Electronic thesis
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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Ten Essays, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_viehman_morgan.pdf
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"'Ten Essays' is a collection of narrative and memoir essays that explores what happens after a family fractures. Beginning with her mother's obsession with restoring old houses and the aftermath of her father's abrupt departure, the narrator examines both herself and her family through the lens of repeating patterns, unexpected symbols, and inherited dysfunction. In an honest portrait of her family, the narrator traces pivotal moments in her rural childhood, discovering truths hidden in the...
Dates:
2019
Tender, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_versyp_tandy.pdf
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"This feature-length dark comedy uses the tropes of the thriller genre to both satirize and honor the institution of marriage. The script also uses elements of melodrama and camp to speak directly to a queer audience, providing catharsis for emotional trauma specific to the LGBT community. This project is the culmination of a larger body of work aimed at transforming my episodic, autobiographical writing style into marketable, highly structured screenwriting—without losing my voice or...
Dates:
2020
Terrorismo, 2010
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Identifier: vm_2010summer_cayamcela_juan.pdf
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"Terrorismo is an animated graphic narrative about three friends who decide that they can no longer live a life of poverty and discrimination. They decide that their only course of action is to gain the attention of terrorist in hopes of joining him in his crusade of violent social change." -- Abstract
Dates:
2010
Tethers: On the Five Stages of Grief, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_chiu_chin_huen_maria.pdf
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"A narrative balletic pas de deux outlines the five stages of grief through the story of a girl who is left by the love of her life. When she experiences this loss, emotions overwhelm her as she uses the medium of dance to convey her heartbreak, her denial of the circumstances, her bargaining to get back what was once hers, her anger over the perceived betrayal, her depression during her darkest moments, and finally her acceptance of everything that is and will be. The story is depicted in a...
Dates:
2020
Thank You for Applying, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_grafton_kristen.pdf
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"High school graduation is fast approaching for senior Marjorie "Jorie" Jorie Haywood, and she's overwhelmed by everything: AP exams, prom committees, musical rehearsals, and her part-time job. food service shifts. Most importantly of all of this are the college applications. Jorie is sethas her heart set on attending the University of Florida, —in her mind, it's a given and always has been—so when UF waitlists her, she spirals, desperately searches desperately searching for a way to impress...
Dates:
2022
Thank You I'm Sorry I Love You Goodbye, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_lounds_dominic.pdf
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"What is home after immigration and displacement? Family after loss? Memory after dementia? Using interviews with members of my family, this thesis is an attempt to answer those questions for my benefit as well as to prompt viewers to consider such questions for themselves. It is a personal documentary that centers immigrant experiences because it is a narrative that comes from my Jamaican family and uses their words in their voices. The experience exists entirely in virtual reality and so...
Dates:
2022
That Uninspired Sort of Way, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_freeman_jade.pdf
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"This collection of short stories and flash are the best I've written during my graduate education at Emerson College. These stories follow a style distinctly my own, examining the human condition of individuals in their 20s. The men and women represented in these stories are adrift, not successful or happy, and are living inconsolable lives: a man starts digging to China to find his estranged wife, a young woman tries to find solace by accosting her favorite musician, a filmmaker attributes...
Dates:
2016
That's Amor/e & Pretty Grotesque, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_settineri_alessandra.pdf
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"That's Amor/e and Pretty Grotesque are two pilots steeped in immigrant culture as it operates within the U.S., particularly Latine culture. The pilots – all my scripts –also explore the significance of memory and how our past traumas and resulting perspectives play out in the present. The pilot of That's Amor/e shows a promising beginning for two young immigrants – Cuban and Italian – who meet at a low point in their lives, but find inspiration in each other to start a new lease on life....
Dates:
2022
The Active Empathy Project, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_byrne_laura.pdf
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"Although there is a great deal of research to support the use of an arts-based curriculum as a tool for teaching empathy, there are few peer-reviewed studies that support the specific application of theatre arts practices in teaching social and emotional skills. Therefore, this project attempts to illustrate the ways in which embodied theatre, in rehearsal, performance and training provides valuable techniques when applied to social and emotional learning. The project is grounded in...
Dates:
2021
The Angel, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_leon_david.pdf
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"THE ANGEL is a feature length horror film intended for theatrical release with a period setting and character-driven story. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, the film observes the "angelic" possession of a faded movie star and its twisted effect on her 12-year old daughter. This supernatural story examines the abusive relationship between a daughter and her mother through a grounded, psychological lens. Unlike many other films of it's kind, THE ANGEL attempts to shift the narrative from demons to...
Dates:
2023
The Angel of Death, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_shriver_madeline.pdf
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"Elizabeth Cox's entire life has been spent in the shadow of her twin sister, Katie. Her mother constantly punishes and abuses Elizabeth for any slight that she may have caused while her father does nothing to stop her. Though Katie is preferred over Elizabeth, the twins share a bond that is unbreakable. But then the unthinkable happens, Katie is found murdered in her apartment. Elizabeth is still coming to terms with her twin sister's murder when an injustice has occurred. Her sister's...
Dates:
2021
The apparatus, 2017
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Identifier: pw_2017fall_moore_nicholas.pdf
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"A startup proposal in media innovation that uses a content marketing model to grow from a blog to a publisher to a platform. The mission of the platform is to investigate the role of power in politics in life. The project is split into three parts: media criticism, content analysis, and growth plan." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
The Art of Chinese Paper Folding, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_chao_michael.pdf
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"This thesis investigates relationships between identity, mental health, and familial dynamics through the lens of growing up a mixed race Chinese-American. Both lyric and prosaic forms are used to explore how the act of remembering folds image and emotion together, becoming what we carry as memory, shaping our sense of self. The title is borrowed from a mid-20th century book on Chinese paper folding, which provided a framework for the construction of the collection. The act of folding paper...
Dates:
2021
The Art of Screaming Internally, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_rando_kristen.pdf
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"Bowie Robbins doesn't know much. But what she does know is designing clothes, her twin sister, Presley, her melodramatic mom and her boyfriend, Owen. That is, until Owen is caught cheating on her in front of the whole school. Reeling from the breakup, Bowie suddenly finds herself with lots of free time just as the theater workshop finds themselves without a costume mistress. With a nudge from her sister, Bowie takes on the role and discovers that she's capable of a lot more than she ever...
Dates:
2021
The Backside of God, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_seidel_hogan.pdf
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"'The Backside of God' is an experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist's relationship with their late uncle, Doug Seidel." -- Abstratct
Dates:
2020
The Body is Black, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_crocker_kristin.pdf
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""The Body is Black" is a memoir that follows the life of Kristin Crocker, a young, biracial woman who struggles with her personal identity in the face of familial turmoil. Kristin always felt she was different from other people, but it wasn't until her parents' divorce, her aunt's estrangement with her, and the 2016 presidential election, all of which happened concurrently, that she started to understand who she was. In a world founded on binaries and labels which limit people's personal...
Dates:
2022
The Bone Maker, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_cliff_tanya.pdf
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"When eleven-year-old Max, a brilliant boy with serious physical handicaps, and his best friend, Tucker, drag a bone out of the Lindenwood Forest, they unearth a twenty- year-old crime and set off a chain of events that threaten their lives. In their often- swashbuckling misadventures, they are joined by Max's cousin, Isabella, a Black teen from Detroit who's hiding secrets of her own, and Max's uncle, Jordan, charismatic ringleader for the family circus. Complicating matters, the body of an...
Dates:
2023
The book of strange migrations, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_haneyjardine_richard.pdf
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"Throughout the five mirror sequences of "the book of strange migrations"—each about different types of exile—I explore and explode traditional forms, particularly sonnets. The first sequence—thirteen poems—examines emerging gay sexuality (darkened by childhood abuse) and sexual maturation (against the backdrop of the AIDS pandemic's worst years). The second—eleven sonnets—traces a relationship that persists despite disappointments, deceits, and separations. The third sequence—fifteen...
Dates:
2021
The boots, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_noto_joseph.pdf
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"This collection of poems focuses on letter poems to a variety of people in my life. In between these letter poems there are a different blend of poems that offer a glimpse into the life of the writer. This work offers a well-balanced mix of emotional urgency and interior monologue. Often, my work involves details of what it is like living with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and this work is no different. The poems that are not letter poems often offer an inside view of the...
Dates:
2023
The Braid, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baron_gabriela.pdf
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"This thesis explores threads of identity, weaving together influences that shape the sense of self, including ancestry, childhood, culture, and religion. These themes spread across three sections; "on a loom" is a meditation on interfaith upbringing and the reconciliation of two belief systems, "heirloom" relates to paternal ties, and "bloom" speaks to maternal heritage. The collection highlights two matriarchs and how they lived out their individual cultures (Jewish and Colombian) and...
Dates:
2023