Date of Award
5-1-2024
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Mass Communication and Media Arts
First Advisor
Kalayeh, Pirooz
Abstract
Ambiguous Morality is a western screenplay and table read performance that explores how events within western and frontier history, such as ranch wars, cattle rustlers, and outlaw gangs, along with the Great Depression had an influence on western myth and storytelling, and were, in turn, used as devices in the creation of this screenplay. After Jane Wayne’s mother is killed, she teams up with her former deputized father to find her murderer. Throughout the story, Jane will learn the virtue of justice over vengeance while the screenplay itself focuses on historical fiction’s influence on the mythos of storytelling in the western genre.
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