DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/F5ED-J027
Defense Date
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts
First Advisor
Sonali Gulati, Associate Professor of Photography and Film
Second Advisor
Mary Beth Reed, Associate Professor of Photography and Film
Third Advisor
Elizabeth Canfield, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Abstract
My thesis explores the act of violation in the context of trauma and healing through the use of personal narratives and experimental film. My research allows personal storytelling to transform into a larger and more universal theme of generational trauma and dysfunction. Through a feminist lens, I challenge social norms of body autonomy for the sick and abused, capitalism’s social effects on the poor, and passed down maternal lessons from the women who are doing the best that they can with the lives and opportunities that they have been given.
This work is created in spite of the labels my mother, the women before her, and I may hold. It is an act of resistance to who and what is allowed to be seen or heard. It is my confession, but it is not my confession alone.
Rights
© Desiree Dawn Kapler
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-2-2017
Included in
Creative Writing Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Fine Arts Commons