Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects English Spring 5-13-2019 Final Master's Portfolio Heather M. Stephenson Bowling Green State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ms_english Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, and the History Commons Repository Citation Stephenson, Heather M., "Final Master's Portfolio" (2019). Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects. 36. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ms_english/36 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the English at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. FINAL MASTER’S PORTFOLIO Heather M. Stephenson
[email protected] A Final Portfolio Submitted to the English Department of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Field of English with a specialization in Literary & Textual Studies May 13, 2019 Dr. William Albertini, first reader Ms. Kimberly Spallinger, second reader Table of Contents I. Introduction / Analytical Narrative ......................................................................................1 II. Cultural Anxieties, Apocalyptic Masculinity, and the “Taming” of the Other in 1950s Film Noir: The Case of Kiss Me Deadly (1955) ................................................................13 III. “Robbed!”: Masculine Anxiety and the Taming of the Non-Normative Female Other in Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) ................................................................................................32 IV. Gender, Sexual Abuse, and the Redemption of King Lear’s Daughters in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres ..................................................................................................................58 V.