2008's Final Two Senior Comps Presentations

This week senior CAMS students Sarah Nienaber and Andy Lauer will present their final senior compositions.  Andy will begin his talk at 4:30 and Sarah will follow at 5PM on Wednesday.  Food will be provided at the presentations.  Below are descriptions of each of their projects.

Andy Lauer's project "Some Films Are Better Than Others: Lyman H. Howe, Cultural Capital and Bringing the World to Northfield, MN":

Through public opinion in Northfield regarding the movies had reached an all time low by 1916, when traveling exhibitor Lyman How came through the town presenting his popular travel pictures that Spring, as he did every year, his movies were not only heartily embraced but, in fact, held up as paragons of the merits of film exhibition.  Why was this? Drawing on original research and primary documents, Andy argues that Lyman Howe managed to package himself as a purveyor of "high-class" entertainment, a persona that appealed to bourgeois Northfield residents looking to reinforce notions of cultural hierachy in the heavily Protestant "arts community." This is the story of a small town confronting modernity and all that came with it- industrialization, imperialism, war- and how that experience was mediated through the films of Lyman Howe.

Sarah Nienaber's project "Project: Meaning":

Neither absolute cinema, nor literature, this avant-garde fiction piece is a self-contained space in which "abstract" words (pulled from the Carleton English Department's 2008 Reading List) and "realistic" images are in dialogue with and opposition to one another—an adventure in semiotics, "Project: Meaning" is in its wholeness a language of its own.

Wednesday 23 | Scoville 102 |4:30PM-5:30PM