2024-03-28T21:19:42Z
http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/do/oai/
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1000
2008-05-29T00:18:31Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
The Bombay Project
Kahn, David P
Article
2006-10-20T07:00:00Z
film
video
India
filmmaking
motion pictures
Ames prize
The prestigious Oakes and Louise Ames Prize was awarded to David Kahn for his senior thesis film, "The Bombay Project." The film follows an American college student who travels to Bombay to help a graduate student in the making of a Bollywood movie.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/1
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1001
2010-05-11T21:04:02Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
publication:honors
“The Superman Exists, and He is American”: Graphic Novel Film Adaptations and Masculine Heroism in Post-9/11 Culture
Abate, Richard Charles
Honors Paper
2010-01-01T08:00:00Z
masculinity
heroism
film adaptations
graphic novels
This senior thesis paper discusses the representation of masculinity and heroism in post-9/11 culture and how filmic adaptations of graphic novels have helped to shape these representations. Following the events of September 11th, the cultural definitions of the masculine hero shifted, allowing the average, working class man to become the embodiment of American heroism. This new understanding of the American hero was marked by sexual difference and a redefinition of the masculine “hard-body” that allowed for the possession of a heroic masculine identity to appear more attainable. This thesis primarily examines the filmic adaptations of works by Frank Miller and Alan Moore in order to track these changes in masculinity and to observe how these films have helped to define new perceptions of masculinity and heroism. In the chapter that discusses the adaptations of Frank Miller’s work, I focus on the films Sin City (Rodriguez & Miller, 2005) and 300 (Snyder, 2006) to argue that Miller’s conservative viewpoints and his problematic representations of gender help to inform contemporary understandings of masculinity and heroism and that the film adaptations of his work maintain these ideologies. In the chapter on Alan Moore, I discuss the ways in which the films Watchmen (Snyder, 2008) and V for Vendetta (McTeigue, 2005) have been changed to fit a post-9/11 narrative. While some of aspects of these films aspire to move outside the realm of post-9/11 gender representations, I argue that the cultural understandings of masculinity and heroism force these films to remain part of America’s conservative cultural narrative that is based on traditional values.
2010-05-11T07:00:00Z
American Film Studies
American Popular Culture
Film and Media Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/2
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1002
2020-07-13T13:20:22Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
The Groundsmen
Chapman, Robert
Restricted
2016-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>Script included as main document. Calendar and storyboards attached as additional documents. Final production on DVD may be seen in the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives.</p>
2016-06-07T07:00:00Z
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/3
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1003
2019-05-20T14:21:19Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
Smoke of the Sea: A’Tolan Amis Resistance to Colonized Consciousness Through Resurgence of Traditional Epistemologies, Contemporary Existence, and Collective Community
Simonds, Sam
Restricted
2019-01-01T08:00:00Z
<p>DVD available for viewing in the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives.</p>
<p>Winner of the 2019 Oakes and Louise Ames Prize awarded to the best honors paper.</p>
2019-05-15T07:00:00Z
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/5
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1004
2019-05-15T15:27:40Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
URBANx
Velazquez, Christian
Restricted
2019-01-01T08:00:00Z
2019-05-15T07:00:00Z
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/4
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1005
2020-05-14T14:39:52Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
publication:honors
A Breathing Body in Ritual Ecology: The Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Black Experimental Film
Donovan, Julianna
Honors Paper
2020-01-01T08:00:00Z
2020-05-15T07:00:00Z
African American Studies
Film and Media Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/8
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1006
2020-05-13T20:34:44Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
publication:honors
“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger:” The Fallacy of Rape Narratives as Paths to Women’s Empowerment in Contemporary Television
Guise, Alessia S.
Honors Paper
2020-01-01T08:00:00Z
2020-05-15T07:00:00Z
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Film and Media Studies
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/7
oai:digitalcommons.conncoll.edu:filmhp-1007
2020-05-14T15:37:04Z
publication:film
publication:filmhp
publication:honors
Narratological Experiments in Cinematic Alternate Reality Games
Parker, Christian
Honors Paper
2020-01-01T08:00:00Z
2020-05-15T07:00:00Z
Film and Media Studies
Game Design
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/6