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Dynamics of class, power, and space: Situating High-Rise in the contemporary Brazilian documentary tradition 

Monteiro dos Santos, Nicoly (2019-11-25)
From the Cinema Novo films in the 1960s to Eduardo Coutinho’s documentaries such as Peoes (Metalworkers, 2004), O Fim e o Principio (The End and the Beginning, 2006), and Babilonia 2000 (2001), many Brazilian documentaries ...

Humanizing the Gangster: An Examination into the Character from Hawks’ to DePalma’s Scarface 

Kirby, Nicholas (2008-08-15)
This thesis determines why the film gangster gained acceptance in American society through an examination of both the 1932 and 1983 versions of Scarface. The gangster depicted in the earlier film was characterized as a ...

Today's "Modern Family": A Textual Analysis of Gender in the Domestic Sitcom 

Staricek, Nicole (2011-08-04)
This thesis utilizes a textual analysis with an emphasis on gender to analyze the Emmy award-winning sitcom, Modern Family. The program’s overwhelming popularity among television audiences and media critics alike gives ...

Transcendent voices: Heteroglossia and the Power of Female Identity in Three Films by David Lynch 

Juhasz, Ildiko (2011-05-20)
In this thesis, I perform a feminist-semiotic analysis of three of David Lynch’s movies—Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. I use Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia as the ...

A “Whole New World”: Race and Representation in Disney’s Live-Action Remakes of Aladdin, The Lion King, and Mulan 

Elmogahzy, Amany (2018-11-15)
When Disney began adapting their animated classics into live-action remakes, the studio assumed that this representational shift would be a perfect fit for their audiences. However, these films, specifically quickly became ...