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Welcome
Hi, everyone! My name is Brittany Coombs. I am a masters candidate at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where I am a full-time student in the Communication, Culture and Technology graduate program, which my peers and I lovingly call CCT. I'm in my final semester. In addition to being a student, I'm a part-time reporter for Georgetown College Communications, for which I write profile pieces about interesting professors, alumni and students. I'm also a blogger for gnovis, my program's online academic journal. One day I hope to have a career in journalism or publishing.

This is not my first time contributing to Wikipedia, but this is the most official attempt I have ever made. I have certainly taken my fair share of knowledge from Wikipedia; the entries on philosophy, cosmology and religion have always interested me most. I look forward to giving something back! I'm eager to be part of this vibrant community.

I'm a Leo, which means I'm supposed to be creative, gregarious and kind. I'm an avid lover of Greek myth, role-playing video games and colorful scarves. I'm a passionate Baltimore Ravens fan, have recently been getting into indietronica and chiptune, and, as anyone in my class can tell you, ardently promote Sister Act as the greatest movie of all time.

Possible Research Topics (1/31)
The following articles are film-related stubs on Wikipedia. For the final project I might be able to clean them up and provide substantial research.

Cinema Novo * Hollyman, Burnes St. Patrick. Glauber Rocha and the Cinema Nôvo: A Study of His Critical Writings and Films. New York: Garland, 1983. * del Sarto, Ana. "Cinema Novo and New/Third Cinema Revisited: Aesthetics, Culture and Politics." Chasqui 34.1 (2005): 78-89.  * Jensen, Jytte. "Cinema Novo and Beyond." The Museum of Modern Art 1.7 (Nov.-Dec. 1998): 17-18.  * Johnson, Randal. "Brazilian Cinema Novo." Bulletin of Latin American Research 3.2 (1984): 95-106.  * Johnson, Randal. Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1984. * Nagib, Lúcia. Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia. London; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. * Viany, Alex. "The Old and the New in Brazilian Cinema." The Drama Review 14.2, Latin American Theatre (Winter 1970): 141-144. 

Japanese Cyberpunk * Brown, Steven T. Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. * La Bare, Joshua. "Wrapped... in That Mysterious Japanese Way." Science Fiction Studies 27.1 (March 2000): 22-48.  * Park, Jane Chi Hyun. "Cyberpunk Impulses in Anime." World Literature Today 79.3/4 (Sept.-Dec. 2005): 60-63.  * Sato, Kumiko. "How Information Technology Has (Not) Changed Feminism and Japanism: Cyberpunk in the Japanese Context." Comparative Literature Studies 41.3 (2004): 335-355.  * Tatsumi, Takayuki. Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Thematic elements * Friedman, Jane M. "The Motion Picture Rating System of 1968: A Constitutional Analysis of Self-Regulation by the Film Industry." Columbia Law Review 73.2 (Feb. 1973): 185-240.  * This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Dir. Kirby Dick. Genius Entertainment, 2007. Film.