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Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 886 Collections and/or Records:

Green, 2021

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Identifier: sf_2021spring_lumumba_menelek.pdf
Overview "BYRON "BRICK" WILSON (Black, 40s) has just been released from a nine-year prison sentence for selling Marijuana. His best friend, ALLEN "A-TEE" THOMPSON, (Black, 40s) waits for Brick at the prison gates. As A-Tee drives Brick home, he is pulled over by Narcotics Detective DOUG SMITH (Black, 40s). Doug welcomes Brick home and provides a coded warning against going back on the street. Brick discovers his mother, TINA, (Black, 60s) has breast cancer. Tina dies the next day. Brick decides to...
Dates: 2021

Grief of the living dead : George Romero and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, 2008

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This thesis argues the relationship between humans and zombies in George Romero's four zombie films follows the stages of grieving described by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in On Death and Dying. -- abstract.

Dates: 2008

Grown bodies, 2007

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Grown Bodies is an interactive website with the purpose of exploring body image and eating disorders tied to family dynamics... -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

Hairdryer Treatment, 2022

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Identifier: sw_2022spring_franklin_austin.pdf
Overview "HAIRDRYER TREATMENT is a feature length film designed for streaming platforms that features a diverse ensemble cast, exploring the concept of team as family. Set in 1982, the first year that the NCAA recognized women's sports championships, this comedy follows a fictional collegiate soccer program in their first year of competition. While there are numerous team-sport comedies that follow men, the amount that have women as the focus pale in comparison. HAIRDRYER TREATMENT attempts to change...
Dates: 2022

Hairytale, 2013

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Hairytale is a self-portrait project in which I photograph myself without removing body hair, including underarm hair, arm hair and leg hair. At the end of the project I video document myself removing socially wanted hair, head hair and eyebrows to create

Dates: 2013

Happiness transporter, 2004

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A 15-minute video documentary that tells the story of Mr. Paul Gerrish, a Boston subway conductor. He always amuses his passengers with singing and joking, and this distinguishes him from other subway conductors. -- abstract.

Dates: 2004

Happy birthday, 1999

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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: 1999

Happy hunting, 2008

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Happy Hunting is a short personal documentary about a person's search to find the definition of happiness. The film includes the filmmaker's struggle to find happiness, as well as her journey across the country to interview various strangers about the eve

Dates: 2008

Happy to Be With You, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_cong_biwei.pdf
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"Happy to Be With You is a short narrative that depicts the emotional bond between an old woman and her lifelong AI robot. It raises the discussion of the potential relationship between humans and AI. It is also a film about companionship." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Hard drive, 2009

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Hard Drive is a dark comedy following an insecure college student who becomes increasingly resentful and unhinged when his computer begins doing everything for him, from schoolwork to managing his love life. -- abstract.

Dates: 2009

Hard times for hoboes, 2008

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Hard Times for Hoboes tells the story of Thelonious, an old time hobo, stuck in a modern city where businessmen reign supreme. This absurd story satirizes out of control capitalism and its subsequent destruction of America's soul. -- abstract.

Dates: 2008

Hard way home, 2013

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A personal documentary about letting go of expectations and past trauma while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. -- abstract.

Dates: 2013

Harmony, 2009

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Harmony is the story of Aldous, a misanthropic host of a life style and design cable program. Dissatisfied with the mediocrity of his culture, he has emotionally and philosophically closed himself off from the world. By chance he meets a woman named Harmo

Dates: 2009

Harold, 2008

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A short silent film about Harold; a socially inept and isolated man, who gains enjoyment from secretly watching and photographing women. One day the tables are turned on Harold when he finds out that he is in fact being watched. -- abstract.

Dates: 2008

Harvard Zero, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_smith_warren.pdf
Overview "While the script centers around a historical turning point for the United States with serious global impact, it focuses this moment on one individual and his choice to make a speech about standing up for what is right. Reframing this massive moment as one character's personal journey helps audiences both understand and empathize with events that occurred over 75 years ago. Though the U.S. tends to lean into the savior narrative of World War II, the script highlights how unpopular the idea...
Dates: 2019

Harvest moon, 2013

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'Harvest Moon' is a feature-length fictional narrative investigating the elements of human behaviour concerning love, sacrifice and obsession. The premise of the story revolves around life and death, the way we cope with our emotions and the hope we carry

Dates: 2013

Haute multimedia marketing campaign, 2005

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Haute is a start-up company attempting to break into a luxury market for beauty products and candles. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005

Have You Seen Me?, 2021

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Identifier: sf_2021spring_tate_maron.pdf
Overview "Lucy Brownstein is beautiful and mysterious, but we already knew that, because like all stories about women like Lucy, she disappears. The only thing she leaves behind is security footage from the laundromat a Sunday morning in which she can be seen folding laundry, taking a phone call, and then leaving it all behind. John Doherty, who knows Lucy from spending mornings together at her bus stop, told her a dark secret of his own the morning of her disappearance. When John starts digging into...
Dates: 2021

Heads, 2024

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Identifier: sf_2024spring_diem_nguyen.pdf
Overview "Ever since he could hold a crayon, Robbie has drawn the people around him in a peculiar way - they appear more as misshapen, macabre supernatural creatures rather than human. Although unsettled, Robbie's father David dismisses everything as Robbie's childish imagination. These drawings are no real sources of concern, that is, until Robbie's grade school class has a new homeroom teacher, Mr. Percy. Robbie starts making drawings of a man with children's heads growing out of his back. Shortly...
Dates: 2024

Heads or tails, 2004

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Heads or Tails is a whimsical sotry about an anxious eight-year old boy named Jesse Crowley who picks up a quarter on his way to school. In an attempt to bond with Jesse, his stepfather engages him in a seemingly harmless discussion, sending mixed signals

Dates: 2004