Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Glick, Elisa"
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Death becomes her : modernism, femininity, and the erotics of death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project argues that modernist authors employ transgressive sexual desires both to disrupt and regulate femininity. Early twentieth-century cultural ... -
"It is Deirdre you mourn for" : the third-person narration of Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing : a memoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This thesis uses Deirdre McCloskey's memoir Crossing (1999) as a case study to explore the relationship between personal and cultural narratives of transsexuality. McCloskey's work is noteworthy for being the only trans ... -
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] My dissertation offers a new approach to monstrosity, called the Monstrous Ordinary, which articulates monstrosity not as something new, different, or aberrant, but originating from the normal, ... -
Not a comeback : the persistence of decadence in film noir
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)In this thesis, I will argue that the decadent movement survives in twentieth-century America through noir films, or what I refer to as "noir decadence." However, noir films make decadence more accessible to a wider audience ... -
Postwar masculine identity in Ann Bannon's I am a woman
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Postwar men experienced an identity destabilization that was unique to the era. Lesbian pulp fiction provided the opportunity for heterosexual men to "try on" alternate identities while simultaneously asserting their ... -
Unraveling the Femme Fatale : Auteur Theory and Christopher Nolan's work
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)"Auteur Theory, a term coined in the 1940s to recognize a filmmakers or directors unique thematic style has remained prevalent and has helped distinguish Auteur artists such as Christopher Nolan from his contemporary ...