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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:

The kind Phish phans, 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

The Last Black Strife Film, 2021

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Identifier: sf_2021spring_collier_daequan.pdf
Overview "THE LAST BLACK STRIFE FILM, is a satirical comedy about a young Black filmmaker named Cam, who after becoming tired and overwhelmed by the traumatic and bleak images Hollywood keeps providing, decides to make a film that sets out to end this trend. Writing a film jam-packed with all the stereotypes and tropes, he could think of. From Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Tyler Perry and Spike Lee, Black artists have struggled with defining the role of the Black artist. We've seen this...
Dates: 2021

The last unicorn an audiobook, 2002

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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: 2002

The leftovers, 2014

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Documentary about the dilemmas facing China's One Child Generation as they try to get married in their late 20s or early 30s.--Abstract.

Dates: 2014

The legend of Poe's true tale, 2004

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A short historical documentary video. It examines the legend that has developed at Fort Independence on Castle Island in South Boston that Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado" was based on a story he heard while he was stationed at the f

Dates: 2004

The Lesson, 2023

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Identifier: vm_2023spring_cadman_donald.pdf
Overview "The Lesson is a short narrative film that theatrically shows the effects of toxic masculinity, the rigor of musical performance, and the reconciliation of the past to support the future. Elijah Peters is a teen whose father Dick pressures him to become a high school wrestler. Elijah acquiesces to his father while he secretly pursues his passion by taking piano lessons with the strict instructor Thomas Vikander. The intersection of all three men leads to a confrontation that will uncover...
Dates: 2023

The limits of my world, 2017

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Identifier: ma_2017summer_cassano_heather.pdf
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A documentary that follows the transition of a young man with severe autism from his residential school to a new semi-independent living environment. Filmed from the intimate perspective of his older sister, the project seeks to understand Brian's personality beneath his disability. An autistic coming of age story, the documentary explores what it means to be a disabled adult in a neurotypical society.

Dates: 2017

The Little Shrimp, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_chen_zhilin.pdf
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"Cheng returns to Guangzhou after his maternal grandfather's death during his final summer break in the US. Jetlag, the loss of his grandfather and moving to a new place keeps him between the past and present reality. He gradually learns how the death affects everyone in his family. In the process he gets to know them as individuals rather than simply as different roles in the family." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

The Loneliest House: Wilson Years & Four Shores, 2022

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Identifier: sw_2022spring_mann_annabeth.pdf
Overview "Known for their incredible secret-keeping ability, the White House Residence Staff find themselves tested when President Wilson has a stroke and, rather than tell the public and surrender power to the unlikable VP, Edith takes over all executive decision making. In doing so, the Residence Staff must lie to Marshall and act as though their president (who a select number of the staff might even call a friend) is perfectly fine. With season one being a partially true re-telling of Woodrow and...
Dates: 2022

The lost child, 2014

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Supernatural thriller that follows a young boy named Alan's experience from the return of his long missing brother Edward to the tragic results of his reunited family.--Abstract.

Dates: 2014

The lower 9 a story of home, 2011

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'The Lower 9: A Story of Home' is a feature-length documentary revealing the displaced culture and devastated community of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward through generations of memories that fill the abandoned homes, buildings and streets of the Katrina-ra

Dates: 2011

The Marvelous & Uncanny, 2022

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Identifier: sw_2022spring_mecham_merritt.pdf
Overview "'The Marvelous & Uncanny' is a dramatic screenplay inspired by classic film noir, the Surrealist movement, and the women at the heart of one of the darkest chapters of American labor history. Set in New York City in 1942, the story follows a young woman as she investigates the case of a missing boy. When the clues take her to Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery and the Surrealist leaders displaced due to Nazi occupation of Europe, she embraces the tenets of surrealist...
Dates: 2022

The men who would be Viking, 2003

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A one-hour documentary film that tells the story of the Viking ship Snorri.

Dates: 2003

The messenger, Bak, 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

The Midnight Trolley and The Arlingtons, 2023

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Identifier: sf_2023spring_lee_ariele.pdf
Overview "THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY When a magical trolley appears in a child's closet and whisks her away from her turbulent home to find the Last Poppy Flower, her moody and disengaged older sister must embark on a perilous journey across fantastical/educational, art-history-inspired worlds to get them both back before the Bog Man destroys the trolley, and the childrens' parents return for the night. THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY is an animated childrens limited series featuring stylistic world-building,...
Dates: 2023

"The Mississippi", 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_kernan_keely.pdf
Overview "The multiplatform documentary film, "​The Mississippi," reflects back on Pare Lorentz's ​"The River" - 81 years later.​ Historically, it is a present day reflection on what Lorentz so clearly and passionately described in the first twenty minutes of "​The River." To quote Lorentz's script​, the story, the outrage, and the passion that he expressed about the Mississippi River still exists, "Poor land makes poor people." "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns - But at what a cost."...
Dates: 2019

The moment of choice, 2013 - 2014

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[P]ersonal documentary that reveals the filmmaker's memories as a teenage witness in the persecution of Falum Gong, an ancient spiritual discipline in China. The personal narration is woven with the portraits of a Chinese woman torture victim Biyun and a

Dates: 2013 - 2014

The moral struggle JFK & the civil rights revolution, 2003

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This audio documentary is an examination of the role of the Kennedy brothers in the struggle for civil rights -- abstract.

Dates: 2003

The mutable face of new media : embodying the "marvelous" in photographic portraiture, 2004

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This paper looks at the analog/digital shift in photographic portraits according to a Surrealist-semiotic method...This dynamic space is examined through the photographic portraits of three artists: Cecil Beaton, Nancy Burson, and Karin Sander. -- abstrac

Dates: 2004

The New Tenant, 2020

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Identifier: vma_2020spring_amin_youssef_hesham.pdf
Overview "'The New Tenant' is a short mystery-thriller film that tells a story of a young man's escape from a violent incident and, perhaps, from who he is. The whole story revolves around international characters who end up living together, knowing nothing about each other. As Nader, the protagonist, tries to keep a low profile, he finds himself in the middle of more violence between his roommates that resonates with what he was initially escaping from. The film meditates on themes of loneliness,...
Dates: 2020