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Loving You is Complicated
Get PDFIn this reflection paper, I will cover the entire process of the creation of my thesis film, Loving You is Complicated, from the writing of the script and pre-production tasks, through principal shooting dates, all the way to post-production editing and documentation. I will reflect on my time in UNO’s graduate film production program, including how I learned from mistakes on previous films, and created a smooth experience for this film. I will also reflect on mistakes made during LYIC’s creation, and how I plan to learn from moving forward into my career
Colonial Ceremonies
Get PDFColonial Ceremonies contains six stories about the lives and struggles of people living and working in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Sachsenhausen, “More of the Same”: The Transition of a Nazi Concentration Camp into a Soviet Special Camp
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Totalitarian use of the concentration camp to subjugate and control its citizens was exemplified on a massive scale with the world’s most oppressive twentieth century regimes, Nazi Germany, and the USSR. While evolved from very different political origins, concentration camps were the primary instrument within each nation’s security services resulting in human misery and death on a massive scale. One camp, Sachsenhausen, near Berlin was especially prominent, designed and constructed in 1936 as a model camp with the IKL eventually housed adjacent to it. In May 1945 the Soviets invaded Germany, and within months Sachsenhausen was utilized by the Soviet NKVD and became the most prominent camp in the SOZ. This thesis demonstrates how Sachsenhausen was utilized by both regimes, undoubtedly differing in their politics, but demonstrating the concentration camps as their tool of choice. Any differences in camp administration were significantly outweighed by the human suffering and death experienced there
Other Women
Get PDFOther Women is a collection of short stories written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. These stories are interested in women’s relationship to their potential selves, each other, work and time
Shifting Images: Film and Historical Legacy of Malcolm X, 1959-2021
Get PDFMalcolm X, born Malcolm Little and died el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, left an indelible mark on the American consciousness. Between 1952 and 1964, Malcolm X earned renown as a minister for the Nation of Islam under the guidance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The first film appearance of Malcolm X himself was in the 1959 documentary The Hate That Hate Produced, a film that sent both Malcolm and the Nation of Islam onto the national, and eventually international, stage. The next attempt to immortalize the man in film would be after his death, in 1972’s Malcolm X, a documentary based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The efforts of that film would bleed directly into 1992’s Malcolm X, a dramatization of the same autobiography. For nearly thirty years there was a dearth of films about the man until 2020’s One Night in Miami, a fictionalization of a real night experienced by Malcolm X. By looking at the historical memory of Malcolm X through the framework of film; including what information the filmmakers used to create their works, what messages they portray through cinematic language and critical and audience reviews; this work seeks to trace the shifting film memory of Malcolm X
Resilience Lives Past the Crisis: Puerto Rican Performing Arts Organizations in the Wake of Hurricane María
Get PDFThis thesis is a deep dive into the performing arts in Puerto Rico through the lens of Hurricane María, the devasting 2017 storm. Utilizing interviews with eight performing arts leaders and organizations as case studies (Asociación ACirc; Agua, Sol y Sereno; Centro de Bellas Artes de Puerto Rico; Centro de Economía Creativa; Centro Danza; Teatro Breve; Teatro Público; and Vueltabajo Teatro), it looks at performing arts organizations in the aftermath of the storm and their roles as community leaders, community builders, and agents of change. It poses performing artists as first responders and lays out the need for more robust cultural policies and government support. The thesis also considers Puerto Rico’s complex political situation and how the performing arts have been at the core of activist movements, helping to shape societal change. Gathering this information helps inform arts leaders and administrators so they may be better prepared for future catastrophes
Inequality Among Men
Get PDFIn this reflection paper, I discuss the making of my short film for my thesis after a few years of graduate film school and during the aftermath of a global pandemic. I will discuss my journey with the film My Dinner with Andre (1981) and with philosophy I had during my undergraduate career that shaped the film I ended up making. I will mention how discussions with my producer Dustin Foret also influenced the film I ended up creating. I will reflect upon the preproduction process, production process, and postproduction process in making this film, and how I navigated working with a team of different types of people. The insight I provide in the choices I made in the production process and editing process of the film is included in this reflection as well. Last, I go into my future beyond finishing my MFA in film production here at The University of New Orleans
New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians: Big Chiefs\u27 Perspectives
Get PDFNew Orleans’ strategic location on the Mississippi River is a centuries-old hub for economic growth, cultural exchange, and has been a prize for competing political forces since colonial times. Its multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multicultural complexities where Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans transcultural sociopolitical experiences around enslavement and co-habitation produced the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians. The patriarchal Mardi Gras Indian tribes have been around for more than a hundred years and are known for creating extravagant handcrafted masquerading suits whose prominent features are feathers and beads and, through their traditions constitute a distinct cultural group. This research used oral histories supplemented by literature to explore Mardi Gras Indian history, origin theories, communal relations, class dimensions, and self-identity for understanding cultural transformation and leadership patterns while describing hierarchy, stability, and fluency within and among their tribes. Oral history narratives came from Big Chiefs, who are the paramount leaders and spokespersons for each tribe. The Big Chiefs gave descriptive interpretations that revealed societal structures, development, and sociopolitical dynamics
Using Wavelets to Compress Ocean Data
No full textWavelets are a tool in signal processing to compress or denoise a signal, and it was applied to ocean data in order to see how well this tool could be applied for compression. With little data loss, a 75% compression was possible, and with more data loss, a near 90% compression was possible