University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School March 2018 Failing to Move Forward: Journalism, Media, and Affect in David Fincher's Nicholas Orlando University of South Florida,
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[email protected]. Failing to Move Forward: Journalism, Media, and Affect in David Fincher’s Zodiac by Nicholas Orlando A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degrees of Master of Arts in Humanities Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Amy Rust, Ph.D. Scott Ferguson, Ph.D. Todd Jurgess, Ph.D. Dan Belgrad, Ph.D. Date of Approval: March 20. 2018 Keywords: Failure, Virtual, Indexicality, Mediation, Procedure, Mastery Copyright © 2018, Nicholas Orlando ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank Amy, whose unwavering patience and confidence in my work helped me excel farther with this project than I thought I would. Without her, not only would this project not have come to life, but I also would not have ventured into graduate school in the first place.