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The Ladies' Musical Brigade and Performing Troupe, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_post_sydney.pdf
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"After discovering that the all-female performing troupe founded by her mother is out of money, Sophie Hamilton decides to spearhead one last effort to keep the show alive. They travel to a ramshackle theater in New York City and attempt to build their show from the ground up. Sophie finds herself torn between the troupe that has been her family and her entire world for twenty years and the pull of the outside world, particularly in the form of Samuel Ackermann, the son of one of the...
Dates:
2016
The Last Black Strife Film, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_collier_daequan.pdf
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"THE LAST BLACK STRIFE FILM, is a satirical comedy about a young Black filmmaker named Cam, who after becoming tired and overwhelmed by the traumatic and bleak images Hollywood keeps providing, decides to make a film that sets out to end this trend. Writing a film jam-packed with all the stereotypes and tropes, he could think of. From Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Tyler Perry and Spike Lee, Black artists have struggled with defining the role of the Black artist. We've seen this...
Dates:
2021
The Lesson, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_cadman_donald.pdf
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"The Lesson is a short narrative film that theatrically shows the effects of toxic masculinity, the rigor of musical performance, and the reconciliation of the past to support the future. Elijah Peters is a teen whose father Dick pressures him to become a high school wrestler. Elijah acquiesces to his father while he secretly pursues his passion by taking piano lessons with the strict instructor Thomas Vikander. The intersection of all three men leads to a confrontation that will uncover...
Dates:
2023
The limits of my world, 2017
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Identifier: ma_2017summer_cassano_heather.pdf
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A documentary that follows the transition of a young man with severe autism from his residential school to a new semi-independent living environment. Filmed from the intimate perspective of his older sister, the project seeks to understand Brian's personality beneath his disability. An autistic coming of age story, the documentary explores what it means to be a disabled adult in a neurotypical society.
Dates:
2017
The LinkedThru Project: Creating Narrative Resilience and Combating Stigma for Returning Citizens in the Digital Age, 2022
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Identifier: md_2022summer_zhang_amy.pdf
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"The LinkedThru Project is a digital literacy bootcamp that teaches formerly incarcerated people the technological skills, social media etiquette, and narrative building skills to create a LinkedIn profile. The goal of the project is to enable and empower them to proactively share an online narrative that provides an authentic view of oneself in the present, and combats the stigma of online criminal records, arrest articles, and mugshots. Research shows that re-entry programs do not...
Dates:
2022
The Little Shrimp, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_chen_zhilin.pdf
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"Cheng returns to Guangzhou after his maternal grandfather's death during his final summer break in the US. Jetlag, the loss of his grandfather and moving to a new place keeps him between the past and present reality. He gradually learns how the death affects everyone in his family. In the process he gets to know them as individuals rather than simply as different roles in the family." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
The Loneliest House: Wilson Years & Four Shores, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_mann_annabeth.pdf
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"Known for their incredible secret-keeping ability, the White House Residence Staff find themselves tested when President Wilson has a stroke and, rather than tell the public and surrender power to the unlikable VP, Edith takes over all executive decision making. In doing so, the Residence Staff must lie to Marshall and act as though their president (who a select number of the staff might even call a friend) is perfectly fine. With season one being a partially true re-telling of Woodrow and...
Dates:
2022
The Marvelous & Uncanny, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_mecham_merritt.pdf
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"'The Marvelous & Uncanny' is a dramatic screenplay inspired by classic film noir, the Surrealist movement, and the women at the heart of one of the darkest chapters of American labor history. Set in New York City in 1942, the story follows a young woman as she investigates the case of a missing boy. When the clues take her to Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery and the Surrealist leaders displaced due to Nazi occupation of Europe, she embraces the tenets of surrealist...
Dates:
2022
The Mediated Lives of Muslim College Students in the United States: Identity and Community on Instagram, 2019
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Identifier: pr_2019spring_marcucci_susannah.pdf
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"Since 9/11, Muslim-American communities have been subject to discrimination and surveillance (Cashin, 2010; Sirin & Fine, 2007; Tindongan, 2011) and the situation has continued through the early years of the Trump administration. This study investigates how Muslim college students in the United States navigate identity construction and community building on social media within this context. Using a grounded theory approach to analyze the data from the Instagram pages of six Muslim...
Dates:
2019
The Midnight Trolley and The Arlingtons, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_lee_ariele.pdf
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"THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY When a magical trolley appears in a child's closet and whisks her away from her turbulent home to find the Last Poppy Flower, her moody and disengaged older sister must embark on a perilous journey across fantastical/educational, art-history-inspired worlds to get them both back before the Bog Man destroys the trolley, and the childrens' parents return for the night. THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY is an animated childrens limited series featuring stylistic world-building,...
Dates:
2023
The miseducation of sexuality : a memoir of the development of sexuality over time, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_summer_lauralee.pdf
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"This thesis is the first quarter of a book-length memoir about the author’s sexual identity and preferences as they developed and were shaped throughout her life by her experiences and events of circumstance. The author describes the influence of her mother and her own life growing up in poverty on her sexuality, and how her high school years were also formative to her ideas of sexuality." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
"The Mississippi", 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_kernan_keely.pdf
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"The multiplatform documentary film, "The Mississippi," reflects back on Pare Lorentz's "The River" - 81 years later. Historically, it is a present day reflection on what Lorentz so clearly and passionately described in the first twenty minutes of "The River." To quote Lorentz's script, the story, the outrage, and the passion that he expressed about the Mississippi River still exists, "Poor land makes poor people." "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns - But at what a cost."...
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2019
The Mistress, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_bjerke_megan.pdf
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"The Mistress is the first installment of a young adult dark fantasy duology and follows twenty three-year-old Tayven as he finds himself abducted and imprisoned in Rivaena Castle, a place of legend and death. Chosen as an Offering for the Mistress, a woman cursed by the god of Death, Tayven's soul is destined to be ripped from him and ferried to the Underworld as punishment for a centuries long feud between the Mistress and the god. Desperate to escape with his life, Tayven fights, but...
Dates:
2021
The Music of the Spheres: An Anthology of Science-Infused Poetry, 1760-1925, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_guth_dana.pdf
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"The Music of the Spheres is a digital anthology of poetry written about or otherwise interacting with science, mathematics, technology, and/or medicine. This body of work is comprised of 70 English-language poems that were published between the times of the Industrial Revolution in Europe (around 1760) and the first quarter of the twentieth century (around 1925). It serves as a searchable database of writing and a repository of other science-literature resources, past and present, that will...
Dates:
2020
The New Tenant, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_amin_youssef_hesham.pdf
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"'The New Tenant' is a short mystery-thriller film that tells a story of a young man's escape from a violent incident and, perhaps, from who he is. The whole story revolves around international characters who end up living together, knowing nothing about each other. As Nader, the protagonist, tries to keep a low profile, he finds himself in the middle of more violence between his roommates that resonates with what he was initially escaping from. The film meditates on themes of loneliness,...
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2020
The Night, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_yang_xueyi.pdf
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"The Night is a three-channel video installation. It is based on a Holorhyme poem which is about the miscommunication between a couple while they are having an indirect conversation during the night. The conversation between reality and dream indicates the difference between verbal words and external meanings of the narrator. As the expression starts, the three channels show the different stages of the man and woman's understanding of each other's words and the scene goes from reality to...
Dates:
2019
The Nile Has Always Been Ours, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_mubarak_nehal.pdf
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"I often think about the implications of the word "home." As a child of immigrants, migration and displacement have shaped how I define the concept of home my whole life. As I was writing these stories, I realized that in the past I avoided writing settings because I don't feel a connection to any one place. The characters in these stories occupy places, because place is undoubtedly still important, but they also navigate relationships and loss. They try to understand why they go through the...
Dates:
2020
The Oncoming Storm, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_vantangoli_elizabeth.pdf
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"The Oncoming Storm is a young adult high fantasy novel about Eiowing – a girl who is perfectly content to live the life she has – whose safe world is shaken by rumors of a long buried evil which has returned. A quest is called to investigate and secretly find the one item that may vanquish the evil: a lost magickal sword. Representatives from the different provinces of Ithiel are assigned to the quest, including her brother Darion. When she secretly hears of a potential trap set for the...
Dates:
2023
The Passage of Friendship: Stories, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_surges_kathryn.pdf
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"This collection of short stories shines a light on the impermanence of friendship while also asserting its transformative potential. Two girls become close and get separated by fearful parents, only to meet up again in later stories with a whole new set of challenges. A young man in college wants his social life to return to the way it used to be in a time before severe insecurity. People want to impress, to hide the truth, to dismiss reality at great costs to themselves. At the heart of...
Dates:
2020
The Perfect Fifth, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_haynes_noelle.pdf
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"The Perfect Fifth is a feature length film designed as an independent film that features an autistic female lead coming to terms with identity after her diagnosis. Set in present day, this feature follows an autistic woman. who's relationship with music changes as she stops chasing the life her father set for her. With very few accurate representations of autistic women in the film industry, The Perfect Fifth is different in the ways it addresses nuero atypical behaviors in women." --...
Dates:
2023