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1. Flaig, Paul. Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2013, Cornell University

► In Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques I examine the wide-ranging popularity of American slapstick film in Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933). With its gag-driven narratives,… (more)

▼ In Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques I examine the wide-ranging popularity of American slapstick film in Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933). With its gag-driven narratives, mechanically energized stars and urban, industrial mise-en-scène, slapstick spoke directly to the fears and desires of Germany's first democracy. Using this uniquely American, uniquely cinematic response to modernity as a lens, I offer a transnational account of Weimar culture, with slapstick refracting sites ranging from the film palace to the cabaret, Bauhaus design to modernist text. For those who celebrated the genre, slapstick's shocking, playfully curious humor challenged the traumas and cynicisms that would consume the Republic and which, moreover, still dominate scholarship on this era and its legacy. I approach slapstick cinema against the background of both Weimar Germany's obsession with all things American as well as grotesque traditions in European arts and letters. These films were more than simply received-they were also, to use playwright Bertolt Brecht's term, re-functioned, transformed by context and appropriation. Brecht himself adapted the lumpenproletarian gestures of Charlie Chaplin for developing his epic theater. Aside from this meeting of Tramp and Marxist dramaturge, I analyze a series of American-German constellations: Buster Keaton's androgynous deadpan through Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, white-collar employee Harold Lloyd iii through comic schlemihl Curt Bois and uncanny cartoon Felix the Cat through the animated, feline guide of Paul Leni and Guido Seeber's interactive crossword films. I situate these meetings within a broader historical circuit, with exiles from Hitler's Third Reich returning slapstick's favor by transforming American culture, even influencing heroes like Chaplin. Given the continued interest in the thought and culture of the Weimar era, I offer a case study for reevaluating its legacy vis-à-vis transnational cinemas, the relationship between avant-garde and mass media and modern theories of humor. iv Advisors/Committee Members: Villarejo, Amy (chair), Bathrick, David (committee member), McBride, Patrizia C. (committee member), Haenni, Sabine (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Slapstick Cinema; Weimar Culture; Comedy

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Flaig, P. (2013). Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34066

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Flaig, Paul. “Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34066.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Flaig, Paul. “Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques.” 2013. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Flaig P. Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34066.

Council of Science Editors:

Flaig P. Weimar Slapstick: American Eccentrics, German Grotesques. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34066

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2. Hatipoglu, Ozum. Trans-Media: The Biocybernetic Revolution in Theory and Art.

Degree: PhD, Theatre Arts, 2018, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59709

► We no longer exist in the realm of mechanical reproducibility; we now inhabit one in which biology and information theories unexpectedly combine to produce a… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Body; Sexuality; Gender studies; Biocybernetic; New Media; Trans

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Hatipoglu, O. (2018). Trans-Media: The Biocybernetic Revolution in Theory and Art. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59709

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hatipoglu, Ozum. “Trans-Media: The Biocybernetic Revolution in Theory and Art.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59709.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hatipoglu, Ozum. “Trans-Media: The Biocybernetic Revolution in Theory and Art.” 2018. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Hatipoglu O. Trans-Media: The Biocybernetic Revolution in Theory and Art. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59709.

Council of Science Editors:

Hatipoglu O. Trans-Media: The Biocybernetic Revolution in Theory and Art. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59709

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3. Williams, Jennifer. Archeology Of A Political Unconscious: Theater And Opera In East Berlin.

Degree: PhD, Theatre Arts, 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40935

► In the landscape of ruined streets, towering cranes and incomplete buildings under perpetual reconstruction that constituted East Berlin, what kind of space did the theater… (more)

▼ In the landscape of ruined streets, towering cranes and incomplete buildings under perpetual reconstruction that constituted East Berlin, what kind of space did the theater provide, and what role did it play in the construction of the new state? To what extent did its language of metaphors and symbols communicate the legitimation of an East German society, or did their ambiguity instead empower artists to challenge it? In pursuit of these questions, this dissertation engages with the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to examine how its theater and opera stages served as spaces in which artists and audiences acted out, fueled and resisted the troubled construction of political legitimacy through symbolic and material means. Of particular interest is the recurrence of reused theatrical materials in these East Berlin productions: compound, renovated objects that simultaneously encapsulated past and present meanings. At first glance, these materials appear to be vessels for political rhetoric, suggesting the historical trajectory of the new state extended back to the prewar historical moments the reused materials evoked and thereby confirmed a political legitimacy the SED so actively promulgated. However, by expressing both past and present meanings - and in half-finished shapes that mirrored the incompletion of the planned society's political and physical world - these reused theatrical materials also confounded such a linear historical narrative and challenged the very rhetoric it seemed to uphold. With a focus on the work of Bertolt Brecht, this dissertation investigates the reused theatrical material on East Berlin stages in three case studies: Uta Birnbaum's 1967 production of Brecht's Mann ist Mann at the Berliner Ensemble (the reassembled theatrical material), Joachim Herz's 1977 production of Brecht and Kurt Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Komische Oper (the reconstructed theatrical material) and the work of Heiner Müller that consciously reused Brechtian theatrical material (the sublime theatrical material). In each instance, the reused theatrical material dialectically expressed the contradictions inherent in East German political legitimacy, at once confirming and challenging it. Advisors/Committee Members: Bathrick,David (chair), Haenni,Sabine (coChair), Salvato,Nicholas G (committee member), Groos Jr,Arthur Bernhard (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: performance studies; East Germany; Brecht

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Williams, J. (2015). Archeology Of A Political Unconscious: Theater And Opera In East Berlin. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40935

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Williams, Jennifer. “Archeology Of A Political Unconscious: Theater And Opera In East Berlin.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40935.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Williams, Jennifer. “Archeology Of A Political Unconscious: Theater And Opera In East Berlin.” 2015. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Williams J. Archeology Of A Political Unconscious: Theater And Opera In East Berlin. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40935.

Council of Science Editors:

Williams J. Archeology Of A Political Unconscious: Theater And Opera In East Berlin. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40935

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4. Lee, Corinna. Recovered From The Thirties: The Politics Of Periodization.

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2011, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30623

► This dissertation examines critical efforts to republish and reevaluate 1930s American writers. Following the women's, Civil Rights, New Left, gay and lesbian, and other social… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines critical efforts to republish and reevaluate 1930s American writers. Following the women's, Civil Rights, New Left, gay and lesbian, and other social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, institutions of higher education underwent major transformations. These movements opened up new fields of scholarly inquiry, leading to the formation of interdisciplinary programs such as Women's Studies and Black Studies. In the field of literary studies, scholars extended this political critique to existing institutions, pursuing courses of curricular reform and developing new avenues of research into the cultures, histories, and literatures of marginalized groups. Literary recovery, the material practice and critical discourse of returning neglected authors and texts to print, is central to this larger institutional enterprise. "Recovered from the Thirties: The Politics of Periodization" focuses on a period (the 1930s) and three authors in particular-Tillie Olsen, Michael Gold, and Zora Neale Hurston- that have been the object of academic literary recovery. The 1930s period during which these writers were active witnessed the convergence of avant-garde aesthetic and mass cultural movements. From the radical proletarian movements of Olsen and Gold to the New Negro movement and folkloric projects of Hurston, these writers identified with, served as cultural authorities on, and represented (in their writings) marginal groups. While sharply different in their political positions-Gold was a lifelong Communist, Hurston a conservative Republican-these writers sought to culturally legitimate the experiences of proletarian subjects and other minorities. Falling out-of-print and excluded from dominant and mainstream literary histories, Gold, Olsen, and Hurston received renewed academic interest beginning in the 1960s, becoming, in their own right, representative subjects in alternative literary traditions. A definitive concern for literary recovery is the assertion of literary history as both a discursive and material process. This study pays close attention to the critical agendas that motivate the recovery of these authors as well as the mediums in which their writings are reissued. The analysis of these authors, from the perspective of literary recovery, thus allows for a reconsideration of general questions of literary interpretation including those of authorial identity and historical context. Advisors/Committee Members: Wong, Sunn Shelley (chair), Cheyfitz, Eric T. (committee member), Braddock, Jeremy (committee member), Haenni, Sabine (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: literary recovery; 1930s; US literature

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Lee, C. (2011). Recovered From The Thirties: The Politics Of Periodization. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30623

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, Corinna. “Recovered From The Thirties: The Politics Of Periodization.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30623.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, Corinna. “Recovered From The Thirties: The Politics Of Periodization.” 2011. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee C. Recovered From The Thirties: The Politics Of Periodization. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30623.

Council of Science Editors:

Lee C. Recovered From The Thirties: The Politics Of Periodization. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30623

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5. Mueller, Hannah Ruth. States of Fandom: Community, Constituency, Public Sphere.

Degree: PhD, Germanic Studies, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47899

► Approaching grassroots fan communities as political constituencies, this dissertation traces the historical development of self-organized fan groups from the 1930s to the present, focusing specifically… (more)

▼ Approaching grassroots fan communities as political constituencies, this dissertation traces the historical development of self-organized fan groups from the 1930s to the present, focusing specifically on conceptions of community, the negotiation of public discourse, processes of decision-making, and fannish engagement with social and political issues. While fan studies scholarship previously has emphasized the relationship between text and fan, this study thus steers attention towards the relationships between fans themselves and articulates the interrelations between fan activism, transformative fan practices, and the discursive conditions within fandom. On the basis of archival and online-ethnographic research, the dissertation investigates crucial controversies in the Western literary science-fiction and fantasy community from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as in contemporary online transformative fandom to show how historical context, the demographic makeup of the fandom, fans’ use of communication technologies, and their self-conception as community influence the negotiation and resolution of internal conflicts. Drawing on different theories of community formation and the public sphere, the first chapter of the study proposes that pre-internet literary science-fiction fandom was dominated by a communitarian ideal that regulated in-/exclusion by prioritizing the community over its individual members. In contrast, transformative online fandom promotes the ideal of a non-hierarchical, inclusionary, unregulated alternative public sphere, in which the ethical principles of consensus-building have to be constantly re-negotiated. As the following chapters show, this constellation has facilitated the increasing fan-organized political and social activism in the past decade which goes beyond resistant practices of reception and consumerism: from Glee fans supporting LGBT rights to the appropriation of images and symbols from The Hunger Games by political activists around the globe. The dissertation further shows how the industry attempts to control, appropriate, and incorporate resistant audience behavior and transformative fannish practices through the proliferation of transmedia storytelling and marketing strategies in contemporary entertainment franchises, thus threatening fans’ attempts at meaningful action. At the same time, these marketing strategies, meant to ensure consumer loyalty by encouraging audience participation, not only appropriate fan practices and consumer-generated content but can inadvertently also facilitate fan-organized activism. Advisors/Committee Members: Siegel, Elke (chair), Siegel, Elke (committee member), Juffer, Jane A. (committee member), Haenni, Sabine (committee member), Waite, Geoffrey Carter W (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Film studies; Activism; Fan Studies; Internet; Online Communities; Popular Culture; Public Sphere; Web studies; Cultural anthropology

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Mueller, H. R. (2017). States of Fandom: Community, Constituency, Public Sphere. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47899

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mueller, Hannah Ruth. “States of Fandom: Community, Constituency, Public Sphere.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47899.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mueller, Hannah Ruth. “States of Fandom: Community, Constituency, Public Sphere.” 2017. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Mueller HR. States of Fandom: Community, Constituency, Public Sphere. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47899.

Council of Science Editors:

Mueller HR. States of Fandom: Community, Constituency, Public Sphere. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/47899

6. Waller, Katherine Lonsdale. Occupying Televisual Narratives: Metaphors and Models for Imagining Beyond the Cultural Machine.

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2018, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59437

► Televisual narratives frequently strive to enclose viewers within a culture industry that renders them passive and preoccupied. This dissertation considers the ways in which two… (more)

▼ Televisual narratives frequently strive to enclose viewers within a culture industry that renders them passive and preoccupied. This dissertation considers the ways in which two modes of televisual meaning-making, namely crime dramas and reality television, can work against that closure by providing models of feminine possibility and occupation. Viewers can pursue the openness of imaginative occupying by reading with the grain of the narratives, which teach viewers first how to understand the stories on the screen and then to understand the possibilities for navigating and ultimately challenging the power structures that marginalize and disadvantage certain bodies. Detailed readings of Murder, She Wrote (CBS, 1984-1996); Person of Interest (CBS, 2011-2016); The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo, 2010- ); Charlie’s Angels (ABC, 1976-1981); The Real World (MTV, 1992- ); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 1999- ); Perry Mason (CBS, 1957-1966); and How to Get Away With Murder (ABC, 2014- ) track the connections that these narratives make across a history of television and with other technological and social developments. Stereotypically feminine modes of understanding and community-building like multitasking, talking or visiting, reflecting, and empathizing or imagining depth become the operative actions by which viewers might imagine the possibilities available to them and ultimately look beyond the constraints of a cultural machine that traditionally disempowers them. By employing the sorts of simultaneous and imaginative thinking that helps the characters we see on the screen become successful, we can also imagine the spaces of the television industry and of a cultural machine as places that we can connect to and through. The modes of making meaning that stories and characters model for the viewer become a methodology for creating, understanding, and representing significant depth in television programming. Advisors/Committee Members: Villarejo, Amy (chair), Salvato, Nicholas G. (committee member), Haenni, Sabine (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Mass communication; Feminism; Women's studies; American studies; Frankfurt School; Media Studies; Narrative Studies; Television

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Waller, K. L. (2018). Occupying Televisual Narratives: Metaphors and Models for Imagining Beyond the Cultural Machine. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59437

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Waller, Katherine Lonsdale. “Occupying Televisual Narratives: Metaphors and Models for Imagining Beyond the Cultural Machine.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59437.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Waller, Katherine Lonsdale. “Occupying Televisual Narratives: Metaphors and Models for Imagining Beyond the Cultural Machine.” 2018. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Waller KL. Occupying Televisual Narratives: Metaphors and Models for Imagining Beyond the Cultural Machine. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59437.

Council of Science Editors:

Waller KL. Occupying Televisual Narratives: Metaphors and Models for Imagining Beyond the Cultural Machine. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59437

7. Niculae, Vlad. Learning Deep Models with Linguistically-Inspired Structure.

Degree: PhD, Computer Science, 2018, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59540

► Many applied machine learning tasks involve structured representations. This is particularly the case in natural language processing (NLP), where the discrete, compositional nature of words… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Computer science; ML; NLP; SparseMAP; sparsity; structure

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Niculae, V. (2018). Learning Deep Models with Linguistically-Inspired Structure. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59540

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Niculae, Vlad. “Learning Deep Models with Linguistically-Inspired Structure.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59540.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Niculae, Vlad. “Learning Deep Models with Linguistically-Inspired Structure.” 2018. Web. 18 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Niculae V. Learning Deep Models with Linguistically-Inspired Structure. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59540.

Council of Science Editors:

Niculae V. Learning Deep Models with Linguistically-Inspired Structure. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59540

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