This hybrid theory-practice dissertation advocates for a landscape mode of documentary media-making. Providing case studies from the history of non-narrative city filmmaking, this work breaks new ground by locating this form in the context of environmentalist and social justice …
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What is the work of art? That is, not what is the artwork, or what does it mean, but what does it do, how does it perform? My provisional answer, to be argued over the course of the present dissertation, is that, contemporarily, the work of art is to invite and entertain, in all…
My dissertation is an examination of sexuality in several contemporary Colombian novels. Specifically, I look at three novels through themes of homosexuality and female eroticism; both themes are understudied or ignored in most studies of Colombian literature. My work is an atte…
Today’s society is rapidly changing in how issues dealing with the rights and treatment of homosexuals. Among the changes are the ways heterosexual or straight parents relate to their homosexual or sexual minority children. Once a parent knows definitively that her or his child …
Using a qualitative research design, this study attempted to find out how lesbian and bisexual women of color came to know their sexual orientation identity and how they came to share this identity with others. Fifteen women of color currently enrolled in one of two four-year un…
In their effort to strengthen community solidarity as religious minorities in the post-9/11 U.S., Muslims define, maintain, and reconstruct the bounds of Muslim identity. One salient expression of this identity work is the heightened regulation of distinct gender and sexual role…
In this thesis, women who identify as both queer and Muslims living in North America tell their stories of family, religion, and home. These immigrants and first generation Westerners describe their identities in an effort to acknowledge the difficulties that can accompany being…
This dissertation critically explores the complex and crucial role played by Israeli cinema in the construction of heterosexual masculinity, as well as its attempt to marginalize, discipline and normalize queerness in Israeli national masculine identity. These issues are analyze…
