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Bisson, Vincent J. 1984. "Historical Film Reception: An Ethnographic Focus beyond Entertainment." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10816.
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xi, 180 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Drawing upon theories from folkloristics, history, and audience studies, this thesis analyzes historical films, their reception, and the importance of history and film in everyday life. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I demonstrate how a folkloric perspective may contribute to and strengthen the study ofhistorical films by emphasizing the attributes of narrative and belief at the vernacular level of reception. With an ethnographic and qualitative focus on the informal, common, and everyday film viewing habits of specific individuals in relation to historical belief, this project provides empirical evidence that is necessary for a more accurate understanding of the function and reception of historical films. This study also re-examines the formal aspects of historical films in relation to historical re-construction, the definition and categorization of such films, their reception, their function beyond entertainment, and the need for an integration of new research in both audience studies and folklore studies.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Daniel Wojcik, Chair; Dr. Jeffrey Hanes; Dr. Bish Sen
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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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Richmond, Aimee. "Transnational UK reception of contemporary Japanese horror film." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8006/.
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This thesis examines the understanding of the contemporary Japanese horror film genre in the UK, taking into account the effects that the specificities of the UK cross-cultural context have upon audiences’ meaning-making. Analysis mainly revolves around six films selected based upon frequency of mention by participants: Ring (Nakata, 1998), Audition (Miike, 1999), Ju-on: The Grudge (Shimizu, 2004), Dark Water¬ (Nakata, 2002), Battle Royale (Fukusaku, 2000) and Ichi the Killer (Miike, 2001). Four focus groups and twenty individual interviews were conducted with individuals aged between eighteen and thirty years of age, all of whom self-identified as British. Responses were analysed in order to provide insight into three key areas: how UK audiences define the genre of contemporary Japanese horror film, the frameworks and processes they use in their definitions, and the meanings that they find in culturally-specific elements within these films. Both the Japanese and UK reception landscapes of contemporary Japanese horror film are outlined in order to provide necessary context. Ultimately, the research unearths a variety of interpretations of the contemporary Japanese horror film genre, which are reflective of a range of audience readings due in part to different levels of inter-cultural competence and personal preference. The study finds new channels of reception to be central in influencing transnational audience reception. Home viewing cultures and shifts from the original viewing context are further linked to the way in which audiences create experiences around the films, the influence of which lasts well beyond the point of reception. Alongside this, genre definition and film placements within those genres are shown to be an important factor in film reception, particularly in terms of influencing audience value judgments. Acknowledging the fragmented nature of the audience, hypotheses as to the development of an audience-led approach to transnational genre are outlined.
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Nyström, Camilla, and Harald Willén. "Film i skolan - Elevers tolkning och analys av historisk film." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31110.
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Uppsatsen är en empirisk studie med en kvalitativ undersökning. Uppsatsen fokuserar på elevers audiovisuella förmåga. Dagens skola kräver andra redskap av dig som pedagog än vad gårdagens skola gjorde. En förändring som innebär många nya inlärningsmetoder som både kan vara positiva och negativa då kunskap om dessa kan vara bristfällig. Film är idag ett ledande medialt verktyg som kan användas till att öka elevers historiska kunskaper och intressen. Vår avsikt med den här uppsatsen är att försöka synliggöra hur elever tar till sig historiska fragment från film, samt att analysera vad orsaken till valet av dessa. Denna studie pekar på hur åttondeklasseleverna vid Färsinga lärcentrum i Sjöbo kommun uppfattar och tolkar historiska sekvenser på film. För att belysa och utforska problemet har vi använt oss av en intervjustudie. Slutsatsen visar att eleverna som grupp tillsammans har ett berikande historiemedvetande. Däremot är den enskilda elevens historiemedvetande mer begränsat. Denna situation kan bero på historiebruket, utvecklingspsykologiprocessen och identitetsskapandet som vi upplever kan vara en normal process.
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Polihronis, Andreas. "Reclaiming the popular : perception and reception of Hollywood film." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310236.
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Jones, Matthew William. "The British reception of 1950s science fiction cinema." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-british-reception-of-1950s-science-fiction-cinema(b180c812-ec8b-4369-afe7-97da1bc14890).html.
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Scholarship on 1950s American science fiction cinema has tended to explore the relationship between these films and their domestic contexts of production and reception. They are often characterised as reflections of US anxieties about communism and nuclear technology. However, many such films were exported to Britain where these concerns were articulated and understood differently. The ways in which this different national context of reception shaped British interpretations of American science fiction cinema of this era has not yet been accounted for. Similarly, although some research has addressed 1950s British science fiction, this scholarship has been comparatively concise and has left gaps in our knowledge about the domestic reception of these films. Unable to draw on a British reception history of domestic and US 1950s science fiction cinema, debates about the genre have sometimes been underpinned by the presumption that western audiences responded to these films in a uniform manner. This thesis seeks to complicate our understanding of the genre by suggesting the specificity of the British reception history of science fiction cinema during the 1950s. The paucity of documentary evidence of British responses to 1950s science fiction films makes an audience study impossible. Within the intellectual framework of the New Film History, this thesis instead employs a contextually- activated approach to reception. Making extensive use of archival sources, newsreels, newspapers, magazines and other such documentary evidence, it explores some of the different contexts in which 1950s science fiction cinema was received in Britain and suggests how these factors might have shaped the interpretation of the genre. The thesis examines the interplay between American and British 1950s science fiction cinema and the British public understanding of communism, immigration, nuclear technology and scientific advancement. It contributes to our knowledge of these films by demonstrating that Britons did not necessarily understand 1950s science fiction cinema in the same way as Americans because they were party to a differently inflected series of public debates. It exposes the flexibility of the metaphors utilised by the genre during this period and their susceptibility to reinterpretation in different national contexts. This research makes visible, in a more extensive manner than has yet been accomplished, the specificity of the British reception history of 1950s science fiction cinema, and thereby provides a means to resist assumptions about the similarity of western audiences during this decade. Its conclusions call for further research into other national reception histories of these films, so that they too are not overshadowed by the better known American history of the genre, and into the possibility that the British reception history of other genres might similarly have been obscured.
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Dickson, Lesley-Ann. "Film festival and cinema audiences : a study of exhibition practice and audience reception at Glasgow Film Festival." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5693/.
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This thesis takes the view that film festivals are ‘social constructions’ and therefore need social subjects (people/audiences) to function. Nevertheless, Film Festival Studies, with its preoccupation with global economics and/or the political nature of these events, has arguably omitted the ‘audience voice’ meaning much of the empirical work on offer derives from market research by festivals themselves. As such, there is little conceptual contribution on what makes festivals culturally important to audiences or the ways in which festival practice differs from, or synergises with, broader cinematic practice. This thesis investigates exhibition practice and audience reception at Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) over three years (2011-13). The originality of the work is found in its contribution to the burgeoning field of Film Festival Studies and its methodological intervention as one of the earliest studies on film festival audiences. Using qualitative audience research methods, elite interviews and ethnography, it approaches film festival analysis through a nuanced lens. Furthermore, the positioning of the research within the interdisciplinary landscape of Film Festival Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies offers a broad context for understanding the appeal of ‘audience film festivals’ and the exhibition practices that exist within this often neglected type of film festival. The thesis argues that Glasgow Film Festival continuously negotiates its position as an event that is both populist and distinct, and local and international. Through its diverse programme (mainstream and experimental films, conventional and unconventional venues) and its discursive positioning of programmed films, it manages its position as both a local and inclusive event and a prestigious festival with aspirations of international recognition. More broadly, the thesis argues that festival exhibition is a multi-layered operation that strives to create a ‘total experience’ for audiences and in this respect it differs greatly from standard cinematic exhibition. Furthermore, I propose that – despite the fact that the raison d'être of film festivals is to present films – audiences privilege the contextual conditions of the event in their experiential accounts, articulating festival experiences (pleasures and displeasures) in spatial and corporeal terms. As such, the thesis serves to problematise Film Studies’ conventions of immersion and disembodiment by proposing that film festivals are predominantly sites of heightened participation, active spectatorship, and spatial and embodied pleasure.
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D, Markovic Emma, and Martin Nilsson. "“Vad är svenskhet för er?” *Lång tystnad* : En receptionsstudie om vilken roll filmen ”Sveriges bästa svensk” spelar i diskussioner som berör svenskhet och integration." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-314042.
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Title: “What is Swedishness for you?” *Long silence* – A reception study about what role film as a medium with the film “Sveriges bästa svensk” can play in discussions that consist of Swedishness and integration. Authors: Emma D Markovic and Martin Nilsson. Research problem: In terms of reception of film in order to generate discussions on a determined theme, we identified a gap in the research field of integration and Swedishness. Therefore this study fills a great space in this field. Aim & Research question: This study aims to add new research of the reception of film in relation to the concept of Swedishness. It’s written in the media and communication science field. The key question is: What role film as a medium with the film "Sveriges bästa svensk" as an example, can play to generate discussion and question the perception of Swedishness. Method/material: Qualitative focus group interviews were conducted with two groups consisting of people aged 50–80 years, where elders borned in Sweden and Iran were represented. Theoretical framework: Stuart Hall's theory of encoding/decoding which is enhanced by the following concepts: Swedishness, identity, ethnicity and cultural adjustment. Main results: It is shown that film plays an important role when it comes to generating discussion about Swedishness, but also that film as a medium is complex when it comes to reception and interpretation. In light of the theory it is clear that a majority of the participants have difficulties to relate to the film or even accept the story because of their preconceptions. It also proves to be difficult for all participants to point out what is typically Swedish, but during the discussions codes that distinguishes the Iranian culture from the Swedish are found, which helps them to more easily discern the things that are perceived as Swedish. Social importance: We want to contribute to the social debate about integration in contemporary Sweden. We found that film can be used to raise questions related to this subject. Number of pages: 40. Course: Media and communication studies C. University & Department: Uppsala University, Department of Informatics. Period: HT 2016. Tutor: Paola Sartoretto.
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Austin, Thomas. "Industry, intertexts and audiences : the marketing and reception of contemporary popular film in Britain." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389273.
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Bermudez, Pilar Aurelia. "The Social Impact of "Brokeback Mountain:" A Reception Study." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/125.
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The film "Brokeback Mountain" was released in December of 2005 into mainstream theaters and to general audiences. Director Ang Lee, screenwriters Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, and actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal made this film in which the storyline revolves around two men falling in love and how this forbidden love would affect the rest of their lives. The shock of having a film with two men kissing and having sex in the theaters seemed to have struck a nerve with many viewers. Some were very positive, hailing the film as a new step in mainstream films to show a queer relationship, others were negative, criticizing the film even at times condemning what was shown on the screen. The impact of the film made debate and conversations about queer content available to a public forum, in this case newspapers from around the country.
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Bandak, Georges. "Are we even watching the same film? : A reception study of The Square." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79248.
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This thesis examines the differences regarding thereception between American and Swedish reviews of the Swedish film, The Square (2017, Ruben Östlund). It explores whether or not their differences and similarities reflect different cultural contexts. By analyzing twelve reviews, six from each country, and using a qualitative analysis and reception studies as a theoretical foundation, the thesis have looked at what impacts our cultural understanding of a film like The Square. Janet Staiger’s theories on different type of readers (such as coherent readers, ideal readers, misreaders and competent readers) have also been brought to discussion. Furthermore, four themes have been identified as constantly present throughout the reviews, and they are: modern times, political correctness, the art world, and the disconnection from others. I have compared these themes with each other in order to approach the differences and similarities between the reviews in both countries. The conclusion is that the reviews differ due to what type of reader the reviewers are, and if they are willing to go beyond their cultural framework to try to understand the cultural context, displayed in the film. The thesis is also written from a post-structural perspective, awknowleding how each interpretation says something essential about the themes in the film
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Suazo, Zepeda Jose Emilio. "The spectator of modernity : a practice-based investigation into the process of film reception in the context of the modern era." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6342.
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The Spectator of Modernity is a practice based thesis that investigates the process of Film Reception from the perspective of the film as experienced by the individual and her/his apprehension of the interaction between the fictional world on screen and the everyday world. The written component of the project positions the historical context and explores the theoretical notions for the understanding of film-viewing as a decidedly modern activity of special significance for the individual's permanent quest for meaning. Accompanying the written element, an original audiovisual piece amalgamates the real life testimonials of memorable film experiences which form the qualitative analysis of the research, with the story of a fictional character wandering in the location of the city. The activity of the character, driven to investigate the memorable film experience and in permanent search for a way to reengage in a meaningful relationship with everyday reality, is argued that is analogous to the activity of film-viewing. Following the considerations of the theory and the findings of the qualitative analysis of the project, the audiovisual piece suggests that watching a film is as a form of flanerie carried out inside the cinema, through which the individual seeks to assign meaning to the transient and fragmented events of modern life.
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Ellesmore, Susan. "Teacher representations in popular films : reception and relevance to professional development and change." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2002. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/620/.
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The research brings together elements from two disciplines, the sociology of education and film studies, to investigate the relevance of 'reel' world teacher representations to the real world lives of teachers, and to explore how the former offer opportunity for reflection on professional development and change. Media texts are utilised as an unconventional resource as either a replacement for and/or enhancement of educational theory, and teachers drawn from different stages of the teaching life cycle provide empirical data via their writing aspects of teacher culture in response to the stimulus of each text. In an age of visual culture, educational research which explores the medium of film is an important resource for professional development and change is an original contribution to knowledge at a time when current concerns are largely related to the repercussions of the ongoing implementation of government reforms. The research identifies the charismatic teacher who inspires loyalty and admiration in his/her students, forming a special relationship with them in a way which no other colleague can. A more complex analysis suggests that there are four varieties of the charismatic teacher: the eccentric, the resilient, the romantic and the enduring. Responses to such characters reveal that real world teachers reflect on the uncinematic bureaucracy of their everyday work compared with energised settings where student problems and cynical colleagues are overcome by 'reel' world teachers unfettered by pre-set agendas. A real/'reel' overlap occurs as real world teachers re-examine the personal and professional relationships which underpin their everyday work. Through watching examples from screen culture, they reflect on what the demands and rewards of teaching are, and how these impinge on a teacher's health and private life; the development of relationships with both students and colleagues; and the influence of those outside classroom and staffroom, both at local and government levels.
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Hammond, Michael. "The big show : cinema exhibition and reception in Britain in the Great War." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2001. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1226/.
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Laird, Colleen. "Sea Change: Japan's New Wave of Female Film Directors." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12973.
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Since the mid-2000s, there has been a significant increase in female directors in Japan. Organized around the central feature of this emerging wave, this dissertation is a multifaceted project that combines historical research with reception studies, industry studies, gender studies, and formal analysis of films and marketing paratexts. In exploring the connections between film production, reception, exhibition, and auteur personas, I argue that the recent emergence of women into commercial cinema is fueled by gendered marketing tactics that seek to target contemporary female consumers. This focused gendering of auteur, product, exhibition space, and presumed spectator is changing the landscape of cinema in Japan, a process some refer to as "feminization." My dissertation rethinks the history of Japanese cinema with regards to the relationship between filmmakers as gendered bodies, distribution companies and marketing as patriarchal power structures, and the capital wielding demographic of female spectators as influential, but often neglected, consumers.2015-07-11
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Kaya-Mutlu, Dilek. "The Midnight Express phenomenon : the international reception of the film Midnight Express (1978-2004) /." Istanbul : The Isis press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40149438f.
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Horrex, Emma. "From representation to reception : the gang girl and girl gang in contemporary American film." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15425.
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Burczynska, Paulina. "Investigating the multimodal construal and reception of irony in film translation : an experimental approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/investigating-the-multimodal-construal-and-reception-of-irony-in-film-translationaa-an-experimental-approach(a6c4afa5-02f8-4b74-8895-4c8cc161b5ab).html.
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In the light of recent changes on the audiovisual scene in Poland, audiences can choose among different AVT modalities. Although voice-over still prevails on Polish TV, subtitles have become more and more popular as an alternative form of film translation on television. Due to rapid technological advances, commercial requirements and differences in Polish viewersâ preferences, it is thus crucial to understand how audiences at different levels of English proficiency (low, medium, high) retrieve meaning, especially complex ironic meaning relayed through different methods of film translation, such as subtitles and voice-over and the extent to which verbal and non-verbal semiotic channels contribute to irony comprehension. Wilson and SperberâÂÂs (1981, 1992; 1995) echoic theory of irony has been selected as the theoretical framework, given its ability to account for multimodal irony in audiovisual texts as well as the significant importance of non-verbal semiotic resources in the generation and interpretation of irony. The study employs triangulation, incorporating descriptive, experimental and interactionist components. The descriptive component involves multimodal transcription (Baldry and Thibault, 2006) of selected fragments in which irony plays a pivotal narrative role. This procedure aims to determine what non-verbal modes contribute to the multimodal construal of irony and how it is relayed in the subtitled and voiced-over translations. In the experimental component, viewersâ eye movements are recorded using eye-tracking technology while watching subtitled and voiced-over fragments of Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). In the interactionist components, a questionnaire is used in order to elucidate how and/or whether they retrieve ironic meaning as intended by the filmmakers in the selected excerpts. The most obvious finding to emerge from the descriptive data analysis is that multimodal irony is not relayed by the film dialogue alone but, rather, in unison with non-verbal semiotic resources. The instances of multimodal irony in the two Sherlock Holmes films were found to perform narrative and comedic functions by combining the visual, kinesic and acoustic modes of film language. The analysis and comparison of SL dialogues and TL translations revealed two broad categories of irony relay, namely: preservation and modification. The majority of the instances of multimodal irony were modified in the subtitled version, while preservation is only sporadically opted for. In its voiced-over counterpart, the intended meaning is preserved and modified in equal proportions. The experimental component showed major differences in gaze patterns among the participants with different language skills in the subtitled clips. For instance, on average, LLPs spent more time reading the subtitles than HLPs or MLPs. Similar visual behavior, on the other hand, was observed among all viewers in the voiced-over clips in which the on-screen characterâÂÂs face attracted the greatest amount of visual attention. The interactionist strand showed that the viewers retrieved the intended meaning to various extents depending on their English language proficiency. This data undergirds an assessment of the effectiveness of subtitles and voice-over in the translation and reception of multimodal irony on screen.
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De, Los Reyes Lozano Julio. "La traduction du cinéma pour les enfants : une étude sur la réception." Thesis, Reims, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REIML014/document.
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L’objet d’étude de cette thèse de doctorat est la traduction audiovisuelle et concerne plus particulièrement la réception du doublage par le destinataire « spécial » du corpus analysé, l’enfant. Le sous-titre du travail –une étude sur la réception– révèle son caractère empirique et expérimental, dont l’objectif principal est d’analyser empiriquement la réaction du jeune public face à des solutions de traduction qui viennent régulièrement adoptées dans les doublages du cinéma d’animation. L’utilisation de certaines stratégies et techniques de traduction peuvent se rapprocher ou s’éloigner du récepteur : on cherchera à évaluer dans quelle mesure celles-ci facilitent leur compréhension, lui font rire ou pleurer et, finalement, lui amusent. Le succès d’un long-métrage pour enfants n’est aperçu aujourd’hui qu’à travers les entrées au box-office et les ventes des films sur le marché vidéo des DVD, Blu-Ray et VOD. Afin de combler ce manque, nous avons décidé de mener à bien une expérience auprès d’enfants auxquels nous avons projeté quelques extraits de long-métrages doublés en espagnol. Ils ont ensuite rempli un questionnaire apte à leur stade de développement cognitif, nous aidant à déterminer quelles informations les participants ont-ils acquises en regardant les films. On cherchera ainsi à mieux connaître la répercussion des choix de traduction les plus habituels chez les traducteurs audiovisuels de films d’animation pour enfantsAudiovisual Translation is the main subject of study of this research, evaluating more particularly the reception of dubbing by a “special” audience of the analyzed corpus, the child. The subtitle of the work –end user perception– reveals its empirical and experimental nature, our main goal being to empirically analyze the reaction of young people to some of the translation’s choices regularly adopted in dubbing animated films. Certain translation strategies and techniques may be used to reach or repel the audience: we will try to examine how they help understanding, make laugh or cry, and ultimately entertain the child.Nowadays, the only way to know if a children film is successful is by checking theaters’ box office and DVD, Blu-ray and VOD sales. In order to fill this gap, we have decided to perform an experiment with children which include the screening of some film clips dubbed in Spanish. Then, they have completed a specific questionnaire adapted to their cognitive development, which helped us to determine the information learned by the experience’s through the film. We thus seek to better understand the impact of the translation’s choices frequently made by audiovisual translators of animated films for children
La presente tesis doctoral centra su atención en el estudio de la traducción audiovisual, concretamente en el ámbito de la recepción del doblaje por parte de un destinatario final especial, el niño. El subtítulo del trabajo –un estudio de recepción– revela el carácter empírico y experimental del mismo, pues se pretende analizar empíricamente la reacción del público infantil ante algunas soluciones de traducción que se adoptan habitualmente en el cine de animación. El empleo de ciertas estrategias y técnicas de traducción pueden conllevar un acercamiento o alejamiento del producto al receptor, y no sabemos en qué medida éstas facilitan la comprensión, hacen reír o llorar y, en última instancia, entretienen.Hoy en día sólo podemos inferir el éxito de un largometraje para niños, y de su doblaje, a través de su recaudación en taquilla y de las posteriores ventas en el mercado doméstico de DVD, Blu-Ray y plataformas de vídeo por Internet. Con objeto de arrojar luz sobre este ámbito, se ha diseñado un experimento que muestra la reacción de los espectadores infantiles ante un estímulo audiovisual traducido, utilizando como sistema de evaluación un cuestionario adaptado a su desarrollo cognitivo. De este modo, se pretende obtener información acerca de la repercusión de las opciones traductológicas por las que suelen decantarse los traductores audiovisuales de películas de animación para niños
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Friesen, Dwight Henry. "Analysis of the production, content, distribution, and reception of Karunamayudu (1978), an Indian Jesus film." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5805.
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In this study I analyse the thirty-year journey of Karunamayudu (1978), an Indian Jesus film, from its production to its recent reception. Drawing on a combination of historical and empirical data I explore questions such as: What religious traditions and experiences have informed Karunamayudu's production, content, distribution and reception? How has this film been appropriated by distributors, producers, and viewers? And how does such an understanding of the history of Karunamayudu (1978), arguably India's best-known Jesus film, contribute to our understanding of the tangled relationship between film, religion, and theology? In the first chapter I demonstrate how this study contributes to gaps in the existing scholarship on film, religion, and theology, Jesus in film, and religion in Indian cinema. In the second chapter I provide a rationale for the methodologies I employed. The third and fourth chapters address the production history and context of the film, and the fifth is a review of the film itself. In chapters six and seven I discuss the distribution and reception of the film, respectively, and in the eighth and concluding eighth chapter I reflect on the implications of this account for ongoing scholarship in the field of film, religion, and theology.
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Gavin, Emma. "Dreadful Women: An Exploration of Gender-Based Social Values and Expectations Through Viewer and Critical Reception of Female Antagonists on Television." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/448.
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By examining viewer reception of female antagonists in traditionally feminine roles on television—particularly the role of wives and mothers who have husbands to answer to and children to look after and are thus expected, in some form, to act as a caretaker or guide for others—we can explore modern societal attitudes towards female agency and gender-based expectations of behavior.
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Ulfsdotter, Boel. "An Invitation to Travel The Marketing and Reception of Japanese Film in the West 1950-1975." Thesis, University of Reading, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486339.
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An Invitation to Travel- The Image of Japanese Film in the West 1950-1975 is a reception study which presents the events and efforts that characterize the reception of Japanese film in France, Great Britain and the United States, after World War Two. Chapter One presents the research questions informing this study and discusses the historically located Western cultural concepts involved such as the aesthetics of art 1 cinema, Japonisme, and the notion of'Japaneseness'. The argumentation as such is based on the presumption of a still prevailing Orientalist discourse at the time. The thesis discusses the Japanese film industry's need to devise a new strategy of doing export business with the West in relation to the changed postwar context in Chapter Two. The preparations on the part of the Japanese to distribute their films in the West through different modes of transnational publicity are in focus here, from introductory 'film weeks', to marketing vehicles such as UnUapan Film Quarterly, and the first Western books on Japanese film history. The thesis then proceeds to deal with the groundbreaking introduction of this first non-occidental national cinema from four different angles; exhibition (Chapter Three), critical reception (Chapter Four), publicity (Chapter Five) and canon formation (Chapter Six). Chapter Three looks into the history ofWestern exhibition ofJapanese film in the countries involved in this study and identifies divergent attitudes between institutional and commercial screenings. It also locates possible changes in exhibition policy over time. Chapter Four establishes the main players in the critical reception ofJapanese cinema in the West and examines national divergences in attitude towards this 'new' national cinema. In order to do so, it necessarily discusses the development of Western auteurism in the late 1950s, and its effect on the film periodicals in the countries involved. Chapter Five presents an alternative venue of research through the image of Japanese cinema induced by Western poster design. It explores Western responses based on concepts involving Japonisme and national stereotypes in both commercial (capitalistic) and non-commercial (communist) aesthetic contexts. Chapter Six explores the history of canon formation and the evaluation of Japanese film in the West. The thesis argues that the extant Western canon on Japanese film is inconclusive and that it could be exchanged, in part, for at least three other versions of the same national cinema, enough to make the current image of Western postwar Japanese film history seem utterly unsatisfactory. . The conclusion in Chapter Seven presents the outcome of the effects of exhibition, critical reception and publicity, as well as the trajectory of canon formation in the previous chapters. By looking back again at its components, this study indicates several areas that warrant further research in order to extend the existing Western conceptualization ofJapanese film history.
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Fransen, Esmé. "Big Dyke Energy? : Commodification and Queer Female Meaning-Making in the Reception of Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018)." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184694.
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In a media landscape that continues to be characterized by heteronormativity, queer female audiences are continuously finding ways to make popular texts their own. Previous scholarship on queer female reception has largely approached queer meaning-making as a text-audience relationship, a perspective which disregards the position of films as commodities surrounded by an extensive promotional network. This thesis investigates the role of commodification in the process of queer meaning-making in popular film through a reception study of the film Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018). Using a netnographic method that places social media reception in dialogue with the film and its promotional materials, it challenges the idea that queer meaning is always either embedded in the film text or brought in by the audience “(in)appropriating” the text. Rather, the film and its promotional context create an ambiguity that allows queer readings to flow freely, and actively interacts with a pre-existing Cate Blanchett-as-lesbian fantasy amongst audiences to steer those readings in particular directions. Queer female meaning-making, then, is far from a one-directional action, but rather a complex and constant renegotiation of queerness between commercial actors and audiences alike.
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O'Brien, Margaret. "The rise of art cinema in postwar film culture : the exhibition, distribution, and reception of foreign language films in Britain 1945–1968." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2018. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/346/.
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This institutional and cultural history seeks to restore the foreign language art film to its influential position in postwar British film culture. Its central argument is that the elevation of a group of mainly European directors and films to the newly autonomous field of cinematic art reached its heights in the 1950s and 1960s. Three main factors which drove this process are explored: firstly, changes in society related to education and social mobility that created new audiences; secondly, changing economic and cultural contexts, especially the film festival, whereby European productions were able to challenge Hollywood; and thirdly the construction of new institutional frameworks through publications, distribution companies, cinemas, and film societies. A further argument is that film critics, who were increasingly promoting the ideas of personal authorship inflected by national histories, provided audiences with analytical tools for their readings of art films, thus becoming key agents in the construction of intellectual discourses which separated the art film from Hollywood studio production. The period also saw the combination of sexual explicitness in the ‘serious’ art film with an increasing number of continental X films being sold on their sexual titillation. This study investigates how and why these two trends sometimes met in the same spaces of distribution and exhibition, and how the overlapping identities of ‘sex’ and ‘art’ were negotiated by censors, critics, and audiences. The thesis presents a national picture through new research on local case studies across the UK, mapping the impact of art films outside, as well as within, London and exploring how the particularities of place shaped audiences and programmes. Finally, an analysis of the findings from Cinema Memories, a project conducted for this thesis, provides fresh insights into the reception of foreign language films.
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Pérez, Sánchez Rolando, Chavarría Diana Alfaro, and Pineda Melissa Mora. "Reception of films and the formation of social identities related to nation." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101404.
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This qualitative study addresses the relationship between film reception and the formation of social identity related to the nation in reference to two evocative films used for intergroup comparison purposes. Two American films were selected to facilitate the task of intergroup contrast. Five focus groups were created, and were composed of four to six persons each. Each group saw both films. Results indicate the presence of in-group favoritism after viewing both films. A common core identity related to the nation was built after viewing both films; however, differences arise in the description of social identity attributed to the narrative frame of each film. Results contribute to the study of social categorization processes associated with film reception.Este estudio cualitativo aborda las relaciones entre la recepción fílmica y la construcción de la identidad social asociada a la categoría nación ante filmes evocadores de comparación intergrupal. Se seleccionaron dos películas estadounidenses que facilitaron la tarea de contraste intergrupal. Se organizaron cinco grupos de discusión de cuatro a seis personas. Cada grupo observó los dos filmes. Los resultados indican la presencia de favoritismo endogrupal luego de la exposición a ambos filmes. Se distinguió un núcleo común de la identidad asociada a la categoría nación. Sin embargo, se presentan diferencias en la descripción de la identidad social atribuibles al encuadre narrativo de ambos filmes. Las evidencias aportan alestudio contextualista de la categorización social asociados a la recepción fílmica.
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Jendoubi, Sonya. "An Audience Reception Analysis of the Depth and Breadth of Lifestyle Blogging Communities." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1486.
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Lifestyle blogging has become a vast and profitable domain, with visitors engaging with new content in a variety of ways. The communities that begin to form around these blogs has rarely been analyzed, due to a lack of metrics and a complex definition of virtual communities. Relying on Henry Jenkins work on virtual communities, a set of metrics were used to analyze the depth and breadth of three communities: A Cup of Jo, Wit & Delight, and Cupcakes and Cashmere. The three areas these metrics worked to measure were: awareness, membership, and belonging. Through this audience reception study the clear marker of a community was the direct and systematic blogger engagement with the readership. Many other factors are influential in building a virtual community on a blog, however, what set the three blogs apart was the ways in which Joanna Goddard (A Cup of Jo) and Kate Arends (Wit & Delight) reached out and built relationships with their readers, strengthening their community and allowing it to thrive.
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Young, John. "Trapped inside a jukebox : the journalistic and critical reception of American popular music on film, 1956-60." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408502.
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Vollbrecht, Ralf, and Christine Dallmann. "Editorial - Transhumanismus, Migration, Gender – Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Aspekte im Film." Technische Universität Dresden, 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31425.
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Mit Transhumanismus, Migration und Gender werden in dieser Ausgabe von Medienwelten drei aktuelle gesellschaftliche Aspekte thematisiert, die im Rahmen von Filmanalysen sowie einer empirischen Rezeptionsstudie zu den Lieblingsfilmen und Lieblingshelden von Kindern bearbeitet werden.
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Casprov, Alexandra Genţiana. "Two Film Adaptations of Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : A Semiotic and Audience Reception Study." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77603.
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Stieg Larsson has reached vast audiences with his popular, page-turning crime novels, the Millennium Series. The series tells a story not just for fictional purposes, but to draw attention to what people did not see about the society that Larsson lived in. In 2009, local actors starred in a film adaptation of Larsson’s first novel, which went beyond the Swedish public. In December 2011 an English-language remake based on the same bestseller was released, starring famous Hollywood actors. Considering language can hinder the reach of foreign language movies in international markets and that international and Swedish audiences demands differ, the current research aims to find out how the two movie adaptations diverge in terms of gender representation, production, graphic content, ideological meaning, and cultural representation as they attempt to target their respective audiences. In order to find answers, this thesis adopted a qualitative approach using two different, supporting methods. First a semiotic analysis of a representative scene with a high psychological and graphic impact on the viewer in both movies was conducted. Second, focus group interviews, with International and Swedish audience members, were conducted. The findings suggest that considerable differences exist between the two movies and that audiences have a different pre-conception in the way they perceive the same media product: gender role dynamic has been reversed in the two movies, the American version is more graphic in its display of nudity, and lacks the ideological layer. Furthermore, this study can serve as a basis for future research that could try to statistically represent the way Swedish and international moviegoers draw on the two adaptations.
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Nkwera, Godfrey. "Public understanding of malaria in pregnancy : selected Dar es Salaam audiences' reception of the health education film Chumo." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017785.
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This study examines the impact of a health education film, Chumo, in Dar es Salaam on knowledge about malaria in pregnancy. Specifically, the study examines the meanings that the selected audiences make after watching the film. Drawing on the tradition of ‘reception studies’, the data for this study was generated through focus group discussions. These discussions were preceded by thematic analysis of the film and its script. An analysis of the audiences’ responses reveals that Chumo, mostly, successfully conveyed new knowledge about malaria in pregnancy, and reinforced existing knowledge bases about the disease. The audiences were able to ‘decipher’ most of the preferred meanings (of the producers) with regard to the disease, particularly in relation to the transmission of the disease and its prevention in pregnant woman. For example, the analysis indicates that both women and men become more aware of the importance of attending antenatal care sessions at local clinics (hereafter ANC). An interesting finding is that men, mostly, expressed a reluctance to attend ANC with their wives because they fear having to undergo HIV/AIDS testing. Men also expressed the sentiment that attending ANC is a women’s responsibility. The discussion groups also raised issues about the use of insecticide-treated nets - some people believe that using them will affect their health because of the chemicals used to treat the nets. From the reception analysis, various other meanings and themes, relating to the choice of storylines and gender stereotypes used in the story, were raised in discussion. The study attempted to assess whether the storyline was advantageous in conveying the core educational messages, or if some elements of the storyline either ‘got in the way’ or reinforced gender roles in ways that may or may not be helpful in terms of combatting malaria in pregnancy. The study also found that Chumo stimulated interpersonal communication, which may trigger behaviour change. It can be demonstrated, at least for the participants in these focus groups, that the film motivated positive attitudes towards behaviour change, i.e. created at least some intention to change. However, interpersonal communication and attitude to change are not, of course, actual change of behaviour: these elements only indicate the possibility of behaviour change in the future. Further study needs to be undertaken to explore whether the actual change took place and whether the change is a result of the exposure to Chumo.
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Gunckel, Colin. ""A theater worthy of our race" the exhibition and reception of Spanish language film in Los Angeles, 1911-1942 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997008061&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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De, Klerk Elizabeth. "Identiteitsbeelding van twee jeugkarakters in die film Paljas / E. de Klerk." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/317.
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With a view to conducting a study of the identity portrayal as presented in the film Paljas - and
more specifically of the two youth characters, Willem and Emma - a few relevant theoretical
concepts are included in this investigation, i.e. developmental psychology, film theory and
narratology. By analysing and interpreting the film-related representation of the two youth
characters it was possible to establish to which extent and in which way the identity portrayal
of the two youth characters enhances the main theme of the film. It was, accordingly, also
possible to elucidate facets of the placement of the fictional reality as represented in the film
text and the reality as such in parallel correlation.
According to the research method that was implemented certain aspects of different related
sciences proved to be of integral importance. Such aspects included the psychological
development of the child during mid-childhood years, the psychological development of the
late adolescent, the application of film-related techniques pertaining to character portrayal and
characterisation in narratology.
During the course of this research the focus was on the identity portrayal of the two characters,
Willem and Emma as youth characters in the film Paljas. An analysis of the identity portrayal of
the youth characters implies that the investigation and application of narratology and film
theory be incorporated in conjunction with theories pertaining to developmental psychology as
specific point of focus. The research results were thus described by means of an integrated
method.
The children's experience of interpersonal communication at their home exercises an important
influence on their identity development. The parents create the primary framework of reference
for the children's attitude, value systems and convictions in connection with life in general as
well as for their own sense of the self and their self-estimation.
Key words: film, film text, film theory, identity portrayal, interpretation, youth characters, late
adolescence, mid-childhood years, narratology, developmental psychology, Paljas, reception
theory.Thesis (M.A. (Languages))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.
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Draniewicz, Anna B. "Cut off by the 'Iron Curtain'." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4927.
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Poland - like other Eastern and Central European countries - was for many years politically, socially and culturally cut off from the Western Europe. Did this have an impact on the representation of Polish cinema in English-language film criticism?
Judging by the number of books about Polish cinema as a whole or about Polish directors and their films it would seem that the answer must be negative. However, a closer look at other books about world cinema and especially French cinematography proves that in spite of limited contacts Polish films were widely discussed in English-language literature. Another question is whether this representation was an exact and true one. The answer is again a positive one in spite of the political, social and cultural isolation. A comparison to Polish film criticism shows that Polish films were not generally misunderstood or rejected. Furthermore, English-language authors sometimes found different interesting plots missing in film literature in Poland. Therefore, surprisingly, the political partition did not obstruct cultural exchange and the most important Polish films were still available and discussed in the English-speaking world.
However, there was still a gap in the knowledge about some aspects of Polish Cinema such as, for example, Polish cult comedies phenomenon. Therefore there is still a need for the popularisation of some important for the Polish nationality films outside of Poland and for deeper critical thought about Polish cinematography - which is an reflection of the society itself.
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Pinheiro, Pablo Marquinho Pessoa. "O beijo no asfalto: melodrama na adaptação cinematográfica da obra de Nelson Rodrigues." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6948.
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The melodrama is popularly known as a genre that takes the viewers to tears, composed by great sentimentalism and exaggerated actors. Despite this popular idea has a real root, the melodrama characterizes itself mainly by the complex relationship with the public. This relationship of communication with viewers was determinant and strategic for the development of melodrama, as well as your upgrade and migration to other narrative forms. The first part of this research proposes a historic rescue of melodrama while genre, from its emergence in the theater during the 18TH century until their update by the cinema. The second part analyzes the relationship between melodrama, film and reception, from the studies on the cultural performances, it being understood that the viewer participates actively in the process of reception during a film session. Recognizing that updating the melodrama has kept a poetic communication full of emotion and with a strong educative and regulatory function. In the third part, one examines the film O Beijo no Asfalto, by Bruno Barreto, adapted from the eponymous dramaturgical text O Beijo no Asfalto, by Nelson Rodrigues. Searching elements that characterizes the melodramatic imagination, as well as, to point characteristics from melodrama reverberated in this film.
O melodrama é conhecido popularmente como um gênero que leva os espectadores às lágrimas, composto de exaltação do sentimentalismo e performances afetadas de seus atores. Apesar dessa ideia popular ter uma raiz verdadeira, o melodrama caracteriza-se principalmente pela complexa relação com o público. Essa relação de comunicação com os espectadores foi determinante e estratégica para o desenvolvimento do melodrama, bem como sua atualização e migração para outras formas narrativas. A primeira parte desta pesquisa propõe um resgate histórico do melodrama enquanto gênero, do seu surgimento no teatro durante o século XVIII até sua atualização junto ao cinema. A segunda parte analisa a relação entre melodrama, cinema e recepção, a partir dos estudos sobre as performances culturais, entendendo que o espectador participa de forma ativa no processo de recepção durante uma sessão cinematográfica. Dessa forma, reconhecendo que a atualização do melodrama manteve uma comunicação poética carregada de emoção e com uma forte função educadora e reguladora.A terceira parte analisa o filme O Beijo no Asfalto, de Bruno Barreto, adaptado a partir do texto dramatúrgico homônimo, escrito por Nelson Rodrigues, buscando nesse filme elementos que caracterizam a imaginação melodramática, assim como, apontar características do melodrama reverberadas nessa obra.
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Gillett, Jonathan. "Television and Transculturation: An Examination of Japanese Anime in Post-Dictatorial Argentina." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555429612160638.
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Vayssière, Eve-Marie. "Le sous-titrage de film, une traduction condensatrice." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030133.
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Cette thèse propose une définition du sous-titrage de film en tant que traduction condensatrice. Cette recherche se base sur un corpus constitué des propos orignaux et sous-titres de dix films de langue française sous-titrés en allemand et de langue allemande sous-titrés en français. L’analyse met dans un premier temps en évidence que l'omission, l'implicitation et l'explicitation, qui apparaissent comme les trois procédés permettant d’obtenir un énoncé traduit de taille réduite mais de sens équivalent à celui de l’original, sont le résultat d’une hiérarchisation au cas par cas des unités de sens constitutives des propos orignaux. Dans un second temps, le constat de l’absence récurrente de traduction des marqueurs discursifs concourant à la vraisemblance des propos originaux permet de mettre en évidence un déplacement de la relation interactionnelle. La relation interactionnelle entre les protagonistes, perceptible dans les propos originaux par la présence de marqueurs discursifs, n’est pas perceptible dans les sous-titres. Les résultats éclairent alors les processus par lesquels intervient une nouvelle interaction dans laquelle le sous-titre devient métaphoriquement locuteur et s’adresse à un interlocuteur : le spectateur. C’est au spectateur de faire le travail d’inférence nécessaire à la compréhension de ST qui ne sont compréhensibles que par le cotexte et dans le contexte filmiqueThis thesis intends to define film subtitling as a condensing translation. Results are based on original utterances and subtitles of ten german and french films. In a first phase, analysis showed the fact that omission, implicitation and explicitation, which appear as the three processes allowing shorter translated utterances, while preserving an equivalent meaning, result from an organization into a hierarchy of meaning units constituting original utterances. Over a second phase, the fact that discursive markers, which contributes to the realism of original utterances, are frequently missing from the translation highlights a shifting of the discursive interaction. The discursive interaction between protagonists, noticeable in the original utterances thanks to the presence of discursive markers, is no longer noticeable in the subtitles. Those results shed light on the process through which a new interaction occurs, in which the subtitle becomes in itself a speaker and addresses itself to a new interlocutor : the spectator. Finally, it is up to the spectator to draw the inference which is compulsory for his understanding of the subtitles, the latter being only understandable thanks to the cotext and to the context of the film
Die vorliegende Dissertation hat zum Ziel, die Filmuntertitelung als eine verdichtende Übersetzung zu definieren. Die Untersuchung stützt sich auf die Analyse eines Korpus, das aus den Originaläußerungen und den entsprechenden Untertiteln von insgesamt zehn französisch- und deutschsprachigen Filmen besteht. In einem ersten Schritt werden mit der nachstehenden Untersuchung drei Prozesse, die Auslassung, die Implizierung und Explizierung aufgezeigt, die dem Übersetzer erlauben eine quantitativ reduzierte Äußerung zu formulieren, deren Sinn jedoch dem Original entspricht. Die Hierarchisierung der Sinneinheiten der Original-Äußerungen dient als Basis für die weiteren Prozesse. In einem zweiten Schritt wird der wiederholt auftretenden Auslassung von Diskursmarkern, die als Signale der Mündlichkeit fungieren und im Ausgangstext der Plausibilität dienen, nachgegangen. Dabei entsteht eine Verschiebung der Interaktion zwischen dem Untertitel und dem Zuschauer. Die durch die Diskursmarker wahrnehmbare Interaktion zwischen den Protagonisten der Filme in den Original-Äußerungen kann in den Untertiteln nicht wahrgenommen werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine neue Form von Interaktion, ein Prozess, durch den der Untertitel gleichsam zu einem Sprecher wird, der sich an einen Gesprächspartner, in diesem Falle den Zuschauer, wendet. Es liegt also am Zuschauer, die für das Verständnis der Untertitel benötigten Folgerungen zu ziehen, welche wiederum einzig und allein durch den Kotext und den filmischen Kontext verständlich werden
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Queiroz, Brisa Evangelista de. "É uma garota com tom de garoto: processos de recepção fílmica com crianças e adolescentes a partir do filme Tomboy." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4590.
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This research proposes an anthropological study, based on the analysis of film reception with groups of children and adolescents, of a picture that tells us a story of children who deal with issues of gender and sexuality. The intention was to reflect about childhoods and their dynamics in terms of sexuality and gender, using film as a stimulus for discussions. The movie Tomboy (2011) was chosen as the object of study and mediation of this research. To dialogue with that film, students of a drama school and, in comparison, students of two elementary schools were invited, all of the schools located at Setor Pedro Ludovico, south area of Goiânia. The film deals with issues of gender and sexuality from the point of view of the main character who is a child. This process of exhibitions and discussions was aimed at stimulating the participants to reflect on how they interpreted the events that the main character deals with and give them an opportunity to express their opinions about similar situations in their daily lives. In addition it was intended to observe whether there was and which were the differences between the perceptions of a film reception experiment in school environment and in another one that encourages a more active stance by the participants.
Essa pesquisa propõe um estudo antropológico, a partir da análise da recepção fílmica, com grupos de crianças e adolescentes, de uma obra cinematográfica que aborda crianças que lidam com questões sobre gênero e sexualidade. A intenção foi a de refletir sobre as infâncias e suas dinâmicas em termos de sexualidade e gênero, tomando o cinema como vetor das discussões. Como objeto de estudo e mediação desta pesquisa foi escolhido o filme Tomboy (2011) e, para dialogar com tal filme, alunos/as de uma escola de teatro e, em comparação, alunos/as de duas escolas de ensino fundamental, todas elas localizadas no Setor Pedro Ludovico, na região sul de Goiânia. O filme trata de questões de gênero e sexualidade do ponto de vista da personagem principal, que é uma criança. Com esse processo de exibições e discussões, objetivou-se levantar reflexões por parte dos/as participantes sobre como eles/as interpretaram as situações pelas quais a personagem principal passa e dar a abertura para que opinassem a respeito de situações semelhantes em seus cotidianos. Além de observar se há e quais são as diferenças encontradas entre as percepções de uma experiência de recepção fílmica realizada em ambiente escolar e outra realizada em um ambiente que incentiva posturas mais ativas por parte dos/as participantes.
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Malone, Travis B. "Crafting Utopia and Dystopia: Film Musicals 1970-2002." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1162486037.
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Hutcheson, Linda. "Beyond the frame : a critical production case study of the advance party initiative." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/17851.
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This study utilises a variety of research methods in order to investigate aspects often overlooked within Scottish film criticism, and indeed film studies more generally, namely: pre-production, production experiences, marketing and distribution, and reception. To date, Scottish film criticism has exhibited a preoccupation with questions of nation, national identity and national cinema, and overwhelmingly scholars have privileged almost exclusive analysis of the film text. Spurred by Jonathan Murray’s (2007, 2011, 2012) questioning of the continued relevance of the national framework, this thesis goes beyond the frame of the film text in order to consider new ways in which a national framework might be of relevance when analysing Scotland’s cinematic output. Concurrently, the chosen case study is also used as a means of critiquing existing literature on collective identity and national cinema. As the title of this thesis suggests, analysis centres on the Dogma-inspired Advance Party initiative and its resulting films, Red Road (Arnold, 2006) and Donkeys (McKinnon, 2010). Devised by Glasgow-based Sigma Films and Denmark’s Zentropa, the cross border collaborative dimension of the Advance Party framework initially appears to challenge the appropriateness of the national framework. As this thesis demonstrates however, such a simplistic conclusion is reductive and overlooks the complexities of the film industry. Throughout this thesis, questions as to the intended and eventual function of the Advance Party framework arise, and these are revisited by means of the thesis Conclusion.
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Silva, Dafne Reis Pedroso da. "Hoje tem cinema: a recepção de mostras itinerantes organizadas pelo Cineclube Lanterninha Aurélio." Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, 2009. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/2641.
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O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi investigar o processo de recepção das mostras itinerantes de cinema organizadas pelo cineclube Lanterninha Aurélio, buscando compreender os sentidos, usos e apropriações que os receptores realizam das exibições e as mediações que as configuram. Para dar conta das especificidades do problema/objeto investigado, trabalhei os conceitos de midiatização e midiatização cinematográfica, e o desenvolvimento desses processos no contexto brasileiro, considerando as atividades cineclubista e as práticas das sessões itinerantes de cinema. Articulei perspectivas teóricas para a compreensão da recepção, desenvolvendo conceitos sobre recepção, mediações, consumo, apropriação e recepção de cinema. Acerca das estratégias metodológicas, realizei pesquisa sistemática com seis receptores das sessões itinerantes e cinco cineclubistas. Desde uma perspectiva multimetodológica, articulei um conjunto de procedimentos que incluíram questionários fechados, entrevistas estruturadas de aplicação flexí
The general aim of this research was to investigate the process of receiving the itinerant film exhibitions organized by Lanterninha Aurélio film club and to understand the meanings, uses and appropriations that the audience apprehended about the exhibition and the mediations that establish them. Thinking about the investigation of this specific problem/object, I worked with the concepts of midiatization and film midiatization and with the development of these processes in Brazilian context, considering the film clubs activities and the itinerant film sessions practices. For that purpose, I articulate some theoretical perspectives for understanding the reception using some concepts as reception, mediation, consumption, media appropriation and film reception. About my methodological strategies, I conducted systematic interviews with six persons of itinerant film sessions and with five members of film clubs. From a multi-methodological point of view, I prepare a set of methodological procedures that included cl
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Talero, Álvarez Paula. "WHY KATNISS EVERDEEN IS OUR FAVORITE FEMINIST – AN ANALYSIS OF THE HEROINE OF THE HUNGER GAMES FILM SAGA AND HER RECEPTION BY YOUNG FEMALE SPECTATORS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5583.
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THROUGH THE FIGURE OF FICTIONAL CHARACTER KATNISS EVERDEEN, THIS DISSERTATION STUDIES HOW THE FILM INDUSTRY SIMULTANEOUSLY ENTRENCHES AND DISRUPTS GENDER, SEXUAL, AND RACIAL NORMATIVITIES. THE PROJECT USES TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND PARTICIPANT RESEARCH TO ANALYZE HOW THE FILMS AND NOVELS OF THE HUNGER GAMES SAGA ENCAPSULATE BOTH DOMINANT AND ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS RELATED TO FEMININITY, MASCULINITY, WOMANHOOD, AND MOTHERHOOD. IT ALSO EXPLORES IF AND HOW THE FEMALE HEROINE CAN BE READ AS FEMINIST AND PRODUCES A SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT. I CONCLUDE THAT ALTHOUGH THE INDUSTRY IS PRODUCING NEW MODELS OF WOMANHOOD THAT CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES, IT STILL PERPETUATES ROMANTIC IDEALS AND IDEALIZES THE HETEROSEXUAL NUCLEAR FAMILY AS THE ULTIMATE PATH TO FULFILLMENT FOR WOMEN. THE RESULTS OF THE PARTICIPANT RESEARCH SHOW THAT WHILE YOUNG WOMEN ARE CRITICAL OF CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE SAGA, OVERALL THEY VALUE HAVING STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS IN FICTION TO WHOM THEY CAN RELATE.
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Chen, Kedi, and Jialu Yang. "A good one or a bad one：A comparison of US and Chinese reviews of the film : Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4403.
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The aim of this thesis is to compare the different Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon film reviews from Chinese and American reviewers respectively, and to see how they evaluate and understand the film in the different ways. We use reception theory as our theoretical tool, and divide the film into four themes so that we can compare the different reviews in a more relative way. Meanwhile, we also present some brief ideas to explain the reason why the film gets the different response from both sides. Since our main purpose is to compare the different film reviews, so we choose the comparative design as our research design. The main findings of this thesis show that Chinese and American reviewers do have some distinct evaluations, understandings and views about the film.Besides, culture and aesthetic become the two major factors to influence the response from both sides.
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Ricklund, Michaela, and Tova Rane. "I Nangilima kanske det är mer snö och is : En receptionsstudie av hur barn kan tolka Astrid Lindgrens film Bröderna Lejonhjärta." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-84812.
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In 1973 the famous Swedish children’s author Astrid Lindgren wrote the story about the brothers Lionheart. A story about the love between two brothers, bravery and death. Ever since, there have been a widely discussion whether the story is suitable for the young readers. Although the voices heard in the discussion mostly comes from grown-ups, but what does the children actually think? The aim of this study was to display the children’s interpretations in terms of the metaphors, the semiotics and the sequence of events the film Brothers Lionheart which was screened in the first time 1977. To answer the issues we watched the movie and implemented semi-structured interviews with seven 10-11 year old children. The children in this study gave us both different and interesting interpretations in terms of the metaphors and semiotics which could depend on different experiences in life and backgrounds. This study also shows that the children’s perception of the narrative structure in the movie varies which could mean that their story scheme sometimes is more or less developed in this age.
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Eble, Tamara. "Regards sur le cinéma expressionniste, regards du cinéma expressionniste : esthétique et réception par la critique de cinéma allemande de Weimar." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEN085/document.
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Fondée sur un corpus de huit films allemands réalisés entre 1919 et 1924 (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Genuine et Raskolnikow de Robert Wiene, Algol de Hans Werckmeister, Von morgens bis mitternachts et Das Haus zum Mond de Karlheinz Martin, Torgus/Verlogene Moral de Hanns Kobe et Das Wachsfigurenkabinett de Paul Leni), cette étude porte sur l'esthétique et la réception du cinéma expressionniste, dont l'étiquette fait aujourd’hui encore l'objet de confusions. Pour identifier des traits constitutifs de son esthétique, trois axes sont envisagés : la réception critique, l'esthétique fantastique et la réflexivité. Le retour à la première phase de la réception repose sur un corpus de 225 documents d'archives majoritairement inédits, principalement extraits de huit revues de cinéma allemandes, et notamment des trois périodiques qui font alors autorité : Der Kinematograph, Lichtbild-Bühne et Film-Kurier. Le recours aux critiques et aux premières théories esthétiques qui précédent les célèbres ouvrages de Siegfried Kracauer et de Lotte Eisner permet d'appréhender l'horizon d'attente de la critique. Dans le contexte du débat sur la valeur artistique du cinéma, l'expressionnisme est perçu comme l’avènement d'un art du cinéma, caractérisé par la volonté des créateurs de faire œuvre d'art, qui s'exprime par l'unité stylistique, la conception des décors et l'opposition au naturalisme. La réception se fait aussi au prisme du fantastique et témoigne à la fois de l'héritage du romantisme et de l'importance du renouveau du fantastique. L'enjeu de l'analyse filmique proposée est de dégager en quoi la tension entre les deux pôles du fantastique est constitutive d'une esthétique des frontières, à l'origine de la structure narrative, de la configuration de l'espace et d'une réflexion ontologique. Enfin, ambition artistique et fantastique se rejoignent dans l'esthétique d'un cinéma qui se prend lui-même pour objet. En recourant à la notion d'écran second, élaborée dans le cadre de l'énonciation cinématographique, l'analyse identifie des formes de mise en scène du regard et de l'expérience cinématographique, dans leur rapport au désirBased on a corpus of eight german films made between 1920 and 1924 (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Genuine and Raskolnikow by Robert Wiene, Algol by Hans Werckmeister, Von morgens bis mitternachts and Das Haus zum Mond by Karlheinz Martin, Torgus/Verlogene Moral by Hanns Kobe and Das Wachsfigurenkabinett by Paul Leni), this thesis investigates the aesthetics and the reception of German expressionist film. Up until today, there is still some confusion over the definition of expressionist cinema. In order to identify constituent characteristics of its aesthetics, three areas of research are explored: the critical reception, the fantastic aesthetics and the self-reflexivity. The analysis of the first period of reception is based on a corpus of 225 mostly unpublished archival documents. These documents come from eight different film periodicals, mainly from the three leading trade journals of the early twenties: Der Kinematograph, Lichtbild-Bühne and Film-Kurier. By focusing on film reviews and on the first theories of aesthetics that preceeded Siegfried Kracauer's and Lotte Eisner's famous works on Weimar cinema, we get a sense of film critics' expectations back when the movies were first released. In the context of the debate about cinema and its artistic value, expressionism was perceived as the advent of film art, caracterised by the deliberate will of its contributors to create art. This ambition expresses itself through stylistic unity, a very distinctive conception of set designs and an opposition to Naturalism. Expressionist film is also perceived through the lense of the fantastic, which shows both the legacy of German romanticism and the importance of the renewal of fantastic literature and film in Germany. The film analysis of the present work aims at showing how the tension between the two poles of the fantastic is a constituent characteristic of the aesthetics of borders that caracterises expressionist film: it accounts for its narrative structure, its configuration of space and the ontologic reflexion it offers. Finally, cinema itself appears to be one of the main topics of these films. This is both the result of the artistic ambition of expressionist filmmakers and the explanation for their predilection for the fantastic: in some respect, films are fantasies, in that they manipulate the spectator and produce illusions. This is why spectatorship plays a major role in expressionist cinema: thanks to the notion of secondary screen, borrowed from the field of filmic enunciation, our analysis identifies characteristic representations of looks and gazes as well as of cinematic experiences, and reveals their relation to human desires
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Deldén, Maria. "Historien som fiktion : gymnasieelevers erfarande av spelfilm i historieundervisningen." Licentiate thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27218.
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The present study explores the reception of historical feature films in history education. It is concerned with how pupils experience the films as well as the significance of the feature film for their understanding and interpretation of history. The study incorporates empirical data from classroom projects in two different Swedish upper secondary schools where film was used as an educational tool. Observations of classroom activities were made and interviews with twelve pupils and their history teachers were conducted. The study applies a phenomenological approach. The lifeworld of the pupils is in focus, specifically the aspect of the lifeworld they live and experience in history class when film is used as a means of understanding the past. The phenomenon studied is thus how the pupils experience the film, and through the film, history itself. Theoretical notions from film reception studies and history didactics are used as analytic tools. The study shows how emotional and cognitive processes converge in the pupils’ meaning making of the films. The embodiment of the films’ narrative is an important factor that contributes to both the understanding of the film as well as of history. The pupils experience the films emotionally, feeling both empathy and antipathy for the various characters, physically through sight and sound as well as embodied reactions, and cognitively through an understanding of the film’s narrative. Embodied experience is fundamental for history to become materialized. The audiovisual portrayal and materialization of the past becomes embodied in the pupils so that the experience of the film and of the historical lifeworld presented therein becomes part of their lifeworld. Generally, pupils consider the films to be trustworthy, though this perceived accuracy depends on how authentically the narrative is performed and the pupils’ previous store of historical knowledge. A didactic dilemma to consider when using historical feature film in the classroom is the contradiction between the aesthetic experience of a feature film and its use as a tool for understanding the past. The captivating character of feature film evokes empathy and engagement with the films’ characters regardless of the degree of historical accuracy. This is a critical issue for teachers; there needs to be balance between respect for the pupils’ aesthetic experience of the film and the need to guide them to develop for example the skills of historical empathy, where distance is necessary for the pupils to be able to consider different perspectives.
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Kirkendoll, Elizabeth. "“Slightly Overlooked Professionally”: Popular Music in Postmillennial Romantic Comedies." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531250614267114.
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Goret, Lea. "Produire et voir du cinéma en régime autoritaire : censure et spectateurs dans l'Espagne franquiste (1946-1960)." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMC014.
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Dès le début du XXe siècle, le cinéma devient un des médias privilégiés pour diffuser l’information et mettre en scène la fiction. Comme d’autres régimes autoritaires, l’Espagne franquiste (1939-1975) prend conscience de la nécessité de contrôler ce mode de communication et se dote d’un puissant appareil censorial. Parallèlement à leurs interventions sur les scénarios et les pellicules, les censeurs franquistes s’assurent que les spectateurs ont correctement interprété les œuvres qu’ils ont censurées. Tous les mois, entre 1946 et 1960, les délégués provinciaux leurs envoient des rapports détaillant l’accueil des films par le public de leur province. A travers l’étude de ces sources originales, cette thèse ambitionne ainsi de renouveler l’approche traditionnelle de la censure franquiste. Elle repose sur l’hypothèse que les pratiques censoriales obéissent aux perceptions que les acteurs ont des attentes tant du public que des ambitions idéologiques, artistiques et commerciales du régime. L’analyse de ces enquêtes permet d’appréhender les modalités à travers lesquelles les publics sont approchés par les autorités censoriales et d’évaluer leurs effets sur la pratique des censeurs. En étudiant les différents points de vue d’acteurs qui sont constamment en interaction, ce travail s’intéresse à la circularité des discours censoriaux et réceptifs et à leurs capacités d’influence mutuelle. Les relations entre la censure et la réception cinématographique sont interrogées autour de trois axes : la réception rapportée aux censeurs par les informateurs du régime, à travers l’analyse des discours présents dans les rapports provinciaux ; la réception imaginée par les censeurs, grâce à l’étude de leurs discours sur les publics au sein des sources administratives ; et enfin, l'expérience réceptive des spectateurs, en étudiant l’environnement cinématographique en contexte autoritaire, qui influe sur leur réception du cinéma nationalFrom the beginning of the 20th century, cinema became one of the privileged media for disseminating information and staging fiction. Like other authoritarian regimes, Franco's Spain (1939-1975) became aware of the need to control this mode of communication and equipped itself with a powerful censorial apparatus. In parallel to their interventions on scripts and films, Franco's censors made sure that spectators correctly interpreted the films they censored. Every month, between 1946 and 1960, the provincial delegates sent them reports detailing how the films were received by the public in their province. Through the study of these original sources, this thesis aims to renew the traditional approach to Franco's censorship. It is based on the hypothesis that censorial practices obey the actors' perceptions of the public's expectations as well as the regime's ideological, artistic and commercial ambitions. The analysis of these surveys enables us to apprehend the modalities through which audiences are approached by the censorial authorities and to evaluate their effects on the censors' practices. By studying the different points of view of actors who are constantly interacting, this work is interested in the circularity of censorial and receptive discourses and in their capacities of mutual influence. The relations between censorship and cinematographic reception are questioned around three axes: the reception reported to the censors by the regime's informers, through the analysis of the discourses present in the provincial reports; the reception imagined by the censors, through the study of their discourses on audiences within the administrative sources; and finally, the receptive experience of the spectators, by studying the cinematographic environment in an authoritarian context, which influences their reception of national cinema
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Ryberg, Ingrid. "Imagining Safe Space : The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-68789.
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There is a current wave of interest in pornography as a vehicle for queer, feminist and lesbian activism. Examples include Dirty Diaries: Twelve Shorts of Feminist Porn (Engberg, Sweden, 2009), the Pornfilmfestival Berlin (2006-) and the members-only Club LASH in Stockholm (1995-). Based on ethnographic fieldwork designed around these cases, the purpose of the thesis is to account for, historicize and understand this transnational film culture and its politics and ethics. The fieldwork consists of interviews, questionnaires and participant observation, including participation as one of the filmmakers in Dirty Diaries. The thesis studies queer, feminist and lesbian pornography as an interpretive community. Meanings produced in this interpretive community are discussed as involving embodied spectatorial processes, different practices of participation in the film culture and their location in specific situations and contexts of production, distribution and reception. The thesis highlights a collective political fantasy about a safe space for sexual empowerment as the defining feature of this interpretive community. The figure of safe space is central in the fieldwork material, as well as throughout the film culture’s political and aesthetic legacies, which include second wave feminist insistence on sexual consciousness-raising, as well as the heated debates referred to as the Sex Wars. The political and aesthetic heterogeneity of the film culture is discussed in terms of a tension between affirmation and critique (de Lauretis, 1985). It is argued that the film culture functions both as an intimate public (Berlant, 2008) and as a counter public (Warner, 2002). Analyzing research subjects’ accounts in terms of embodied spectatorship (Sobchack, 2004, Williams, 2008), the thesis examines how queer, feminist and lesbian pornography shapes the embodied subjectivities of participants in this interpretive community and potentially forms part of processes of sexual empowerment.
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Burchfield, Amy Elizabeth. "Going the Distance: Themes of the Hero in Disney's Hercules." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4291.
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Disney's Hercules is an apt modern reception of the ancient mythology of Herakles, acknowledging ancient and modern sources surrounding three types of classical hero: the archetypal hero, influenced by the ideas of Joseph Campbell; the Pan-Hellenic hero, distilled from ancient Greek exempla of heroism from epic and other genres of ancient literature; and the tragic hero, inspired by the heroic criteria presented in Aristotle's Poetics. By adapting these heroic types from their traditional ancient source myths, Disney's Hercules produces a new, contemporary definition of heroism—one informed by modern, Western family values. This adaptation renews the power of the myth of Herakles for a modern era, whose image and characteristics have been changed and adapted since ancient times to suit each receiving culture's conception of true heroism.
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Burns, Andrew R. "Confirmation of Prophecy by Proxy: Audience Anticipation and Reception of the 2014 Movie Left Behind and its Relevance to the Dispensational Premillennialist Worldview." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2019.
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Media has the potential to legitimize or spread a belief system to the general public. The 2014 movie Left Behind is an example of a deliberate attempt at promoting the belief system referred to as dispensational premillennialism (DPM), or belief in the imminent rapture of Christians. Producers of Left Behind (2014) sought to promote DPM to the general public, hoping for a mass conversion. Online discussion and interviews were gathered and interpreted qualitatively. Content analysis of audience anticipation and reception show believers were as concerned with the conversion of the general public via this movie than the movie itself. Differences between the text of the movie and discussion surrounding the film provide insights into the DPM worldview. Dispensational premillennialists are observed; rejecting earthly existence as counterfeit, asserting the general inerrancy of prophecy while rejecting “date setting” practices and using the effigy of the Antichrist to criticize perceived socio-political enemies.