M.A. - American Studies
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Item Sugar Schools: Cultivating the American Experiment in Territorial Hawaiʻi 1919-1934(2024) McConnell, Matthew J.; Kahanu, Noelle M.K.Y.; American StudiesItem The Cultural Politics of Drone Warfare(2024) Jung, Jiyeon; Eagle, Jonna; American StudiesItem PILGRIMS, PLYMOUTH, AND PUBLIC MEMORY: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF CONTEMPORARY NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION MYTHOLOGY(2021) Wilday, Emily; McDougall, Brandy; American StudiesItem "We call to the voices of Waialua" Envisioning a Waialua Heritage Center Connecting Past, Present and Future(2021) Greiner, Rachel Elise; Kosasa, Karen; American StudiesItem ISLAND: ALDOUS HUXLEY’S 1962 UTOPIAN NOVEL ISLAND AND ITS LITERARY AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE IN POSTWAR AMERICAN SOCIETY(2020) Martin, Kevin John; Perkinson, Robert; American StudiesItem CRITICAL MASSES: AMERICAN POPULATIONISM, EUGENICS, AND WAR, 1945 TO 1975(2019) Barsocchini, Robert Joseph; Eagle, Jonna; American StudiesItem Making Raiders: Material Culture at ‘Iolani School.(2017-08) Greenhill, Tyler A. K.; American StudiesItem That Does Not Compute: Unpacking the Fembot in American Science Fiction.(2017-05) DeSure, Pearl A.; American StudiesItem Miss Represented: Misrepresentations of Kanaka Maoli Women in American Cinema and Moolelo as Alternative Method([Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [December 2016], 2016-12) Leao, OrianaSince 1898, countless American films have depicted “Hawaiian” women but only a handful that uniquely convey the lived experiences, well-being, and accurate cultural depictions of Native Hawaiian women. This text argues that Native Hawaiian women have been misrepresented in American Cinema and that Native Hawaiian mo‘olelo (stories and oral histories) should be utilized as an alternative method for representing Native Hawaiian women. This thesis offers an analysis of the film Princess Ka‘iulani (2010) by director Marc Forby in order to explore examples of the very gendered, nationalist, historical, and racialized ways in which Kānaka women have been depicted. The second part of this thesis explores the ways in which Kānaka women could be depicted differently through a discussion of mo‘olelo and mana wahine. The hope of this study is to provide a space where representations of Native Hawaiian women in American Cinema can be discussed in a way that is productive and constructive. The goal is to shift past multifaceted arenas of difference and reimagine ways to remap difference.Item Urban Ruins and the Myths of Modernity: Challenge and Resistance through the Work of Sarah R. Bloom([Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [August 2015], 2015-08) Dunn, AmyThis thesis explores the political potentialities of urban ruins through an investigation of ruins generally as well as through the work of artist Sarah R. Bloom. Ultimately this thesis describes urban ruins and their imagery as sites where powerful political (re)mapping of neoliberal capitalist modernity occurs. Whether through a (re)mapping of time, space, or hegemonic notions such as disposability, images of urban ruins do important work toward imagining alternative futures that are more just and sustainable for both humans and nature.
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