Wieskamp, Valerie

asu

There are 8 item/s.

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
Female Representation In The Slasher Genre: An Analysis Of The Hitchcock Era And Beyond 2021 2323 For this thesis, I will conduct a literature review and a content analysis of various films in the slasher genre—Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960), Halloween (Carpenter, 1978), Black Christmas (Clark, 1974), and the Black Christmas remake (Takal, 2019). Throu...
A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Representation Of Student-Athletes In Visual Media 2017 2726 As the media impacts our lives on a daily basis, it shapes our perceptions of the world and people around us. According to the thoughts of Marshall McLuhan, George Gerbner, and Neil Postman, media create meanings for society to apply to their cultur...
The Sexiest Symbol: Marilyn Monroe 2018 2900 This essay is a rhetorical analysis that reviews the concept of “ideographs” as it relates to verbal and visual rhetoric. I suggest that there is another form of ideograph—the “embodied ideograph.” I define the embodied ideograph as people who embody...
Color Grading In Film: How Complementary Colors Affect An Audience’s Perception Of Mood 2018 6962 This thesis looked at the emotional perception of color grading in film through the testing of three sets of complementary color grades. The three grades included: Teal and Orange, Red and Green, and Purple and Yellow. These grades were examined agai...
The Postmodern Metaphor: A Double-Blind 2019 661 The purpose of this thesis is to orient the conflict of postmodernism and democracy to the conventions of language and the ways in which individuals are lead to mistake metaphor for truth. As the content of this argument is centered around the concep...
“Say It Louder For The People In The Back!”: Analyzing The Power Of Antirape Feminist Digital Activism 2020 865 Because of the surge of the #MeToo Movement in 2017, antirape activism has now largely established a digital presence by creating a virtual community. When the inclusivity of this movement’s community was called into question, it led me to doubt the ...
“Say It Louder For The People In The Back!”: Analyzing The Power Of Antirape Feminist Digital Activism (Supplemental Podcast - Audio) 2020 63 Supplemental Podcast to Spring 2020 Honors Thesis: Because of the surge of the #MeToo Movement in 2017, antirape activism has now largely established a digital presence by creating a virtual community. When the inclusivity of this movement’s communit...
"The Planet's On Fucking Fire!": Climate Coverage In Jester Journalism 2020 115 This paper examines climate change communication in The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight’s coverage of the Green New Deal. Jester journalism, a term used to describe The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, is defined here as a satirical news parody tha...