Film and Media (Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies) Graduate Theses

Wonder Turners and Other Optical Oddities: A history of 19th century inventions and their influence on the perception of time, motion and attention.

Fussell, Margaret

Early recording devices, inventions and optical toys, such as the thaumatrope and the zoetrope, demonstrated natural causes for optical phenomena and had a direct influence on our understanding of visual perception. In ...
THE COVID CARNIVAL, ANIMAL CROSSING, AND THE POWER OF VIRTUAL INSTALLATIONS

Luo, Edie

The pandemic has casted shadows upon us all, but fortunately, there is the healing power of art. The COVID Carnival and its subcomponent screencap-illustrated story “The Monster of Nian” are the memorabilia of my own ...
Bazin-Brecht-Straub

Adair, Tyler

In the wake of the ‘post-political’ turn and the foreclosure of politics as a productive space of “contestation and agonistic engagement” (Wilson and Swynegedouw 6) in the neoliberal age, this project seeks to return to ...