Electronic thesis
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Found in 1032 Collections and/or Records:
Aster and Sidney, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_temple_sean.pdf
Overview
"Aster and Sidney is a 19-minute narrative short film directed by Sean Temple and written by Sean Temple and Sarah Wisner. Aster and Sidney are survivors. What destroyed their world is unknown, but what keeps them alive is a constant state of vigilance. Former strangers, they have bonded together against the threat of those who would harm them for the food in their packs or the shoes on their feet. They travel away from the city, instinctively seeking isolation in the hope that wilderness...
Dates:
2016
Astray, 2018
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Identifier: vm_2018spring_lichtman_samuel.pdf
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"A minimalist thriller-mystery that follows a young man as he searches for help for an injured dog that he hit on an isolated, rural highway. The film deals with the themes of isolation, guilt, masculinity, and pain." --page 8.
Dates:
2018
At Night, Look Up: Essays, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_vassot_chloe.pdf
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"This thesis is a collection of essays exploring the different facets of the author's relationship to bodies and embodiment, illness or the lack of it, and how we grieve what we lose. The essays cover ground from Pennsylvania to Virginia to Rome as they contemplate how religion, medical diagnostic norms, homophobia, and the instructions of misogyny shape how the author learns to understand herself." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Augmented identity in public art, 2018
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Identifier: cm_2018summer_dominique_stanley.pdf
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"Public art, through the use of interactive technology like Augmented Reality, might shift how we talk about the identity of a community. As development changes the landscape and eventually the culture of a neighborhood, this paper asks the question, 'can public art through interactive technology help play a role to preserve a community's spirit?'" --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Avatars, apps, & autism : an innovative approach to facilitate social language, 2018
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Identifier: cd_2018spring_parent_kelsey.pdf
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"Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prefer communicating via computers, rather than face-to-face. We analyzed how four adolescents with ASD used social language in a face-to-face conversation, followed by two conversations with the same partner represented as a computer avatar. Specifically, we investigated the use of contingent language in response to close-ended questions and to bait-and-hook statements. Bait-and-hook statements created a natural opening in conversation for...
Dates:
2018
Awe, an elicitor of cognitive processes : considerations of its use and function as a pedagogical tool, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016spring_burmester_daniel.pdf
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"This paper discusses an approach to considering the affect 'awe' as a pedagogical tool and an inciter of cognitive and affective processes. Utilizing qualitative research on the topic, as well as educational, cognitive, psychological and neuro-psychological theorists, the paper argues that an educator can harness and utilize awe stimuli to allow a learner to simultaneously experience affect automaticity and a need for accommodation, making it possible for awe and awe stimuli to act as a...
Dates:
2016
Azimuth, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_mcgrath-conwell_devin.pdf
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"Azimuth is a feature-length film written with theatrical distribution in mind. It is conceived to feature a diverse cast of heroes/protagonists within a story designed to examine themes of duty, anti-fascism, and chosen family. The setting is the eponymous fictional moon Azimuth, the last stop in a galaxy where a fascist government enforces violent control. The story follows a long-separated couple and their compatriots as they contend with whether to stay and fight the forces of evil or...
Dates:
2023
Babies, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016fall_shapira_yuval.pdf
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"Babies is a story about a young mother who awakens in the middle of the night to the sound of her baby crying. She sets off in her nightgown to buy some formula to feed her child. At a nearby 24 hour grocery store, the mother purchases the baby food, but then, mysteriously, instead of turning back, she is forced to drift further and further away from her home and her child." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Bad sleeper, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_potrykus_joel.pdf
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"After the death of her father, traveling saleswoman Charley assembles a checklist to overcome her anxieties and give her the confidence to take out the life insurance company that cheated her family." --page 6.
Dates:
2018
Ballad of the Dragon, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_wartalski_haley.pdf
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"An arranged marriage between the most powerful Vampire Clans that's more than meets the eye. A group of characters carving a different path from the old archaic ways of the Vampire world. The rumblings of a revolution. In this dark fantasy romance, Runa Dragomiraz and her inner circle have been slowly plotting over the years waiting for the perfect time to overthrow the Dragomiraz Clan and any other Vampire in league with them, including the Xenos Clan. Runa's always been willing to put...
Dates:
2024
Baristas, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_pronley_edward_james.pdf
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"BARISTAS is a half-hour comedy that follows a young woman on a journey of selfdiscovery and the bonds she forms between her co-workers along the way. Drawing from my own personal experience as a Barista at Starbucks, the stories in the show and the relationships between characters are directly related to real events and people in my life. Within the Thesis are two episodes for the show as well as a show bible that further explores the plot, characters, tone, and themes of the series." --...
Dates:
2020
Bayou Whispers, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_wood_richard.pdf
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"Bayou Whispers is a supernatural thriller that tells the story of Jeannine LaRue, the sole survivor of her family after the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of the storm, she is "rescued" and held hostage as a sex slave, finally found and saved months later by sheriff's deputy Curtis Jones. Twelve years after Katrina, Jeannine is a new attorney who returns to New Orleans to save her old friend Curtis Jones—now a local thief and trafficker of stolen goods—after...
Dates:
2019
Be Safe Out There, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_llewellyn_noelle.pdf
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"Be Safe Out There is a feature film script that follows an unreliable Black woman scarred by a devastating childhood trauma, who reluctantly agrees to babysit her estranged older sister's children when her sister's boyfriend wants to propose on Halloween. Barely able to tolerate her two nieces and nephew, she shepherds the children from the Westchester suburbs into New York City, where they unsuspectingly find themselves targeted by multiple contract killers and are forced to detour across...
Dates:
2024
Before Completion, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_chen_xi.pdf
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"Before Completion is a short film about a painter's creative process: Lydia is a young artist who just received her first offer to paint for a gallery opening exhibition. When struggling for the best inspiration, she had a dream about different eyes and woke up feeling the urge to draw them out. Used up her imagination, Lydia started to look for a perfect subject in real life. She met this beautiful woman in a park but missed her out of miscommunication eventually. Confronting her...
Dates:
2019
Before I Go, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_duran_mendez_arantxa.pdf
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"Before I Go' is an experimental short film about a granddaughter's love letter to her recently passed grandmother. Shot in 16mm film, as well as 35mm photography, the film blurs the lines between past, present, life and death. Both Ektachrome and Negative 50D footage were used to delineate jumps in timeline and shifts in mood and tone. The film is inspired by the works of Isabel Allende and the magical realism genre. It questions the idea of physically being, and then being no more, and how...
Dates:
2021
Beliker, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_drake_kaasteen.pdf
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"On the islands of Beliker, Nakws'aatí people of the Tlagu tribe are killed, imprisoned, or re-educated. These are the witches. When S'áge, a twelve-year-old boy whose father had been hiding his son's Nakws'aatí side for six years, warns his village about a dangerous premonition he has had, his life is blown into chaos. Disowned by his father and shunned by his village, S'áge must learn to survive in a place where magic is persecuted. For the next seven years all S'áge wanted was to stay...
Dates:
2022
Below the Bloody Sea, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_wallen_jocelyn.pdf
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"This thesis is Act 1 of a queer fantasy romance novel with an estimated ending word count of 90-100 thousand words. It is a dual point of view work that follows Jarryn Hadeon, the captain of a cursed, mermaid-hunting vessel, and Trig Kaicero, a trans man on a journey to deliver his late mother's ashes to their ancestral homeland. The work aims to lovingly investigate queer love, the ways in which our lineage changes and challenges us, and the depth of experience of queer identities through...
Dates:
2023
Beneath the light : (Bajo la luz), 2017
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Identifier: vm_2017spring_yanez_mariaantonieta.pdf
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"The short film Beneath The Light shot on super16 follows the abrupt journey of an actress undergoing a mental and emotional crisis." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Beneath the Light of Three Moons, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_lagro_kallyn.pdf
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"After centuries beneath the rule of the tyrannic Dawa dynasty, the magic of Lunata has been sequestered to near extinction. With a child of the full moon being born just once every few generations, it seems fated when the second Dawa prince is be born with the bloodline. As the rest of the empire is subjected to religious persecution if caught worshipping the ancient lunar gods; Vestu-In, Rehsin and Sihn-Rah, the outlook for Lunata seems bleak. But when it comes to light that all three...
Dates:
2022
Beside the Wine Dark Sea, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_burke_anna.pdf
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"'Beside the Wine Dark Sea' is a novel-length retelling of Homer's 'The Odyssey' from the perspective of three female characters: Penelope, her handmaid Melantho, and the goddess Athena. The story explores familial, class, and gender relations in mythic Mycenean Greece, though some liberties are taken with historical facts. As Athena narrates, the two mortal protagonists struggle against the relentless onslaught of Penelope's suitors, all the while grappling with the calamitous effects of...
Dates:
2021