The following work is a feature length screenplay about Anna Morris, an 18-year-old girl who finds herself faced with a moral dilemma when her estranged father, Robert, contacts her on her 18th birthday. When she learns about Robert’s past involvement in an online child pornography ring Anna must decide if she can forgive him, or -- more importantly -- if he is worthy of forgiveness. However, as the story unfolds we find that it is not just Anna who needs to forgive. This story approaches issues of repentance, growth, and the journey into adulthood as Anna takes on each new challenge.

Thesis advisor: Stephen Pfohl / This work addresses the globally urgent need to understand the social origins of the recent surge in authoritarian and populist social movements across Europe and the Americas. It analyzes how themes of tribalism, confidence in medical science, and confidence in military violence changed over the years in the retelling of stories in popular culture. The focus is I Am Legend and Day of the Dead – two series of American film remakes of popular science fiction stories that feature pandemic disease and the threat of what are here referred to as “Diseased Others” – the transformed, humanoid Others who have caught the disease. The qualitatively-driven approach exhibits an original methodological contribution to the discipline of sociology, offering several innovations via the coding schemes used and an adaptation of grounded theory for multiple sample sets of films. The data consulted include transcriptions of dialogue from films, reviews in popular news sources, interviews with cast and crew, box office data, and data from the General Social Survey. Within these examples of “Diseased Others” science fiction, themes of tribal morality and confidence in medical science and the military have followed a discernible trajectory. This trajectory is of narrowing moral scope toward loyalty to one’s own in opposition to outside groups, and embracing military violence as a positive solution to threats to the “normal” population. In general, medical science is also increasingly positioned as dangerous and blameworthy (even if also capable of positive intervention). This trajectory thus displays a heightening of what are identified for the present study as three “elements of authoritarian populism”: tribalism, distrust of rational institutions, and willingness to resort to violence. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Sociology.

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En vanlig metod inom musikskapande är att utgå ifrån tidigare skapad musik. Musik upplevs dock ofta i samband med andra konstformer och jag ville undersöka hur det går att skapa musik med utgångspunkt i andra konstformer snarare än att starta med musikaliska referenser. Målet har varit att skapa nya tankebanor och nya sätt att kommunicera om musik. Jag har omvandlat attribut från tre olika filmsekvenser till musikalisk form. Fokus är lagt på komposition, arrangering, speltekniska aspekter och konstnärliga ljudtekniska val. Arbetet har resulterat i tre musikstycken av varierad karaktär. Under processen har nya tankebanor och verktyg för att skapa musik framkommit. Tankebanorna som framkom innefattade bland annat att använda ljud som känns igen från annat än musik samt system för att överföra färg till musik. Jag kom till insikt om att det i musikaliska sammanhang alltid går att tänka ”fler varv” än vid första anblick.

The focus of this thesis is to explore the ideas behind Hollywood Cinema and techniques used to craft camera shots of today’s cinema. The movie industry is one of the United States’ biggest export profits; because of this, American movies standout above the rest. I will be exploring and demonstrating the researched techniques of American cinema.

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