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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.

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"“A Mass Consumption of Scenery”: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Construction of Landscape in the 19th-Century White Mountains and Their Tallest Peak Mount Washington

Publication Date
2023-May-01
Authors
Clifford, Jennifer
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

New Hampshire’s White Mountains are the site of some of the earliest tourism developments in the United States. In this thesis, I analyze how these developments served to re-shape and construct a new–and lasting–landscape of the region that served the...

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NET/STALGIA: Nostalgia-Tripping on the Internet Aesthetic

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Hiramine, Brie
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

As the Internet drifts away from being a novel technology, people have increasingly become fascinated by the sometimes-garish, comparatively rudimentary aesthetics of the early web. Using Walter Benjamin's reflections on the Parisian arcades as a framework, I propose that this...

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Recording COVID-19: "Escape" an Autobiographical Graphic Novel on Pandemic Experiences

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Jiang, Tianyi
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

This senior project includes a project statement and an autobiographical graphic novel that documents the author's personal experience during the pandemic. The purpose of this project is to reflect on the continuing situation of the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it hopes...

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Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Shui, Yuhan
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...

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