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Found in 997 Collections and/or Records:
Exploring Fanfiction's History, Legality, Stigma, and the Importance of Commodification of Fandom, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_salvati_tara.pdf
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"This project explores fanfiction's history, legality, and future in fandom. In order to best understand fanfiction's current status within the United States legal system, its history, both on and offline are explored. Additionally, fanfiction is analyzed through the legal lens of copyright, fair use, and libel, with other defenses for both copyright holders and fanfiction writers being considered. The commodification of fanfiction is also explored, as well as its moral and legal...
Dates:
2023
Export My Love, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_li_jinglin.pdf
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"Export My Love is a documentary about four divorced or widowed women trying to persue love by finding U.S. husband. It tries to raise the discussion of how the society treats those single women with kids." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Express Yourself: First Impressions and Perception of Gender Expression in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders., 2022
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Identifier: cd_2022summer_baer_meghan.pdf
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"The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between first impressions of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their perceived gender expression. Additionally, we investigated the role of rater identity on first impression formation to determine whether rater characteristics including gender and autism related traits influence how they perceive others. Previous perception studies have shown differences in the in the first impressions formed by autistic...
Dates:
2022
Fairfield & Assistance, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_day_jack-henry.pdf
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"Fairfield and Assistance are two original television pilots, an hour-long drama and half-hour comedy respectively. Fairfield follows the triumphs and woes of the Fallcrest brothers, Damien, a twenty-four-year-old college dropout, and Cameron, a bright but timid fifteen-year-old, in the wake of their father's untimely passing and abandonment issues from their erratic and absent mother. While Assistance puts generational differences to the test when a middle-aged and prolific talent agent,...
Dates:
2024
Fairmount Stories, 2023
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Identifier: md_2023summer_dave_riddhima.pdf
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"This work aims to address the confluence of racial justice, air quality, and transportation equity in the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, Hyde Park, and Mattapan within the
context of the Fairmount Line branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Commuter Rail train. Our research demonstrated that it is imperative that residents are educated about the Fairmount Line's negative environmental and health impacts. Additionally, we found that simply highlighting the negative...
Dates:
2023
Fairmount Stories, 2023
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Identifier: md_2023summer_holloway_emerson.pdf
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"This work aims to address the confluence of racial justice, air quality, and transportation equity in the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, Hyde Park, and Mattapan within the context of the Fairmount Line branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Commuter Rail train. Our research demonstrated that it is imperative that residents are educated about the Fairmount Line's negative environmental and health impacts. Additionally, we found that simply highlighting the negative...
Dates:
2023
Fake Chill, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_kirkland_colin.pdf
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"Fake Chill grapples with my ongoing quest to get real with myself, and in turn, the world around me. In nine essays, I come to terms with how I move through the world, while attempting to hone my craft. Eventually, I'm able to understand what it means to rely on myself as a person and a writer, and how that self-reliance provides me with the confidence to pursue difficult questions on the page. Through this examination comes the diligence to explore my relationship with my father, race,...
Dates:
2022
Fall of a God, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_grant_jacqueline.pdf
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"FALL OF A GOD is a feature-length film that explores the concept of what society deems a "good person" and a "bad person" through a cast of questionable characters in a horror-inducing dream world. It aims to challenge society's assumptions of the relationships and power dynamics between various types of people. This horror film follows an anti-hero protagonist who attempts to regain control of herself from a volatile god in a modern-day retelling of the story of Hades and Persephone with a...
Dates:
2023
Falling Underground, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_zurbrick_alexandra.pdf
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"In this fantasy feature film, Charlotte is killed on Hell Night as a pledge of a sorority, she has no idea that her real life is just beginning. She wakes up in a new world called Temple Gates and discovers her true identity as a warrior angel. A year later, she has trained hard and found confidence in her new life, but not purpose. She proposes to the Gods of the world, her parents, to use magic to return to Tate University and get revenge on her killer. Something that seems like a simple...
Dates:
2024
Families can be together forever, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_poplin_colleen.pdf
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"Follows the filmmaker's journey out of the Mormon church -- a journey unexpectedly aligned with her first pregnancy. The film depicts her pregnancy from start to finish while exploring the emotional and spiritual weight of leaving Mormonism, its effect on the mother she hopes to become, and its effect on the mother who raised her." -- Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Fantasy Unchained, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_hempel_dustin.pdf
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"Fantasy Unchained is a blend of the science fiction and fantasy genres, set in a near future Seattle and a new virtual reality online game that feels completely real. The story follows Aislinn Graham in her search for the Songmasters of Sarn in the game after she receives a mysterious letter from her dead mother. As she struggles in her search, the lines between the worlds begin to blur as she realizes the characters in the game may be sentient, and they have agendas of their own. Fantasy...
Dates:
2022
Farewell Day, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_ye_zikai.pdf
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"My thesis project is a narrative short movie, around 20 mins. The story is about three young friends reunites to dig out three bottles they buried when they were high school students. During this journey, three of them have to face their life dilemma." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Fated to repeat, 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_freeman_logan.pdf
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"A story about a band's first show back after the death of their lead singer, an exploration on finding the ties that bind us to the things we love." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Father Rahm, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_vera_gregorio.pdf
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"Inspired by a true story, this coming-of-age film follows Miguel and Jose, two teen best friends, through their struggle in surviving a crime-stricken neighborhood, oppressed by rival gangs during 1960 in El Paso, Texas. It was also the peak era of pachucos: classy set of gangsters impeccably dressed in zoot suits with drape pants, fedora hats, long chains and two-tone shoes. In this world, Miguel and Jose, both raised without father figures, try avoiding gang conflict. However, after a...
Dates:
2024
Fever, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_orrego_tomas.pdf
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"Fever is an absurd short film that follows a man trying to poke his eye out with a pencil. Taking inspiration from Samuel Beckett's absurdist plays, Buster Keaton's slapstick antics, the elastic logic of Looney Tunes and low budget horror sleaze, Fever is a live action silicone flesh cartoon. The original name for this project was Days of Celebration which is sometimes why it is referred to as such in this document." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Fifteen Pounds of Pressure, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_cocco_david.pdf
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"The characters in this collection are preoccupied with loss. Some are led by their attempts to avoid it and some are trying to pick up the pieces after it. A widow tries to make ends meet by entering her daughter into a talent contest. A man goes to extreme lengths to keep his girlfriend happy. A washed-up celebrity tries to recapture his former glory. All are locked in a fight with the fact that everything is temporary. A secondary focus for these stories is the tension between the...
Dates:
2019
Fighting: Stories, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_birkline_jeremy.pdf
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"This stories [sic] explores the conflicts that exist in every relationship; whether platonic, familial, or romantic, diving into situations that force the protagonists to grapple with issues that they believed irrelivant to their situations. Through these experiences, the characters develop an ever-growing perspective of the complexities of the world they live in and come to a resolution within themselves that enables them to handle similar conflicts in the future." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Final Acts: Musings of a Life not Lived, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_weinberg_max.pdf
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"A collection of essays describing the various anxieties that I have had in the past, some of which I continue to deal with in my life. Many of the essays reflect upon past scenarios where my anxiety and eccentricities had me handle conventional situations in unconventional ways. Some essays are focused on observing, and seen through that lens. Present throughout the essays are many strange characters that have become fixations to me in some ways. Essays also deal with changes in life and...
Dates:
2024
Finding Bigfoot, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022summer_schellin_courtney.pdf
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"When I first set out to write my first novel, I knew I wanted it to be about self-discovery. At the time, I was feeling lost myself and wanted to get back to my favorite passion – writing. As someone who has always been a fan of oddities, folklore, and storytelling, using Bigfoot as my outlet seemed like the perfect fit. Annie is a woman with a troubled past who is looking for something more. Annie's will is strong and so is her personality. All the better, considering she is surrounded by...
Dates:
2022
FingerPrint, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mihalek_katelyn.pdf
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"FingerPrint is a collection of poems that weaves arcs of family and spirituality with bodily autonomy and acceptance. Expanding on the concrete and contrapuntal poetic forms, the poems physically create a set of hands by assuming the translated shape of the hands' cross sectional slices. The collection starts at the tips of the middle fingers, then moves down the fingers, knuckles, palms, and finally the wrists. These hands frame core questions: What do they reach towards? What do they hold...
Dates:
2024