Electronic thesis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
Fortress Besieged?, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_wang_qianru.pdf
Overview
"This project is a devised theatre play structured in the tradition of documentary theatre—a form of theatre based on real-life materials. The play is inspired by a Chinese novel, 'Fortress Besieged' (1947) written by Qian Zhongshu, in which the protagonist, a bumbling young man, pursues a number of dalliances with women without understanding the essence of marriage, and finally loses the meaning of his life. This project, 'Fortress Besieged?,' shifts the perspective to that of women and...
Dates:
2020
Found, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_riggs-davis_seren.pdf
Overview
"Found is a feature length animated musical based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The film follows a starry-eyed frog who sets out from the comfort of his hometown and life as a tailor's son in pursuit of fulfilling his dream of becoming a renowned stage actor. Set in a reimagined 1920s America with singing and dancing anthropomorphic animals, the songs and world within this coming-of-age fantasy are intentionally reminiscent of musicals of the Jazz Age and reflective of the opulence and...
Dates:
2024
Foxborough Community Museum, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018summer_ladd_anna.pdf
Overview
"The Foxborough Community Museum is a fully community-sourced museum that used participatory methods to build its collection. Through meetings in common spaces and family homes, residents in Foxborough donated objects to represent the town’s past and present from their own perspectives. Located in a community theatre, the museum is a permanent installation where community members can continue contributing to the archive as the town grows and changes." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Fragments, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_esquilin_katherine.pdf
Overview
A short form adolescent television pilot, this project chronicles the memories of a battered transgendered streetwalker, who reflects on the day he met a freshly released juvenile delinquent, forging the most important friendship of his lifetime, on the day of the 2008 Presidential election.
Dates:
2016
Free Car, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_rubinic_alex.pdf
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"Free Car is a narrative fiction short film about two friends, Turner and Sam, at the end of their childhood. Turner is anxious to leave for college in a week while Sam is already mourning the impending loss of his friend. In an attempt to squeeze one last adventure out of their time together, Sam convinces Turner to help him steal a car. The gravity of the situation becomes clear after the car blows a tire and the pair discover a dead body in the trunk." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
From a Spaceless Within, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_lapaglia_matthew.pdf
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"A filmmaker confronting the efficacy of telling one story over another rewrites expectations for a failed project about the artist known as Miles, whose planned installation addresses the experiments conducted by psychologist Harry Harlow in the late 1950s. Weaving together past and future, truth and fiction, From a Spaceless Within approaches the construction and dematerialization of the artist while asking where our intentions take root when we attempt to create anything at all." --...
Dates:
2021
From Everywhere to Here, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_darkwa-anto_ashley.pdf
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"To the public, Diana Hastings pretends she has the perfect husband. At home, her marriage is barely scraping by. While trying to salvage what's left of her relationship through couple's therapy, Diana must deal with more than just her failing marriage—fourteen-year-old Jessica Anderson's body is found, and her husband may somehow be connected to it all. When those around her seem to know more than they're letting on, Diana realizes she only has herself to rely on to find the truth. But...
Dates:
2024
Fugue States, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_casarico_sophie.pdf
Overview
"Fugue States, a collection of five short stories, comprises a range of literary fiction written during the author's time in Emerson College's Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. This collection, through a combination of first and third-person perspectives, experiments with both narrative retrospection and immediacy, exploring the desires and fears of myriad women. From kudzu-choked Tallahassee to a surreally post-apocalyptic Boston, these stories–humorous, vivid, and...
Dates:
2024
Future Hacked , 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cusick_william.pdf
Overview
"Future Hacked is a near future conspiracy thriller prototype for interactive virtual reality play as a narrative game. The player controls the choices of a greenhorn FBI agent assigned to interview a suspected mole in the NSA. In a series of interactive dialogue scenarios, the player investigates and pursues different possibilities based on what they choose to believe. The game moves forward without any fail states or restarts as the player's choices build up statistics to impact the narr...
Dates:
2019
Ghosts!, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_owens_robin.pdf
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"A young adult novel about a teenage girl named Sabrina who left a famous ghost hunting TV show for college after an on-set accident caused her to be able to see ghosts. After a new friend goes missing, Sabrina sees her ghost and is the only one who knows she's dead. While she tries to get justice for her friend's death, she has to adjust to college life, having a social life, and her feelings for her roommate's crush." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Girl at End of World, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_metter_laura.pdf
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"Girl at End of World' is a novel about a young girl who must deal with both the dramas of her teen life and the supernatural events that start to occur around her. She starts the book as anxious, judgmental, and unsure of how to handle the problems handed to her, leading her to chase after the paranormal rather than deal with the normal. By the end, she learns how to process and confront her problems, understanding the depth of people and issues alike, and by doing so, she is able to make...
Dates:
2021
Girl at the witching hour, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_siew_angela.pdf
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"Girl At The Witching Hour is a collection of poems about relationships." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Girl From the Moon, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kang_elisse.pdf
Overview
"What our minds label as "foreign," we tend to regard as exotic, threatening, or irrelevant. Our instinct is to neatly compartmentalize and hold at arm's length that which we have separated from ourselves. But what happens when the division between the foreign and familiar becomes ambiguous? Painful are the times in life when we discover the defection of the familiar to the foreign. A relationship with someone we love, an aspect of our own identity: it is disorienting, jarring, and unnerving...
Dates:
2016
Godsent, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_ganthier_ghanima.PDF
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"On the island of Toussiant, the Creole people labor for the Church of the Ever-Lasting Light. The Church, centered in the stronghold of Konstantanapolis, rules as a segregated theocracy. Ezekiel, a Creole man from the Ayiti village, finds civilian life after conscription in the Church's overseas armies, slowly eroding his will to live. The Church's discrimination of queer people—those proclaimed Sodomites and Masisi—is a closet he finds suffocating. Even GOD's angels notice how far the...
Dates:
2023
Godspeed, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_jackson_tara.pdf
Overview
"My thesis marks the beginning of a memoir about the mental, physical, and spiritual growth that stemmed from my experience as a competitive distance runner in high school and college. Running was both poison and antidote to my natural anxiety, teaching me to cope with my fears even as it brought a host of mental and physical issues: anxiety attacks, iron deficiency, mysterious collapses, and, in the end, an unexpected hip surgery that stripped me of my ability to run. Why did I keep...
Dates:
2020
Gold That Frames the Mirror, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_melendez_brandon.pdf
Overview
"Orbiting a daisy-chain of fascinations that range from heritage & family to grief, music, & mental illness, 'Gold That Frames the Mirror' wants to know what "home" means, even when the answers can seem too blood-bright to bear staring at. Yet these poems are meant to extend beyond uncomplicated sadness: even amid deep loss, there is the possibility of wonder & joy. These poems are haunted by history but never in service of it. These poems want to know what comes after elegy,...
Dates:
2019
Golden Delicious, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_scherny_emily.pdf
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"Along with a deep investigation of the human condition, this is a story that dissects, tests, and questions the foundations, fundamentals, and the fruition of a few lived-in experiences, and of the various full-circle warm-belly miraculous feeling of life happening. Ultimately, it all gets compared to one object—a Golden Delicious apple, whose symbolism, history, and lore (Biblical or otherwise) makes for a metaphor that both incites and soothes humanity's inclines and descents. The action...
Dates:
2022
Golder Birch Press Presents: The Light Bearer, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_wilson_chandler.pdf
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"From the perspective of the fictious independent, science fiction and fantasy publisher, Golden Birch Press, this master's project presents the evolution of a manuscript being prepared for publication. The fantasy novel undertaken by Golden Birch Press is entitled, 'The Light Bearer' by Roman Baker. Beginning with acquiring the title to determining manufacturing and financial details, this project shows the steps the founder and editor, Chandler Wilson, took to adapt this manuscript into a...
Dates:
2020
Gone Fishing, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_shahon_benjamin.pdf
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"Gone Fishing is a novel in progress that covers the formation and dissolution of a family, framed through a renegade fishing trip taken by father and son. The novel primarily covers two major periods in the characters' lives in parallel: the beginnings of parents Denise and Jared's romance in college and young adulthood, and Jared and Billy's fishing trip following the couple's years-long separation. The novel tackles themes of what makes adulthood, young love, and the stresses and...
Dates:
2022
Good lovin', 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_jackson_joshua.pdf
Overview
"Good Lovin' is a feature-length screenplay that tells the story of Joanne "JoJo" Gooding, an uptight college professor and Brooklynite, who has her world turned upside down by Duane "Sonny" Daring, a suave and carefree jazz musician from Harlem trying to restart his life after an unsuccessful music career. When Joanne needs inspiration for her book, they cross paths at a singles' mixer. Their relationship is far from perfect, but Joanne learns that sometimes love can be a good thing."...
Dates:
2016