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Item The 5 Trumps of Grief(2020-11-23) Agarwal, AseemItem The 5th Trump of Grief: COUP?(2020-11-24) Agarwal, AseemItem All the President’s Men Volume 2(2020-12-07) Webb Carey, IsabelItem America the Dreadful: Politics of Oppression in Trump Era Horror Films(2023-05) Yanez, Anthony D.American horror films have reflected the state of politics and socio-political issues of each particular generation since the creation of horror films in cinema. In this thesis, I explore how horror films in the Trump era continue reflecting socio-political issues of their time and how oppressive politics influence each films’ final product. The films that I analyze are The Forever Purge (2021), Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), Us (2019), Hereditary (2018), and Midsommar (2019). Most of the films that I discuss are produced by major Hollywood studio production companies and only two are produced by independent film studios. Each film discusses issues of oppression that affect minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Additionally, each film critiques the policies and issues that allow systematic oppression to persist. Because of each film's critique of systematic oppression, each film released in the contemporary era feature a protagonist that is a minority or is a member of a disadvantaged group in America. The questions I answer in my thesis are have American horror filmmakers continued the trope of including socio-political commentary in the contemporary era and how do American oppressive politics during the Trump-era of politics influence an American horror filmmakers' decision to include socio-political commentary when creating a film?Item Amy Gajda - Guest Lecture(The Joynes Reading Room, 2017-09-14) Valentine, MattItem Another Quick Buck(2022-09-20) Agarwal, AseemItem The Barr Who Wouldn’t Do the Trump Bidding(2020-12-18) Agarwal, AseemItem Books of Nonexistence(2020-11-02) Agarwal, AseemItem The Case Against Trump 2024(2021-01-04) Barker, AnandiItem Correspondents Karaoke(2018-11-14) O'Neill, ConnerItem The Do-All Trump(2020-10-26) Agarwal, AseemItem The Erasure Tactic: Trump’s Call for a More “Patriotic” History Curriculum(2020-11-30) Cabe, CarolineItem Examining the Policy Goals of Second Term Trump Administration(2020-11-02) Casteneda Zuniga, AlejandroItem Facebook Blues(2018-11-07) O'Neill, ConnerItem Fake Deaths(2018-09-18) O'Neill, ConnorItem False Familiarity and Agenda Setting: Trump’s Unique Approach to Twitter in the Presidential Election of 2016(2021-05) Snasdell, AidenIn this study, Donald Trump’s tweets were closely examined during the time period of May 5, 2016, the date in which Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, to November 8, 2016, the United States’ presidential election day, in which he beat his opponent Hillary Clinton and became the 45th president of the United States. Through the specific lenses of the false familiarity theory and the agenda setting theory, these tweets were categorized and examined. The study found that Trump’s use of identity construction of the outsider and simplistic language supports the false familiarity theory and served to create a unique closeness with his base. Additionally, with 25.7% of Trump’s tweets occurring between the hours of midnight and four am, Trump gained authority over the agenda setting power of news mediums. As Trump was able to directly influence news coverage, he was able to not only expand his political outreach, he set the agenda of what issues voters found important in the presidential election of 2016.Item Free Media: An Analysis Of Political Communication Strategies And Their Role In The 2016 Presidential Election(2018-05) Madden, Connor A.The purpose of this thesis is to analyze President Trump’s rhetorical strategies and communicative behavior as a candidate for office, and in doing so make sense of the 2016 American Presidential Election as a function of these phenomena. In short, I seek to determine what worked, why, and whether or not it could work again, by focusing primarily on the impact of free media exposure. I construct my analysis by further investigating 1) this campaign’s relationship to a broader political, social, and historical context; 2) political news and other media consumption, distribution, etc. and the evolution thereof; 3) the specific communicative tactics and strategies Mr. Trump regularly employed; and 4) the evaluative criteria by which the voting public considers candidates for office and the ways in which candidates literally speak to each of those evaluative criteria. This type of analysis is important because it affords both academic researchers and the broader public a means of evaluating the abstract civic space they occupy. By analyzing Mr. Trump’s rhetorical strategies and communicative behavior, we can better understand our political process as a whole, as well as the individual behavior of the candidates, voters, and institutions within it. We can use what we learn here to confirm or deny what we think we already know about political communication – and possibly lend credence to what many consider to be universal political constants. Furthermore, these analyses allow us to better anticipate the actions and intentions of future candidates for office as they respond to what has already occurred.Item Handshake Help(2018-12-07) O'Neill, ConnorItem The Hidden Statements of Trump’s “Public Charge” Policy(2019-11-28) Dareing, AndrewItem How political identities are developed and maintained(2021-08-02) Ashokkumar, Ashwini; Swann, William B.; Pennebaker, James W.; Gosling, Samuel D.; Boyd, RyanIn a time of heightened partisanship and political polarization, people’s political identities are increasingly producing detrimental outcomes. To address the dangers of extreme political identities, we need to understand how such identities form and are maintained. My overarching goal is to examine how people’s political identities develop and how people protect such identities from threat. Specifically, after an introductory chapter (Chapter 1), I examine how political identities develop via everyday social interactions with fellow group members (Chapter 2), and how people protect their political identities when they are faced with threat from political opponents (Chapters 3) or from fellow partisans (Chapter 4). The dissertation features several distinct methodological approaches. In Chapter 2, I analyze daily conversations occurring within three large online political groups to understand the processes through which people’s political identities develop over time. Chapter 3 examines how people protect their political identities from identity-threatening content on social media. Chapter 4 examines how people strategically respond to reputational threat caused by the moral transgressions of fellow partisans. Each of these chapters is comprised of an article that either has been published at peer-reviewed journals or is in preparation for submission (Ashokkumar & Pennebaker, in prep; Ashokkumar et al., 2020; Ashokkumar et al., 2019). Bringing together insights from the three sets of studies, the dissertation concludes with a discussion of dynamic processes associated with political identities and argues for taking a multimethod approach to studying identity.
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