This production journal acts as a public record of the journey to produce my MFA thesis film, Mirror, Mirror Perfected. Operating as a folktale, Mirror, Mirror Perfected is a hybrid speculative suspense film looking at our intersect with social media through the eyes of a young dancer in a near-future world. The journal includes notes from research during my time at the University of Iowa in New Media Studies, Sociology and Performance Studies. I explore how, for instance, the Narcissus myth attempts to influence my world through the liminality of instant gratification, technology, and the fragmentation of identity. The journal also accounts for the conceptual, personal, and practical considerations for the development of Mirror, Mirror Perfected since 2012.
Thesis
Reflections and enchantments: influences of myth, technology, identity and movement in Mirror, mirror perfected
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Summer 2019
DOI: 10.17077/etd.hka4-dxd8
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reflections and enchantments: influences of myth, technology, identity and movement in Mirror, mirror perfected
- Creators
- Priscilla A Kessie - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Christopher Harris (Advisor)Deborah E. Whaley (Committee Member)Michael Gibisser (Committee Member)Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (Committee Member)Michael Sakamoto (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Film and Video Production
- Date degree season
- Summer 2019
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.hka4-dxd8
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vii, 51 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2019 Priscilla A Kessie
- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- color illustrations
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
This production journal acts as a public record of the journey to produce my MFA thesis film, Mirror, Mirror Perfected. Operating as a folktale, Mirror, Mirror Perfected is a hybrid speculative suspense film looking at our intersect with social media through the eyes of a young dancer in a near-future world. The journal includes notes from research during my time at the University of Iowa in New Media Studies, Sociology and Performance Studies. I explore how, for instance, the Narcissus myth attempts to influence my world through the liminality of instant gratification, technology, and the fragmentation of identity. The journal also accounts for the conceptual, personal, and practical considerations for the development of Mirror, Mirror Perfected since 2012.
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9983777383002771
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