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- This dissertation explores how dominant U.S. constructions of race, class, and gender are embedded into and inscribed onto artificially intelligent virtual assistants and the labors they perform. I examine virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, interrogating their complex relationship to humanness, the tasks they are programmed...
- Keyword:
- haunting, media, labor, Black, domestic, and technology
- Subject:
- African American studies, Gender studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Owens, Golden M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16772 and etdadmin_upload_1014053
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- Description:
- In this work, I try to understand how the movements, attitudes, styles, and positions of the body in representational artworks can be understood as gestures—that is, as moments that interrupt the unfolding of narrative time and produce an interval. The interval is not merely a space that opens up between...
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, French literature, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Winter, Maureen Theresa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1007288 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16680
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers how women’s spectatorship—how women are imagined as viewing subjects, and what are defined as feminine ways of watching—is transformed by digital technologies, and what it reveals about the shifting nature of privacy and visibility. It maps the contours of our current configuration of gendered looking relations by...
- Keyword:
- Spectatorship, Television, Media Studies, Surveillance, Women's Television, and Technology
- Subject:
- Gender studies, Film studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Dickason, Cara Nash
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_972237 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16457
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- Description:
- Through analysis of visual and literary texts, “Relating Sideways: Visual Culture and Women’s Bonds, 1970-2020” constructs a historical narrative that challenges the assumption that women’s lives and relationships naturally bend toward romance and procreation, a normative lifespan that follows the function capitalism has needed women to perform in consumption and...
- Subject:
- Film studies
- Creator:
- Coyne, Kelly Marie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16482 and etdadmin_upload_980087
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- “Pornographic Bodies: Constructing Corporeality in Adult Film” explores how the body is theorized within pornography through issues of materiality, spacing, form, libidinal organization, and subject/object relations. This dissertation challenges the way existing porn studies scholarship has taken body to be a self-evident vessel containing the psychosexual dynamics of the performers...
- Keyword:
- Media, Corporeality, Film, Pornography, and Body
- Subject:
- Film studies
- Creator:
- Scott, Karly-Lynne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_944948 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16345
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- Description:
- From the 1990s through the 2000s, gross-out comedy – in the broadest terms, the style of physical comedy that emphasizes bodily functions and fluids, transgressive imagery and behavior, and shock value and disgust – triumphed as a subgenre of popular narrative film and television comedy. Gross-out comedy first emerged as...
- Keyword:
- disgust, irony, film comedy, and TV comedy
- Subject:
- Film studies
- Creator:
- Aspray, Benjamin Kole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_944524 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16341
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- Having an Experience: Media Franchises, Events, & Participatory Culture explores, like its title suggests, what we mean when we talk about “having an experience” in today’s media culture. Traveling to an expanded network of sites where media fans are actively called to go out and “have an experience” in the...
- Keyword:
- digital media, transmedia, media industries, media audiences, cultural studies, and the experience economy
- Subject:
- Film studies and Communication
- Creator:
- Moulton, Carter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901600 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16054
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- Description:
- Yugoslav wartime television news often conformed to the demands of the political regimes. Informed by this knowledge, scholars have argued that TV as a medium incited and legitimized the wars by fostering ethnonationalist ideologies. Using archival and textual analysis, this project examines how television reacted to the political constraints imposed...
- Keyword:
- Genre, Hybridity, Television, Postcolonial theory, Third space, and The former Yugoslavia
- Subject:
- Film studies and Communication
- Creator:
- Jelušić, Jelena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16029 and etdadmin_upload_900278
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- Description:
- Within scholarship on mid-century Hollywood musicals, celebrity, glamour, and spectacle are commonly included in the conversation about the films themselves. Yet, what happened when these films – which privilege visuality – were adapted into purely aural forms, has not been as deeply analyzed. In this project, I track the cross-media...
- Keyword:
- Media, Hollywood, Radio, Musical, Star Studies, and Semiotics
- Subject:
- Dance, Music history, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Lane O'Brien, Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_902232 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16065
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a cultural history of state-sponsored film in India and Iran. I focus on the 1960s-1980s, a period during which both countries enacted sweeping development agendas, which included industrialization, the expansion of higher education, and social reforms. I engage in a comparative analysis of each state’s pedagogies of...
- Subject:
- South Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Bhalla, Simran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_819529 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15579
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a contribution to the depth and breadth of prison media history. I position prison media of the 1970s as key antecedents to the prison reality television of the 2000s and today. The purpose of this arrangement is to bring attention to an era of prison media that...
- Keyword:
- Race, Incarceration, Prison, Gender, Reality television, and Nontheatrical film
- Subject:
- Criminology, Multimedia communications, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Harrington, Catherine Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763170 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15235
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how American television portrayed canonical European classical music in the Cold War era. I analyze televisual negotiations of music-cultural hierarchies to complicate common narratives about the postwar decades as a peak moment of polarity between “high” and “low” culture, and between ideologies of consensus and rebellion. Drawing...
- Keyword:
- American taste, musical comedy, TV history, classical music, television studies, and video art
- Subject:
- Art history, Music history, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Kreutzer, Evelyn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_762848 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15230
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that the U.S.’s World War I experience helped condition Americans to relate to war primarily through cinematic recreations. The country’s geographical distance from the fighting provided Americans a degree of geopolitical spectatorship from which they could imagine their nation’s role in an ever-changing world through film. Onto...
- Keyword:
- World War I, D.W. Griffith, War Film, and Antiwar
- Subject:
- American history, American studies, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Hepworth, Mariah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_654330 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14562