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Laseur, Carol. "Seeing film: Reading contemporary film culture." Thesis, Laseur, Carol (1998) Seeing film: Reading contemporary film culture. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52799/.

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This thesis works towards a revisionist structure of film and film theory in contemporary popular culture. Rather than taking the film text as a 'received object' of analysis, the aim is to foreground certain film texts and the ways of seeing that they demand. The films examined throughout this thesis are positioned as being not merely vehicles for driving theory. Rather, they stand as sites of investigation into the everyday aspects of cinema and popular culture. This work is concerned with the way major theorists of film construct and focus on a classical canon and intends to develop a m

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Rogers, Alan. "The contemporary horror film." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1990. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3121/.

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This thesis approaches the contemporary horror film from a number of directions. Firstly, it is considered in relation to the historical roots of horror fiction, the tradition of the literary Gothic which stretches back as far as the late eighteenth century. The same chapter elaborates the broad outline of a methodology, drawing upon an established body of genre theory in both literary and film studies, which is then applied to the gradual diffusion of the Gothic legacy into the related genres of detective stories/thrillers, horror, and science-fiction, the inter-relatedness of these three gen

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Holtmeier, Matthew. "Contemporary Political Cinema." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://www.amzn.com/1474423418.

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The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addressing dominant, militant, or otherwise repressive ideologies. From a focus on the representation of oppression in films like The Battle of Algiers, films such as Timbuktu, Nobody Knows About Persian Cats and Chop Shop now contribute to the active formation of political characters and viewers, a form not fully realized until the 21st century due to shifts in information technologies and resulting political organization. This book demonstrates that a

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Dolby, F. J. "Docu-realism in contemporary Chinese film." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598587.

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This dissertation concerns a group of young Chinese filmmakers, some of whom are referred to as the “Sixth Generation”, who have made films outside the state-run filmmaking system since the 1990s. Their strikingly innovative works have increasingly attracted attention both inside and outside China. In fact, this film practice, arising from new film aesthetics, has formed a new film genre: docu-realism, a term I coin to refer to the new genre in contemporary Chinese fiction film. This is a type of fiction film that for the most part employs documentary mechanisms and adopts documentary aestheti

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Rowan-Legg, Shelagh. "Distorted realities : contemporary Spanish fantastic film." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/distorted-realities(d76909a3-82b4-45eb-869e-cebe9b187cf9).html.

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Over the past 20 years, Spanish cinema has embraced the fantastic genres in filmmaking. Films such as El día de la bestia/The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995), Los otros/The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001), El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) and Los cronocrímenes/Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo, 2007) have expressed the cultural outlook of the new generation of Spanish filmmakers, and have gained popularity as productions aimed at national and international audiences. While scholarly articles and essays have been written on some of these films and filmma

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Fernández-Meneses, Jara. "Contemporary Spanish film policies, 1982-2010." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/58339/.

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This thesis examines how the Spanish film legislation that was passed between 1982 and 2010 has shaped the production, circulation and reception of contemporary Spanish cinema. The study of film legislation is crucial to understanding how the cultural value of contemporary Spanish cinema is created since laws are the main instrument through which the Spanish state has established the funding policies directed towards the production of films. Owing to the weak nature of the Spanish production sector since its inception, and the lack of private investment, the Spanish state, and, since 1999, the

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McHugh, Ian Paul. "Liminal subjectivities in contemporary film and literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38659/.

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This thesis discusses the intersection of subjectivity and the liminal in contemporary literary and filmic texts. In discussion of eight texts, the thesis weighs the dual meaning of “liminal subjectivities” – the liminal space between subjectivities, and the condition of subjectivity as it negotiates the liminal. It aims to explore how liminality manifests in manners both universal and specific to the literary or filmic form, in the embodiments of characters, and the rhythms and poetics of the text. It considers the liminal a privileged trope of destabilised subjectivity, a space of suspension

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Downes, Sarah. "Bodily sensation in contemporary extreme horror film." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17114.

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Bodily Sensation in Contemporary Extreme Horror Film provides a theory of horror film spectatorship rooted in the physiology of the viewer. In a novel contribution to the field of film studies research, it seeks to integrate contemporary scientific theories of mind with psychological paradigms of film interpretation. Proceeding from a connectionist model of brain function that proposes psychological processes are underpinned by neurology, this thesis contends that whilst conscious engagement with film often appears to be driven by psychosocial conditions – including cultural influence, gender

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Ainslie, Mary Jane. "Contemporary Thai horror film : a monstrous hybrid." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/556479/.

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This thesis aims to dispute derogatory and disdainful attitudes towards contemporary Thai film, ones that follow a long history of viewing Thailand and Thai culture as inferior. Through conducting a case study of the popular horror genre I illustrate that New Thai cinema follows a hybrid film form that has resulted in such condescending interpretations. This is an amalgamation of an earlier post-war 'characteristically Thai' film style that is a product of the lower-class rural context and the globally dominant EuroAmerican 'Natural Language' of horror. Furthermore, I illustrate that while Tha

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Clarke, Louisa. "The reproductive body in contemporary science fiction film /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc5985.pdf.

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McCrea, Ronan. "Celluloid materiality : experimental film, photography and contemporary art." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535137.

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Mack, Jonathan. "(Indie)mediality : intermediality in contemporary American independent film." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2015. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/31604/.

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Intermediality has become an umbrella term for a heterogeneous group of concepts as diverse as the creation of an entirely new medium and the mere quotation of a work from one medium in another. Intermedial analyses of specific film texts have appeared sporadically but have shed remarkable light on the influence of other media on film narrative, structure and visual style. This PhD takes intermediality to be, as Irina Rajewsky describes it, instances in which film ‘thematises, evokes or imitates elements or structures of another, conventionally distinct medium through the use of its own media-

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Arzac, Sergio. "Spanish Migration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84163/.

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Spain underwent drastic social and political changes in the last decades of the twentieth century which also affected the nation’s patterns of emigration. Contemporary Spanish literature and film that portray these decades reflect the country’s fluctuating characteristics of migration. ¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! (1971) by Pedro Lazaga, Coto vedado (1985) by Juan Goytisolo, El hijo del acordeonista (2003) by Bernardo Atxaga, and Yoyes (2000) by Helena Taberna demonstrate Spain’s migration trends during the last years of Franco’s dictatorship and the transition to democracy. The nation’s highly in

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Richmond, Aimee. "Transnational UK reception of contemporary Japanese horror film." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8006/.

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This thesis examines the understanding of the contemporary Japanese horror film genre in the UK, taking into account the effects that the specificities of the UK cross-cultural context have upon audiences’ meaning-making. Analysis mainly revolves around six films selected based upon frequency of mention by participants: Ring (Nakata, 1998), Audition (Miike, 1999), Ju-on: The Grudge (Shimizu, 2004), Dark Water¬ (Nakata, 2002), Battle Royale (Fukusaku, 2000) and Ichi the Killer (Miike, 2001). Four focus groups and twenty individual interviews were conducted with individuals aged between eighteen

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Gallagher, Mark. "Action figures : spectacular masculinity in the contemporary action film and the contemporary American novel /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978590.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-335). Includes filmography (leaves 335-337). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Hanson, Stuart. "Contemporary developments in cinema exhibition." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11105.

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The work offered for this PhD by Published Works charts the history of cinema exhibition in Britain from the late 1950s to the present. At the start of this period, cinemagoing as a form of public entertainment entered a long period of decline that was only arrested with the development and growth of multiplex cinemas in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite these changes, the feature film itself remained a culturally and commercially valuable artefact, though increasingly this meant the Hollywood film. Whilst due consideration is afforded to the technological changes in cinemas and the cinema apparatu

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Broodryk, Chris Willem. "The moving image Contemporary film analysis and analytical psychology /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08212007-125813.

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Russell, Deirdre Doran. "Narrative identities in contemporary French autobiographical literature and film." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492087.

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This thesis uses concepts of narrative identity to assess the functions and characteristics of storytelling in the articulation of personal and cultural identity in four French literary and filmic autobiographical texts from the 1980s and 1990s: Azouz Begag's novel Le Gone du Chaäba (1986), Claire Denis' film Chocolat (1988), Annie Ernaux's book Journal du dehors (1993) and Dominique Cabrera's film Demain et encore demain (1998). Synthesising various accounts of narrative identity expounded by a range of philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and historians (including Paul Ricceur, David Ca

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Igwe, Ezinne. "Formalizing Nollywood : gentrification in the contemporary Nigerian film industry." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.753291.

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This study investigates transformations in the Nigerian film industry, focusing specifically on a segment of the industry known as Nollywood. Typically characterized as an informal industry due to its low budgets and unofficial modes of distribution, Nollywood is regularly referred to as a success story, accounting for $7.2 billion (1.42%) of Nigeria’s gross domestic product. Because of this success, the Nigerian government, under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration (2010-2015), introduced various mechanisms to formalize and economize Nollywood in the quest to maximize its potential

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Gleghorn, Charlotte Elisabeth. "Body/memory/identity : contemporary Argentine and Brazilian women's film." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511053.

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Bremer, Rose Mary. "Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1085495358.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 186 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-186). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

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Bitenc, Rebecca Anna. "Dementia narratives in contemporary literature, life writing, and film." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12157/.

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This thesis aims to delineate the affordances and limitations of narrative, and narrative studies, for the project of developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia. Engaging with a growing body of contemporary dementia narratives, it investigates the potential of life writing and fiction as a means for exploring the phenomenology of dementia. In particular, the study considers the extent to which dementia narratives align with or run counter to the dominant discourse of dementia as ‘loss of self.’ In considering the question of selfhood and identit

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Turner, Caleb. "Spectacular rhythms : cultural conflict in the contemporary superhero film." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55167/.

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This thesis proposes a new analytical perspective to the interplay between the entertaining escapism afforded by spectacular action sequences and the expression of cultural themes in the 2000s-present contemporary superhero film cycle. In the introduction I give a review of the spectacle and narrative debate to explain how current studies on popular action film have tended to primarily focus on the way spectacular displays support narrative progression by driving forward the film plot’s narrative chain of cause-and-effect over time. However, the review then explains that whenever the cultural

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Henlin-Stromme, Sabine Brigitte. "Nature, nation and the global in contemporary Norwegian cinema." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2892.

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In late 19th century Norway, a small urban elite chose nature as a distinctive trait to define the young Norwegian nation. Ever since, this constructed nature mythology, based on real nature (dark forests, fjords and high mountains), has been a recurrent symbol equated with Norwegianness in the rhetoric of the nation. While this foundational narrative has been represented in most of the arts, it is depicted in a more complex manner in contemporary Norwegian films. Thus the main question in "Nature, Nation and the Global in

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Peirano, María Paz. "Contemporary Chilean cinema : film practices and narratives of national cinema within the Chilean 'film community'." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/50776/.

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This thesis presents an anthropological perspective on the film production practices and narratives underlying the construction of contemporary Chilean national cinema. Based on a multi-sited ‘travelling’ ethnography, it reflects on small, peripheral film production in a transnational neoliberal context, where ‘local’ and ‘global’ trends converge, and focuses on the case of Chilean cinema, which has expanded its production, global circulation and exhibition. The research is grounded in the film experiences of the Chilean film community, a network of film professionals (filmmakers, critics, exh

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Zhang, Qian. "Women's Time and Reproductive Anxiety in Contemporary Horror Films." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1532349287122159.

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Petousis, Simone. "A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12094.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This thesis examines cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with particular focus on representation. My study merges a theoretical and analytical investigation. I aim to defend cinema against the wider post-structuralist claim that trauma refutes the possibility of representation and argue, instead, that an increasing array of filmic examples demonstrate cinema's potential to provide valuable insights into the complexities of the subject. I use Freud's discussion of trauma as a belated, repetitious experience as an ent

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Ireopoulos, Fil. "The film poem." Thesis, University of Kent, 2010. http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/id/eprint/1061.

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The thesis traces the history of the film poem as a concern and formal strategy within artists' film traditions over the last one hundred years. Via a theoretical framework (that includes Russian Formalist literary poetics, experminetal film studies, critical theory and linguistics) the investigation reveals and explicates what connects the ways different practitioners have synthesised the two terms "film" and "poem" and discusses the relevance of the "film poem" as a combinative term within a contemporary art context.

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Naldi, Patrizia. "The 'view' : a historicised and contemporary socio-political mediation." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8727/.

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This research develops an understanding of the ‘view’ as a historicised and contemporary socio‐political mediation. What is posited as a view, and its signification, as a view, is how we experience, understand and relate to others and the world around us. The thesis offers a re‐interpretation of accepted modes of viewing, what is viewed, and a re‐presentation of viewed imagery, in order to question and propose how might we better relate to, and function in, the production of social space. The premise of the enquiry is that the ‘view’, is a visual, spatial, and conceptual ideologically politic

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Sutandio, Anton. "Historical Trauma and the Discourse of Indonesian-ness in Contemporary Indonesian Horror Films." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1395861044.

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Shafiani, Shahriar. "Visibility, Allegiance, Dissent: Mandatory Hijab Laws and Contemporary Iranian Cinema." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1627930372378197.

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Shafiani, Shahriar. "Visibility, Allegiance, Dissent: Mandatory Hijab Laws and Contemporary Iranian Cinema." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1627930372378197.

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Gillota, David. "Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/42.

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Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film Scholars are more than happy to laugh at but seem somewhat reluctant to discuss body humor, which is perhaps the most neglected form of comedy in recent criticism. In this dissertation, I examine the ways in which contemporary American writers and filmmakers use body humor in their works, not only in moments of so-called "comic relief" but also as a valid way of exploring many of the same issues that postmodern artists typically interrogate in their more somber moments. The writers discussed in this project-Philip Roth, T

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Dawson, Harold. "The commodification of tragedy a critical examination of contemporary film /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=786.

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Barry, Thomas J. "The rock star as contemporary cowboy : film mythology and ideology." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/212.

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Vorrasi, Natasha Jaclyn. "Black men, white women : interracial relationships in contemporary Hollywood film /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arv954.pdf.

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Yockey, Matt. "The new crusaders Apocalypse, utopia, and the contemporary superhero film /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3277971.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3642. Adviser: Barbara Klinger. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 30, 2008).

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Wu, Dan. "Minjian film exhibition culture in contemporary China : sustainability and legitimisation." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3637.

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This thesis focuses on China’s Minjian film exhibition culture, which arose in the 1990s and has proliferated across China throughout the 2000s, to examine in detail two main issues - its sustainability and legitimisation. Minjian film exhibition is defined as including grassroots film festivals, organisations and cineclubs, which are dedicated to showcasing Chinese independent films. The thesis aims to examine conflicts between Minjian film exhibition and the state against a backdrop of the forced closure of a number of grassroots film festivals at the hands of local governments and state int

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Teinemaa, Teet. "The American imaginary in the contemporary American multi-protagonist film." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106481/.

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In this thesis I explore the contemporary American multi-protagonist film’s use of contingency and representation of the American Imaginary. The multi-protagonist film is a film form of increasing significance that moves away from the classical narrative cinema’s reliance on a psychologically motivated goal-oriented character and causally coherent narrative, and favours instead a formation of several lead characters and contingency as a way to create coherence in the narrative world. I exemplify why contingency should be understood in these films to mean the opposite of necessity and not simpl

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Mee, Laura. "Re-animated : the contemporary American horror film remake, 2003-2013." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/10596.

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This doctoral thesis is a study of American horror remakes produced in the years 2003-2013, and it represents a significant academic intervention into an understanding of the horror remaking trend. It addresses the remaking process as one of adaptation, examines the remakes as texts in their own right, and situates them within key cultural, industry and reception contexts. It also shows how remakes have contributed to the horror genre’s evolution over the last decade, despite their frequent denigration by critics and scholars. Chapter One introduces the topic, and sets out the context, scope a

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Henry, Claire. "Rape-revenge revisions : case studies in the contemporary film genre." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2012. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701525/.

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Rape-revenge is one of cinema studies' neglected genres, even in spite of the plethora of examples globally over the past decade. This thesis redresses the lack of critical attention with an account of the contemporary genre that analyses the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its reponse. Each chapter examines a significant trend or aspect of the contemporary genre through in-depth case studies, expanding the study of rape-revenge from socio-political or psychoanalytic perspectives to also include embodied, phenomenological perspectives and ethical is

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Bradley, Peri. "Altered states : the transforming body in contemporary film and TV." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/350644/.

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This thesis investigates the employment of the transforming body in contemporary television and film investigating how these particular media operate as models of instruction and guidance in a political manner. The transforming body is examined within a framework constructed upon specific key theories that include: Foucault’s sociological and political analysis of the manipulation of the body; Kristeva’s exploration of the abject body and contemporary anthropological studies of the body’s meaning and function in Western culture. These theories are used to execute in-depth analysis of particula

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Henry, Claire. "Rape-revenge revisions: case studies in the contemporary film genre." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2012. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/701525/1/Henry_2012.pdf.

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Rape‐revenge is one of cinema studies’ neglected genres, even in spite of the plethora of examples globally over the past decade. This thesis redresses the lack of critical attention with an account of the contemporary genre that analyses the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its response. Each chapter examines a significant trend or aspect of the contemporary genre through in‐depth case studies, expanding the study of rape‐revenge from socio‐political or psychoanalytic perspectives to also include embodied, phenomenological perspectives and ethical i

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Yeloshyna, Natallia. "The New Collaborative Cinema: Fan Labor in Contemporary Film Franchises." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou161800816475422.

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Jordan, Wendy Jane. "Astounding sounds : intention and ambivalence in contemporary Hollywood film music." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539863.

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Astounding Sounds: Intention and Ambivalence in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music This project examines how music expresses the complexities of urban existence in contemporary Hollywood films. To do this I trace the history of Hollywood film music, while surveying existing literature on film scores. Significantly, I include commentary from practitioners to authenticate an evolving model of scoring practices, in addition to ideas from musicologists, film studies and film music academics. The early chapters describe the development of the specially-composed classical score, the rise of the pre-e

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Schuckman, Emily E. "Representations of the prostitute in contemporary Russian literature and film /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7168.

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Fedosik, Marina. "Representations of transnational adoption in contemporary American literature and film." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 226 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1818417541&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Martinez, Alexandra. "The Contention of Space in Contemporary Cuban and Brazilian Film." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193970.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to study women's representation and the contention of space in contemporary Brazilian and Cuban films, in order to analyze the way in which the films reflect societal values regarding gender roles and, consequently the way the nation is represented. The Cuban films I examine are: Retrato de Teresa (1979) and De Cierta Manera (1964), the short "Julia" from Mujer Transparente (1990) and from Brazil I work with the films Gabriela (1983) and A Hora da Estrela (1984.) All of the films have a protagonist that is a woman, and all were successful in the box office a

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Birks, Chelsea. "Limit cinema : Bataille and the nonhuman in contemporary global film." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/9086/.

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This thesis explores how contemporary global cinema represents the relationship between humans and nature. Drawing from the philosophy of Georges Bataille, especially his notion of transgression, I argue that certain contemporary films attempt to transgress the limit between human and nonhuman realities. I call these films limit cinema because they operate at the boundary between thought and world: they interrogate the lines between nature and culture and reframe our relationship to aspects of existence in excess of human thought. In taking a film-philosophical approach, I explore not only wha

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Nogueira, Julia C. "Film and video festivals in South America a contemporary analysis of flourishing cultural phenomena /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1230612139.

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