The continuing ballad of Franco the Kid

Author

Jayson Ming Triplett

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Andrews, P. William

Committee Member

Rieth, Herbert III

Committee Member

Bingaman-Burt, Kate

Committee Member

Long, Robert

Date of Degree

5-3-2008

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Electronic Vizualization

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

College

College of Architecture

Department

Department of Art

Abstract

The Continuing Ballad of Franco the Kid is an installation housing a collection of thoughts, both static and animated, addressing the absurdities of cultural dichotomy in contemporary America. Its theme-park aesthetic is an intentional appropriation meant to echo the spectacle that makes up America’s cultural landscape. Within this presentation the action of various iconic characters merge with fragmented text to form an allegorical matrix used to address America’s consumption and entertainment-obsessed culture and the consequential malaise induced by such obsession. The Continuing Ballad of Franco the Kid addresses this cultural state of being while underscoring current methods of communication and thought-control carefully orchestrated by corporate driven media machines, and the resulting dangers of such productions.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15204

Comments

mass media||consumerism

Recommended Citation

Triplett, Jayson Ming, "The continuing ballad of Franco the Kid" (2008). Theses and Dissertations. 4296.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/4296