• Critical Realism and the Biographical Film Project 

    Childress, Stephen E. (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
    This paper explores aspects of a critical realist approach that have practical application to biographical documentary filmmaking as an ontological and methodological guide in the planning, production, and editing processes. ...
  • Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell 

    Condit, Lorna Anne (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
    Francis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of ...