Browsing Works & Remarks by Students & Others by Title
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Art and Pragmatism: James and Dewey on the Reconstructive Presuppositions of Experience
(2010)Dissertation by Matthew Crippen on the pragmatic construals by James and Dewey of how we experience works of art, supervised by EWC and defended in May of 2010, as submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial ... -
Digital Fabrication and its Meaning for Photography and Film
(2016)Bazin, Cavell and other prominent theorists have asserted that movies are essentially photographic with more recent scholars such as Carroll and Gaut protesting. Today CGI stands as a further counter, in addition to past ... -
Hearts of the West: Some Aspects of Women's Roles in American Westerns, 1939-1969
(1991)A thesis by Barbara Hehner [M.F.A., 1991] on the nature, scope and limits of the representation of women within American western movies, 1939 – 1969. -
Hugo Münsterberg: a German Jew (?) in America
(2018)An historical account by Jan-Christopher Horak of Hugo Münsterberg's life and work in America – or, more exactly, upon the nature and consequences of being a German Jew at work within Harvard University during the first ... -
'In a Moment of Brilliance': Heidegger's Horsemen, HIGH NOON and the Existential Sentiment of 'Westerns'
(1981)By evidence and common consent, great 'western' movies are mythical encompassing a Weltanschauung that has engaged viewers within diverse cultures for over a century. Questions recur, however. What makes them so? and why ... -
'The Mind Hears': an Examination of Some Philosophical Perspectives on Musical Experience
(2000)Dissertation by Jeanette Bicknell on the scope and nature of the 'levels of understanding' that determine how we experience music, supervised by EWC and defended in May of 2000, as submitted to the Faculty of Graduate ... -
Performers Playing Themselves
(2016)An enquiry by Matthew Crippen into how we encounter actors as we perceive them by means of a movies, having encountered them within other movies beforehand. After discussing how we use photographs, he concludes that we ... -
Reclaiming the Gaze: Mulvey, Feminism and the Woman Spectator
(1985)A essay by Barbara Hehner on feminism and its relevance for the study of films and filmmaking as submitted in November of 1985 in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a course in Film Theory taught by EWC. She was ... -
Time, Bergson and the Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky
(1990)A thesis by Donato Totaro [M.F.A., 1990] on the affinities between the philosophical conjectures of Henri Bergson and the movies and remarks on filmmaking of Andrei Tarkovsky.