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  • Alston, Dana William (University of Oregon, 2018-06)
    This thesis is an argumentative close analysis of themes, aesthetics, and political meanings within three New Hollywood films. It emerged out of an interest in the films of the 1960s and 70s and the changes within that ...
  • Garner, Laurette (University of Oregon, 2015-06-15)
    This research capstone will explore the ways in which vaudeville and early film serve as an example of a preexisting form of media transitioning into a new form of media and how audience plays a role in this transition. ...
  • Simmer, Garret (University of Oregon, 2023)
    In today’s highly digitized world, we are constantly consuming media. We watch so many movies and TV shows, listen to so much music, and scroll through so much social media that we have become numb to it. Just as we are ...
  • Bratton, Carynn Moonee (University of Oregon, 2020)
    There are many minority groups who are just now beginning to have their stories told on the big screen, and one of these groups is people of mixed-race. This thesis analyzes and categorizes 8 full length films with theatrical ...
  • Yu, Hongmei (University of Oregon, 2008-06)
    This dissertation explores the interaction between filmmaking and the changing exigencies of leftist political ideologies in China at different stages of modernity: semi-colonial modernity, socialist modernity, and global ...
  • Ause, Carter W. (University of Oregon, 2022-06)
    This terminal project examines the ideological representation of historic preservation found within American narrative films, and how such cinematic narratives compare with the current privatist paradigm of American ...
  • Norton, Steven (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    This dissertation is a postcolonial analysis of four films: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Dances with Wolves (1990), The Last Samurai (2003), and Avatar (2009). While previous scholarship has identified the Eurocentric ...
  • Miller, Gregory Blake, 1969- (University of Oregon, 2010-12)
    Nostalgia is the longing for a lost, and often substantially reimagined, time or place. Commonly regarded as a conservative impulse available for exploitation by hegemonic forces, nostalgia can also be a source of social ...
  • Laird, Colleen (University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
    Since the mid-2000s, there has been a significant increase in female directors in Japan. Organized around the central feature of this emerging wave, this dissertation is a multifaceted project that combines historical ...
  • Ozeran, Leila (University of Oregon, 2016-06)
    This thesis grew out of an interest in the films of female directors, producers, and writers and the substantially lower opportunities for such filmmakers in Hollywood and Independent film. The particular look and ...

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