Flotsam is a collection of writing. Flotsam examines divisions of the self. Flotsam is made of fiction, nonfiction, and visual representations of both. Flotsam is made of the truth. Flotsam is made of lies. Flotsam is pretty. Flotsam is a beast. / by Jacob Henson. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011.

This study addresses the intersection of the avant-garde and mass culture through a close reading of three singular works from the Weimar Republic in Germany. Bauhaus founding director Walter Gropius (1883-1969) designed a "Total Theater" (1927, unbuilt) whose multiple screens encircled an interior structure for the presentation of twelve simultaneous film projections. In 1930, Hungarian-born Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) completed a rotating, metallic sculpture for the projection of light effects, which has assumed a number of different configurations within theater, film, and the museum since its inception in 1922. In the 1910s and 20s, Swedish-born Viking Eggeling (1880-1925) experimented with the properties of line by transferring static, two-dimensional collages from the animation table to the cinematic screen. In addition to undoing experimental film's logic as a genre, this study addresses the epistemological questions each of these works introduce--namely, the production of artistic and scientific knowledge in the early twentieth century, the evidentiary status of reproducible media, and the institutional framing of works of art. Rather than establish a genealogy between early twentieth-century kinetic and light experiments and the "expanded cinema" practices of the 1960s and 70s, this dissertation approaches these objects as "adjacencies" to the cinematic dispositif, within which their relationship to art and politics, technological determinism, the ontology of the work of art, and the compartmentalization of media are examined.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, August 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 791-825). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR19808

Thesis--Stockholm. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-147) and index.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed.D)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Rene Arcilla. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Institute of Fine Arts, 1990. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 213-231).

Thesis--Stockholm. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-147) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, December 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.