This paper thoroughly examines the production of the thesis film, Turtle Beach. Each area of the film’s production is carefully dissected, including the writing, production design, cinematography, directing, editing, sound, technology, workflow and visual effect. Specific attention has been paid to writing and cinematography, and how they affect editing.

Thesis advisor: Robert K. O'Neill / World War II is regarded as the modern war in which it is easiest to make moral judgments about right and wrong. How could Ireland – a nation more closely tied to its religion than almost any other – have remained on the sidelines while Europe was torn apart in a bloody struggle to save democracy? This paper examines the ways in which the charismatic and savvy leadership of prime minister Eamon de Valera, a man of both pragmatism and principle, the strict war-time censorship which was imposed on the media (specifically the country's proudest, and most pro-British, newspaper, the Irish Times), and the lenses through which the people viewed the war – most notably, that of their Catholic faith – combined to make neutrality a policy which was not just accepted but embraced as a defining step for Ireland as a nation. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

A II Guerra Mundial foi um conflito de proporções únicas, deixando remanescentes materiais e imateriais em todos os países envolvidos. No Brasil, sua herança se apresenta principalmente através da participação da Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB). Apesar de conquistar vitórias importantes contra um regime ditatorial, o grupo foi desfeito antes mesmo do retorno ao Brasil, o que levou os combatentes do heroísmo ao esquecimento rapidamente. A exclusão e a desvalorização que sofreram por parte do governo e do Exército causaram trauma e ressentimento nos veteranos, que hoje temem que a falta de apoio e interesse levem sua história ao completo esquecimento. Este trabalho tem como objetivos entender qual o impacto desta desvalorização no que se sabe sobre a FEB atualmente e identificar o que o público em geral da cidade de São Paulo e, mais especificamente, os professores de história da rede pública, conhecem sobre o grupo. Visa ainda apresentar casos em que o Turismo Cultural, através do patrimônio histórico, tenha sido utilizado como instrumento de reconstrução da memória de grupos desvalorizados, cujos modelos possam ser aplicados aos remanescentes da FEB. Para isso, foram feitos estudos documentais, entrevistas quantitativas com o público em geral e qualitativas com os professores de história. Através das pesquisas e entrevistas realizadas, foi concluído que os professores de história não têm conhecimento aprofundado sobre a FEB e, consequentemente, o assunto é reproduzido superficialmente aos alunos em sala de aula, o que justifica o fato de a maior parte do público em geral não conhecer o grupo. Observou-se que a omissão de sua história, de seus feitos e de suas tradições pelos detentores de poder, numa tentativa de manter o regime ditatorial vigente e a estrutura do Exército, fizeram com que o grupo passasse a ser historicamente invisível. Ao estudar casos em que o Turismo Cultural foi utilizado como instrumento para reconstrução da memória de grupos desvalorizados, conclui-se que as mesmas estratégias podem ser utilizadas para a reconstrução da memória da FEB / The World War II was a conflict of exceptional dimension, leaving tangible and intangible cultural heritage in every country involved. In Brazil, its heritage presents itself especially through the participation of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB). Despite achieving important victories against a dictatorial regime, the group was broken up even before their return to Brazil, which led the combatants from the heroism to the oblivion quickly. The exclusion and the devaluation that they suffered from the government and from the Brazilian Army caused trauma and resentment to the war veterans, who nowadays fear that the lack of support and interest will sink their history into oblivion. This academic paper has the objective of understanding the impact of this devaluation regarding what we know about the FEB today and to identify what the general public and History teachers of public schools located in the city of Sao Paulo know about the group. In addition to that, this paper aims to present some cases in which the Cultural Tourism, through the historical heritage, has been utilized as an instrument of reconstruction of the memory of diminished groups and which examples could be applied to the heritage of the FEB. To that end, documental studies and interviews were made, including qualitative research with applied to History teachers and quantitative research applied to the general public. Through the data from those studies and researches, it was concluded that most of the population of Sao Paulo does not know about the FEB, and that result can be justified by the lack of approach on the subject from the formal education system, since History teachers have a superficial knowledge about the topic and the presence of the FEB history in the textbooks is very limited, according to the History teachers interview. From these results, it was perceived that the omission of the FEBs history, achievements and tradition, by the political forces, in an attempt to maintain the current dictatorship and the Army structure of power, led the historical invisibility of the group. However, studying cases in which the Cultural Tourism was used as an instrument of reconstruction of memory of diminished groups, such as the Holocaust Memorial and the Memorial of Resistance of Sao Paulo, it was concluded that the same strategies could be utilized to the reconstruction of the memory of the FEB

Thesis advisor: Kenneth Kersch / Thesis advisor: Robert Savage / There is perhaps no more interesting and complex relationship between states than that of Ireland and the United Kingdom – a matter made all the more complicated by their disagreements during the Second World War. The objective of this thesis was to determine whether Ireland’s policy in the war could accurately be described as neutral and what effects this policy had on Anglo-Irish relations. In order to address these questions, this work studies contemporary government documents, media reporting, and personal correspondence, as well as considering pre-existing scholarship on the matter. The principal conclusion of this work was that Ireland substantially aided the Allied war effort, and that its policies during the conflict did not have any lasting negative implications for the state’s relationship with the United Kingdom. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: International Studies Honors Program. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: International Studies.

Com o objetivo de explorar outras formas de aproximar a história dos trabalhadores, essa dissertação tem por escopo analisar um conjunto de 724 fotografias acerca da rotina da Chicago and North Western Railway e entender as formas possíveis de um discurso fotográfico acerca do trabalho e dos trabalhadores das estradas de ferro. Essas fotografias foram produzidas pelo fotógrafo Jack Delano sob a direção de Roy Emerson Stryker que, à época, encontrava-se na direção da divisão de fotografia do Office of War Information. Mais precisamente, as imagens fazem parte da trajetória do que ficou mais conhecido como Historical Section do Farm Security Administration, um grupo de fotógrafos conhecidos por retratar a situação do mundo rural após a Grande Depressão. Por conta disso, como modo de se aproximar às fotografias para analisá-las, foi preciso realizar uma reflexão acerca de seus elementos constitutivos, a saber: a história dos ferroviários, da divisão de fotografia e o problema de encarar a fotografia como um documento histórico. Feito isso, caracterizam-se as fotografias como vestígio em que as trajetórias de fotógrafo e da divisão, premidos por pressões políticas internas à estrutura estatal estadunidense, e as dos ferroviários marcadas por várias tensões entre patrões e trabalhadores se cruzavam. Com isso em vista, partiu-se para uma análise por meio de banco de dados para compreender como esse discurso estava constituído nas imagens. A partir de uma análise quantitativa somada a uma aproximação detida das narrativas fotográficas presentes na coleção de fotografias, percebeu-se que ela se apoiou em um discurso de harmonia entre trabalhadores e companhia ferroviária em favor de uma visão de equilíbrio social e que se adequasse às expectativas liberais em relação ao esforço de guerra. Mesmo com imagens que poderiam trazer ruídos para essa visão, a força de certa mitografia que entendia o trabalho como fonte da ordem social apontava, de fato, para um discurso de dominação em que a lógica capitalista aparece imposta sobre os trabalhadores por meio do discurso fotográfico. / Having as an objective to explore other ways to approach the workers history, this dissertation has as scope analyze a collection of 724 photographs on the routine of the Chicago and North Western Railway and understand the contents of a photographic discourse about railroad work and labor. These photographs were produced by photographer Jack Delano under direction of Roy Emerson Stryker, the head of the Office of War Informations Division of Photography. More precisely, the pictures are part of what is mostly known as the Farm Security Administrations Historical Section, group of photographers acknowledged for picturing the situation of the rural America after the effect of the Great Depression. For that matter, as means to establish an analytic procedure, it was necessary to reflect on the photographs constitutive elements, as: the history of railroad workers, the history of the division of photography and the question of understand photography as a historical record. As a result, the photographs were characterized as vestiges in which the trajectories of the photographer and the division, pressed by the politics inside the American state, and the trajectories of the railroad companies and workers, marked by various tensions, met. With this in view, it was established an analysis of the photographs through a database so it could be understood how the discourse was constituted in these pictures. From a quantitative analysis coupled with a detained approach to the photographic narratives found in the photographic collection, it was understood that the pictures relied on a discourse of harmony between workers and the railway in favor of a vision of social balance that suited the liberals expectations towards the war effort. Even though some images have the potency to challenge such view, the power of the mythography that understood labor as a source of social order pointed, in fact, to a discourse of domination in which the logic of capital was imposed on workers by means of photographic discourse.

O partido nazista no Brasil (1928-1938) estava inserido em uma rede de filiais deste partido instaladas em 83 países do mundo e comandadas pela Organização do Partido Nazista no Exterior, cuja sede era em Berlim. O grupo instalado no Brasil teve a maior célula fora da Alemanha com 2900 integrantes sendo estruturado de acordo com regras e diretrizes do modelo organizacional do III Reich. A realidade brasileira interveio nesse processo causando o que chamamos de tropicalização do nazismo. A história do desenvolvimento da ação do partido no Brasil será analisada nos 17 estados brasileiros onde estava presente, tendo como contexto histórico a complexidade das relações Brasil e Alemanha durante o período da Era Vargas, a relação com o integralismo e eventuais conflitos raciais com a população brasileira e com judeus imigrados. Ênfase será dada ao papel do chefe do partido nazista no Brasil, Hans Henning von Cossel, considerado como Führer tupiniquim, tendo como fonte entrevistas com seus familiares. Contém extenso material iconográfico de documentos de época. / The Nazi party in Brazil (1928-1938) was inserted in a branch net spread in 83 countries around the world and headed by the Nazi Party Foreign Organization, whose seat was settled in Berlin. The group installed in Brazil had the major cell outside Germany with 2900 members and was structured according to the III Reich organizational model rules and policies. The Brazilian reality interfered in this process causing what is called the tropicalization of the Nazism. The history of the party actions development in Brazil will be analyzed in the 17 Brazilian states where it had a spot, having as a historical context the complexity of the Germany-Brazil connection during the Vargas Age, the relationship with the Integralism and the occasional racial conflicts with the Brazilian people and the immigrated Jews. Special attention will be given to the role of the Nazi party commander in Brazil, Hans Henning von Cossel who was considered as the native Führer, using interviews with his relatives as wellspring. The thesis contains a vast iconographic material of the period documents.

This thesis examines the development of RAF high command of the Metropolitan Air Force (MAF) during the Second World War (SWW). It sheds new light on the re-organisations of the Air Ministry in 1934, the RAF Command structure in 1936, and the tri-service debate in 1937 concerning the RAF proposal to establish a Supreme Air Commander (SAC). It reveals that while frontline expansion created an impetus for re-organisation, it was operational readiness that was the dominant factor in the re-structuring of the RAF. It examines the transition in RAF frontline organization from the mono-functional command system of 1936 to the multi-functional organisation that emerged after 1943 by looking at command structure and practice, personalities, and operational thinking. This study builds on the established historiography but challenges the accepted explanation of RAF reforms in the 1930s. It addresses a significant gap in the literature concerning the way the frontline was directed by the War Cabinet and the Air Ministry. In doing so it seeks to establish a new starting point for the analysis of RAF high command by providing an assessment of how effective were the RAF reforms of the 1930s to the higher command of MAF operations during the SWW.

Conflict archaeology is a popular subject of academic research. Within the topic of British Second World War archaeology there are few studies examining anti-invasion defences, and none relating to the evidence or its use. This research was influenced by concepts in historical and conflict archaeology and the archaeologies of the recent and contemporary past. It was undertaken to determine the extent of survival of archaeological, documentary, aerial photographic and cartographic evidence for three cases in south and south-west Wales. Case study method was used to identify, select and analyse evidence. Grounded theory was used to induce meaning. The evidence was given equal primacy, assessed critically and analysed for its role, value and contribution. Official sources were used for their unique, informed and authoritative content. Knowledge of military organisational practices and formation/unit identities were required to use the evidence effectively. A rich but incomplete evidence base of a complex character was identified. Evidence was found to be complementary and inter-dependent, representing aspects of a common shared phenomenon. The diverse sources could be used to induce meaningful narratives. The research suggested that an archaeological approach was a valid and effective form of inquiry when applied to cross-disciplinary evidence from the recent past.

This study focuses on the experiences of young girls, who were aged between four and twenty-one when the Occupation began, growing up in Occupied France during World War II. Although youth and gender have been researched independently, this has been in terms of the policies that were implemented by the Vichy regime. Similarly studies on public opinion focus on the population as a whole rather than on a specific category of people. Using archival documents and published testimonies, my research explores the complexities surrounding the formation of opinions towards the Germans in young girls’ minds and how these opinions reflect their age and gender. An important factor in this interplay is that the Germans were often not much older than these young girls so in peacetime the two would have belonged to similar peer groups. In contrast to adults who could make conscious decisions about how to behave towards the enemy, young girls tended to react more naturally and instinctively. The thesis therefore argues that their accounts provide a deeper and more nuanced insight into public opinion at this time.

This thesis examines the construction of frames of Second World War memory in the post-occupation Channel Islands, and considers the impact of gender on both this memory-making process and the resulting popular representations of their shared past. It first explores the gendered tensions and fractures of the occupation years, and their role in the construction of this usable past. The occupation will be shown to have directly challenged the traditional gendered expectations of British wartime conduct (a key tenet of Islander identity), particularly regarding martial masculinity and feminine virtue. These tensions and fractures were particularly acute in the Channel Islands, as they were the only British territory to be occupied by German forces during the Second World War, having been demilitarised prior to the invasion of 1940. The war memories that were popularly adopted by the Islander communities after the war were, therefore, rooted in these early tensions and fractures, as they sought out retribution, closure, and unity, along with a connection to the desirable British war memory and the image of the victorious soldier hero. This thesis examines how this traumatic period has been built into a necessary and powerful founding myth in the Channel Islands, through the gendered sharing of war stories and rituals, as well as the reclaiming of contested spaces and objects to the present day. This analysis of the war memory of these small Islander communities will inform wider understanding of how gendered wartime anxieties might have similarly impacted the construction of war memory within other previously occupied nations across Europe. It also offers an important insight into the role of gender in the subsequent dissemination, disruption and stabilisation of war stories through generations, particularly within small communities recovering from the trauma of war.