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Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 893 Collections and/or Records:

Metamorphous of the monarch, 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

Meteorite Gem Show and Virgins, 2023

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Identifier: sf_2023spring_galloway_mackenzie.pdf
Overview "METEORITE GEM SHOW is a live-action and animated show that follows the life of Zula, an 8-year-old girl who has a knack for gems, crystals, and all things mystical. She is a super-nerd and does not engage with the likes of other puberty-stricken 8-year-olds. While other girls are concerned with makeup and viral dances, Zula is fascinated with crystals, the stars, and flowers or has her head engulfed in a YA book. Zula has a special ability. She draws unique portraits. They come to life and...
Dates: 2023

Middlewives and IRL, 2020

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Identifier: sw_2020spring_burness_taylor.pdf
Overview "MIDDLEWIVES is a one hour dramedy pilot about a young woman who escapes her polygamist cult and finds new family with a group of Vegas strippers. It uses themes of motherhood and freedom to explore ideas of chosen family and the necessity of discomfort for growth. IRL is a half hour comedy pilot set in 1999 about three teenage technopagans who team up with a deceased 80s heartthrob to help the spirits they've unleashed pass on. It explores the intersection of the past and future in numerous...
Dates: 2020

Midsummer, 2019

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Identifier: sw_2019spring_gillogly_allison.pdf
Overview "Midsummer is a romantic comedy film with a diverse ensemble of characters that explores the nature of love in its many forms – romantic, affectionate, familial, playful, obsessive, enduring, self-less, and self-love. Modernizing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by transforming the play's four lovers into love-struck teenagers, the fairies into rock and pop stars, and the rude mechanicals into hapless nerds, the film aims to be part of the rich cinematic tradition of Shakespearean...
Dates: 2019

Midway, 2018

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Identifier: wf_2018spring_mcaskill_matt.pdf
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"A man inherits his father's Midway arcade and discovers he's also inherited a massive gambling debt to the mafia which leads him to seek less than legal means to pay it off." --page 7.

Dates: 2018

Milestone, 2013

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...This project is the beginning of what will become a sitcom series offering a peak into their lived world. Though scripted and fictional, it is rooted in reality and explores the everyday life of these individuals. -- abstract.

Dates: 2013

Milk and honey, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016summer_you_xing.pdf
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"Milk & Honey is a fictional narrative short film. Focusing on a seven-year-old boy, it explores the fragmentation and separation of a family in a modern society. The film is a realist and poetic approach to personal memories, with the intention of presenting a sympathetic picture of a three-generation family in separation." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Minor Progression, 2020

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Identifier: sw_2020spring_mcgroarty_kate.pdf
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"This drama feature works within the established tropes found in classical arts education narratives to investigate a lower-income woman's journey through the classical music world, misogyny as an obstacle to education, female ambition, the impacts of trauma and the tension between abuse and the pursuit of excellence." -- Abstract

Dates: 2020

Missing With Privilege, 2024

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Identifier: vm_2024spring_fitzgerald_katherine.pdf
Overview "Missing with Privilege is a documentary film about news disparities between missing white people and missing BIPOC. In 2021, Gabby Petito's name was everywhere. After Gabby was found, I had the opportunity to interview her mom. After that interview, I wanted to understand why some missing person cases become international news while others have no coverage. I interview David Robinson. David is Daniel Robinson's father. Daniel disappeared within weeks of Gabby yet had no news coverage for 3...
Dates: 2024

Modern Mafia and New Game+, 2023

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Identifier: sf_2023spring_kruskal_adina.pdf
Overview "MODERN MAFIA is a half-hour single-camera television comedy pilot which follows an innocent programmer who must prove his loyalty to a very un-conventional Mafia in order for them to spare his life after witnessing a hit. NEW GAME+ is an hour-long television drama pilot which follows a die-hard gamer sucked inside his favorite video game who must use in-depth knowledge of the game's world and mechanics, as well as alliances with with non-player characters, to seek the game's creator and...
Dates: 2023

Moment, 2007

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Overview

'Moment' is an experimental film about the essence of a moment. -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

Moments, 2014

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Six-screen video installation that follows the lives of six individual women. Each video consists of its own narrative of a few minutes in a woman's life [...] To signify how how often a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer all the screens go white every

Dates: 2014

Mommy grew wings, 2014

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Young puppeteer, Daniel Blake has just lost his wife to a terminal disease, and now has to explain to their 7-year-old daughter, Kate that she will not be able to see her mother again. In hopes of preserving Kate's innocence, Daniel tells a fantastical t

Dates: 2014

Monomania, 2004

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Monomania is an audio-visual montage short film that explores a character's obsession with the negative aspects of human existence, and the eventual abandonment of that obsession, through Point-of-View portrayal. -- abstract.

Dates: 2004

Monsters Never Came, 2023

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Identifier: vm_2023summer_shen_jiandong.pdf
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"Monsters Never Came is a 15-minute short film mockumentary sci-fi. In a slow and peaceful pace, the camera becomes an objective spectator to observe the life of the protagonist, Wang Yi. By capturing the process of the disappearance of Wang Yi's superpower and his attempts to keep the last bit of his powers, the short film reflects the various kind of gains and losses in the process of a person's growing up." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Monsters of the atomic age, 2007

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Monsters of the Atomic Age is a documentary video that explores American nuclear fears of the 1950s and how these fears manifested themselves in the science fiction films of the time. -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

Moods & melodies a day of music, 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

Moonshot, 2023

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Identifier: vm_2023spring_iyer_richa.pdf
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"Moonshot is a short narrative fiction film that operates in the world of a child's logic, with the primary driving force being a seemingly insignificant object going missing. The film studies the process of a child discovering their autonomy and decision-making, and the ways in which that can conflict with the rules of the world around them. It was made with the intent to demonstrate that even small stories can be significant, and deserve to be told." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

More to design than meets the eye : purposes, structures, and results of various interaction design programs, 2001

 Item — Item 0113502549471: [Barcode: 0113502549471]
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

Mosaicist, 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