Electronic thesis
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The House on Holten Street, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_denault_jacques.pdf
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"Jan Moreau is living with her parents when her mother begins to act strangely. Jan decides to get to the bottom of her mother's affliction, when she discovers that they aren't as alone in the house as they had thought. She quickly uncovers that her parents, and the house, have secrets. Hoping to help her mother before it's too late, Jan is forced to grapple with her parents' endless arguing, and the house's haunting influence. In her attempts to uncover the truths behind the secrets, Jan is...
Dates:
2021
The Housekeeper, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_arabkouchehkhatibi_masoud.pdf
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"The Housekeeper is a short narrative drama, set in the marginal area of a mid-Atlantic city in The United States of America. Martha Desimone, a young woman who work as a cleaner in a hotel room finishes work and join her mother to do some grocery shopping before heading home and having dinner with her family. This film portrays aa day of the life Martha who suffers from a very toxic codependent family dynamic which she ultimately won't find a healthy way out of." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
The Impact of the Chinese Undergraduate Acting Training System on Students Engaged in Screen Acting and Theatre Acting, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_zheng_shuyu.pdf
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"This thesis will explore the curriculum and training patterns of the relatively uniform Chinese acting education and training system for students in college with different career plans. Chinese undergraduate acting training is very systematic. Nearly all the professional courses of Chinese acting majors are fixed and uniform, according to this standard system. The courses are divided into four categories: vocal, physique, lines, and acting. All undergraduate students majoring in acting...
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2021
The Invisible Guests, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_hamedi_leyla.pdf
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"It's believed that our souls can linger for seven days after death. When Ziya Roshan's older sister Yalda kills herself, Ziya sets off to find Yalda's soul and bring her back before her time is up. She finds herself in an in-between world where the fairy tale demons she knows from childhood stories keep watch over the souls, "the invisible guests." Just like all stories, there's a price. To return with her sister, she must complete three tasks. Ziya completes each with the help of a...
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2024
The Invite, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_thibault_nicholson.pdf
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"After 10 years, since the death of his mother, Jason is getting ready to be married and sends an invite his father, Richard. Receiving no response to his invitation, Jason comes home to get an answer in person. In the midst of seeking a response Jason also confronts his own true feelings and finally speaks them aloud. He discovers that his feelings are not the only at play but also those of his father and sister, Rachael, who also lost something the day his mother died. When an invitation...
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2024
The jungle of fortune, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_urias_elizabeth.pdf
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"The story of the Del Llueve family. Living in a lush jungle set just outside of time, the peace and harmony of the village is disrupted by the arrival of the Coronel and his army of soldiers. When the Coronel decides to establish law and order in the jungle, secrets are revealed. As more and more of the Del Llueves fall victim to the Coronel, the family must band together to survive." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The Keeper, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_hill_cabrera-contaoi_jessica.pdf
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"The Keeper is an action-adventure series which follows a very unlikely hero, a middle-aged Latina mom, who still has fire in her belly for life and could give Indiana Jones a run for his money. The pilot explores themes of ageism and sexism and aims to show that women have more to offer the world as they age. The thesis behind the pilot is that an older female can carry a show like this without leaning on sex appeal alone. My body of work has focused on female heroes who break the Hollywood...
Dates:
2020
The King Of Man: Bound in Mud and Straw Chapters 1–8, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_goldsher_noah.pdf
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"'Bound in Mud and Straw' is the first book of 'The King of Man,' a trilogy comprising the historical fiction memoir of Nilus Komnenos, a Greek eunuch from Constantinople who travels to the Island of Man and becomes embroiled in the affairs of the Norse–Gaels of Britain and Ireland during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE. A noble by birth, but captured and enslaved as a child, Nilus chronicles his life story—one of hardships endured, secrets kept, and bonds both honored and...
Dates:
2020
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...
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2021
The Last Library in the Galaxy, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_wherren_annakatherine.pdf
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"On an asteroid in a belt near the center of the Milky Way sits the last library in the galaxy. It's a place where one is just as likely to find a first edition copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as an ancient alien timeship. Rowena isn't entirely sure how she found the position, but, reeling from her twin sister's death, she told herself, she was looking for an adventure. Just when she thinks she's setting in, it turns out the library's aging AI CardCAT starts acting strange. What...
Dates:
2024
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...
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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 Malice, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_hauth_tyler.pdf
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"The Malice is a completed novel that explores the fictional town of Harrow, Arkansas, where two young boys go missing every summer, and nobody—not the Sheriff, not the teachers, not even the missing kids' parents—seem to give a lick. It's only the boys in Harrow who know something is amiss, and when they grow up, they somehow forget, too. Fortunately for the boy who goes missing at the beginning of this book (Michael), his friends Doug, Floyd, Toni, and Jay haven't finished growing up yet,...
Dates:
2024
The Manuscript, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_sarah.pdf
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"Thirteen witches must be ritually executed by the Basarab Priest-King to cure the Empire's plague. With the capture of the final witch, Rue, this deadly rite is hours away. But with the help of the twelve other imprisoned witches, Rue escapes, taking with her the first clue to a different, witchly, ritual--one that would cure the plague, strip the Basarabs of their power, and leave the witches alive. The Priest-King's nephews hunt Rue as she searches the Empire for further clues. Merrick,...
Dates:
2024
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 Mayan Vagabond, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_piken_emily.pdf
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"Esmeralda Lopez's biggest concern is choosing a "responsible" career path, until she gets an email from her mother's kidnapper. To save her mother's life, Esme must travel to her birthplace—Tegucigalpa, Honduras— to an archeological dig site she didn't know her mother had, and find the third in a collection of mysterious runes, all in ten days. Once there, Esme is stuck in close quarters with her mother's mysterious partner, handsome Brit, Daniel Pentwood, and the Tia she hasn't seen in...
Dates:
2024