Japanese animation, or anime, has been popular around the globe for the last sixty years. Anime has its own fan culture in the United States known as otaku, or the obsessive lifestyle surrounding manga and anime, which ...

In the last decade, comic books and comic book fan culture have become more popular in mainstream culture, with TV shows and movies depicting both comic book characters and comic book fans. However, very little has been ...

The purpose of this project is to explore how music in advertisements affects consumer perception of the advertisement itself. It additionally explores both the conscious and subconscious tactics that advertisers deploy ...

One frequent technique for studying television is through genre. However, with the complex television environment of the 21st century, many genre studies do not adequately account for how generic television programs intersect ...

The General Catalog of the University of Missouri, Columbia, contains general information on administration, facilities, regulations and requirements for admission, as well as facts about student welfare and activities. ...

This booklet provides detailed information about the Mizzou Advantage and the projects awarded grants in rounds 1 and 2 of the program.

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Do My Eyes Deceive Me?: Acts of Sight in Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories, Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, War of the Worlds, and Good ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project seeks to understand both the theoretical and tangible implications of fandom as a meaningful category within the field of Religious Studies ...