After World War II in the United States, the household refrigerator and freezer became interwoven into a domestic reality defined by consumption, mechanical innovation, and a tension between spatial isolation and cultural interconnectivity. This thesis positions narrative Hollywood cinema, television and print media as the dominant sites where the refrigerator and freezer’s social identities were formed and negotiated. These productions employ the devices to explore postwar family gender roles, the influence of culture industries and consumer economies within the home, and technological fantasies and fears. They also illustrate a fertile conversation between household media technologies and kitchen accessories. As a result, viewing the refrigerator and freezer through film and television representations substantially alters existing conclusions over who interacted with the objects on an everyday basis, and their effect for a culture increasingly reliant upon appliances to provide basic human needs and generate a satisfying, entertaining lifestyle. / text

xii, 214 p. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Recombinant television, a common television practice involving recycled, prepackaged formulas, updated to create programming that is perceived as novel, impacts more than industry processes. While the industry uses recombinants to reduce risk by facilitating aspects of production and audience affiliation, the inadvertent outcomes include a litany of narratives and characters that influence our worldview. As did the myths of earlier oral societies, television serves as one of our modern storytellers, teaching what we value and helping us make sense of our culture. This study focuses on how the prevalence of recombinant television limits portrayals of women and the discourse of feminism in three popular, female cast American sitcoms. This study comparatively examines the recombinant narratives and characters in Golden Girls, Living Single , and Sex and the City . While these programs are seemingly about very different modern women, older White women in suburban Florida; twenty-something African-American women in Brooklyn; and thirty-something, White, professional women in Manhattan, respectively, the four main characters in each show represent feminine archetypes found throughout Western mythology: the iron maiden, the sex object, the child, and the mother. First, a content analysis determines if a relationship exists between the characters and archetypes. Then, a comparative textual analysis reveals the deeper meanings the archetypes carry. Finally, a comparative narrative analysis examines the similarities and differences among the series. The findings reveal that a relationship exists between each modern character and her corresponding ancient archetype, reflecting particular meanings and discourses. The iron maiden archetypes, for example, generally bring forth a feminist discourse, whereas the child archetypes exhibit traditional values. While the sex object archetypes are self-absorbed, consumed with their own beauty and sexual conquests, the mother archetypes seek psychological wellness for themselves and those around them, generally providing much of the emotional work for the group. As reflected in these popular U.S. television series, the similarities among the archetypes and narratives depict limited views of women's lives, while the variance indicates differences among age, race, and class demographics. These recombinant portrayals of ancient archetypes as modern women suggest that our understanding of women's lives remains antiquated, reductionist, and conventional. / Adviser: Debra Merskin

Les séries télévisées produites aux États-Unis au cours des trois dernières décennies se caractérisent par la complexité de leurs intrigues, qui inspirent souvent des comparaisons avec un travail de « tissage ». L’impression d’ « entremêlement » des « fils narratifs » est due à la fois à une multiplication des personnages et des points de vue, et à une déconstruction de la temporalité dans certaines œuvres. En articulant une approche narratologique à une analyse sociologique de ces séries, il est possible d’avancer que les motifs dessinés par ces « fils » sont des allégories de systèmes sociaux réels, qui structurent divers groupes communautaires. Il s’agit dès lors d’établir une méthodologie originale et de définir un vocabulaire adapté pour confirmer cette hypothèse. L’étude du « tissage narratif » dans un corpus de séries récentes permet d’y examiner la représentation de la sphère privée – notamment des cellules familiales – ainsi que celle de sphères publiques et professionnelles. Elle révèle en particulier une interpénétration de ces deux « mondes », phénomène caractéristique de l’ère post-fordiste. Notre démarche, en s’ancrant dans le champ disciplinaire des études de genre et culturelles, révèle en outre dans quelle mesure des normes sociales telles que la domination masculine et l’hégémonie blanche peuvent être perpétuées ou, à l’inverse, remises en question dans les séries choisies. En conséquence, il est possible d’affirmer que l’analyse « socio-narratologique » de séries télévisées « tissées » met au jour la manière dont ces programmes mettent en scène des relations sociales et des dynamiques de domination dans des communautés contemporaines. / TV series produced over the past three decades in the United States are characterized by the complexity of their storylines, often giving rise to a comparison with a “weaving work”. The impression that the “narrative threads” are interwoven is made by the abundance of characters and disparate points of view, and, in some shows, by a deconstructed temporality. By combining a narratological approach with a sociological analysis of such TV shows, it is possible to claim that the patterns designed by those “threads” are allegories for actual social systems, which give structure to various community groups. Proceeding from this claim, we aim at creating a new methodology and defining an appropriate vocabulary in order to confirm that hypothesis. Studying “interwoven storytelling” in a corpus of recent TV shows allows us to examine the representation of the private sphere – especially family units – along with public and professional spheres. It particularly reveals a pervasion of these two “worlds”, a phenomenon which is a distinguishing feature of the post-Fordist era. Furthermore, by putting down roots in the academic field of gender and cultural studies, our approach reveals how social norms such as male domination and white hegemony can be perpetuated or, on the contrary, questioned in the series we’ve selected. Consequently, it is possible to assert that the “socio-narratological” analysis of “woven” TV series brings to light the way in which such programs depict social relationships and domination dynamics in contemporary communities.

Esta investigación analiza el panorama de largometrajes animados digitalmente en la ciudad de Lima, Perú, durante los años 2004-2016. Se aborda el proceso de realización de las películas, sus dificultades y características primordiales, a través del estudio de tres productoras: Origami Studio, Red Animation y Aronnax. El presente texto ofrece una perspectiva de la industria de la animación en Lima y desagrega tanto sus capacidades como sus posibilidades de desarrollo / The aim of this research is to analyze the feature film digital animation scene, in the city of Lima, Peru, between the years of 2005-2016. To achieve this, the realization process of the animated movies made in the present, along with its main characteristics and difficulties, is investigated through the study of three different production companies: Origami Studio, Red Animation and Aronnax. The text offers an outlook of the animated movie industry and it divides both their capabilities and their development possibilities. / Trabajo de investigación

El proyecto del presente trabajo de investigación se centra en el estudio de algunas de las relaciones intertextuales, de influencias temáticas y estilísticas que se establecen entre las obras de ambos autores, teniendo a Truffaut como cineasta heredero del legado creativo de Renoir. / This research project focuses on the study of the thematic and stylistic relationships established in the works of the two authors. / Trabajo de investigación

"Gar Demia", es un documental que aborda el viaje de un paciente recién diagnósticado con la enfermedad de la Psoriasis, enfermedad inflamatoria y crónica de la piel, de origen autoinmune; en él se muestra desde mi perspectiva cómo voy encontrando personas en el camino que cuentan con el mismo diagnóstico, así mismo, se van presentando sus testimonios y dificultades de vivir con la enfermedad por el tiempo que lo lleven haciendo. / Trabajo de suficiencia profesional

El objetivo principal del proyecto "Experiencia Profesional de un Camarógrafo de Prensa en la Construcción de Noticias" es demostrar y revalorar la importancia que tienen los camarógrafos de prensa como personajes importantes en el registro de la historia diaria, (más que el reportero incluso). Todos pueden fallar, menos el camarógrafo; sin su participación no existiría Nota Informativa Televisiva. / Trabajo de suficiencia profesional

La concepción de este trabajo tuvo como premisa la siguiente frase: “Los autos son los juguetes de los hombres”. Pensamos que sería interesante que los modelos a escala de la oficina de Kike Pérez (conductor y fundador del programa) cobraran vida y le dieran una atmósfera lúdica a la presentación. Por eso optamos por trabajarla en stop motion, pues de ese modo podríamos darle a los autos un “soplo de vida” y recrear la imaginería propia de nuestra niñez. / Trabajo de suficiencia profesional

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