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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.

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Looking: Storytelling and Flânerie in the Arcades of Grindr

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Matthew William Ortile
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

It is through storytelling, Walter Benjamin believed, that wisdom and experience are shared, letting open narratives achieve an amplitude that information lacks. And Charles Baudelaire considered the window-shopping flâneur to be the observant ne plus ultra of urban modernity. By...

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Water the Roots: The Fluidity of Blackness and Time

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Stevens, Lena
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Film Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This project is a meditation on Blackness, life, death, loss, and spirituality. Although this thesis was executed in hopes of fulfilling an academic requirement, each frame provides insight into my experiences as a low-income Black and Native Hawaiian woman living...

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