Identity (Philosophical concept) in art; Museum techniques; Museum exhibits--Social aspects; Museums--Social aspects
This thesis paper expands upon the aspects of identity and power explored in the exhibition that I curated, entitled "Being & Making: Artists Investigating Identity," at the Speed Art Museum. The developments on topics of identity...
Haute tension (Motion picture); Homosexuality in motion pictures; Horror films; Violence in motion pictures; Motion pictures--Social aspects
The film High Tension (2005) is a complex and powerfully threatening portrait of queer monstrosity and negativity. Upon its release, the film's twist ending garnered widespread derision, but there is a mad method, so to speak, in its insistence on...
Jamestown Settlement--History; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century; Leadership--History; Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
English experience gained from colonization attempts in the New World and in Ireland, as well as military expeditions to the European continent and the New World, helped make Jamestown more successful than any previous English colonial venture in...
The role of mothers, the constitution of families, and the power of their stories are the bedrock of my thesis, which is the first 90 pages of a novel entitled Playing House . In it, I hope to investigate the denotation and connotation of the words...
Farmhouse at the site of what is now Bashford Manor Shopping Center. White wood house of vertical boards with a gently peaked roof. Double doors flanked by windows open a crack. Second floor front windows are peaked; side are not; all are vented...
Farmhouse at the site of what is now Bashford Manor Shopping Center, Louisville, Kentucky. White farm building at left and more white buildings in row at right behind white split rail fence and row of closely spaced tall, thin, leafy trees....
A large, somewhat rundown, farmhouse with two fireplaces and two porches. A rail fence surrounds the house, which is three stories tall in the back. See ULPA 1982.01.642.p for another image of this house. Title supplied by cataloger.
A machine for pressing down asphalt is shown on a country road. The asphalt machine has a covered section for the driver and a smokestack above a wide, centered, possibly concrete wheel. A farmhouse and building is visible above a cornfield on the...
Liberty--Philosophy; Enlightenment--France; Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France); Gardens, English--France--Chambourcy
Freedom is a critical concept that helps shape the discourse of modern society and corresponding thoughts about people's private, public, cultural and spiritual lives. Standing at the fountainhead of the modern era, the Enlightenment was a critical...
Middle school education--Case studies; Academic achievement--Kentucky; Home and school--Kentucky
This dissertation is a case study of 109 students and their parents from a small rural, middle school community in Western Kentucky. It seeks to determine the interrelationships between conservative Protestant Parent Values (Parent Rural Values and...
A two-story white brick house with semicircular Corinthian portico. A buggy and a cart are parked near the house, which is set back from a large lawn spotted with large trees. Built in the 1860s by Edward Anderson, banker Edward Atkins bought the...
Interior of Whitehaven: wide hall with dark floors and walls and lighter woodwork and pillars; the hall leads to a light painted staircase. A delicate potted plant sits on the top step in front of a window on the landing. Along the walls of the...
A two-story white brick house with semicircular Corinthian portico, set back from a large lawn. Built in the 1860s by Edward Anderson, banker Edward Atkins bought the house in 1903 and had noted Paducah architect A. L. Lassiter transform the...
Waterworks; Hydraulic facilities; African Americans; Men; Stone buildings
Stone building with a large brick chimney emitting black smoke. A black man wearing a hat stands outside the structure, and there are split rails fences as well as a dry stone wall behind the powerhouse. A large white Colonial farmhouse surrounded...