Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts
Found in 886 Collections and/or Records:
The limits of my world, 2017
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.
The Little Shrimp, 2019
"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
The Loneliest House: Wilson Years & Four Shores, 2022
The lost child, 2014
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.
The lower 9 a story of home, 2011
'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
The Marvelous & Uncanny, 2022
The men who would be Viking, 2003
A one-hour documentary film that tells the story of the Viking ship Snorri.
The messenger, Bak, 2000
The Midnight Trolley and The Arlingtons, 2023
"The Mississippi", 2019
The moment of choice, 2013 - 2014
[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
The moral struggle JFK & the civil rights revolution, 2003
This audio documentary is an examination of the role of the Kennedy brothers in the struggle for civil rights -- abstract.
The mutable face of new media : embodying the "marvelous" in photographic portraiture, 2004
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
The New Tenant, 2020
The Night, 2019
The O.C. effect : indie rock, postmodernism and the marketing of commodities, 2008
In Postmodernism (1991) Fredric Jameson examines the postmodern moment" and illuminates the conditions that have caused contemporary culture to shift from modernism to postmodernism. In applying Jameson's theories to teen television drama The O.C., and th
The open shadow, 2002
The organist, 2010
The story of renowned organist, Yuko Hayashi - in the United States and Japan - as an artist, teacher, and war survivor. I sincerely hope that the audience of this film will develop new values to overcome cultural, language, and historical barriers in the
The other side, 1999
The other side, 2013
A short fiction film which discusses family disintegration, generational conflicts, and cross-cultural communication.