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The Lesson, 2023

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Identifier: vm_2023spring_cadman_donald.pdf
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "'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
Overview "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

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
Overview "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
Overview "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 Miraculous, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_fdail_monia.pdf
Overview "The story takes place in nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties Morocco. The protagonist, Ayur, is a miraculous child who survives a severe elephantiasis. He and his family encounter many hurdles and obstacles throughout his childhood and journey to recovery. She, a mysterious creature, that follows Ayur everywhere ever since his birth, is despised, feared, admired, and blamed by Ayur's mother who obsesses over her baby especially when he falls ill. Rabab, the mother, who recounts the...
Dates: 2024

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
Overview "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."...
Dates: 2019

The Mistress, 2021

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Identifier: pf_2021fall_bjerke_megan.pdf
Overview "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
Overview "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 Nature of It All, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_hammond_ryanna.pdf
Overview "This master thesis aims to portray the nature of human life in light of our modern capitalistic world. Ego has been running amok on Earth—via Human Consciousness—for a few thousand years, which has led to disconnection and destruction on all levels: human to human, human to fellow animal, human to Mother Earth. However, there is hope for harmony, for this planet and all of its creatures to return to a state of Heaven again. Across three sections, entitled (1) a long-drawn sidewalk, (2)...
Dates: 2024

The New Tenant, 2020

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Identifier: vma_2020spring_amin_youssef_hesham.pdf
Overview "'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,...
Dates: 2020

The Night, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_yang_xueyi.pdf
Overview "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
Overview "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