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Kohli, Gurdeep Singh. "Film or film brand? : investigating consumers' engagement with films as brands." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16312.
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This study offers an in-depth account of how, when and why consumers engage with films as brands, using 38 exploratory, semi-structured consumer interviews and 1030 consumer survey responses. Extant film branding literature is scarce, dominated by filmmakers' and marketers' perspectives of films as brands and is confined to exploring points of parity associations films have as brands, rather than ways films may differentiate themselves as brands. Taking on a consumer centric view, our findings show although filmmakers, production houses and marketers may jointly develop and market films with the vision of becoming brands, this doesn't necessarily guarantee consumers' engagement with such films as brands. Instead, consumers initially evaluate the coherency of a film's identity and subsequently go on to engage with films as brands, a process which is fully mediated by the emotional bonding a consumer may develop for a film and partially mediated by a film's popularity and sequels. Films' marketing/franchising efforts, iconic status and sense of timelessness moderate consumer-film brand engagement, resulting in positive word of mouth and purchase intention. Our sequential, consolidated and specified film brand engagement framework guides filmmakers and marketers on how to tactically engage consumers with their films as brands, in order to differentiate themselves within this risky and competitive market.
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com, patsorn_sungsri@hotmail, and Patsorn Sungsri. "Thai Cinema as National Cinema: An Evaluative History." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061019.145601.
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This dissertation considers Thai cinema as a national text. It portrays and analyses Thai film from the introduction of cinema to Thailand during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1868-1910) up until the present day (2004).
At its core, this thesis adopts the ideas of Higson, ORegan and Dissanayake in considering the cultural negotiation of cinema and the construction of nation. In this study of Thai National Cinema two principal methods are employedeconomic and text-based. In terms of political economy Thai National Cinema is explored through the historical development of the local film industry, the impact of imported cinema, taxation, censorship and government policy, and the interplay between vertically and horizontally integrated media businesses. Special attention is paid to the evolving and dynamic role of the ruling class in the local film industry. The dissertations text-based analyses concern the social and ideological contexts of these national productions in order to consider extant characteristics of Thai nationhood and how these are either reflected or problematised in Thai Cinema.
Of particular relevance is this dissertations emphasis on three resilient and potent signifiers of Thai identitynation, religion, and monarchyand their interrelationship and influence in the development of Thai National Cinema. These three pillars of Thai society form the basis for organising an understanding of the development of Thai cinematic tradition, now over a century old. This thesis argues that any discussion of the historical, or current, development of Thai National Cinema must accommodate the pervasive role that these three principal forms of national identity play in formulating Thai society, culture, and politics. The recent challenges of globalisation and postmodernism, as well as the rise of an educated middle-class, provide opportunity for reconceptualizing the relevance of these three pillars. In this way Thai National Cinema can be considered a useful barometer in both reflecting and promoting the construction of Thai identity and thought.
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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, exhibitors and other film agents) involved in the construction of national cinema. The thesis provides a contextually-based perspective on national film, which is uncommon in both Anthropology and Film Studies, seeking to expand the still emerging field of anthropology of cinema. More than as a group of ‘national’ films, Chilean cinema is understood as both an art world and a field of cultural production, arguing that ‘national cinema’ is both a cultural artifact and a social practice, which is constructed in permanent negotiations between Chilean professionals and other agents in the field. The thesis claims that the film experience of Chilean professionals is part of a broader experience of globalisation, and discusses the formation of artistic, professional and national subjectivities in the neoliberal context, where the identity of Chilean ‘national’ cinema is often contested. It then deconstructs the idea of national cinema as a bounded cultural product, highlighting the overlapping social and cultural traits that affect Chileans’ creative processes. The thesis examines the ways in which Chilean professionals have made sense of this transnational context, reshaping both their social performances and their cinematographic imagination. By referring to the case of Chilean cinema, the thesis shows the complexities of building a contemporary peripheral film industry. It discusses the construction of national communities, cultural commodification, precarious global labour conditions, and the role of national and international social networks in media production. It argues that Chilean cinema practices, particularly at international film festivals, evince overlapping narratives of art and business as well as localism and cosmopolitanism, revealing some of the cultural paradoxes of local film production.
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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 contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity and networks of protest, which depicts the active formation of political identities that resonates with off-screen protest movements.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1211/thumbnail.jpg
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Diestro-Dópido, Mar. "Film festivals : cinema and cultural exchange." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8900.
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Historically the focus of journalistic reports, film festivals have recently started to attract the attention of academics, applying concepts from crossdisciplinary fields such as cultural studies and ethnography. As a result, film festivals are now gradually being institutionalised as a field of study within the wider discipline of Film Studies. This thesis adds to this growing body of literature by exploring film festivals as sites of cinematic, cultural, social, political and economic exchange, as well as the multiple ways in which these events produce cultural value. This thesis draws on three detailed case studies: the Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente, known as BAFICI, in Argentina; the BFI London Film Festival in the UK; and the San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain. Issues of national identity, history and memory inform and become crystallised in each festival. They acquire a particular resonance in the tensions between national and regional allegiances in San Sebastián, as well as the pressures between cinema as culture and entertainment in the case of London. The focus on BAFICI allows for a development of the argument beyond critics and academics’ habitual focus on Western film festivals. Transnational events by nature, all three festivals relate in complex ways to their own national cinemas and localities, as well as to other festivals within the international circuit. My personal experience as film critic and reporter at festivals is underpinned by academic research, giving this project a dual perspective. With findings based on extensive interviews (primary research) with the teams responsible for programming the three festivals, this thesis aims to bring into the public domain the views of those who have shaped these festivals, creating a new body of material that can be drawn on by future scholars working in this area.
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Smith, Justin T. "Cult films and film cults in British cinema 1968-86." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429782.
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Garrett, Roberta. "Postmodernist cinema and feminist film criticism." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272823.
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Morcom, Anne Frances. "Hindi film songs and the cinema." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268674.
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This thesis explores the relationship of Hindi film songs with Hindi cinema from the 1950s, especially emphasizing the present day. It is based on fieldwork completed in Bombay from 1998-2000 and the analysis of film songs and their picturizations. The main question addressed is: 'How far can film songs be seen as an independent tradition of popular music and how far are they a part of their parent films and Indian cinema?' Chapter 1 surveys previous scholarship on film songs and introduces their cinematic study. Chapter 2 deals with the production process of film songs, identifying the role of various personnel in their creation including the music director (composer), lyricist and singer(s). Chapter 3 addresses the musical style of film songs and its development in the light of both their cinematic and popular music roles. Chapter 4 turns to the use of Western music in film song from the perspective of meaning. Is Western music used in the same way in Hindi films as in Hollywood films, and if so, how, if music is not a universal language? Is the presence of Western music in film songs just due to hegemony? Song and background score material is analysed in its dramatic context, and Indian and Western music theory and interview material drawn on to answer these questions. Chapter 5 looks at the commercial life of film songs, addressing the question of whether songs sell films or films sell songs through an examination of the marketing and profitability of film songs in various eras. Chapter 6 discusses the reception of film songs, their popularity, how audiences come into contact with them, and their appropriation by audiences. Adorno's profile of mass music as alienating is revisited with reference to film song.
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Mendes, Maria Teresa Silva Guerreiro. "Cinema e experiência moderna." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas -- -Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação, 1997. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29929.
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Vernet, Marc. "Narrateur, personnage et spectateur dans le film de fiction à travers le film noir." Paris 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA03A061.
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Downey, John William. "Aesthetics, critical theory, and cinema." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260587.
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Codó, Martínez Jordi. "El cinema com a espai intercultural. La influència asiàtica en el cinema d'Occident: contextos, conceptes i casos." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/104535.
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En un món social cada cop més nodrit per les interconnexions culturals, el cinema - expressió artística que és filla inequívoca del seu temps- es conforma des dels seus inicis a través de la integració i la interacció de formes expressives diverses i allunyades. Els darrers tres lustres han vist un impuls en la referida tendència, promoguda per la globalització de la indústria fílmica i, en bona mesura també, pel creixement (i/o la voluntat exportadora) dels cinemes asiàtics. La influencia d'aquests cines en el mainstream internacional (ja sigui el de l'entreteniment o el d'art i assaig) és cada cop més patent, i s'aventuren noves formes d'expressió cinematogràfica i d’anàlisi. El present treball vol reflexionar sobre la naturalesa d'aquests intercanvis, tot observant quines idees i practiques es posen en joc en la producció de films de caràcter transnacional. Conceptes com 'interculturalitat', 'cinema nacional', 'autoria' o 'orientalisme' en són els protagonistes, juntament amb l'estudi d'un cas: la influencia del cinema japonès en !'obra de Jim Jarmusch.En un mundo social cada vez más nutrido por las interconexiones culturales, el cine expresión artística que es hija inequívoca de su tiempo- se conforma desde sus inicios a través de la integración y la interacción de formas expresivas diversas y alejadas. Los últimos tres lustros han visto un impulso en la referida tendencia, promovida por la globalización de la industria fílmica y, en buena medida también, por el crecimiento (y/o la voluntad exportadora) de los cines asiáticos. La influencia de estos cines en el mainstream internacional (ya sea el del entretenimiento o el de arte y ensayo) es cada vez más patente, y se aventuran nuevas formas de expresión cinematográfica y de análisis. El presente trabajo quiere reflexionar sobre la naturaleza de estos intercambios, observando qué ideas y prácticas se ponen en juego en la producción de filmes de carácter transnacional. Conceptos como 'interculturalidad', 'cine nacional', 'autoría' u 'orientalismo' son los protagonistas, junto con el estudio de un caso: la influencia del cine japonés en la obra de Jim Jarmusch.
In a social world increasingly nourished by cultural interconnections, film -an artistic expression that is an unequivocal output of its time- has been shaped from its beginnings through the integration and interaction of various and distant forms of expression. The last fifteen years have seen a boost in the aforementioned trend, promoted by the globalization of the film industry and, to some extent also by the growth (and / or will to export) of Asian cinemas. The influence of these cinemas in the interntional mainstream (either for entertainment or arthouse) is increasingly evident, and puts forward new forms of cinematic expression and analysis. The present work reflects on the nature of these exchanges, by observing which ideas and practices come into play in producing films with a transnational personality. Concepts such as interculturality, national cinema, authorship or orientalism are the protagonists, along with a case study: the influence of Japanese cinema in the work of Jim Jarmusch.
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Pinar, Garcia Alex. "Western Literature in Japanese Film (1910-1938)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667250.
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Des del inicis del cinema s’han realitzat un innumerable nombre de pel·lícules basades en obres literàries. L'adaptació cinematogràfica es pot considerar un procés interpretatiu en què el cineasta crea un nou treball artístic mitjançant la transformació de l'estructura, el contingut, l'estètica i el discurs narratiu de l’obra literària. És freqüent veure pel·lícules en les que els directors han adaptat obres literàries del seu propi àmbit cultural, però és menys comú trobar exemples de directors que han creat pel·lícules basades en obres d'una esfera cultural i tradició literària diferent.
Aquest és el cas d'alguns cineastes japonesos, com Kurosawa Akira, que va adaptar amb èxit obres destacades de la literatura universal. Moltes investigacions han centrat la seva atenció en les adaptacions realitzades per Kurosawa i altres directors japonesos en la dècada de 1950 i posteriors, un període en el qual el cinema japonès va rebre reconeixement a tot el món i va aconseguir presència internacional en prestigiosos festivals de cinema. No obstant això, hi ha hagut poca o gairebé cap atenció a la les adaptacions de literatura occidental produïdes al Japó durant els anys 1910, 1920 i 1930, al llarg de les anomenades èpoques Meiji, Taishō i Shōwa- preguerra.
L'objectiu d'aquesta investigació és, per tant, explorar les relacions intertextuals entre aquestes pel·lícules i les obre literàries en la qual es van basar, i descriure les transformacions culturals en l'estructura, el contingut, l'estètica i el discurs narratiu realitzats en el procés d'adaptació. Així, la metodologia emprada segueix l'enfocament dialògic de Stam, tenint en compte altres propostes metodològiques recents, les quals suggereixen afegir aspectes històrics, culturals i contextuals a l'anàlisi de les adaptacions cinematogràfiques. Aquesta tesi té la intenció d’aportar una nova perspectiva als estudis de les relacions intertextuals entre cinema Japonès i la literatura universal mitjançant l’anàlisi de pel·lícules produïdes durant la primera meitat del segle XX que no han estat mai o han estat molt poc estudiades.Since the beginning of cinema, innumerable films have been derived from classic or popular literature. Film adaptation of a literary work can be considered as an interpretative process in which the film director creates a new artistic work through several transformations in the structure, content, aesthetics, and narrative discourse. There are hundreds of films in which the directors have adapted literary works from their own cultural sphere, but there are fewer examples of directors who have made movies based on literary works from a different culture and literary tradition. That is the case for some Japanese film directors, such as Kurosawa Akira, who adapted foreign literature for the screen. Many scholars in the field of Film Studies have focused their attention on the adaptations made by Kurosawa and other Japanese directors in the 1950s and subsequent decades: a period during which Japanese cinema received acknowledgment worldwide and achieved an international presence in prestigious film festivals. However, there has been little or no attention to the adaptations of Western literature produced in Japan during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, throughout the so-called Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa pre-war eras. The objective of this research is therefore to explore the intertextual relations between those films and the Western works on which they were based, and to describe the cultural transformations in the structure, content, aesthetics, and narrative discourse carried out in the process of adaptation. The methodology employed follows Stam’s intertextual dialogic approach, and takes into account the most recent theoretical frameworks, which suggest adding historical, cultural, and contextual aspects into the analysis of film adaptations. This dissertation goes far beyond the scope of the previous investigations, as it examines Japanese movies based on Western literature produced during the first half of the twentieth century that have never or barely been studied.
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Frisvold, Hanssen Eirik. "Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema : Origins, Functions, Meanings." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1261.
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This dissertation is a historical and theoretical study of a number of discourses examining colour and cinema during the period 1909 to 1935 (trade press, film reviews, publications on film technology, manuals, catalogues and theoretical texts from the era). In this study, colour in cinema is considered as producing a number of aesthetic and representational questions which are contextualised historically; problems and qualities specifically associated with colour film are examined in terms of an interrelationship between historical, technical, industrial, and stylistic factors, as well as specific contemporary conceptions of cinema. The first chapter examines notions concerning the technical, material, as well as perceptual, origins of colour in cinema, and questions concerning indexicality, iconicity, and colour reproduction, through focusing on the relationship between the photographic colour process Kinemacolor, as well as other similar processes, and the established non-photographic colour methods during the early 1910s, with an in-depth analysis of the Catalogue of Kinemacolor Film Subjects, published in 1912. The second chapter examines notions concerning the stylistic, formal and narrative functions of colour in cinema, featuring a survey of the recurring comparisons between colour and sound, found in the writing of film history, in discourses concerning early Technicolor sound films, film technology, experimental films and experiments on synaesthesia during the 1920s, as well as Eisenstein’s notions of the functions of colour in sound film montage. The third chapter examines the question of colour and meaning in cinema through considering the relationship between colours and objects in colour film images (polychrome and monochrome, photographic and non-photographic) during the time frame of this study.
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Gache, Sherry L. "The Cinema Podium: French Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century French Cinema." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/168.
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This dissertation is an attempt to understand how early twenty-first century French films (2000-2002) position themselves in relation to late twentieth century feminist public discourse in France. More specifically, this study will examine how cinematic narratives are modifiers of feminist debate. Four selected films are analyzed for this research: Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2002), Patrice Leconte's Girl on the Bridge (2000), Pascale Bailly's God is Great and I am not (2002), and Agnes Varda's The Gleaners and I (2001). The study focuses on how these four films illustrate the historical moment of the changing role of French women in society, as they move from a more private sphere to a larger public sphere. Following a renewed feminist debate in the 1990s, both male and female film directors express their ideas on this public discourse, that of the future role of women in French society. These films depict, through the narrative medium of cinema, proposals for a revised role of women, with its assets and its difficulties. Often, there is a merging of the private and public realms of the woman protagonist's life. A critical reading of each of the four chosen films for study traces the methods used by directors to depict a public debate, focusing on those techniques unique to film. This study shows the power of cinema to construct, propose, question and/or resolve potential real-life situations in relation to a historical public discourse.
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Wimmer, Leila. "Cross-channel perspectives the French reception of British cinema." Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt, M. New York, NY Wien Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992795982/04.
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Yu, Chang-Min. "Corporeal modernism: transnational body cinema since 1968." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/7051.
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As in physics, one faces a three-body problem in film studies. Similarly, neither logic has a general solution. There are bodies on screen as representation, bodies before the screen as audiences, and supposedly film’s body as a quasi-subject that perceives and expresses through the screen. However, no scholarship has addressed the central question of the body’s medium specificity in determining how the story on screen is told in a socio-historical context. Using phenomenology and media studies, Corporeal Modernism: Transnational Body Cinema Since 1968 fills the gap by articulating how the body’s metaphysical and physical conditions are the foundation of narrative cinema. I showcase how the medium specificity of the body is deployed to flesh out social and political conflicts from European political modernism through Asian New Waves to the latest Hollywood digital blockbusters.
Corporeal Modernism considers the body as a medium—not as mere representation in cinema—to examine the relationship between the bodies on screen and before the screen. Using phenomenology and media studies, my research illustrates how the body on screen, without manifesting its corporeal qualities, operates as vehicle to deliver a character in narrative. Only when the body of a character is hurt or incapacitated, the audience is made aware of how the body is a formal issue as well. My research demonstrates how cinema presents the body and the world on screen. Corporeal modernism is the technical awareness of the body-image located in the history of cinema.
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Bettim, Priscyla 1986. "O cinema de Jonas Mekas." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285329.
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Resumo: A presente dissertação tem como objetivo traçar um estudo panorâmico da obra cinematográfica do cineasta lituano radicado em Nova York Jonas Mekas, bem como analisar, dentro da vasta obra de Mekas e do cinema experimental ou de vanguarda, as particularidades estéticas, os processos de criação do cineasta, e as características de filme-diário, nas quais Mekas toma como ponto de partida sua vida e seu cotidiano para realizar seus filmes. A dissertação também delineia a trajetória do cineasta no chamado underground de Nova Iorque, evidenciando suas principais contribuições para a cena artística da época
Abstract: This thesis aims to draw a panoramic study of the cinematic work of the Lithuanian filmmaker living in New York Jonas Mekas, and analyze, among his vast work and other experimental and avant-garde films, aesthetic characteristics, the filmmaker's creative process, and the diary films features, in which Mekas takes his own everyday life to compose his films. The paper also outlines Jonas Mekas' trajectory in the so-called New York's underground scene, pointing out his main contributions to the artistic environment of the time
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Barros, Rubem Rabêllo Maciel de. "A (re)construção do passado: música, cinema, história." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-14122011-215922/.
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Este trabalho analisa os usos do material de arquivo, as construções discursivas e a visão historiográfica deles decorrentes em dois filmes dedicados a personagens da música popular brasileira, em particular do samba: o curta-metragem A voz e o vazio: A vez de Vassourinha (1998), de Carlos Adriano, e o longa-metragem Cartola, música para os olhos (2006), de Lírio Ferreira e Hilton Lacerda. Os dois filmes estão construídos a partir de uma perspectiva da estética found footage, com o material de arquivo operando como base indicial para novos arranjos de sentido na interpretação da história. A análise busca identificar os nexos criados pelas duas obras e a variada gama de diálogos culturais que podem ser inferidos de sua leitura. Em destaque, o lugar que a música popular ocupa na cultura urbana brasileira. Ao fazê-lo, o trabalho identifica matrizes estéticas comuns, como o cinema de invenção de Julio Bressane, mas que resultam em diferentes abordagens historiográficas: uma, signatária de uma visão pós-moderna; a outra, mais próxima a uma atualização da crônica histórica.This dissertation analyses the use of archive material, the discursive constructions and the resulting historiographic vision in two films dedicated to personalities from Brazilian Popular Music, particularly from samba: the short film The voice and the void: Vassourinhas turn (1998), by Carlos Adriano, and the feature film Cartola, music for the eyes (2006), by Lírio Ferreira and Hilton Lacerda. Both films were assembled from the perspective of found footage aesthetic, in which the archive material indicates new arrangements of meaning for the interpretation of the story.The analysis aims to identify the nexuses created by the two works and the varied range of cultural dialogues that may be inferred from their interpretation. Special attention is given to the place of popular music in Brazilian urban culture. As a result, common aesthetic matrixes are identified, such as Julio Bressanes cinema of invention, resulting, however, in different historiographic approaches: one, signatory of a post-modern vision; the other, more similar to an update of historic chronicles.
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Poole, Mark William. "Film noir and the films of Christopher Nolan." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16688.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesFilm noir has returned as a commercially attractive genre in the last ten years following the success of Pulp Fiction. This thesis discusses the differences of style and content and reasons for these differences between the present incarnation of film noir and its predecessors. As a director whose three feature films to date all contain noir elements, the work of Christopher Nolan is contextualized with that of his contemporaries while the purpose of his expression of these elements is also considered.
O Film Noir regressou como género comercialmente atraente nos últimos dez anos e na sequência do sucesso de Pulp Fiction. Nesta tese tentamos analisar as diferenças de estilo e de conteúdo, e as razões para estas diferenças entre a incarnação actual do Film Noir e a dos seus antecessores. Enquanto realizador cujos filmes até hoje apresentados contêm elementos de Film Noir, a obra de Christopher Nolan é contextualizada com a dos seus contemporâneos, ao mesmo tempo que se analisa igualmente o objectivo da expressão destes elementos.
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Oliveira, Sandra Cristina Reis Marques de. "Representations of American youth in Hollywood film in the 1980s." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2762.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesO presente trabalho propõe-se examinar diferentes representações da adolescência no cinema de Hollywood, particularmente na década de 80. Esta dissertação inicia a sua análise debruçando-se sobre as representações da adolescência no cinema de Hollywood, no período após a II Guerra Mundial, numa tentativa de determinar alguns acontecimento que afectaram a forma como essas representações evoluíram até ao final da década de 80. Finalmente, uma reflexão sobre os aspectos mais relevantes das representações da adolescência no cinema na época conservadora de Ronald Reagan. ABSTRACT: This present study aims to examine different representations of American youth in Hollywood film, particularly in the 1980s. This dissertation begins with an examination of some representations of American youth after World War II in an attempt to investigate the trends which affected its representations and how they have evolved from then until the end of the 1980s. Finally, it offers some detailed reflections on depictions of adolescence in Hollywood film during the Reagan years.
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Maldūnaitė, Christ Laima. "Jonas Mekas und das New American Cinema." Bern [u.a.], 2007. http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2009/13231/.
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Kapadia, Parita. "Independent Film Futures Mixa | Design for Democratic Cinema." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2013. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/46.
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Abstract. Making and self-distributing high quality films have never been as affordable as they are today. Even films shot on cellphones are celebrated at festivals around the world. This is really empowering for storytellers who don’t want to submit to a Hollywood struggle or don’t have a big budget for making their film. Filmmaking is now a democratic arena. Even previously silent audiences are now becoming noisy participants in the films that they consume.
But mere accessibility to the resources for production doesn’t entirely satisfy passionate creators who want to reach out to audiences far and wide. The Internet’s low entry barriers make room for everyone, resulting in a cluttered environment, where the effective discovery of applicable content becomes important. Each member of the networked audience affects the discoverability of content floating around on the web for others, within their own capacity. The audience’s emerging role as re-distributers, along with easy tools and resources that allow them to partake in cinema and popular culture, influences the content and format in which cinema is presented on the web.
These premises offered an opportunity to introduce affordances that encourage new degrees of participation. With a focus on the emerging activities of appropriation, a system that honors content creators by making attribution consistent and codified is proposed in this project. The establishment of a culture of crediting welcomes the arrival of a future indie cinema, which is integral to the social nature of the Internet.
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Perez, Abraham B. "Film d'Art and Saint-Saens| Pioneers in creating art through silent film and music." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1572846.
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Film d'Art, the French production company responsible for the development of Henri Lavédan's L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise (1908), demonstrated a forward-thinking vision for film and music. Through their innovations, the company combined many elements of cinematography with new standards for quality productions. This project report will investigate the goals of Film d'Art and its unusually high ambitions, standard music practices in the silent film era, the issues revolving around the instrumentation to Saint-Saëns' score to Henri Lavédan's L'Assassinat de Duc de Guise (1908), and the performance of my arrangement in a graduate recital.
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Stutz, Fernando Henrique Lacerda. "Cinema estrutura: estudo genealógico do cinema estrutural." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4727.
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Previous issue date: 2015-07-21In 1969 the film critic P.A.Sitney said that, suddenly, a cinema structure "had emerged." Although imprecise, his observations were responsible for triggering a long process of discussions about a kind of cinema that, in general, was characterized by self-reflectiveness and antiillusionist processes. The exploration of the filmstrip's materiality, of the alternative projection and camera-capture methods, of the different editing processes and articulation between sound and image, as well as a number of other procedures that called attention to the cinematic structure, were taken as central features of those "structural films." In the search of a genealogical approach of the facts and building on key authors of the genealogical method, especially Nietzsche and Benjamin, alongside with the help of historicaldocumentary data, this research has made clear that the emergence of a dedicated cinematography to its own structure, had derived from a historical development marked by the emancipation of cinema as art, as well as from the development for developing alternatives to the set of cinematic codes agreed by the film industry. From the avant-garde of the 1920s to the artistic movements of the postwar 1950s, the will to acquire an "essential cinematic language have mobilized artists and filmmakers to produce experimental works that questioned such codes, giving rise to the structural films. New York, London and Vienna, altogether saw the development of a filmic production that prioritized to discuss the structural basis of cinematic experience and cinematic discourse from the visual perception phenomena, to cognitive processes during the view. Heterogeneously, the so-called structural works not only cast new light on the film practice itself, expanding its limits; but also demonstrated the possibility of using cinema as an useful instrument for philosophical speculation. Making "films about films", the structural filmmakers completed the avant-garde project of employing film as an autonomous art-form, turning its attention to its own structure, and thereby making the structure of things, the man and his thought more and more visible
Em 1969 o critico de cinema P.A.Sitney alertou para o fato de que, de súbito, um cinema da estrutura havia emergido . Apesar de imprecisas, suas observacões foram responsáveis por desencadear um longo processo de discussões acerca de um tipo de cinema que, em sintese, caracterizava-se por ser auto-reflexivo e anti-ilusionista. A exploracao da materialidade da pelicula fotoquimica, dos métodos alternativos de projecao e captacao, dos sistemas matemáticos de montagem e articulacao entre som e imagem, bem como de uma série de outros procedimentos que chamavam a atencao para a estrutura do cinematografo, foram tomados como caracteristicas centrais daqueles filmes estruturais . Buscando uma visao genealogica dos fatos e tomando como base autores fundamentais do método genealogico, especialmente Nietzsche e Benjamin, aliados a investigacao de dados historico-documentais, esta pesquisa tornou explicito que a emergencia de uma cinematografia voltada para sua propria estrutura derivou do desdobramento historico de um processo marcado pela emancipacao do cinema como arte e, consequentemente, pela elaboracao de alternativas ao conjunto de codigos convencionados pela indústria cinematográfica. Das vanguardas da década de 1920 aos movimentos artisticos do pos-guerra dos anos 1950, a vontade pela aquisicao de uma linguagem essencialmente cinematográfica mobilizou artistas e cineastas a produzirem obras experimentais que problematizaram tais codigos, fazendo emergir o cinema estrutural. A partir de Nova Iorque, Londres e Viena, desenvolveu-se um tipo de producao que priorizou discutir as bases constituintes da experiencia e do discurso cinematográfico - da percepcao visual aos processos cognitivos. De modo heterogeneo, as chamadas obras estruturais nao apenas lancaram novas luzes sobre o proprio fazer-cinema, expandindo seus limites; mas também demonstraram a possibilidade de utilizá-lo como um meio útil para a especulacao filosofica. Fazendo filmes sobre filmes , os realizadores estruturais completaram o projeto vanguardista de encarar o cinema como arte autônoma que, voltando-se para sua propria estrutura, também tornou visiveis a estrutura das coisas, do homem, e de seu pensamento
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Agra, Anacã Rupert Moreira Cruz e. Costa. "O poético no cinema." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6170.
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In this thesis, we critically examine the theories of the poetic text as proposed by Roman Jakobson and Jean Cohen and Michael Riffaterre so as to recognize, from a conciliation of the three theories, a generic model of the poetic concept so as to apply such a model to the cinema. Based also on filmic theories (drawn mainly from Marcel Martin and Yuri Lotman), we investigate how the poetic dimension gets materialized in narrative fiction feature films. From the establishment of a generic model of the poetic mechanism, having verbal poetry as a parameter, we study some particular modes of the poetic configuration in the cinema, elaborating through a wide range of filmic sequences, a series of tropes that constitutes a theoretical-didactic model for the analysis of poetic resources in the cinema.
Nesta tese, examinamos criticamente as teorias do texto poético de Roman Jakobson e Jean Cohen e Michael Riffaterre com o intuito de reconhecer, numa conciliação das três teorias, um modelo geral do conceito poético e aplicá-lo ao cinema. Apoiando-nos também em teorias fílmicas (retomadas, principalmente, de Marcel Martin e Yuri Lotman), investigamos como o poético materializa-se em longa metragens narrativos de ficção. A partir do estabelecimento de um modelo geral do mecanismo poético, tomando como exemplo considerações sobre a poesia verbal, estudamos alguns modos particulares de configuração do poético no cinema, elaborando, através de exemplos de sequências fílmicas, uma série de figuras que se constitui como um modelo teórico-didático para a análise de recursos poéticos no cinema.
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Leadston, Mackenzie M. "Theorizing the Comic Object in Classical French Cinema." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155498483572897.
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Belaubre, Yves. "Le scénario dans l'intention du film." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20074.
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Depuis une vingtaine d’années, le scénario américain s’est imposé comme modèle du scénario de fiction auprès des acteurs de la production de cinéma et de télévision pour sa performance et sa rationalité narratives. Conçu pour assurer au film de fiction le maximum de chance de succès, il subordonne la création audiovisuelle à un dispositif narratif assurant l’identification du spectateur et sa satisfaction émotionnelle. Or, eu égard à une ambition artistique du cinéma, sa légitimité est problématique. La présente recherche développe une alternative à la formalisation narrative du film à travers un mode de scénarisation qui subordonne la narration au discours filmique. L’identification au personnage y compte moins que l’expression d’une vision-audition du mondeSince about twenty years, the American screenplay stood out as model of the script of fiction into cinema and TV production for its narrative performance and its rationality. Designed to insure public success to fiction movies, it subordinates the audiovisual creation to the narrative device, insuring identification of the spectator and its emotional satisfaction. But, in consideration of the artistic ambition of the cinema, its legitimacy is problematic. The present research develops an alternative in the narrative formalization of the movie through a mode of « scénarisation » which subordinates the story to the cinematic discourse. The identification of spectator to the character matters there less than the expression of a vision-hearing of the world
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Yu, Julia. "Translating the Language of Film: East Asian Films and Their Hollywood Remakes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/138.
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Hollywood remakes of East Asian films clearly change more than just the language of a film, and the choices that producers and directors make in order to tailor a foreign film so that it better appeals to American audiences creates an entry point that allows for a more direct comparison of aesthetic styles, cultural tastes, and narrative conventions. An analysis of two case studies, South Korean hit film My Sassy GIrl (2001) and Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002, 2003, 2003) remade into My Sassy Girl (2008) and The Departed (2006), explores the principles of Korean and Hong Kong commercial film industries and how they differ and interact with those of Hollywood.
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Reitere, Elīna [Verfasser]. "Narration in slow cinema / Elīna Reitere." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1150981393/34.
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Briggs, Gordon. "Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471478505.
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Whitney, Allison. "Labyrinth : cinema, myth and nation at Expo 67." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0025/MQ50586.pdf.
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Nogueira, António Couceiro da Cruz. "Cinema, narratologia, jornalismo-um travelling pela cultura cinematográfica." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UC-Universidade de Coimbra -- -Faculdade de Letras, 2002. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29599.
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Stine, Kyle Joseph. "Calculative cinema: technologies of speed, scale, and explication." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1765.
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In recent years, as digital technologies have swept across the motion picture industry, scholars have seen the need to rethink what cinema means today and whether it continues at all. Studies typically resolve this crisis in one of two ways: by proclaiming the "end of cinema" or by showing how new technologies satisfy the continued demands for narrative and photorealism. What has largely escaped consideration is how the history of cinema itself might be rethought, and more specifically how the "digital revolution" might be seen to open up a new perspective on the history and trajectory of cinematic technologies. Calculative Cinema explores how cinema was calculative from the very beginning, with celluloid film being used in areas that had no pretensions toward narrative or photorealistic representation such as scientific imaging, data storage, and early analog computing.
The project starts from a belief that any history of cinema appropriate to our present situation must be a history of new proportions, in terms of both timeline and scope. For this reason, it draws broadly from different disciplinary perspectives, including media theory, the history and theory of technology, art history, and developments in scientific imaging and computation. It seeks to relate philosophical investigations, avant- garde art practices, and modern historiography to the development of cinematic technologies, and does this by tracing seemingly outlying cases in the history of physics, cybernetics, and sound reproduction in order to locate the technical tendency common to these fields and its characteristic folding between picturing and measurement, cinema and calculation, cinematics and kinematics. Taking this expanded view of its technological base the dissertation then reflects back on the pervasive sense of cinema as an interface commensurate with human experience, in this way recontextualizing discourses on the death of cinema as symptomatic of a new cultural relation to cinematic technologies.
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Sorensen, Abigail. "The Feminine Sublime in 21st Century Surrealist Cinema." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464046230.
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Lewis, Sian. "Local government and film censorship : the control of film exhibition in England and Wales, 1909-1939." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251038.
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Oliveira, Nuno António Grilo de. "Cinema de animação-metonímia americana." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- -Universidade Aberta, 2003. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29951.
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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 apparatus, my work places the development of cinemagoing in a broad social, economic, cultural and political context, and explains how these issues impact upon on-going developments. In the late 1950s, cinemagoing declined partly in response to changing leisure habits, demographic shifts, the growth of consumer culture, television, and the widespread adoption of new broadcast technologies like home video and satellite. The multiplex returned feature films to cinemas, but was a definitively American commercial form closely associated with new forms of leisure and out-of-town retailing. There are also parallels between the context for development of the multiplex in the USA – suburbanisation, shopping malls and reliance on the motorcar – and developments in Britain in the last 30 years. To this end there is a specific emphasis on the development of the multiplex cinema as part of a wider narrative about the re-positioning of cinemagoing as a collective, public form of visual entertainment, in the period from the mid-1980s, in the context of some dramatic changes in the transient nature of capitalism and urban planning. From the early 1990s onwards there was a growing anxiety about the impact of out-of-town developments on Britain’s urban centres, and a concomitant and renewed emphasis on the importance of the urban core rather than the edge. Thus, the key to understanding the evolution of cinema exhibition today is to pay particular attention to urban planning as inherently ideological, shifting and changing in line with broader political, economic and social considerations.
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Eikmeier, Martin. "A música de Remo Usai no cinema brasileiro." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284921.
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Orientador: Claudiney Rodrigues CarrascoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Remo Usai foi o compositor que mais produziu na história do cinema brasileiro; e o único profissional especializado de sua época. Este trabalho investiga sua trajetória ao longo de 4 décadas, concentrando-se nas suas atividades durante os anos 60, período em que compôs para filmes ligados ao projeto do cinema novo e de uma produção politicamente engajada. O foco do texto se deu na aderência de seu projeto musical a filmes cujo enredo exigia formas de diálogo entre música e narrativa distintas de sua formação, que se deu nomeadamente na tradição do cinema americano e na lógica do melodrama. Deste modo, investigou-se, em primeiro lugar, quais os caminhos que levaram um profissional, identificado com um projeto de cinema - a chanchada - combatido elos artistas com os quais se associou na década de 60, a compor para estes filmes. Em segundo, as diferenças entre a maneira de lidar com o material musical em cada um destes projetos de cinema, procurando encarar tanto suas disposições estéticas, quanto o seu modo de produção e a maneira pela qual um e outro afetaram o trabalho de composição de Remo Usai
Abstract: Remo Usai was the most productive composer of our cinema history, and the only professional specialized in the art of film music of its time. This work investigates his career over four decades by focusing on his activities during the 60, period in which he composed for films related to the cinema novo project and politically engaged productions. The focus of the text is the adherence of his musical project to movies in which the plot demanded forms of dialog between music and narrative other than its formation could provide, which occurred particularly in the tradition of American cinema and the logic of melodrama. Thus, the text investigates, at the outset, what where the paths that lead a professional identified with a film project - the chanchada - opposed by the artists with whom he joined in the 60s, to compose for these films. Secondly, the differences between the way of dealing with the musical material in each of this film projects, trying to face both its aesthetic provisions, as its mode of production, and the way that either affect the composition of Remo Usai
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Sadegh-Vaziri, Persheng. "Iranian Documentary Film Culture: Cinema, Society, and Power 1997-2014." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/363567.
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Iranian documentary filmmakers negotiate their relationship with power centers every step of the way in order to open creative spaces and make films. This dissertation covers their professional activities and their films, with particular attention to 1997 to 2014, which has been a period of tremendous expansion. Despite the many restrictions on freedom of expression in Iran, especially between 2009 and 2013, after the uprising against dubious election practices, documentary filmmakers continued to organize, remained active, and produced films and distributed them. In this dissertation I explore how they engaged with different centers of power in order to create films that are relevant to their society. To focus this topic, my research explores media institutions, their filmmaking practices, and the strategies they use to produce and distribute their films. This research is important because it explores the inherent contradictions in the existence of a vibrant documentary film community in a country that is envisioned as uniformly closed and oppressive in the West. The research is also personally motivated, because I have close connections to the Iranian documentary film world, where I previously made films and produced television programs. I conduct the study with a multi-faceted approach, utilizing participant observation in the field in a four-month period, in-depth interviews with key players, personal reflections, and textual analysis of the films. I focus on about twenty filmmakers and their films, chosen from a pool of more than 500 documentary filmmakers, giving a cross section of this community based on their age, sex, and their professional history and success within Iran and internationally.
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Felix, José Carlos. "Film and television adaptation." Florianópolis, SC, 2004. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/87828.
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A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo principal investigar o processo de adaptação de filmes baseados em textos literários em relação ao contexto histórico e social em que eles foram produzidos. Desta forma, a pesquisa apresenta uma análise comparativa de duas versões cinematográficas da peça do dramaturgo Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire produzidas em momentos históricos distintos, a primeira para o cinema, dirigida por Elia Kazan (1951) e a outra feita para a televisão, dirigida por Glenn Jordan (1995). Uma discussão sistemática sobre o processo de
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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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Bather, Neil Edward. ""There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2564.
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir refers to the lands of Mordor as the place where evil never sleeps. Cinematic evil itself never sleeps, always arising in new forms, to the extent that there exist as many types of evil as there are films. This thesis examines this constantly shifting construction of evil in American popular cinema between 1989 and 2002 - roughly, the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Center - and how this cinema engaged with representations of enemies and of evil per se. The thesis uses content and thematic analysis on a sample of the 201 most successful films at the U.S. box office during the period. In these films, cinematic evil is constructed according to a visual aesthetic that attempts to engage with societal values, but fails to do so due to the emphasis on its visual construction and its commodification. As Baudrillard argues, evil has become a hollow concept devoid of meaning, and this is especially so for cinematic evil. It is recognised, and is recognisable, by the visual excessiveness of its violence (or potentiality for violence), and by certain codes that are created in reference to intertextual patterns and in relationship to discourses of paranoia and malaise. But cinema in this period failed to engage with the concept of evil itself in any meaningful way. Cinematic evil mirrors the descent into the chaos and disorder of a postmodern society. All cinematic evil can do is to connect with this sense of unease in which the 'reality of evil' cannot be represented. Instead, it draws on earlier icons and narratives of evil in a conflation of narrative and spectacle that produces a cinema of nostalgia. Moreover, stripped of narrative causality, these films express a belief, unproved and unprovable, that evil things and evil people may arise in any form, in any place and at any time: a cinema of paranoia. Together, these factors produce a cinema of malaise, perpetually confronting an evil it is unable to define or locate.
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Maciel, Katia Augusta. "Film, popular music and television : intertextuality in Brazilian cinema." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494969.
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The thesis examines the effects of the cross-fertilisation between cinematic, musical and televisual texts on depictions of two emblematic Brazilian social space - the favela (shantytown) and the sertão (arid backlands) - in recently released independent and mainstream domestic productions. I argue that through processes of intertextuality recent Brazilian films have gradually transformed the favela into a widely exposed, lucrative but also productively challenging spectacle. Similarly, the iconicity of the sertão has been resignified allowing a new understanding of the region to emerge. My analysis of recent films set in either the favela or the sertão also proposes that different elements, such as traditional and modern, local and non-local cultural forms, are not simply blended into a single hybrid filmic text. As these elements coexist and traverse the cinematic landscape in the contemporary moment, I insist on the fact that the idea of national culture, in Brazil as well as elsewhere, must be considered in relation to ever-changing contexts rather than in relation to prescriptive ideologies. My research contributes to reassessing Brazilian cinema history by exploring key examples of the aesthetic, constitutional and cultural interaction between popular media in the country. The reassessment allows me to challenge established distinctions between art and popular cinema, to propose more productive ways of understanding how different media can support their mutual development, and to highlight the implications of intertextuality for new expressions of brazilidade (Brazilianness). The discussion is based on an intertextual analysis of four recent domestic films: Cidade de Deus (City of God, 2002), Lisbela e o prisioneiro (Lisbela and the Prisoner, 2003), O invasor (The Trespasser, 2001) and Baile perfumado (Perfumed Ball, 1997). I examine elements of the mise-en-scène (mainly set design and performance), editing and soundtrack to identify cross-media references.
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Smith, Benjamin. "Spandex cinema : three approaches to comic book film adaptation /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/SmithBP2009.pdf.
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McFadden, Emmie. "The in-between : film adaptation, Irish cinema and diaspora." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20040/.
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This thesis draws on Film Adaptation Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies, two interdisciplinary fields that are fundamentally concerned with the concept of 'origin'. It focuses specifically on the notion of the 'unacknowledged adaptation', namely films that do not declare formally their status as adaptations. In terms of Irish Diaspora Studies, my interest lies in the phenomenon of the 'hidden' Irish diaspora in England. This thesis will offer a new perspective on the significance of the 'unacknowledged adaptation' by creating a parallel between a film's ambiguous enunciation of its sources and the ambivalent national identity of its characters. Drawing on critical methodologies from film adaptation studies, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies, I seek to create a rigorous analytical framework for exploring the notion of the 'hidden' Irish diaspora in the 'unacknowledged adaptation'. This framework specifically combines the theories of postcolonial and diasporic theorist, Homi Bhabha (1994) and film adaptation theorist, Kamilla Elliott (2003), each of whom respectively undermines claims of pure cultural identities and aesthetic forms in order to foreground the notion of 'hybridity'. Combining the theories of Elliott and Bhabha not only enhances discussions on hybridity, but it also enables the recognition of a process of adaptation and of diasporic identities that would otherwise be left unacknowledged. Focusing on three case studies, Mary Reilly (dir. Stephen Frears, 1996), Liam (dir. Stephen Frears, 2001), and Breakfast on Pluto (dir. Neil Jordan, 2005), this thesis argues that the obscuring of origins in these films not only paradoxically draws attention to the act of adaptation, but it also serves to highlight themes of diaspora. I argue that the cultural hybridity evoked in the film adaptations is specifically signalled through word/image hybridity: the syntactical relationship between the word and the image enables the emergence of a liminal space 'in-between' the designations of identity, thus creating a hybrid dialectic that functions to draw attention to the act of concealing origins.
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Gray, Gordon T. "Malaysian cinema and negotiations with modernity : film and anthropology." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2002. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4485.
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This thesis examines Malaysian cinema in the context of the various processes and discourses of modernity. Analysing the processes of modernity which Malaysians are engaged with provides a crucial theme by which to demonstrate how various socio-political ideologies, institutions, and mechanisms may be promoted, rejected, or otherwise negotiated. This negotiation takes place in both Malaysian society and the cinematic representations of that society. Therefore, two discrete disciplines have been incorporated, those of anthropology and film studies. In the course of the thesis, discourses of modernity, encompassing processes and institutions, are addressed in terms of existing ethnographic literature, my own ethnographic research, and in the analyses of contemporary films. The introduction of an ethnographic background for the society in which the films are produced opens new vistas for film analysis. However, while the injection of anthropology into a film study has been a major concern, the importance of the reverse is also argued. Further, this thesis provides a multiple rendering of analyses, arguing that, as a symbolic media and/or art form, cinema is inherently open to alternative readings, 'mis'-readings, and rereadings. One of the goals of thesis is, through a different synergy between film and anthropology, to provide some alternative answers to the ever-present question haunting the Malaysian cinema industry, namely "Why aren't our films successful?"
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Pak, Nacim. "Shi'ism and film : religion and spirituality in Iranian cinema." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29542/.
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What constitutes a serious engagement of religion and spirituality in film remains a contentious topic in Western academia. The small body of literature dedicated to the study of religion and spirituality in Iranian cinema focuses largely on propaganda films exalting the Islamic Republic and its aspirations. My research examines ways in which other films participate and engage with Shi'i expressions of Islam. I have explored official and popular discourses within Shi'ism, and applied a philosophical framework to understand other engagements of film with religion. Moreover, I have situated the films I study within the larger socio-historical context of Iran and thereby located filmic discourses within a much longer-standing and continuing discourse on religion and spirituality in Iranian cinema. I study the various debates by Iranian academics, clerics and critics on film's compatibility or incongruity with religion and spirituality, and examine their relevance to the study of religion and spirituality in Iranian cinema. I examine films that debate contemporary official and formalistic religious discourses, drawing parallels between these films and the discourses of Iranian intellectuals, and thereby situating them within these wider debates. In order to demonstrate the more mystical approaches within Shi'a Islam, I explore how Majidi's films lend themselves to Sufi interpretations. I also analyse how Kiarostami's films are poetic philosophies that invite viewers to rethink their existing ideas, thoughts and beliefs, be they rooted in scientific or theological approaches to religion. Finally, I demonstrate how cinema acts as a reservoir for popular, yet threatened traditions such as ta 'ziyeh, which faces increased pressure from both intellectuals and clerics. As a medium that has received little serious attention in the analysis and understanding of Shi'i religious expressions and articulations, my study situates film as a valid and important tool in understanding many of the current debates within Iran.
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