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Trolling Aesthetics: The Lulz as Creative Practice
(2015-12-16)“The LULZ” became common Internet parlance in the mid-2000s to describe a wide array of online phenomena, from childish pranks, to the peculiar discourse of anonymous message boards, to a shadowy and subversive ideology. ... -
Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
(2016-09-20)This dissertation draws on the artistic traditions of seventeenth-century Baroque and nineteenth-century Decadence in seeking to formulate an analytical vocabulary for the aesthetics of digitally-animated spectacle in ... -
"Inventories of Limbo": Post-Minimal Aesthetics in Cinema From the Readymade to Institutional Critique
(2016-09-20)This dissertation charts the philosophical premises of post-minimalism in the practices of experimental filmmakers and video artists, exploring specific reorientations of cinematic works since the late 1960s. Post-minimalism ... -
Transitioning Publics
(2016-11-25)TRANSITIONING PUBLICS engages two forms of transitioning simultaneously: the shifting political landscape of transgender media representation in North America, and the technological shifts that impact forms of representation ... -
The Dynamic Story Mosaic: Defining Narrative Strategies in Transmedia Environments
(2016-11-25)Transmedia storytelling became one of the most prevalent buzzwords in the mid- 2000s used to describe a wide array of storytelling forms ranging from entertainment franchises to alternate reality games to any project that ... -
In the Name of the People: Yugoslav Cinema and the Fall of the Yugoslav Dream
(2017-07-27)This dissertation outlines the trajectory of Yugoslavias decline through an examination of select works of Yugoslav cinema from the late 1960s to the late 1980s which cogently commented on their sociopolitical context. It ... -
Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
(2018-03-01)This dissertation develops a theory of film noir as sovereign-image, a meta-generic and meta-cinematic discourse that confronts the viewer with the biopolitical ambivalence of the cinematic apparatus but enjoins her to ... -
Smashed Typewriters and Sour Smoke: A Historical Poetics of the Screenplay
(2018-05-28)Screenplays typically provide the starting point for film development and production. They also draw on a rich history of literary conventions and aesthetic traditions that well exceed their technical blueprint function, ... -
Catastrophe Aesthetics: Affective Epistemologies of Climate Change in Experimental Media Art
(2019-03-05)Catastrophe is no longer an exception to the everyday. Anthropogenic (or capitalogenic) climate change is slowly but radically altering Earth. But climate catastrophe does not abide by conventional understandings of the ... -
Dissertation in Which There Appear Lost Punchlines, Dreadful Puns, Low Resolution, etc.: On the Failure of Humour in Avant-garde Film and Video
(2019-11-22)This dissertation explores the overlooked functions that humour has served in American avant-garde film and video, arguing that humour is involved consistently in many of the key operations and philosophies that have ... -
The Poetry of Logical Ideas: Towards a Mathematical Genealogy of Media Art
(2019-11-22)In this dissertation I chart a mathematical genealogy of media art, demonstrating that mathematical thought has had a significant influence on contemporary experimental moving image production. Rather than looking for ... -
Virtual Reality Aesthetics and Boundaries in New Media Art Practices
(2020-05-11)This dissertation maps out the epistemological and political coordinates of contemporary Virtual Reality (VR) aesthetics through a hybrid inquiry that combines conventional academic research practices with artistic ... -
Return to Form: Analyzing the Role of Media in Self-documenting Subcultures
(2020-11-13)This dissertation examines self-documenting subcultures and the role of media within them. The production and distribution of subcultural media is largely governed by intracultural industries. Elite practitioners and ... -
Magical Realism in Transnational Cinema
(2020-11-13)This project is an analysis of the magical realist genre in cinema, specifically its multiple forms found in transnational cinema. The status of magical realism in film as a genre will be questioned and this project argues ... -
"The Place of Imagination": Humphrey Jennings and the Biopoetics of Everyday Life
(2020-11-13)This dissertation seeks to reanimate discussion of British artist and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings by reconsidering his body of work in light of the biopolitical transformations of modern life. While biopolitics ... -
Nollywood Film Industry: Informal Film Practices and Their Cultural Formations
(2021-11-15)This dissertation further situates Nollywood practitioners informal understandings of their film industry within academic discourses around Nollywood conceptualizations. Local, grassroots knowledge and practices are essential ...