Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts
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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Designing beauty in education : reconstructing the classroom with technology, 2003
Item — Item 0113502663587: [Barcode: 0113502663587]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2003
Deterioration and Dejection: Cycles of Despair While Surviving a Cataclysmic Event, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_leonard_kyle.pdf
Overview
"This film is a short personal essay about my struggle with facing a dual diagnosis of Treatment Resistant Depression and a relapse in addiction to opiates while living through my greatest fear: a global pandemic. My opiate addiction had receded to a point of no longer being an issue in my day to day life. However, when the deaths of several close friends of mine coincided with the start of the covid-19 pandemic, I relapsed and started using again. Through voiceover, old family footage, and...
Dates:
2022
Devilment, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_larocca_eric.pdf
Overview
"Devilment is a horror-thriller with dark fantasy elements about a videogame designer who finds her and her younger brother's life forever changed after they encounter an infamous video game with gruesomely metamorphic properties. Examining themes of abandonment, transformation, and the inability to love, the film concentrates on a young woman involuntarily thrust into a role of motherhood as she begins to suspect her brother is experiencing a grotesque metamorphosis after he plays a rare...
Dates:
2019
Digital environments Typediff, 2001
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2001
Disconnected, 2003
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2003
Divine Providence, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_mercier_neal.pdf
Overview
"Divine Providence is a narrative short film set in and inspired by the city of Providence, Rhode Island. Building on the city's history of organized crime and taking place during the winter of 1978, the film follows a tumultuous confession that brings the lives of a lonely parish priest and a guilt-ridden mobster crashing together, forcing the two men to tear open old wounds and confront the demons of their respective pasts. A dialogue-driven chamber piece, Divine Providence explore...
Dates:
2022
Doctor Underground, Too Much Blood Phuckette Park, Magnolia, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_lopez_ricardo.pdf
Overview
"This project contains two scripts. DOCTOR UNDERGROUND is a hour-long medical drama that follows the women's health crisis in current day Nicaragua by navigating the dark world that is the health care system: power, money, greed, privilege, religion, and politics — nothing's off-limits. When Dr. Micheala Galiano, a highly skilled gynecologist, and woman's rights activist, finds herself stuck after trying to change the corrupt system from the inside, she goes on a journey to expose the...
Dates:
2021
Does a Bear Need Many Glasses, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016summer_cui_wei.pdf
Overview
"Does a Bear Need Many Glasses? is an eight-minute fiction short film. It tells the story about a man who always wears a bear costume, which does not have a smile on the face. He goes to a craft store to buy some drinking glasses and falls in love with the woman who runs the store. When he gets back home he cuts his bear face to make a smile. The next day, he catches a thief who is stealing from the store and fights the thief. But he is defeated and the woman thinks he is attacking the man....
Dates:
2016
Does radio consolidation have political consequences?, 2004
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Overview
This thesis examines whether owners of radio stations may be using their power in a political way...This thesis presents evidence that suggests some individuals who are controlling content at radio companies have reduced airplay to artists for espousing p
Dates:
2004
Dolores, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_perez_carmen.pdf
Overview
"In a thematic retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a man is forced to bring his elderly mother home from her nursing home after she is evicted on grounds of non-payment. She has severe dementia that gets worse the longer he attempts to care for her, and eventually he begins to wonder if she would simply be better off dead. "Dolores" explores themes of grief and guilt before a loved one's passing, the role of men as caregivers, and a broken healthcare system that abandons...
Dates:
2024
Dorothy, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_legrow_molly.pdf
Overview
"This masters' thesis contains both written artist statements as well as a full-length feature screenplay titled Dorothy. Through this project, I was able to explore familial dynamics and reunions in the face of extreme grief. This thesis project studies grief through its power to unite as well as completely tear apart. In my screenplay, the two main characters, Sadie and Rose, are estranged sisters who suddenly lose their mother, Dottie. They are forced to work through their deep seated...
Dates:
2022
D.O.S.E., 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_jean-francois_castel.pdf
Overview
"This hour pilot sews together fantasy and drama to explore the concept of true happiness and how to obtain it. Avery Goodwin reunites with her estranged magical family to solve a brewing mystery that exploits the desires of humans for personal gain. Fairy Godmothers are at the center of this series because I view them as the most selfless creatures in fiction. Their whole role is to cater to the needs of mortals. The main theme that echoes in all of my work is the pursuit of happiness and...
Dates:
2020
Double Negative, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_thompson_gregory.pdf
Overview
"Double Negative is an LGBTQ psychological thriller about a voyueristic and truecrime obsessed photography student who takes on the identity of her recent lover after witnessing the one night stand's accidental death. The film follows our protagonist as she frames another woman for the crime, only to find her intended victim is a more formiddible match than she intially anticipated. Intertwining elements of black comedy, surrealism, and the potential for an unreliable narrator, Double...
Dates:
2020
Dove sei tu, 2005
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A ninety-minute original fictional narrative that tells the story of Alice, a young woman with a passion for making documentaries and traveling the world. Upon returning to her Italian hometown, following her graduation from an American university, Alice
Dates:
2005
Drawn, 2008
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Overview
Drawn is a 20-minute fictional narrative video. It is an offbeat comedy about relationships, fate, and the search for love, told through the story of a male protagonist and his best friend. The two characters offer a dual look at the universal human exper
Dates:
2008
Dream, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_rodriguez_valeria.pdf
Overview
"A middle-aged landscaper reflects on his decision to abandon his athletic ambitions and reevaluates his pursuit of the American Dream." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Dream Factory, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022fall_nigam_aarushi.pdf
Overview
"Dream Factory is a feature-length, hybrid documentary following the "below-the-line" crew of a big-budget Bollywood film. A meditation on the intensely physicial, yet invisible, labor behind India's most popular art form, it is also a personal essay on the magic and contradictions that are the Indian film industry. Borrowing Bollywood's grammar to tell the stories of its most invisible workers, the film delves into the power of storytelling, and raises questions about the price that must be...
Dates:
2022
Drive thru love, 2000
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2000
Duppy and the Dybbuk, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_brown_aaron.pdf
Overview
"Duppy and the Dybbuk is a romantic comedy about a young mixed race couple whose love is tested by the supernatural opposition of the ghosts of the lovers' grandmothers. The story deals with themes of assimilation, xenophobia, and the fraught nature of cultural inheritance in modern day America. As the grandmother ghosts attempt to break up the young couple, the lovers must figure out what is going on and grow into better versions of themselves, learning not to entirely discard the past in...
Dates:
2019
Dysfunctional norm, 2001
Item — Item 0113503148455: [Barcode: 0113503148455]
Overview
A ten minute, one take film that takes a voyeuristic glance at a family that is falling apart from the inside out. --Abstract.
Dates:
2001