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Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

Blue Rebellion/Out of the Blue, 2023

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Identifier: vm_2023spring_ali_mehvish.pdf
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"Blue Rebellion is a project featuring a multimedia exhibition, as well as short-film documentary called, "Out of the Blue' which explores the story and colonial history of natural indigo dye, an indigenous product of Bengal that is now being revived in Bangladesh, through slow and sustainable fashion by local artisans and entrepreneurs. It is a project celebrating an important artisanal craft that exists at the intersection of indigenous expression and colonial legacy." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Blue Square, 2022

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Identifier: vm_2022spring_smith_thomas.pdf
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"Blue Square is a short narrative fiction film in the horror/comedy genre. The film was written and produced with the intent to dissect the caricature of the tortured artist, criticize the popular romanticism of an imagined link between creative talent with severe mental illness, and use the genre conventions of cosmic horror to visually represent the anxieties and fears that come with creating art in any medium." -- Abstract

Dates: 2022

Boal in Action: A creative means for exploring and ending the stigma on emotional disorders., 2020

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Identifier: te_2020spring_almassey_linsey.pdf
Overview "Through my research, I have found that connections between creative expression and positive mental health have existed for quite some time now, and my goal was to create a workshop setting that could be virtually done anywhere. The lesson plans you will read put [Augusto] Boal's techniques into practice in a six-week workshop setting. During the six weeks of workshops, participants will be guided through exploring, sharing, and reflecting on their personal experiences living with an...
Dates: 2020

Bob Dylan approximately, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_haney_paul.pdf
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"Bob Dylan Approximately traces a project I undertook in 2016 to listen to every Bob Dylan album in chronological order. Parts music criticism, immersion journalism, personal essay, memoir, and biography, this thesis leverages my experiences to better understand and appreciate Dylan's life and music; as a result, I come to better understand my own roots as a Dylan fanatic." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Bodysuits, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_mastrangelo_elizabeth.pdf
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"Bodysuits, a linked short story collection in progress, explores how influences such as food, dance, cultural mores, and relationships can shape body image, and how body image can inform sexuality, self-love, and self-loathing. All of the stories feature characters connected by blood or happenstance." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Book discoverability in the age of eRetail, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_ramachandran_shivangi.pdf
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The author "examine[s] how book publishers and booksellers can help consumers sift through a crowded marketplace to discover midlist books, and how they can adapt their business strategies to be financially sustainable." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Born of the Divine, 2021

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Identifier: pf_2021fall_maudlin_kate.pdf
Overview "Naomi Pierce has moved place to place for years trying to find the source of her strange curse that only appears when death is near. Settling in Los Angeles, she begins to find a home when her best friend vanishes while investigating the dissappearance of four yachters. Following her gut, that her friend disappeared on the water she gets help from Captain Dylan Crest to find Annalise but the truth is, the police are looking at her as the prime suspect. As Naomi digs further she soon...
Dates: 2021

Boy soup, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_weinstein_david.pdf
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"The author chronicles his first full year after graduating from Yale. In his quest for personal intimacy and professional success, David Weinstein must confront the role of his sexuality in leading a fulfilling life. He comes of age in 2011, as gay rights gain traction in the United States." -- Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Breach, 2024

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Identifier: vm_2024spring_yang_shuang.pdf
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"Breach is a 20-minute short fiction film that explores issues of boundaries between friends, trust, and privacy between lovers from an angle of a failing relationship. It tells of a day when Chen, a woman mid-20s, with suspicion of her partner Tom's loyalty, seeks proofs of infidelity in Tom's phone in a fight." -- Abstract

Dates: 2024

Break My Fall, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_berg_adam.pdf
Overview "After a traumatic head injury, Dylan Hendler Waxman, once a champion wrestler, has started a peculiar hobby: he waits outside train stations and photographs commuters; at the end of each month, he stalks someone home for the weekend. Dylan has left his Division I wrestling program and moved to Boston, to live with a family friend, Allie Houston and attend college with her. Stalking is a way for him to fill the void inside of him, to keep his mind off the realities of his new, trivial life....
Dates: 2019

Brecht in contemporary German theatre : Frank Castorf’s productions of Brecht’s plays from the perspective of postdramatic theatre, 2016

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Identifier: te_2016spring_schulte_hanife.pdf
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"This thesis analyzes the theatrical interplay between Brechtian theatre, postdramatic theatre, and Castorfian theatre." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Breeding Ground, 2019

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Identifier: sw_2019spring_gacita_joshua.pdf
Overview "Breeding Ground is a political horror story that reflects on the experiences and anxieties that come with growing up within traditional, heteronormative, male-dominated groups. It's a mediation on how American boys with privilege are raised in America and indoctrinated with certain values that can often be taken to a violent extreme. My work throughout this program has used the horror and science fiction genres to explore social and political issues such as class struggle, racism, the...
Dates: 2019

Bridging divides : catalyzing issue engagement using affective media, 2017

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Identifier: cm_2017summer_fryburg_jesse.pdf
Overview "This project was designed to test the efficacy of a purely affective model of issue-based communication, representing a context-based innovation in a social sector that has traditionally relied upon informative, fact-based public appeals. Using music and humor as primary affective hooks, this project sought to raise awareness of the need for civics education in Greater Boston, and, in doing so, increase demand for its provision. More specifically, this experiment sought to test whether...
Dates: 2017

Bridging Media Education and Community History in China, 2024

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Identifier: md_2024spring_lu_chunxiaoxue.pdf
Overview "Compared to many communities across China, Yangming Community in Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province boasts a profoundly rich historical heritage. Despite this, a notable gap exists among many teenagers in Yangming Community regarding their understanding of local history and culture. Within the framework of China's examination-oriented history education, young individuals are gradually losing interest in actively engaging with their local history, culture, and landmarks. This thesis project...
Dates: 2024

Bridging the Digital Divide: Reuniting Actors with their Audiences in Virtual Performance, 2021

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Identifier: te_2021spring_stouter_billie.pdf
Overview ""Limitations foster creativity. Tell an artist to paint anything, and he may struggle, but tell him to create something specific, in a set amount of time, for a certain audience, and these constraints might well push him to produce something he might never have come up with on his own." – John C. McCrae This article explores creative strategies for mitigating the challenges of virtual performance (as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic) to reunite audiences and actors. By utilizing technology...
Dates: 2021

Bring me to life, 2019

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Identifier: sw_2019spring_marini_nicholas.pdf
Overview "BRING ME TO LIFE is a crime thriller about a transgender private investigator searching for her dead partner's missing teenage daughter. The investigator soon uncovers a child trafficking ring run by politicians. It focuses on themes of identity, infrastructure, the spoiling of innocence and the struggle against power, with expressions of a mental state on the screen, graphic violence and assault, and transformative experiences. The script aims for authentic representations of minority...
Dates: 2019

Bringing Change, 2020

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Identifier: vma_2020fall_herth_brittany.pdf
Overview "In 2009, I chose to study homelessness as part of an assignment for my Media Ethic's course at Emerson College. For the next five years, I continued to explore the political, social, and economic challenges that undermined social progress in addressing homelessness in the United States. As of 2020, the challenge of reducing homelessness in the United States has not been met and experts fear that the Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate the existing crisis of homelessness in America." --...
Dates: 2020

Broken Little Beauties, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020fall_feller_brian.pdf
Overview "'Broken Little Beauties' is a collection of stories, each exploring the struggles of their flawed characters and worlds. These stories vary both in size and genre, ranging from literary to fantasy to strange fiction (and spreading across flash fiction, short story, and novelette). Follow the disturbing cyclical nature of life in 'Two Shawls,' and the struggles of an abused boy who's dream blurs with reality in 'The Woods, the Spider,' and join Markus's hunting trials on the dangerous island...
Dates: 2020

Bulletproof Bandit, 2022

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Identifier: vm_2022spring_derveloy_madeleine.pdf
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"Bulletproof Bandit is a female led dystopian short film that follows Bandit as she finds her voice in a world of chaos. This story is grounded in the need for Bandit to get life saving medicine for her sister Luna, with the help of their friend Mirah. However, at its core, it explores the world of passive and active resistance, survival, living life, and the powerful role of art in a broken society." -- Abstract

Dates: 2022

Buttercup, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_starkey_samantha.pdf
Overview "A twelve-year-old Polish immigrant arrives in Brooklyn in 1953, facing a set of hardships that are disctinctly quieter than those her family faced in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. From childhood to marriage to old age, Mary attempts to rectify the trauma of her wartime childhood, particularly the events surrounding the Warsaw Rising, with her experience as an American woman—including sexual violence, as well as innumerable smaller acts of aggression—in the latter half of the twentieth and the early...
Dates: 2020