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Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 848 Collections and/or Records:

Fragments, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016spring_esquilin_katherine.pdf
Overview

A short form adolescent television pilot, this project chronicles the memories of a battered transgendered streetwalker, who reflects on the day he met a freshly released juvenile delinquent, forging the most important friendship of his lifetime, on the day of the 2008 Presidential election.

Dates: 2016

Franchising Friday night lights the challenge of transmedia storytelling for realist drama, 2008

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Overview

Transmedia storytelling, or the expansion of narratives across multiple media, has found success in cult and niche genres. Can the concept be more broadly applied? This project explores television-based transmedia storytelling and its failure to date when

Dates: 2008

Free association, 2005

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A pilot for a public radio-style entertainment program which explores the common ground between a wide variety of artists, songs, genres and styles. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005

From a Spaceless Within, 2021

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Identifier: vma_2021spring_lapaglia_matthew.pdf
Overview "A filmmaker confronting the efficacy of telling one story over another rewrites expectations for a failed project about the artist known as Miles, whose planned installation addresses the experiments conducted by psychologist Harry Harlow in the late 1950s. Weaving together past and future, truth and fiction, From a Spaceless Within approaches the construction and dematerialization of the artist while asking where our intentions take root when we attempt to create anything at all." --...
Dates: 2021

From biscuits and bagels, 2007

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This book is an accompaniment to a short motion graphics piece set to music, which uses still photos and video to juxtapose location, culture and religion, most notably urban versus rural, in the personal context of family growth and evolution. -- abstrac

Dates: 2007

From Russia, my love, 2002

 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: 2002

Frozen memories, 2005

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Frozen Memories is a 20-minute dramatic film encompassing the depths of friendship between two girls. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005

Full circle, 1999

 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: 1999

Future Hacked , 2019

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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cusick_william.pdf
Overview "Future Hacked is a near future conspiracy thriller prototype for interactive virtual reality play as a narrative game.  The player controls the choices of a greenhorn FBI agent assigned to interview a suspected mole in the NSA.  In a series of interactive dialogue scenarios, the player investigates and pursues different possibilities based on what they choose to believe. The game moves forward without any fail states or restarts as the player's choices build up statistics to impact the narr...
Dates: 2019

Garrick, 2007

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Garrick is an original short fictional narrative composed by live-action captured on high definition video conveyed with computer generated imagery and classical animation. The film uses match-move camera tracking technology to integrate live-action sequ

Dates: 2007

Gaze beyond the horizon collaborative education with South Africans, 2000

 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: 2000

Gender, genre, and nationalism in 21st century Bollywood cinema : a socio-cultural analysis of on-screen romance, 2007

 Item — Item 0113502908206: [Barcode: 0113502908206]
Overview

This thesis attempts to explore the intricate relationship between Hindi cinema and its diverse audience groups. -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

Generation why?, 1998

 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: 1998

Getting there, 1998

 Item — Item 0113503148471: [Barcode: 0113503148471]
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A 25 minute interview-based documentary that focuses on young artists in America. This video is constructed of several small character portraits of artists involved in various artforms. These young artists discuss their views on creativity, art versus com

Dates: 1998

Girl power all dolled up, 2010

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Overview

The development of identity in pre-teen and adolescent girls is being influenced by popular culture. The media sends the message to girls that they are strong and have the power to make choices about who they are and who they want to become. They call it

Dates: 2010

Going forward, 2010

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Going Forward is a pilot for a TV series that aims to motivate the viewers to become volunteers for local non-profit organizations. The pilot focuses on Jumpstart, an organization whose main goal is to ensure that every child in America enters school prep

Dates: 2010

Goodness, 2007

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Her subject draws attention to the female individual and her thoughtful struggle for self-realization, within a family/social context that must always be understood, as the only means by which one gains a balanced motion forward in life. -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

Graceland girls, 2012

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Educating its adolescent girls has proven to be the cornerstone of Kenyan development. At the Graceland girls school in central Kenya, a unique private boarding school for underprivileged teen girls, students are not only given the rare chance to receive

Dates: 2012

Grand prospects, 2018

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Identifier: wf_2018spring_dier_lindsey.pdf
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: 2018

Grassroots in the global network : BostonLocalvores.org, 2009

 Item — Item 0113503148364: [Barcode: 0113503148364]
Overview

This research explores how the global network of the web can be used to cultivate and enable social and political organization on a local, grassroots scale. The accompanying web site, BostonLocalvores.org, exemplifies this. --Abstract.

Dates: 2009