Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Our Past Would Have Been So Cool

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2023-April-26
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This creative project explores the sentiment of nostalgia that is on the rise among a segment of the young Chinese population. I analyze the trend from three perspectives: as a social-psychological emotion, as political commentary, and as a manufactured taste...

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Theater and Social Change: How Small-town U.S. Theaters Reproduce and Resist Inequality

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2014-January-01
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This thesis interrogates the social function of small-town theater in the United States. Through a series of interviews with theater artists working at regional and local theaters in the northeast United States, I demonstrate theater's capacity to both reproduce and...

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