Senior Comprehensive Requirements
Comprehensives, required of all seniors for graduation, have two central and related objectives
1) To provide an opportunity for senior students to synthesize the essential concepts, content, and methods of their academic field, and, during the course of their review, to establish central relationships among the materials covered in separate courses.
2) To provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate competence in their field by applying their knowledge to central relational problems, questions, or topics.
In the Art History department a senior thesis and a presentation are required. This is evaluated by the department rather than an individual instructor, and that in the opinion of the department works toward the objectives and embodies the characteristics described above, may be construed as meeting the intent of the comprehensive requirement.
The 2010 Art History and Film Comprehensive Research Projects:
Film and Media/Art History Honors
Laura Rips, "The Architecture of Modernity and Nostalgia: Luis Barragán's Las Arboledas and Los Clubes" (Art History)
Carrie Meggs, "How Sex Got on the Silver Screen: Hollywood's Liberalization of the Production Code's Censorship in the 1950's" (Film and Media)
Madison Murphy, "Cinderella 2.0: From Vampires to Brides: Revision of the Cinderella Myth Through Romance fan Videos on You Tube"(Film and Media)
Art History
Eleanor Wells, "Site Specificity and Street Art: How Bansky Got His Groove Back"
Claire Lem, "The Luxury of Degradation: Examining the Critical Reception of Jeff Koons and the Ideologies of Commodity Art"
Stephanie Tardif, "Feminist Visual Culture and the Integration of 'Women's Work' in Womanhouse and Beyond"
Laila Tootoonchi, "Deciphering Dichotomy: Individualism Versus Orthodoxy in the Landscapes of Shitao and Wang Hui"
Gilbert Moran, "Shepard Fairey: The Line Between Commercial and Fine Art"
Megan Donovan, "Of Merda and Modernism: A Critical Approach to the Art of Piero Manzoni"
Angelica Jardini, "Progressive Portraits for an Alternative Modernism: Feminism and Lesbian Identity in the Paintings of Romaine Brooks
Kelly Green-Jacotin, "Ars Hippike: Equestrian Art during the Renaissance"
Duncan Will, "Art and Community in Northeast Los Angeles"
Chris Loomis, "A Representation of the Underrepresented: An Examination of the Multimedia Portraiture of Vik Muniz"
Film and Media Studies Exhibitions
Jessica Cross, Critical Theory and Social Justice/AHVA Film & Media Studies
“Down These Streets”
Photography, art, live spoken word poetry, and music from the streets of Cape Town, exploring what it means to be ‘black’ in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Lanier Nelson, AHVA Film & Media Studies/Psychology
"Portrait of Anna"
A video installation examining the splintered identity of a young woman's life and the visual traditions of portraiture.
For a more film and media projects go to http://departments.oxy.edu/film/projects.html.