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This study examines why one may select and enjoy movie adaptations compared to original movies, through the lens of entertainment and media effect theories. The researcher hypothesized that two constructs, parasocial relationships and...
My first attempt at a feature-length screenplay, Mycelium is a Lovecraftian horror story set in the darkest recesses of the Amazon Rainforest. When Lucas, Caio and Diego finally get together to do the trip down the Amazon River that they...
Media are important agents of socialization. Accordingly, media images reflect as well as inform what characteristics symbolize feminine beauty. In the field of female beauty and fashion magazines in the U.S., visual portrayals of women...
Political narratives have entertained human beings since times immemorial. The political narratives in the form of drama, novel, ballads, and contemporary televisual and filmic stories revolved around various characters that served as...
When conservative politicians captured Washington in the 1980s and 1990s, they brought with them a style of rhetoric rooted in the South of the 1950s and 1960s. The three core elements of this Southern style are clear: * Strong beliefs -...
Many environmental campaigns use threatening messages that feature the severity of the problem and the irreversible consequences to encourage pro-environmental behaviors. However, individuals tend to respond to threatening information...
Overwriting Literature and Other Acts of Cultural Terrorism in the Control Era examines American experimental writers and artists who compose in what Gilles Deleuze called the control era. This project locates the beginning of the...
This creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by...
Research based on the affective approach has established that political partisans' emotional responses to identity-threatening news content, particularly that of anxiety and anger, will affect their subsequent information seeking (e.g., ...
This thesis uses parallels in the theories of amateurism in college athletics and paternalism in slavery to better understand college football as a system of exploitation of labor. To provide the reader with a background of these...
There has been growing discussion that distinguishes meaningful media entertainment, eudaimonic media experiences, and self-transcendent positive emotions from pleasurable media entertainment, hedonic media experiences, and non...
This thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and...
With this project, I hope to statistically break down the current trends and successes of the domestic motion picture industry. Through 14 variables and a data set of 1, 242 movies produced between 2001 and 2012, I hope to search for...
This thesis documents a search for a contemporary and relevant sublime, through the means of a visual art studio practice. I have culled a wide variety of sources that follow the historical development of the "sublime", and used them as...
With tourism serving as its principal industry by the end of WWII, Florida had solidified itself as the preeminent leisure paradise among America's mainstream destinations. Dubbed the "Magic City, Miami was the most popular retreat for...
The purpose of this honors thesis is the exploration of how a player of role-playing video games creates, designs, and seeks to fulfill self-made objectives in video games with large playing worlds and little or no defined endgames, ...
Welcome to the world of Sol. Our universe is one inspired by and paying the deepest respects to the artists of science fiction landscapes that captivated the imaginations of the 60s and 70s. Despite the outside influences, the Sol System...
This thesis examines various aspects of modern American culture and addresses potential causes and effects of American individualism and of the current mainstream American family dynamic. Discussing the effects that Americanism can have...
Brian and Willow are just starting to get comfortable in their relationship. There's something mysterious about Willow however, and Brian begins investigate.
Love Even for a Moment Is Forever. Life Its Fleeting Flesh Is the Endless Grave. Now The Mountains Crumble The Forests Fade. Love is Infinite and So are You. - The Freakniks
The media's role in societies of conflict is a subject of debate among many scholars. Some have argued that the very nature of media and their tendencies towards sensationalism are contradictory with peace. This study addresses the media...
In the face of economic, environmental, and security crises, forced displacement is increasing globally, drawing millions of men, women, and children from their homes and placing them into often unpredictable and indefinite states of...
Oscar is an exhausted corporate professional working for the counter-terrorism department of transportation giant Union Victory Railways. Alone and drug-addled in Chicago, Oscar has stated to lose the separation between his memories, his...
This dissertation is positioned within the area of positive media psychology and embarks on an in-depth exploration of self-reflection in eudaimonic entertainment experiences. The dissertation project is structured into three studies...
There are certain inherent experiences which occur over the course of our lives, similarities that, while largely unknown, bind humankind together. The first steps, the first loves, searches for success, and the disappointment of...
This study investigates the institutional proceedings undertaken by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) during its statutorily directed mission of determining royalty rates and settling royalty negotiation disputes for the American music...
Ada, a young mute 'rat' girl, is an outcast in an underground society called The Sanctuary. Ada discovers a notebook that alludes to a different world where they would not be plagued with sickness and famine. Teaming up with Isaac, a ...
The Florida State Department of Art advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to creating innovative art and design. Because of this, the combination of various disciplines is a method I constantly use in my artwork. My honors in the...
The issue of language policies in Ukraine gained prominence in 2014 when Russia launched an armed aggression against this Eastern European country at the pretext that language rights of its Russian-speaking citizens were violated. Three...
The advancement of technological innovations and global reforms for improving early warning systems as a key risk-reduction principle is transforming modern practices in risk communication. However, in the global context, this...
The prevalence of social media in the past few years has changed the way people consume entertainment media and generated many new types of hybrid media entertainment experiences. This dissertation focuses on one of its multiple...
This dissertation interrogates how Florida’s major electric utility companies actively suppressed the nascent solar energy industry in their effort to consolidate solar energy production into their hands during the 2015-2016 election...
Broadcast and cable television news coverage of the CIA's drone program from 2002 through 2013 is reviewed critically. Corporate ownership is examined to determine whether the need to generate profits has an influence on news coverage of...
This thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and...
According to research from FSU's Hate Crime and Policy Institute, since early 2010, print journalists have been deadnaming (i.e., calling a transgender person by their birth name when they have changed their name as part of their gender...
Extant research has demonstrated that the media are rarely able to tell audience members what to think, but are remarkably successful in telling audiences what to think about; this is known as an agenda-setting effect (McCombs & Shaw, ...
am creating a website to display pen illustrations of obscure animals which are either difficult to classify in the taxonomic system or have no relatives among living animals (these are referred to as living fossils). I plan to research...
The Indian newspaper industry has been celebrated globally in communication research, as it continues to grow, both in circulation and readership. However, little is known about the journalists who work in this celebrated industry. Labor...
This paper gives a detailed account of the experiments and studies on full color printing that took place within the course of a year by an undergraduate printmaker at the Florida State University.
A feature screenplay about two rednecks desperate for money and looking for a way out of their small North Carolina town who kidnap their boss's daughter and hold her for ransom in a secluded Appalachian mountain cabin.
My honors thesis is an exploration of the fleeting aspects of memory, a nomadic childhood, and the relationship families share with TV. I have painted an image of the living room set from Roseanne as a way to express my nostalgia and...
Dissecting Corporate Power in America: A Political Economic Case Study of Koch Industries' Influence on Public Policy and Media Coverage in the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 Debate
A case study of wealth and power relations, this thesis uses an interpretive political economic approach to provide a twofold analysis of the second-largest private corporation in America, Koch Industries, and its specific relationship...
Architectural spaces and places within films often work to represent larger themes of the films' stories. This paper explores how films from three different genres, horror, science fiction, and romance, utilize architectural places and...
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