playing-With the World: Toy Story's Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play, Jonathan Hendricks
Distinguishing Patterns of Utopia and Dystopia, East and West, Huai-Hsuan Huang
"There's a real hole here": Female Masochism and Spectatorship in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste, Morgan J. Jennings
"You want it all to happen now!": The Jinx, The Imposter, and Re-enacting the Digital Thriller in True Crime Documentaries, Brett Michael Phillips
The Palazzo Medici and its Polyvalent Message: Cosimo de Medici Navigates the Shifting Meaning of Pride, Lisa Morgan Thieryung
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Family Life in Carver City- Lincoln Gardens, Lisa K. Armstrong
The Apocalypse Narrative and the Internet: Divided Relationships in New Natures, Brooks Scott Benadum
Digital Integration, Jacob C. Boccio
A Tourist Performance: Redefining the Tourist Attraction, Brandy Lee Kinkade
To Utopianize the Mundane: Sound and Image in Country Musicals, Siyuan Ma
Heavy South: Identity, Performance, and Heavy Music in the Southern Metal Scene, Michael A. Mcdowell
The Apatow Aesthetic: Exploring New Temporalities of Human Development in 21st Century Network Society, Michael D. Rosen
Constructing the West: The Hired Hand and McCabe & Mrs. Miller and the Challenge of Public Space, Eric Ward Ross
Negotiating the Delta: Dr. T.R.M. Howard in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, William Jackson Southerland
Longshoremen's Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Culture, Tomaro I. Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Genre, Justice & Quentin Tarantino, Eric Michael Blake
A Gramscian Analysis of Roman Bathing in the Provinces, Diana Danielle Davis
Muckraking and C.O.B.Y (Cry of Black Youth): Uncovering a History of Organizing in Belle Glade, Raymond A. Hamilton
Abjection, Telesthesia, and Transnationalism: Incest in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, Daniel L. Holland
"Tell Me, Where am I From?": A Study of the Performance of Geek Identity at Comic Book Conventions, Eric Kahler
Tell Sir Thomas More We've Got Another Failed Attempt: Utopia and the Burning Man Project, Gracen Lila Kovacik
Finding a Home: Latino Residential Influx into Progress Village, 1990-2010, Christopher Julius Pineda
Auteurs at an Urban Crossroads: A Certain Tendency in New York Cinema, Rene Thomas Rodriguez
The US Response to Genocide in Rwanda: A Reassessment, Camara Silver
From White City to Green Acres: Bertha Palmer and the Gendering of Space in the Gilded Age, Barbara Peters Smith
He_rtland: The Violence of Neoliberalism, Hector Sotomayor
Let's Go to the Carnival: Hybridization of Heterotopian Spaces in the Films of Kevin Smith, Anthony L. Sylvester
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Sobering Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Intoxicated Social Body in Dutch Painting During the True Freedom, 1650-1672, David Beeler
Four Women: An Analysis of the Artistry of Black Women in the Black Arts Movement, 1960s-1980s, Abney Louis Henderson
The Black Experience in the United States: An Examination of Lynching and Segregation as Instruments of Genocide, Brandy Marie Langley
The Problems and Potentials in Haunted Maternal Horror Narratives, Sarah Laura Novak
"Die Mauer im Kopf": Aesthetic Resistance against West-German Take-Over, Arwen Puteri
Masculinity, After the Apocalypse: Gendered Heroics in Modern Survivalist Cinema, Sean Michael Swenson
Caribbean Traditions in Modern Choreographies: Articulation and Construction of Black Diaspora Identity in L'Ag'Ya by Katherine Dunham, Viktoria Tafferner-Gulyas
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Spectatorial Shock and Carnal Consumption: (Re)envisaging Historical Trauma in New French Extremity, Christopher Butler
Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, and Trauma in Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, Nora Szegvari
Refiguring Indexicality: Remediation, Film, & Memory in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media, Janine Marie Villot
The Sopranos Experience, Eli Benjamin Weidinger
The Black Freedom Struggle and Civil Rights Labor Organizing in the Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina Tobacco Industry, Jennifer Wells
