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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:

Before I Go, 2021

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Identifier: vma_2021spring_duran_mendez_arantxa.pdf
Overview "Before I Go' is an experimental short film about a granddaughter's love letter to her recently passed grandmother. Shot in 16mm film, as well as 35mm photography, the film blurs the lines between past, present, life and death. Both Ektachrome and Negative 50D footage were used to delineate jumps in timeline and shifts in mood and tone. The film is inspired by the works of Isabel Allende and the magical realism genre. It questions the idea of physically being, and then being no more, and how...
Dates: 2021

Being about Samantha, 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

Beneath the light : (Bajo la luz), 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017spring_yanez_mariaantonieta.pdf
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"The short film Beneath The Light shot on super16 follows the abrupt journey of an actress undergoing a mental and emotional crisis." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Best of My Love, 2022

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Identifier: sw_2022spring_brown_keilaj.pdf
Overview "The Best of My Love presents a drama/comedy feature-length script that explores the joys and challenges of maintaining a relationship between mother and daughter. Elizabeth, an actor who's just been nominated for her first Academy award, struggles to find her place both in the Hollywood industry and in life. Returning home to celebrate her parents' 30th anniversary, Elizabeth finds hope and healing through recounting stories of her mother, Joey's journey to finding love and hope in the bond...
Dates: 2022

BetaBits, 2007

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BetaBits is a web-based comic strip series that tells the story of a woman in her 20s who sells household appliances she has made from outdated computer parts. Themes addressed by the comic include recycling, computer obsolescence, the distancing between

Dates: 2007

Beyond the front gates, 2007

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This documentary is a short exploration of the myths and stereotypes that still surround small, Southern, all-women's colleges; what current students hear, and how they respond. -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

BGKB: Black Girl Korean Boy, 2021

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Identifier: sf_2021spring_jackson_lily.pdf
Overview "Financial consultant ASIA JONES (27, Black American female) and Big Pharma heir JASON KWON (30, Korean male) engagement is running smoothly. Asia's family likes Jason well enough, and they have a good life together in LA. However, Jason receives a call from his mother SUSAN (50s, Korean female) that his father PHILIP (50s, Korean male) had a car accident and is in critical condition, prompting Jason to return home after four years abroad. It wouldn't be so bad, except Jason's parents have...
Dates: 2021

Big Pussy? : exploring the ever altering terrain of post-feminist masculinity and femininity in The Sopranos, 2004

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This thesis employs a psychoanalytic critique of the program's treatment of the female characters in order to ascertain if it is possible to exist as a female in the gangster genre -- abstract.

Dates: 2004

Billy, 2018

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Identifier: wf_2018spring_rolincik_kylie.pdf
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"President of the Massachusetts Senate, Billy Bulger, sacrifices his political legacy to protect his mob boss older brother, Whitey Bulger." --Abstract. --page 7.

Dates: 2018

Bindings, 2015

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An installation triptych that explores concepts of family, memory, and cultural traditions.--Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Bird by bird a journey through America, 2012

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A life list compiles all the birds a bird watcher has seen in their lifetime. For Elena Mead, starting her life list in the fall of 2010 was only the beginning. Starting the summer of 2011, Elena will attempt to film all 50 US state birds in their respect

Dates: 2012

Black blizzards, 2012

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'Black Blizzards is a short, poetic narrative that re-imagines the story of Dido, Virgil's tragic Queen from 'The Aeneid,' set during post-Depression America. -- abstract.

Dates: 2012

Black box, 2013

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'Black Box' is a short, personal, experimental documentary about one's memory of and recovery from a traumatic childhood. Using hand processed 16mm film, archival footage, and children's songs and texts, 'Black Box' attempts to guide its viewer through th

Dates: 2013

Black Hole, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_yang_yihang.pdf
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"Black Hole is a sound work featured with electroacoustic composition and field recording taking place in a dark space. It creates a journey/transformation a fish travels from the fish market back to the ocean in a seaside city in southern China, Shenzhen. Black Hole is a sound installation talking about happened and happening." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Blind/Blend, 2020

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Identifier: vma_2020spring_severance_brittany_elizabeth.pdf
Overview "'Blind/Blend' is a multimedia installation that explores perceptual awareness and alternate ways of seeing the world due to the artist's own visual impairment. Through original stereo cards with swapped left and right channels, layered portraits on silk at different stages of clarity, and soft and shallow focused videos, she invites the audience to engage in active forms of looking. As the spectator navigates this installation through a near-sighted perspective, the artist asks one question...
Dates: 2020

Bliss, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016summer_caetano_sofia.pdf
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A science fiction comedy film that follows The Scientist, a goddess-like woman who believes she created the perfect existence and the happiest civilization -- BLISS. The Scientist is, though, about to come to terms with accepting she failed on her endeavor. Therefore, she decides to send a couple of Blissed teenagers to the past, to Planet Earth. --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Blood Island/Go to Hell, 2021

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Identifier: sf_2021spring_krolick_william.pdf
Overview "BLOOD ISLAND is an hour-long horror-comedy pilot that follows a group of reality tv stars on the set of a popular remote island dating show as a masked killer begins picking off the contestants, one by one. Think SCREAM meets BACHELOR IN PARADISE. GO TO HELL is a half-hour comedy pilot that follows a recently deceased workaholic as she navigates a tennis tournament in the underworld in the hopes of winning a second chance at life - all with the help of her new, unlikely companion, a talking...
Dates: 2021

Bloody Henry, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016spring_disciscio_jean-paul.pdf
Overview

Bloody Henry is a short (30 minute) narrative horror film, inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," about Henry's struggle to survive despite physical and mental illness. A Bible salesman travels through small towns slaughtering sheep to transfuse blood into his veins. --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Blue mountain music, 2003

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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: 2003

Blue Rebellion/Out of the Blue, 2023

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Identifier: vm_2023spring_ali_mehvish.pdf
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"Blue Rebellion is a project featuring a multimedia exhibition, as well as short-film documentary called, "Out of the Blue' which explores the story and colonial history of natural indigo dye, an indigenous product of Bengal that is now being revived in Bangladesh, through slow and sustainable fashion by local artisans and entrepreneurs. It is a project celebrating an important artisanal craft that exists at the intersection of indigenous expression and colonial legacy." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023