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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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Anderson, Michelle E. "Televising truth commissions: the interaction between television, perpetrators, and political transition in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32442.
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This research explores the portrayals of perpetrators in television broadcast coverage of truth commissions within politically transitioning societies, particularly how these discourses may influence the perceptions and experience of transition out of conflict. It focuses on the narratives constructed around apartheid-era perpetrators who participated in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as shown by the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) weekly broadcast, Truth Commission Special Report. It also considers how this informs perpetrators in speaking about their own histories. The SABC broadcasts aired between the 21st of April 1996 and the 29th of March 1998. It acted as a key news source on the workings of the TRC for a large group of citizens. An average of 1.1 to 1.3 million people tuned in each week for the first year, and an average of 510,000 people tuning in during its second year on air.1 The TRC hearings were recorded and filmed, and parts of these recordings were included in the SABC programme, along with further research by Special Report journalists. This included stories from the apartheid era that were not told through the TRC, further interviews with perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and communities, as well as reference to news and legal documents. As SABC describes it, the Truth Commission Special Report series “contributed to the TRC's pursuit of revealing the truth about, and engendering a deeper engagement with, South Africa's past conflicts.”2 The series was hosted and produced by well-known anti-apartheid journalist and Afrikaner Max du Preez, whose own identity became central to the narrative put forth. His team of journalists and producers included other Afrikaners such as his long-time colleague Jacques Pauw, and the young Anneliese Burgess. Otherwise, “his team of journalists varied over the twenty-three months of the series, generally including five and seven people who were racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse.”3 As South Africa transitioned out of the apartheid state, transparency of the transitional mechanisms taking place was essential for the transformation of governance and the appearance of accountability.4 This demand acted as one of the driving forces for the intense media involvement in the country's chief transitional process, namely the TRC. This research hinges on the hypothesis that the media's involvement in the South African transitional process went beyond the provision of transparency and may have influenced people's perceptions and experience within the transition per assertions by scholars such as Parver and Wolf, Fischer, Kent, and Mihr, 5 among others. It uses this as a starting point to then investigate the series' narrative as a source of these perceptions and the subsequent experiences of the subjects. This points not only to outcomes, but also their influencing factors with the intent to suggest recommendations for more intentional media coverage of political transitions, with perpetrators being one facet of such.
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Frame, Gregory. "The American president in film and television." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57046/.
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This thesis examines the representation of the American president in fictional films and television programmes, as well as documentary film and photography. It engages broadly with the subject’s entire history, but focuses particularly on the past two decades (1992-2012). Its primary method is close textual analysis, departing from pre-existing studies that are largely preoccupied with questions of verisimilitude and historical accuracy. The construction of the cinematic and televisual presidencies requires a simultaneous negotiation of the ‘real’ political/historical record, and the desire to reproduce and reinforce the representational genealogies inherited from cinema and television’s own histories (not necessarily all explicitly ‘political’). My research has found the presidency to be overwhelmingly reliant upon mythological discourses about American national identity, and traditional conceptions of masculinity. How these constructions impact upon the representation of the president in relation to the contexts from which the films and programmes emerge is of crucial importance. The conception of the presidency has undergone enormous change since the early 1990s. The end of the Cold War, the increased scrutiny of the mass media, 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’, and the economic crisis, have either challenged or reinforced the notion that the president is an omnipotent force, able to bend the world to his will. The strategies cinema and television have employed to address these changes is of crucial significance to this thesis. This thesis will establish the manner in which techniques of mainstream film and television production – genre, visual style, iconography, and narrative – have impacted upon the reinforcement or critique of the presidential myth. As the presidency has suffered relative decline in a more diffuse geopolitical environment, this thesis demonstrates the extent to which the myth of the presidency has required the intervention of mainstream cinema and television to ensure its preservation.
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Tooke, Nichola Carole. "Tele-tourism : investigating the inter-connections between television and tourism." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/423caed8-6927-400b-b857-d0a2c45ec8b5.
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Johns, Jennifer L. "Tracing the connections : Manchester's film and television industry." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676506.
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Mullin, Romano Francis. "Reimagining the Renaissance : afterlives in literature, film and television." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.728197.
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Walsh, Angela. "Obscene intimacies : postmodern portraiture in documentary film and television." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54728.
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The past several decades have witnessed a steadily increasing output of documentaries which aim to explore the intimate lives of individual subjects. Although there has been no official scholarly study delineating these films as a documentary sub-genre, they have been variously termed portrait or biographical documentaries, and they are a persistent feature of both documentary film production and non-fiction television programming. This project aims to situate these films and television programs within broader cultural shifts that have occurred in the latter half of the twentieth century, including an upsurge in the ubiquity of images, distrust in the photographic medium’s ability to access the real, and dismantling of taste hierarchies. All of these changes fit under the broad paradigm of postmodern theory and culture, a societal condition that continues to evidence itself in the current age. Despite postmodernism’s proclamation that social relationships and individualism have collapsed, contemporary portraiture documentaries still aim to facilitate a sense of connection between viewer and subject. Postmodernism intersects here with what Richard Sennett has called the “intimate society,” which is characterized by a societal impetus toward personal revelation and emotional expression. I posit that portraiture documentaries represent the collision and working through of these two competing cultural features. Following an overview of the scholarship relevant to my research in Chapter One, Chapter Two will discuss two films by the documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995) and Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003). Often maligned in both critical and scholarly circles for failing to interrogate ideology in any meaningful way, I argue that his work operates on a reflexive level to suggest that images fail us when attempting to extract the intimate truth of the individual. In Chapter Three I discuss two examples of reality television series that focus on the lives of individuals, Errol Morris’s First Person (IFC, 2000-2001) and Intervention (A&E, 2005 - ), which demonstrate the persistent need to render the subject in visual terms and make the viewer witness to the most intimate and personal aspects of their lives.Arts, Faculty of
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Han, Heeju. "Galdosian novels adapted in film and television 1970-1998 /." [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:3264320.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 1958. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 12, 2008)."
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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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Buckle, Christopher. "The 'War on Terror' metaframe in film and television." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3014/.
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Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the government of the United States of America declared a ‘War on Terror’. This was targeted not only at the ostensible culprits – al-Qaeda - but at ‘terror’ itself. The ‘War on Terror’ acted as a rhetorical ‘metaframe’, which was sufficiently flexible to incorporate a broad array of nominally-related policies, events, phenomena and declarations, from the Iraq war to issues of immigration. The War on Terror is strategically limitless, and therefore incorporates not only actual wars, but potential wars. For example, the bellicose rhetoric towards those countries labelled the ‘Axis of Evil’ or ‘Outposts of Tyranny’ is as much a manifestation of the metaframe as the ‘Shock and Awe’ bombing of Baghdad. As a rhetorical frame, it is created through all of its utterances; its narrative may have been initially scripted by the Bush administration, but it is reified and naturalised by the news media and other commentators, who adopt the frame’s language even when critical of its content. Moreover, film and television texts participate in this process, with fiction-based War on Terror narratives sharing and supporting – co-constituting – the War on Terror discourse’s ‘reality’. This thesis argues that the War on Terror metaframe manifests itself in multiple interconnected narrative forms, and these forms both transcode and affect its politics. I propose a congruency between the frame’s expansiveness and its associational interconnections, and a corresponding cinematic plot-structure I term the Global Network Narrative. Elsewhere, an emphasis on the pressures of clock-time is evoked by the real-time sequential-series 24, while the authenticity and authority implied by the embedded ‘witness’ is shown to be codified and performed in multiple film and television fiction texts. Throughout, additional contextual influences – social, historical, and technological – are introduced where appropriate, so as not to adopt the metaframe’s claims of limitlessness and uniqueness, while efforts are made to address film and television not as mutually exclusive areas of study, but as suggestively responsive to one another.
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Keene, Rachael. "Channel 4 Television : film policy and programming, 1982-2011." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2014. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/channel-4-television(cfa1d56d-dcd1-427f-be25-d9babc817205).html.
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This thesis examines Channel 4’s relationship with British film culture between the years of 1982 and 2011. This is an institutional study, wherein policy is used as a means of interrogating Channel 4’s remit, staffing decisions and changing financial structures. It surveys the channel’s film coverage across a twenty-nine year period, taking a chronological approach. Following assessment of the policy landscape in the first chapter, a series of case studies are used to assess Channel 4’s commissioning and broadcasting practices relating to film and film-related programming throughout the period under examination. Although film has played a key role in Channel 4’s history, remaining at the forefront of shifts in programming policy, it has been underrepresented in academic writing about the channel. This thesis addresses these gaps in scholarship, arguing that it is impossible to offer a comprehensive account of British film culture since 1980 without assessing Channel 4’s contribution to it. This thesis raises key questions relating to definitions of creativity within the broadcasting sector, asserting that individuals working outside of production are capable of expressing creative agency within their areas of employment. The creative practices of television schedulers are evaluated throughout, using assorted programming samples as evidence. In treating the television schedule as a discrete text it has been possible to gain an overview of Channel 4’s strategies relating to particular categories of film and film-related programming throughout the last three decades. The thesis also includes interviews and archival data obtained from Channel 4 during the period under examination. These original primary sources have supplemented existing gaps in literature, contributing to the development of an interdisciplinary methodology, enabling a new approach to evaluating relations between the UK’s film and television sectors.
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Pape, Anthony P. "Overdose: Constructing Television from the Cracks in the Superhero Content Conglomerate." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors162025124846866.
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Fryers, Mark. "British national identity and maritime film and television, 1960-2012." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59453/.
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This thesis considers the mythology connected to the maritime sphere and notions of British national identity and collective unity through the projection of the maritime in British film and television. Specifically, it traces the evolution of this myth through the period 1960-2012, a post-Imperialist era characterised by broad social, economic and political changes and internal divisions within the historic Union of Great Britain, demonstrating how British culture continually uses the past to comment on the present. The thesis argues that the maritime remains a vibrant cultural site of British national self-examination and re-examination despite the precipitous decline of both Empire and Royal Navy within this time period. The specific audio-visual properties of the filmic and televisual forms and their position as the most successful cultural industries of the 20th Century suggest themselves as vital components for interrogating national myth and projections of collective unity and the attendant challenges to these. Aligned to this is the manner in which critical reception continues to operate as an indigent of collective memory, morality and communality aligning itself as provision not only of positive cultural taste but also of a wider debate on the merits or de-merits of the specific components of myth and identity. Each text is situated within its specific historical and industrial context and a combination of primary sources, textual analysis and reception studies are unified to argue that both the texts themselves and their reception within critical discourse collectively negotiate the role that media cultures play in constructing and challenging notions of collective identity and myth. Finally, this thesis argues constructively, that the seemingly banal cultural symbols of national identity and mythology, far from being an irrelevance in a globalised age, remain amongst the most vital cultural, social, political and economic discourses of the age.
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McLoone, Martin. "Representation and identity : film, television and the media in Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274096.
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Bignell, Jonathan. "The moving image : narrative construction in film and television fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303240.
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Smith, Iain Robert. "The Hollywood meme : transnational appropriation of U.S. film and television." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546464.
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Findlay, James Daniel. "Caught on Screen: The Convict Experience in Film and Television." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17582.
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Since the origins of Australian cinema, filmmakers have told stories about convicts: those men, women and children transported from their homelands whose role as founding settlers was often viewed as a stain on the country’s reputation. This thesis argues that with the rise of screen culture, convicts emerged as key historical figures who shaped and defined ideas and attitudes about Australia’s colonial past. It navigates a way through the popular representation of the convict experience in an unprecedented collection of convict-related film and television programs, from silent epics to musical melodramas and reality television. The thesis demonstrates the critical role their production and reception has played in ascribing meaning to convictism, and more broadly to the processes of colonisation that established white Australia. The research focuses on a range of important mythologies appearing on screen and examines their interaction with other cultural works such as literature, visual art and theatre, as well as intellectual thought. These include a focus on convict victimology, convicts as nation builders and convicts as agents of colonisation. As filmmakers negotiated, and audiences responded to, these often problematic histories, their visions of the past powerfully shaped a wide range of historical discourses relating to race, class and gender in Australia. Their mass appeal disrupts the historical orthodoxy that a desire to suppress the convict ‘birth stain’ was a dominant force shaping Australian history-making during the first half of the twentieth century. For many Australians, going to the movies or watching television defined the convict era and its legacies for modern nationhood.
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Harding, Alan James. "Evaluating the importance of the Crown Film Unit, 1940-1952." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2017. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/3806/.
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The Crown Film Unit (CFU) was the British Government’s principal in-house film production facility during the years 1940 to 1952. Over this period it produced around 225 films of different types and lengths ranging from short five minute Public Information Films to feature length cinema exhibited pictures. A very few of the latter, such as Target for Tonight (1941) or Fires Were Started (1943) have become iconic representations of both the bomber offensive and the Blitz during the Second World War. Although these films only represented a very small percentage of the CFU’s entire catalogue they have, in the main, dominated academic discourse about the Unit. This research has sought to explore the full production canon of the CFU and, in particular, to examine its importance and legacy. In doing so it has also engaged with the debates about the role of film propaganda especially as it impacted upon the self-image and morale of the British people during and after the War. It also examines the role and position of the Unit in the development and history of the Documentary Movement. To achieve these research aims the Crown Film Unit is first situated in its historical context and the influences of its predecessors over the previous forty or so years are examined. Subsequently a new classification paradigm is developed which allows the films themselves to be reviewed according to theme. Locating each of the films in a particular dynamic framework enables them to be evaluated from the appropriate social, economic, political or military perspectives. The films are also considered in the context of their reception which, in the case of the CFU was not just cinematic exhibition but also a substantial non-theatrical audience watching, not only in the UK, but across the world. The penultimate chapter examines the legacy of the CFU demonstrating that it had an important impact upon British and overseas feature film making in the 1950s, but it also made a currently undervalued contribution to the subsequent development of both Public Information, training, advertising and instructional films. The research concludes that although perhaps still best described as a Documentary Film Unit the role of the CFU was far more nuanced.
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Jones, Joshua B. "TransTV: Transgender Visibility and Representation in Serialized Television." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469625819.
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Taylor, J. "From sound to print in pre-war Britain : the cultural and commercial interdependence between broadcasters and broadcasting magazines in the 1930s." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2013. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21079/.
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This thesis is a study of key broadcasting magazines published in the United Kingdom prior to the Second World War. At its centre is the premise that the relationship between broadcasting and the magazine industry evolving around it was symbiotic in nature. The relationship was complex because the broadcasters provided much of the material for the magazines to publish and therefore could potentially use this as a tool for influence and publicity, as they sought to stimulate the demand for their output in the British public. However, the magazines were the mediators of the flow of communication. Their editorial content not only provided a critical commentary on material broadcast but also represented a direct conduit between the readers/audience and the broadcasters by providing a forum for the readers/audience to publish their views. Exploring the history of early broadcasting from the perspective of this material reveals the interdependency between the radio stations/broadcasters, the magazines and ultimately, how they connected to the readers/audience. While there have been other partial studies of broadcasting magazines, particularly the Radio Times, these have not assessed the magazine against other contemporary magazines, nor have they placed the magazine within a broadcasting history context. This study not only considers the magazines against the background of the growing broadcasting industry, it also explores what wireless meant to its first audience. This was a crucial element for understanding how the public responded to the developments which were taking place in the 1930s, when commercial enterprises encroached on the BBC’s monopoly and attempted to poach its listeners.
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Ward, Karla. "A depiction of the ghetto in feature film : a cinematic platform for confronting contemporary representations of ghetto occupancy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8130.
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The thesis film project, Mile in My Shoes, is a narrative depiction of a particular South African experience that consists of broader implications. It utilizes the ghetto/township setting to illustrate diverse, counter hegemonic depictions of black and especially black African characters, lifestyles, images, love, gender, and their position/focus in film.
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Geanotes, Alyxia. ""Don't look at the camera!" : an investigation into directorial methodologies and practise used when working with child actors in film." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10545.
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Title of CD-ROM is "Unwritten Letters", written and directed by Alyxia Geanotes.Includes bibliographical references.
This dissertation sets out to explore the complexities inherent in working with children in a filmic context. The focus is on creating a set of guidelines for other emergent filmmakers to use when and if they choose to work with children in film. It will analyse how the complex dynamics of children and film together create both the obstacles and inspirations in filmmaking. The film Unwritten letters forms the platform for the analysis and discussion around the nature of children and the filmic environment with specific attention to Directorial techniques and Professional practice. It forms the basis for posing a number of theoretical questions about Realism and the intricate dynamics at work when dealing with children in film.
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Eberts, Jane F. "Adaptation: Is the Book Really Better Than the...Television Series?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/105.
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When the topic of ‘adaptation’ is brought up, more often than not the coupling of a novel and its most recent Hollywood hit come to mind. Although it may not be at the forefront of the general population’s mind, adaptation is something that we encounter often, and consciously or not, we all have our own theory on the subject. While it may seem that the evolution of book series, to film adaptation, to booming franchise may be recently trending with the acceleration of blockbusters such as Harry Potter, adaptation has been a fundamental part of the advancement of media. This paper looks at film and television adaptations founded outside of the literary canon, exploring the discourse of what constitutes high or mass culture and how the medium of the adaptation fits or breaks the conventions that “classic” film adaptation has established. In addition, the medium-specific differences between film and television will be examined for how they limit or enhance a literary adaptation, whether it is a single novel or a series. What happens to the critique of an adaptation when it extends past the narrative created in the source text, opposed to the adaptation that begins and ends with the source narrative? In addition, adaptations will be looked at through a contextual and historical lens, rather than a moralistic or hierarchical lens, producing a criticism that incorporates the differences among the media involved in adaptations.
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Norris, Van. "'Drawing comic traditions' : British television animation from 1997 to 2010." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2012. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/drawing-comic-traditions(f3e59083-7442-4c7a-8ae6-f323fcc08fb1).html.
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This thesis examines the shifts within mainstream British television animation between 1997 and 2010 and it discusses how British animation’s close relationship with live-action television comedy reveals a map of contemporary attitudes and tastes. The British animated texts in this period reacted to their shifting industrial and broadcasting landscape. The historical moment of the late 1990s was determined by the successes of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, which profoundly affected the way British practitioners conceived of the medium’s capabilities within a mainstream television environment.
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Stewart, Ian. "Presenting arms : representations of the British Army on film and television." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270306.
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Razman, Diana Cristina. "Black Sails, Rainbow Flag: Examining Queer Representations in Film and Television." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22626.
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This thesis aims to present, discuss, and analyze issues relating to queer representations in film and television. The thesis focuses on existing tropes, such as queer coding, queerbaiting, and the “Bury Your Gays” trope that are prevalent in contemporary media, and applies the analysis of these tropes to a case study based on the television series Black Sails (2014-2017). The analysis explores the main research question: in what way does Black Sails subvert or reproduce existing queer tropes in film and television? This then leads to the discussion of three aspects: the way queer sexual identities are represented overall, what representational strategies are employed by the series in a number of episodes, and whether or not these representations reproduce or subvert media tropes.
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Khazaal, Natalie Michaylova. "Sectarianism, language, and language education in Lebanese theater, television, and film." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467886891&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Coon, David Roger. "Re-writing the American dream suburbia in contemporary film and television /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. 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:3332468.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2008.Title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3363. Adviser: Christopher Anderson.
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Sobhani, Mehrnoosh. "Avant-garde film or television series : on Edgar Reitz's cinema utopia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23198.
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This thesis examines Edgar Reitz’s internationally acclaimed films Heimat and Die Zweite Heimat in the context of the early avant-garde theories and films, which Reitz developed during his years at the Ulm Film Institute. The two films have been widely analysed in articles, essays, books and PhD theses within the context of the Heimat film genre of the 1950s and the anti-Heimat and critical Heimat film genres of the 1960s and 1970s. They have also been extensively debated for their controversial portrayal of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Astonishingly, in all the studies on the films, critics have assumed that, apart from an autobiographical relationship, there is no link between Reitz’s Heimat-films and his early avant-garde theories and films. Interpretations, therefore, largely overlook the cinematographic issues brought up by the films. This dissertation attempts to close this gap in the discussion of Reitz’s Heimat-films. Starting with a detailed study of Reitz’s early avant-garde theories and films, it investigates Reitz’s contributions of the New German Cinema, shedding light on his novel approach in exploring a new film language, as well as a new film venue. Critics have debated the question of the venue of Reitz’s Heimat-films, which were made for the cinema but gained success in television. Few, however, have related this debate to Reitz’s earlier attempts to challenge the conventional venue of film. The fact that critics have predominantly focused on the question of history and the meaning of Heimat in the two films has had the unfortunate consequence that references to Reitz’s earlier films have been restricted to those which likewise deal with the topic of National Socialism, namely Die Reise nach Wien and Stunde Null.
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Davies, Elizabeth Anne. "Film, Television and the Urban Experience: A Case Study of Brisbane." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366301.
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This investigation of Brisbane in film and television is a multidisciplinary research study that links anthropological and film/TV studies to the social consequences of imaging city life. It focuses particularly on how Brisbane is portrayed in post 1950s film and television programs. To date, much of the research into city growth and development has relied on the written sources and those of the built and natural environment. Similarly, research into film and television tends to focus on the narrative or auteur form, overlooking the significance of space and place and the contribution of the built environment. This study, however, demonstrates that a significant link exists between the city on one hand and film and television on the other. Therefore, excluding television and film in the history of the city ignores an integral part of Australian, and especially Brisbane, culture during the latter part of the twentieth century. Thinking about the city in terms of film and television, therefore, increases our understanding of the city, and conversely, thinking about film and television in terms of the city increases our understanding of screen culture and processes.
There are two parts to this study. Part I is a review of literature dealing with the development of the moving image and the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contextual chapters on cultural aspects of the city and the development of the moving image in the urban frame form the theoretical foundation of this study. In Part II, a series of case studies present, critically, aspects of film and television as they relate to Brisbane. First, use of film to promote Brisbane’s urban experience to prospective migrants by the Queensland Government in the 1960s and 1970s reveals the extent to which the moving image can manipulate the perceived urban experience of a place. Next, is an analysis of the early years of Brisbane’s television history: undertaken for its contribution to a ‘sense of place’ and which gave rise to a new industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Contrasting that, however, is the sense of placelessness apparent in films set in Brisbane since the 1970s. In the final case study, however, television drama series from the 1990s once again highlight the ‘sense of place’ in this media as opposed to film. Films and television programs, conventional historical sources, such as newspaper reports, industry publications, are examined as well as interviews taken of key players during that period. Thus, the research surveyed confirms that there exists a nexus of film and television on the one hand and the city on the other. Just as film and television informed and influenced the urban experience and the city, so too the city has positioned itself as the site of film and television industries and culture. Therefore, the general framework presented in Part I of this thesis informs and delineates each of the case studies in Part II.
How moving images impact on the developmental trends of the city is a problem that is particularly relevant to the industry partner, the Brisbane City Council. Council decision makers will be in a better position, because of this study, to understand how the city can benefit from television and film exposure and their concomitant industries. Council will be able to include this research in planning its promotional and cultural activities. To that end, the central theme in this study answers the question to what extent Brisbane has featured in moving images and whether this has, and will in the future, influence the type of development that has taken place in the city, and the degree to which this is still occurring.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Gaal-Holmes, Patricia. "Decade of diversity : a history of 1970s British experimental film." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2011. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/decade-of-diversity(5130421f-c0de-4588-9aa1-d8232a9113a8).html.
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This thesis sets out to demonstrate the diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, and acts as a form of historical reclamation. The intention is to integrate films that have not received adequate recognition into the field alongside those that stand as accepted texts. In accounts of the decade structural and material film experimentation, taking place predominantly at the London Filmmakers’ Co-operative (LFMC), has tended to dominate the histories, at the expense of overshadowing more personal, expressive and representational forms of filmmaking. This thesis therefore seeks to redress the balance by demonstrating that 1970s filmmaking was far more complex and diverse than has previously been acknowledged. It importantly also challenges the belief that more expressive, personal forms of filmmaking returned at the end of the decade, to argue that these were in existence throughout the decade. Evidence of diversity is provided through the range of approaches to filmmaking and individual films discussed. Written evidence of the ‘return to image’ thesis is also provided, demonstrating how this has problematically perpetuated a flawed account of the decade. Relationships to the visual arts are closely considered as experimental filmmaking essentially emerged from this field, as opposed to the dominant, commercial cinema. Filmmaking is, however, also considered within the wider contexts of independent film production, particularly where intersections occurred with institutional or organisational frameworks. Theoretical, socio-political and cultural influences informing filmmaking have also been deliberated, as these significantly informed filmmaking. The framing of 1970s experimental (and independent) filmmaking within Marxist discourses has also been recognised as potentially supporting the problematic ‘return to image’ thesis, particularly as collectivist Marxist ideologies potentially militated against more personal, individual and expressive forms of filmmaking. The first half of the thesis (Chapters One to Three) considers the institutional frameworks and organisational strategies informing and shaping filmmaking. This includes a focus on education, funding and film exhibition; as well as the efforts made by individuals and groups to ensure that experimental filmmaking received the recognition it required to develop and flourish. In the second half of the thesis (Chapters Four to Seven) more detailed studies of the films are made in relation to relevant theoretical or socio-political discourses contextualising filmmaking. These include discourses in the visual arts; countercultural influences and more personal expressive approaches to filmmaking; theoretical discourses related to experimentation with structure and material and feminist discourses related to women’s filmmaking. A range of methodological approaches has been used to uncover the diversity in filmmaking. The film texts themselves have provided the most singular evidence for proof of diversity. Both primary and secondary written texts have been consulted in order to facilitate an understanding of the films and recognise the theoretical and socio-political contexts informing filmmaking and to comprehend the complex nature of the field. The intention throughout has been to provide an understanding of this diverse, vibrant and rich history.
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Fain, Rob Jason. "Uncovering local history : 16 mm TV news film remaining in U.S. television stations /." Online version of thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/5957.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2007.Typescript. Accompanying CD-ROM contains versions of the thesis in Word document and PDF forms. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-42).
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Singh, Sukhpreet. "The protection of television formats : intellectual property and market based strategies." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2010. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/15935/.
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Television formats have become a major export product, with Britain alone accounting for nearly half of all format hours broadcast annually worldwide. Yet, there is no such thing as a television format right under copyright law. Any producer is free to develop game, reality and talent shows that are based on similar ideas. This research analyses the paradox of growth in the international trade of formats in the absence of any legal solutions which provide precise and enforceable governance. The research first assesses the limits of copyright law as a means of protecting formats, by creating a bespoke database of 59 format disputes reported in the trade press and in online services. Disputes are categorised by jurisdiction, ground of dispute and decision or settlement. Secondly, theoretical propositions of format protection are developed, based on theories from the diverse fields of cultural theory (production of culture perspective), marketing (brand identity, innovation and extensions) and media economics (distribution dynamics and scale of production). These propositions then are exposed to semi-structured interviews with format sellers at international television trade fairs, as well as senior managers at Fremantlemedia (a leading format originator and distributor). The qualitative data is synthesized into a theory of format trade using IP and market based means of protection. Format developers appear to use three groups of strategies to exploit TV formats internationally. These are (1) Formalization and transaction of know-how (format bibles, flying producers, confidentiality agreements and access control); (2) Managing the brand (brand identity, localisations, brand extensions, innovation, trademarks); (3) Distribution dynamics and industry conventions (scale of production, social networks, retaliation, trade fairs). This research contributes to original knowledge in media and cultural industries management by first empirically illustrating a recurrent, under-researched problem and then advancing a theory to understand industry behaviour to overcome the same.
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Collyer, Paddie. "An examination of the development of the British Board of Film Censors seen through the archives of three local authorities from 1912 until 1982 and of the British Board of Film Classification : with a particular focus on 'The Last Temptation of Christ' (1988), 'Natural Born Killers' (1994), and 'Crash' (1996)." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2003. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/605/.
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Spicer, Paul. "The films of Kenji Mizoguchi : authorship and vernacular style." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2011. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-films-of-kenji-mizoguchi(8f7ad266-b2bd-4199-acbd-cba4263b6c89).html.
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This thesis explores the work of Japanese film-maker Mizoguchi Kenji (1898-1956) through an analysis of key film texts in their social, cultural and industrial contexts. Since coming to international prominence in the 1950s, Mizoguchi has been placed in western accounts of Japanese cinema, alongside Kurosawa and Ozu, as one of that country’s most celebrated auteurs. As we shall see, this positioning has tended to cast Mizoguchi in a certain critical light which has subsequently been challenged from different perspectives. Mizoguchi’s film career, which began in 1923, spanned the silent era and sound films, continued under Imperialist rule (1930-1945) and the American occupation (1945-1952), but gained world attention only in the last four years of his life. His life and films have since been the subject of academic studies, festival retrospectives and television documentaries, both in Japan and in the west (notably the United States). He is acclaimed, like Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray and Ingmar Bergman, as one of the handful of film-makers who have had a profound influence upon world cinema, although in the west his reputation has remained under the shadow of his better-known countrymen Kurosawa and Ozu. This study will seek to critique rather than celebrate that legacy. But Mizoguchi’s career as a whole also has much to tell us about the history of Japanese cinema and its relationship to culture and society. And in re-focussing critical attention upon the context which informed his work, this thesis will offer a re-appraisal of his auteurist status, and suggest new ways of considering the issue of authorship.
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Mayne, Laura Margaret Jayne. "Channel 4 and British film : an assessment of industrial and cultural impact, 1982-1998." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2014. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/channel-4-and-british-film(9d2b0c2b-18f6-4fe4-a360-d0a948d77f76).html.
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This thesis is an historical investigation of Channel 4’s influence on the British film industry and on British film culture between 1982 and 1998. Combining archival research with interview testimony and secondary literature, this thesis presents the history of a broadcaster’s involvement in British film production, while also examining the cultural and industrial impact of this involvement over time. This study of the interdependence of film and television will aim to bring together aspects of what have hitherto been separate disciplinary fields, and as such will make an important contribution to film and television studies. In order to better understand this interdependence, this thesis will offer some original ideas about the relationship between film and television, examining the ways in which Channel 4’s funding methods led to new production practices. Aside from the important part the Channel played in funding (predominantly low-budget) films during periods when the industry was in decline and film finance was scarce, this partnership had profound effects on British cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. In exploring these effects, this thesis will look at the ways in which the film funding practices of the Channel changed the landscape of the film industry, offered opportunities to emerging new talent, altered perceptions of British film culture at home and abroad, fostered innovative aesthetic practices and brought new images of Britain to cinema and television screens.
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Schutte, Barend-Christiaan. "Images of a new German identity : the portrayal of the unification process in documentary and feature films since 1990." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2005. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/593/.
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German unification is frequently seen as an event and a date October 3, 1990 - on which a divided people could finally live as one, restored to a natural state of togetherness. Within Germany, however, the experience since 1990 has been one of realisation of deep inner division, and recognition that unification is in fact a long term process, and perhaps even an uncertain goal in Europe, where, everywhere else, new regional consciousnesses are questioning old national identities. Since the future role of Germany in Europe is a major and controversial issue in economic, political and cultural circles, the critical construction of realistic and authentic portrayals of post-unification Germany is of considerable importance. The concept, size and location of a 'German nation' have been contested and fought over from outside and within since its 19th century forging under the leadership of Bismarck, but if one proceeds on today's dominant assumption that between 1949 and 1989 the German people existed as one nation, though they were separated by one of the most tightly guarded borders in world history - a border that separated more than just two countries, but rather served as the confrontational line between two superpowers with opposing ideological, economic and political systems - one can come to the logical conclusion that German unification in 1990 was merely an event which enabled 'the German Nation' to live in the same, unified country once again. However, if one recognizes the fact that 40 years of separation superimposed on more complex historical and contemporary mappings inevitably led to the development of two distinct collective identities, it becomes clear that German unification was - and still is - in fact an on going process of attempting to merge the peoples of two states into one, or one into the other. This is a process that will reach deep into the 21st century, involving the development of a new German national identy within the European Union in a rapidly changing world. This thesis does not try to speculate on or define a 'general' or 'essentialist' sense of what the new German national identity might be. It rather analyses texts of a selection of Germany's image makers since 1990, and examines critically a range of constructions of the new identity from documentaries and docudramas to feature films. The project does not ask to be judged as a contribution to film studies in the narrow sense of that term, seeing itself instead as an interdisciplinary undertaking which derives its insights from a fruitful mix of approaches used in Critical Discourse, Analysis, History, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. Just as it may be said that the German Democratic Republic to some extent talked itself out of existence through its people's acceptance of Western discourse, and images of a Western consumer paradise, so it is now worth analysing how the new Germany is, in complex and sometimes contradictory and sceptical ways, attempting to talk itself into existence through discourse and imagery. The thesis examines whether and how, through the medium of film, opinion formers and creative minds, with their various agendas are seeking to influence public perceptions of the post-1990 confrontation between idealised projections of German identity and recalcitrant reality.
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Hair, Carolyn Houston. "The conversationalization of television talk in the mediated public sphere : an analysis of the British audience participation talk show and the docu-soap." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2003. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/611/.
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This thesis investigates the daytime audience participation talk show and the docu-soap, in terms of public participation in a televisual public sphere. It is argued that these genres show the conversationalization of television talk where the dichotomies of public/private, citizen/consumer and information/entertainment are played out. On the talk show and the docu-soap laypersons make private revelations in public and in the increasingly commercialised boradcasting environment the citizen-viewer of public service television is addressed as a consumer resulting in the infotainment genre. It is argued that these genres exemplify cultural and social shifts in language usage, commodification and public sphere (Dahlgren, 1995, Scannell, 1989) and this thesis examines 'reality' TV to assess television's potential to improve a democratic televised show as there has been little critical entertainment with non-American shows: Esther, Kilroy and Vanessa. The docu-soap is used as a comparison as it illustrates the conversationalization of the documentary form. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has been employed as a critical tool in order to analyse the discursive practice of these texts and to ascertain if there is evidence of negotiations in terms of power relations in these forms of 'trash' television. The results indicate that the structures of the genres confine the participants and that the confessional and therapeutic discourses forestall public participation on television. Within hegemonic televisual structures it is posited that, in terms of micro-power relations, there are some forms of negotiation in the talk show site. The genres are compared in terms of performance and the results forma a synthesis of these television texts and theories of the public sphere, drawing on Hanermas and critical revisions of his work. These programmes reveal the problematic nature of public participation through television in the climate of increasing commercialisation. The points when the lay participants resist control are drawn upon in order to illustrate the ways in which television could ameliorate public participation.
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Turnock, Robert Francis. "The expansion of television in the 1950's and 1960's : institutions, society and culture." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2007. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/10508/.
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This thesis explores the expansion of British television in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship to social and cultural change. During this period, television developed into an industry and mass medium and this coincided with a cultural shift from a seemingly consensual society of post-war austerity to a society characterised by fragmentation, individualism and consumerism. By combining a re-examination of existing histories of British television with a discussion of television programmes and sociological theory, this thesis explores the complex relationship between the expansion of television and that social and cultural change. The thesis shows how television represented these changes, and how it presented competing discourses about consumer culture in a range of programmes including action adventure series, pop music and women's programmes. It also demonstrates how television promoted class and cultural conflict in its individual programmes such as situation comedies and dramas, and through juxtaposition of high and low cultural vales, themes and forms in its mixed programme schedule. By looking at issues such as intimacy, performance, authenticity and sociability, the thesis argues that television promoted its own status as an increasingly centralised cultural form. It proposes that television established social categories which became embedded and naturalised over time, and this created the potential to define social experience. The thesis therefore concludes that the examination of the expansion of television in the 1950s and 1960s is of importance for understanding the operation of media power today.
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Franklin, Ieuan. "Folkways and airwaves : oral history, community and vernacular radio." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2009. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/15995/.
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This thesis investigates a variety of uses of actuality (recorded speech), oral history and folklore (vernacular culture) in radio broadcasting in Britain and Newfoundland (Canada). The broadcasting of vernacular culture will be shown to foster intimate and interactive relationships between broadcasters and audiences. Using a theoretical framework that draws upon the work of communications theorists Harold Innis and Walter Ong, the thesis will explore the (secondary) orality of radio broadcasting, and will consider instances in which the normative unidirectional structure and 'passive' orality of radio has been (and can be) made reciprocal and active through the participation of listeners. The inclusion of 'lay voices' and 'vernacular input' in radio broadcasting will be charted as a measure of the democratization of radio, and in order to demonstrate radio's role in disseminating oral history, promoting dialogue, and building and binding communities. The thesis will predominantly focus on local and regional forms of radio: the BBC Regions in the post-war era; regional radio programming serving the Canadianprovince ofNewfoundland both pre- and post-Confederation (which took place in 1949); and the community radio sector in the UK during the last five years. A common theme of many of the case studies within the thesis will be the role of citizen participation in challenging, transgressing or eroding editorial control, institutional protocols and the linguistic hegemony of radio production. Conversely, close attention will be given to the ways in which editorial control in radio production has circumscribed the self-definition of participants and communities. These case studies will provide evidence with which to investigate the following research question - is the democratization of radio possible through the incorporation of citizen voices or messages within radio production or programming, or is it only possible through changing the medium itself through citizen participation in democratic structures of production, management and ownership?
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Sreedharan, C. "Reporting Kashmir : an analysis of the conflict coverage in Indian and Pakistani newspapers." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2009. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/17116/.
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The news media are considered a significant force in conflict situations, capable of influencing antagonists and their actions. Whether this influence is constructive or destructive is determined by the nature of journalism presented to the warring sides. News content that holds the other side responsible for the strife and focuses on violence is likely to exacerbate the situation. Sustained reportage on the possibilities and need for peace, on the other hand, could contribute to a political climate suited for peace negotiations. This India-centric study examines the Kashmir conflict in this context. While the coverage of more recent conflicts such as the Gulf Wars and the 'War on Terror' in Afghanistan has evoked sustained scrutiny from media scholars, there is little empirical work on the news on Kashmir. The objective here is to profile the nature of coverage the Indian and Pakistani press accorded the conflict, which could provide an empirical foundation for future discussions and research on Kashmir. Selected news reportage of 10 major events that appeared in two national Indian newspapers and one Pakistani daily is examined for this purpose. By utilising an original coding scheme that draws on conflict journalism, media effects and agenda-setting theories, this study arrives at an indicative overview of the journalism on Kashmir presented to the two publics over the years. The analysis is more reliant on what appeared in the Indian press, and has been contextualised by data drawn from personal interviews with Indian policymakers. Hence it is largely from an Indian perspective. However, the inquiry provides insights into the Pakistani coverage as well. The conclusion, based on patterns that emerged from the news presented to the two warring societies, is that the coverage was vigorously government-led and intensely 'negative'.
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Ireland, Andrew. "'Conditions of time and space' : a re-enactment experiment with the British TV series Doctor Who." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2012. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/20444/.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide a contribution to knowledge in two areas. Firstly, it seeks to further our understanding of the historical conditions of British television drama production; in particular the constraining and liberating influences of production space on the role of the director, and their decision-making process to bring script to screen. Secondly, the work develops the concept of re-enactment as a practice-based augmentation for archive-based textual reconstruction. As such, the thesis offers deeper discussions on the human context missing from current historiographic approaches to broadcast research. The thesis develops a re-enactment methodology that, via practical realisation, allows researchers to gain insight into the production dynamics of a particular era in history to learn about ‘in the moment’ directing decision-making. This is applied to a practice based experiment that includes creating a simulation of 1960s production conditions in order to explore the following research question: how would the decision-making process of producing contemporary television drama be affected by the conditions of 1960s production space? I argue that contemporary location-based production is as constraining as the studio it purports to rise above, yet without the same possibilities for creative reaction to counteract the limitations that historical conditions allowed. As a flagship BBC series reflecting contemporary industry practice, Doctor Who is used as the vehicle for analysis. The experiment focuses on a historical re-enactment of a 2006 episode of Doctor Who, “Tooth and Claw”, written by series executive producer Russell T Davies. The re-enacted audio-visual text is provided on DVD along with artefacts that encapsulate the process of production, informing analysis and reflection.
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Atakav, Atil. "The representation of women in Turkish cinema in the 1980s." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2009. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/774/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between feminism and cinema in the context of the women's movement and women's films of the 1980s. In focusing on the nature and implications of the representation of women constructed in Turkish cinema and the issues addressed by the women's movement, it argues that there are connections to be made on an analytical and theoretical level between the two sets of practices. The thesis argues that the enforced depoliticisation introduced after the coup (on 12th September 1980) by the incoming military government is responsible for uniting feminism and film. First, the feminist movement was able to flourish precisely because it was not perceived as political or politically significant. In a parallel move in the films of the 1980s there was an increased tendency to focus on women's issues and lives in order to avoid the overtly political. Secondly, women's films of the 1980s do not merely reflect a unitary patriarchal logic but are also sites of power relations and political processes through which gender hierarchies are both created and contested. The films of the 1980s empower women by dealing with women's issues and representing them as strong characters; however, at the same time they marginalise and objectify women with their cinematic style. turkish cinema reveals powerful cross-currents producing complex and often contradictory effects, acting both to reinforce and to mitigate against the manifestations of male dominance in different narratives and contexts. However despite these complexities, gender asymmetry in Turkish society is produced, represented and reproduced through filmic texts. There has been very little scholarly work done on the representation of women in Turkish cinema in the 1980s. The existing resources not onlylack focus on the shifts in the representation of women within socio-political context, but also fail to make a strong link between feminism and cinema. Moreover, in resources under scrutiny there is no sustained focus on mise-en-scene. The aim of this thesis is to fill this gap and explain the changes in the cultural, the social and the political, while linking feminism and cinema by examining films using close textual analysis.
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Domaratskaya, Elena. "Moving image 'before' and 'after' cinema : 1920s Parisian experimental films and video installations." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2006. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/580/.
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This thesis focuses on the 1920s Parisian avant-garde films and their artistic potential as revealed in the contemporary art of video installations. Starting with an overview of the moving image arts in the early 20th century Paris,the project deals with both the theoretical and the practical aspects of the artistic experiment. Tracing the formation of the cinematic language from contemporary static visual arts, on the one hand, and the verbal art of literature on the other, the first chapter reviews the aesthetical content of the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde (cubism, Dada and surrealism) in general and as applied to 'moving image' in particular. In addition, the artistic and critical context of 'mechanical arts', i.e. photography and cinema is analyzed, involving such issues as the categories of time and space, the visual nature of film and photography and the use of movement and the machine. The nature of video is reflected upon in close parallel with the above argument, being compared with and contrasted to that of film and photography. The second and largest chapter of the thesis is devoted to a detailed textual analysis of the 1920s Parisian experimental films. Within it, parallels are drawn between the films and a number of contemporary video installations to show the early cinematic era heritage in the 'post-cinematic' visual culture. In the last chapter the emergence and nature of new media and video installation art are considered. Multimedia installations are seen as an interactive montage in three dimensions: their 'textuality' is analyzed via the concepts of narrativity versus database, while the screen is treated as a border between the artistic space of the work and the immediate space of the viewer. furthermore, the complex nature of image in multimedia installations, including its materiality and plasticity, is considered. Such issues as the role of medium in experimental art and the importance of self-filming/documentary are reflected upon. A textual analysis of some video installations with references to the 1920s Parisian experimental films analyzed above concludes the study. An attempt to classify the installations is mader, as well as to reveal some of their typical patterns and structures. Some terminology is suggested, along with a wider perspective for future research in the field of video installation art.
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Petrikis, Titus. "Creating a sound world for Dracula (Browning, 1931)." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2014. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21390/.
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The first use of recorded sound in a feature film was in Don Juan (Crosland 1926). From 1933 onwards, rich film scoring and Foley effects were common in many films. In this context, Dracula (Browning 1931)1 belongs to the transitional period between silent and sound films. Dracula’s original soundtrack consists of only a few sonic elements: dialogue and incidental sound effects. Music is used only at the beginning and in the middle (one diegetic scene) of the film; there is no underscoring. The reasons for the ‘emptiness’ of the soundtrack are partly technological, partly cultural. Browning’s film remains a significant filmic event, despite its noisy original soundtrack and the absence of music. In this study Dracula’s original dialogue has been revoiced, and the film has been scored with new sound design and music, becoming part of a larger, contextual composition. This creative practice-based research explores the potential convergence of film sound and music, and the potential for additional meaning to be created by a multi-channel composition outside the dramatic trajectory of Dracula. This research also offers an analysis of how a multi-channel composition may enhance or change the way an audience reads the film. The audiovisual composition is original, but it uses an existing feature film as an element of the new art piece. Browning’s Dracula gains a new interpretation due to the semantic meaning provided by associations with major cataclysmic events of the 20th century, namely the rise of two totalitarian powers in Europe. The new soundtrack includes samples from the original that are modified, synthesised and re-worked: elements of historical speeches; quotes from Stoker’s Dracula; references to the sounds of the time period (Nazi rallies, warfare, Soviet prosecution), and the original recordings of Transylvania (similar to the geographical location and season Stoker describes in Dracula). 1 Dracula (in italics) will refer to Browning’s film (1931) throughout this paper. The soundtrack composition also includes elements of a new, specially composed Requiem, which share the same sonic and musical expression tools: music language, varying sound pitch, time stretch, granular synthesising, and vocal techniques such as singing, speech, whispering, etc.).
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De, Beer Adam. "We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13164.
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Includes bibliographical references.This thesis develops an understanding of animation as transgression based on the work of Christopher Jenks. The research focuses on adult animation, specifically North American primetime television series, as manifestations of a social need to violate and thereby interrogate aspects of contemporary hetero-normative conformity in terms of identity and representation. A thematic analysis of four animated television series, namely Family Guy, Queer Duck, Drawn Together, and Rick & Steve, focuses on the texts themselves and various metatexts that surround these series. The analysis focuses specifically on expressions and manifestations of gay sexuality and sexual taboos and how these are articulated within the animated diegesis. The findings reveal the mutuality between the plasticity of animation, which lends itself to shaping physical representations of reality, and the complex social processes of non-violent cathartic ideological expressions that redefine sociopolitical boundaries. The argument contextualizes the changing face of sexuality and the limits of sexual taboo in terms of current contestations and acceptability and the relationship to animation. Contemporary animation both represents this social performance of transgression and is itself a transgressive product disrupting accepted conventions.
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Hibbeler, Christian. "Mercy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12518.
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Includes bibliographical references.The way in which indigenous people are represented in documentaries has radically changed within the last century. But "If there (still) is one overriding ethical/political / ideological! question to documentary filmmaking it may be, What to do with the people" (Nichols qtd. in Barbash and Taylor, 1997: p. 12). How can people and issues be represented appropriately? How can one make a documentary about somebody or something with a totally different cultural background to one's own without being unethical? The so-called expository documentary was the first prevailing documentary mode and tries to answer these questions with an authoritative voice-over commentary combined with a series of images that aim to be descriptive and informative. The voice-over approaches the spectator directly and offers facts or arguments that are illustrated by the images. It provides abstract information that the image cannot carry or comments on those actions and events that are unfamiliar to the target audience. This is exactly what some filmmakers reacted against - "to explain what the images mean, as if they don't explain themselves, or as if viewers can't be trusted to work the meaning out on their own. Indeed, the voice-over often seems to attribute a reduced meaning to the visuals; that is it denies them a density they might have by themselves" (Barbash and Taylor, 1997: p. 19). It is typical for the expository documentary style that the narrator speaks about or for other people. Some filmmakers see these voice-overs as "colonial, an enemy of the film, the voice of God" or even as "the (non-existent) view from somewhere" (Barbash and Taylor, 1997: p. 47).
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Kokot, Kerrin. "Tiny." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8027.
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Tiny is a film about a young woman who loses her imagination. Her creative energy is doused. She becomes what most artists are terrified of: uninspired. She is depressed, apathetic and stagnant. She does not move from her bed. Her toes sprout weeds. In order to regain control of herself and reignite her creativity she needs to plunge deeply into her multilayered psyche - an adventure that not only provides material for new creative insights but also guides Tiny to understanding herself better. She accepts the gods and demons that dwell within, recognising these complexes as the spirits of her bloodline.
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Schafer, Nicole. "Memory, time and place in The Ballad of Rosalind Ballingall." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8135.
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Includes DVD titled: The ballad of Rosalind Ballingall : a documentary.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-29).
The Ballad ofRosalind Ballingall is a recollection of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the twenty-year-old University of Cape Town drama student into the Knysna forests in 1969. In search of answers to this unsolved case, the film follows Rosalind's footsteps, from the bohemian city streets of Cape Town in the sixties to the Knysna forests, drawing on the collective memory of the Knysna community and students who were at university with Rosalind at the time. In search of Rosalind, the film journeys into the ruins of old South Africa, tracing the emerging consciousness of the hippie era that evolved during that period, partially in response to the oppressive socio-political climate of the country at the time.
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Triegaardt, Allison Laura. "One character, one bullet : an investigation of the death of character in contemporary South African television drama and the multiplicity of social self as possible means of character revival." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11199.
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Title on accompanying disc: ZindziTelevision drama demands a strong sense of story to sustain a viewer’s engagement, and fictional characters are key dramatic vehicles in story construction, yet it remains an area that is severely neglected in terms of both theory and practice at this time in South Africa. I have discovered that the ‘death’ of the South African television character can be attributed (at least in part) to a unique set of challenges facing practitioners. My aim is to discover if the moribund television character can perhaps be resuscitated through the application of a concept called ‘the multiplicity of social self’, which finds its roots in the discipline of social psychology. This written explication and its accompanying experimental television film, Zindzi, are twin sites from which to consider the death and possible revival of contemporary South African television characters.