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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...
“The dislocation of man in the modern age”: The Pilgrim Condition and Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholic Literature highlights the ways in which the major Catholic voices in mid-twentieth century America—Flannery O’Connor, Walker...
This dissertation explores the role of food representation and identity in Hispanic cultural production as they participate in establishing resistant agency despite historical contexts of authoritarian oppression. Accordingly, I explore...
I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research...
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...
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...
A Cold War is a screenplay that explores the feeling of living in the deep south while following Elise and Henry from unplanned parenthood into adulthood, an utterly human experience, the search for inner peace while battling inner demons.
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...
While film-music studies have explored the interactions between film and music at the local level of the scene, large-scale film-music analysis is a rare and under-researched phenomenon. I propose a methodology that allows for a film's...
Brian and Willow are just starting to get comfortable in their relationship. There's something mysterious about Willow however, and Brian begins investigate.
This dissertation examines concert dance, Broadway musicals, and film musicals from the mid-1930s to the early Cold War period, exploring how choreographers, directors, and performers expressed American nationalism through dance....
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
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...
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...
Critical examinations of the simulacrum have frozen, due in part to the overabundance and simplified applications of Jean Baudrillard's canonical theories. In a 2003 book review, David Banash voices this frustration, identifying ...
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 ...
An examination of the world through the eyes of a cinephile, Splice is a collection of lyrical and intertextual poems that meditate on identity, artistic inspiration, the evocative power of the visual image, and the paradox of living in...
This treatise demonstrates how teachers can use five pieces of violin repertoire from the cinema as pedagogical tools to introduce or enhance a student's understanding, appreciation, and technical facility of the following four genres 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...
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.
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...
This dissertation examines the unique situation of an animation studio, known as Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, existing within a theme-park attraction, The Magic of Disney Animation, which debuted in 1989 at the Disney-MGM...
This dissertation argues that representations of masculinity in the Hollywood war/combat films of the Vietnam film cycle reflect the changing and changed mores of the era in which they were made, and that these representations are so...
Black feminist scholars such as Lisa Anderson describe the most common stereotypes as that of the mammy, the mulatta, and the mistress. My research analyzes how each of these negative stereotypes are articulated or challenged in...
This dissertation examines the use of urban space in Cuban cultural production after 1990; the year Fidel Castro announced the beginning of the crisis known as "Special Period in Times of Peace". It was a period that brought the most...
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