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Description:: In this dissertation, I assert that a contradictory aesthetic has remained and been reborn in the U.S. daytime soap opera through time and technology; I call this the “everyday implausible.” Using textual analysis and archival research, I follow this genre from its beginnings on radio, through its move to television...
Keyword:: soap operas, radio, television, YouTube, sound, and aesthetics
Subject:: American history, Mass communication, and Women's studies
Creator:: Emmett, Ilana Ruby
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_879402 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15934

Description:: This project centers set design as the primary aesthetic, economic, and sociopolitical driver of the sitcom genre’s emergence and development during the first half of the twentieth century. My work treats sitcom set design as a category of historical architecture that can be (and has been) mapped, toured, built, and...
Keyword:: radio, television, house, sitcom, domestic, and design
Subject:: American history, Mass communication, and Architecture
Creator:: LaPlaca, Laura N
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_742942 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15104

Description:: This dissertation provides a study of local Black media development in Detroit in the decade following the 1967 Rebellion, as Detroit became a majority Black city. I argue that Black Detroiters not only produced documentaries that challenged local white discourse within what George Lipsitz terms â€œa Black spatial imaginary,â€ but...
Keyword:: film, Detroit, history, television, urbanism, and race
Subject:: Screen Cultures
Creator:: Annie Laurie Sullivan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/21/2019
Date Modified:: 10/21/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation and Dataset

Description:: Television's history has at numerous points been punctuated by pronouncements that technological innovations will improve its programming, empower its audiences, and heal the injuries it has inflicted on American society. This enduring faith in the inevitability and imminence of television's technological salvation is the subject of this dissertation. "TV Repair"...
Keyword:: technology, convergence, television, and new media
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Bret Maxwell Dawson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/08/2018
Date Modified:: 10/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project explores historical questions of televisual form and cultural production, centering on the proliferation of media texts that mobilize real-life misfortune as a form of entertainment in U.S. television and culture. Specifically, it examines how a variety of "reality" formats in contemporary television stage and exploit spectacles of failure,...
Keyword:: television, media, and schadenfreude
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Amber Eliza Watts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/11/2018
Date Modified:: 09/11/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In the age of what George W. Bush has called a global democratic revolution, the freedom to consume an ever-expanding variety of images and goods in the global marketplace is often equated with the conditions of democratic freedom. With just such rhetorical elisions in mind, this dissertation examines the discursive...
Keyword:: media and politics, spectacle, television, popular entertainment, rhetoric, and liberalism
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Meghan A Sutherland
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation explores the relationship between dance cultures and media cultures in the United States between the 1940s and the 1960s, when both were experiencing a period of multiplicity and flux in their forms. Bringing together theories and methodologies from dance studies, media studies, and cultural history, it considers how...
Keyword:: film, dance, television, masculinity, and race
Subject:: Screen Cultures
Creator:: Pamela Grenelle Krayenbuhl
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/30/2018
Date Modified:: 03/30/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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