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Nesbit, Molly, 1952-

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Nesbit, Margaret Spence, 1952-

Art Is What We Say It Is: "Easy Art" and the Pragmatics of Interpretation

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2014-January-01
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Since 2009, Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen have run the Jogging, a blog on the popular social media site Tumblr in which they and others post a variety of sloppily rendered and generally silly images to be viewed and shared...

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Camera Work: The Vital Force Behind A New Way of Seeing A Media Studies Program Senior Thesis

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2015-January-01
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Photographer and journal editor Alfred Stieglitz has been credited with evolving an American style of looking at photography. After attempting to develop its recognition as an art form from within the gallery setting, Stieglitz seized an opportunity to instigate change...

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Camera Work: The Vital Force Behind A New Way of Seeing A Media Studies Program Senior Thesis

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2015-January-01
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Photographer and journal editor Alfred Stieglitz has been credited with evolving an American style of looking at photography. After attempting to develop its recognition as an art form from within the gallery setting, Stieglitz seized an opportunity to instigate change...

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Textbook: the sitcom, "Louie", and the French New Wave

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2017-January-01
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It is through visual storytelling style, Francois Truffaut believed, that a director's expressive tendencies could be seen, imprinting a work with their signature style. In the world of television, collaboration is key and production's industrial processes tend to erase the...

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“They were real, they were American”: Jeans in Soviet magazines in the 1970s and 1980s

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2023-April-14
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The 1970s and 1980s saw a significant increase in the popularity of jeans among the Soviet Union's youth. To gain a better understanding of the origins of this trend, the paper analyzes interviews with former Soviet Union citizens, as well...

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“They were real, they were American”: Jeans in Soviet magazines in the 1970s and 1980s

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2023-April-14
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The 1970s and 1980s saw a significant increase in the popularity of jeans among the Soviet Union's youth. To gain a better understanding of the origins of this trend, the paper analyzes interviews with former Soviet Union citizens, as well...

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