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Item Citizenship, Gender, and Intimacy: First Ladies in the Television Age(2017-09) Jurisz, RebeccaThe figure of the first lady of the United States (FLOTUS) initially gained visibility thanks to the media technologies of the industrial age, but in the TV era this visibility exploded, and with it came a stark intensification of the potential for intimate connection between figures at the highest levels of national governance and citizen subjects watching at home. In the same years that broadcast television was at the height of its power, neoliberalism and post-identity politics were on the rise, and worked to refigure definitions of citizenship to be more concerned with the health and prosperity of individuals and families, and less concerned with collective struggle against structures of injustice. For women, this privatized and atomized regime of intimate citizenship fit with the contours of traditional femininity, even as they were being updated to reflect postfeminist imperatives that called women to engage in civic and economic life while still maintaining the primacy of their commitments to home and family. FLOTUS TV became an essential technology of citizenship for women viewer/voters working through these ever-more complex formulations of ideal femininity. This project traces both real and fictional representations of first ladies on television from the inception of the medium in the 1950s, to the declining hegemony of broadcast and cable in the 2010s, to demonstrate how the heightened visibility of first ladies made FLOTUS TV a site of both instruction and debate over definitions of femininity and citizenship that were increasingly narrow, frequently contradictory, and did little to pose substantial challenges to structures of injustice. Ultimately, these apolitical politics of intimate citizenship seem to have worked to (partially) defuse progressive and feminist challenges to power, and disciplined the ambitions of women who wished to rule.Item Homo Mediaticus: Immigrants, Identity, and (Tele)Visual Media in Contemporary Francophone Literature(2016-09) Bates, SeverineThis dissertation examines the figure of the Immigrant in light of the practical and symbolic role played by the mass media, and especially television and its images, in the processes of identity construction and socialization, as problematized in several Francophone North African immigrant novels. It aims to shed light on the ways in which the figure of the Immigrant has been “mediated” in novels such as Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les raisins de la galère, Youssouf Elalamy’s Les clandestins or Faiza Guène’s Kiffe kiffe demain. These novels fall mainly into three literary categories: Beur Literature, Banlieue literature and Illiterature (Hakim Abderrezak) which focuses on the phenomenon of clandestine migration (Hrig) in the Mediterranean basin. Products of what I call the “génération du visible,” these novels offer ground for reflection on the political, psychological, social, cultural and, ultimately, ontological effects of the media’s obsessive representations of this social category. Arguing for a new model of subjectivity for the Immigrant grounded on his relationship with the mass media, I posit that, in these novels and more generally in the collective imagination, the Immigrant—embodied by the Beur, Jeune de Banlieue or Harraga—emerges not only as a constructed figure of alterity and subalternity, but also as a Homo Mediaticus (Massimo Ragnedda) born from the interstices of images and discourses, and of the virtual and the real. I also contend that as a Homo Mediaticus, the Immigrant is both a product of media representation and a media user whose existence, subjectivity, and agency depend on his visibility (as object of the Gaze) and on the performative and meaningful act of “seeing” (as agent and user of technology). In novels like Faïza Guène’s Kiffe kiffe demain, the Immigrant's use of media technologies and of his imagination allows him to mediate his experiences in and with society, to control his “droit de regard,” and to create new identities that are more subversive and transcultural in nature than fixed or unique.Item Living resourcefully television study guide(University of Minnesota. Agriculture Extension Service. Department of Family Social Science, 1985) Schultenover, Joyce B; Bauer, Jean W; Goss, DottieItem TV Party, New Wave Theatre, and Subcultural Television in the 1970s and 1980s(2016-02) Stiffler, BradThis dissertation offers a discursive and cultural history of subcultural television organized around detailed engagements with two television programs from the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City's TV Party and Los Angeles’ New Wave Theatre. Utilizing surviving episodes and promotional materials, interviews with creators and participants, reviews and articles from popular and underground publications, and other historical sources, I present these programs as inimitable experiments in both the theory and practice of subcultural television, a diverse set of aesthetic and cultural practices aimed at creating marginal forms of collectivity through televisual technology. To provide context, I locate these shows during a particularly charged moment of U.S. cultural history that saw the simultaneous emergence of alternative medium forums like cable access and subcultural social formations like punk. Conventionally, subcultures are conceived as oppositional constructs existing outside the co-opting grasp of the mainstream, inherently hostile to mass-cultural mediums like television. However, for a few fleeting years on the televisual frontiers of 1970s and 1980s cable, a small collection of artists, musicians, performers, punks, and weirdos set out to produce subculture both on and through TV.Item Voiceless Groups in the Twin Cities Community: Programming Needs of Some of Public Television's Non-Audiences.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1974) Walker, Orville C.; Goldstein, Priscella; Rudelius, William