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Fragmentary Returns: Revisioning Contemporary Militarized Homelands in Israel and the United States traces the rhetoric of homeland and return across contemporary media forms in Israel and the U.S. in order to investigate the ways that Jewish diaspora has shifted since 1948. Thr…

Au cours des dernières décennies, la bande dessinée a acquis une légitimité en tant que neuvième art et elle est devenue un objet de recherche pour les spécialistes. Le genre de la bande dessinée historique a, quant à lui, suscité l’intérêt des spécialistes de la BD et des histo…

This dissertation is an exploration of various theoretical and cultural issues surrounding depictions of religion and spirituality in mainstream entertainment media properties. Such portrayals cultivate particular cultural norms that dictate the conditions of public and private …

Representations of females in visual media continue to be problematic. As media studies increasingly reveals the influence of visual representation upon our internalized ideologies, the significance of positive female representation only increases. This is especially true for ma…

Historical graphic narratives are the most striking genre in a new field of literature. I investigate the problems of writing history at a time when the discourses of fiction and nonfiction are in crisis, and new literary and popular genres aim to further the conversation on the…

The work of Marjane Satrapi represents a convocation of diverse linguistic, discursive and aesthetic systems which articulates the hybrid and polar, integrative and antagonistic intensities of an emergent world-culture. Arguing for a reading of Satrapi's image-text beyond the fa…