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The Black Woman That Media Built: Content Creation, Interpretation, and the Making of the Black Female Self.
(2015)
This study is a qualitative, womanist inquiry into the ways that black women engage media texts through their interpretive work and through content creation. The study explores the media landscape, the interconnected domain ...
Cherchez la femme: Franco-American Relations through Popular Magazines' Representations of French and American Women, 1945-1965.
(2015)
This project examines how French and American magazines’ comparisons of American and French women, respectively, worked through U.S.-French relations after World War II into the 1960s (1945-1965). Drawing from over 2,500 ...
A Modern Family: The Performance of "Family" and Familialism in Contemporary Television Series.
(2012)
This dissertation addresses the complexities inherent in contemporary television articulations of family life and organization that construct the discourse on the American family since the mid-1990s. In addition to surveying ...