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  • Pogchamp! an analysis of Twitch.tv and user intercommunications 
    Werder, Brianna (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    Twitch.tv is a social media platform which originally marketed itself specifically for gamers but has more recently gained recognition as appealing to aspiring live streamers of all interests. Social media platforms have ...
  • The limits of resemblance : gender representation in the films of Hong Sang-Soo 
    Mudle, Kirk Robert (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    This paper looks to Hong Sang-soo’s 2010 film, Oki’s Movie, to analyze how a middleaged male filmmaker attempts to express the subjective experience of a woman who is three decades his junior. This semi-episodic film ...
  • Season of the witch : the externalization of feminine powers 
    Franco, Hector Manuel (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    Witches have always been portrayed as strong, powerful women who take control and are able to use their Dowers to receive what they want. Traditionally, scholarship dealing with the image of the witch have proposed this ...
  • Exploring the phenomenology of black queer embodiment in Moonlight and Tangerine 
    Reiff-Shanks, Mychal (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    In my thesis, I will be discussing how the filmic body through the theoretical understanding of phenomenology is a coded body. By coded I mean racially, sexually, and more. When viewing films, the focus has always been on ...
  • Queer new media 
    Menaker, Chase Alexander (San Francisco State University, 2019)
    At the dawn of the 1990s, queer as identity marker and political stance entered the cultural lexicon amidst the dot com boom and a proliferation of digital technologies. In what ways are these two events intertwined? Is ...