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Esquivel-King, Reyna M. "Mexican Film Censorship and the Creation of Regime Legitimacy, 1913-1945." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555601229993353.

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Burton, Mary Ashley. "Contextos nacionales y transnacionales: la nueva reencarnación del melodrama mexicano en la película Bella (2006, Alejandro Monteverde)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1334192023.

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Nunes, Gabriel Carneiro. "O cinema vai a guerra : imagens em movimento da Guerra Hispano-Americana (1898-1901) /." Assis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/190979.

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Orientador: Carlos Alberto Sampaio Barbosa<br>Banca: José Luis Bendicho Beired<br>Banca: Carolina Amaral de Aguiar<br>Resumo: A Guerra Hispano-Americana (1898) aconteceu em decorrência da expansão imperialista dos Estados Unidos no momento em que sua industrialização crescia em ritmo acelerado. Eliminando os últimos resquícios da colonização espanhola no continente americano, Cuba e Filipinas foram os primeiros alvos de uma política agressiva dos nacionalistas estadunidenses para assegurar o slogan proposto pela Doutrina Monroe, "América para os Americanos". Nos principais centros urbanos dos

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Yang, Jing. "The construction of the Chinese woman in 1990s American cinema." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43813185.

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Black, Liza. "Picturing Indians : American Indians in movies, 1941-1960 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10418.

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

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

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Cossar, Harper. "Snakes and funerals aesthetics and American widescreen films /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03162007-175907/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from file title page. Greg M. Smith, committee chair; Matthew Bernstein, Kathy Fuller-Seeley, Jack Boozer, Angelo Restivo, committee members. Electronic text (349 p. : ill. (some col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 4, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-348).

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Berrien, John P. "The portrayal of the clergy in selected American films from the 1930's to the 1970's." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Kearley, Victoria. "The representation of Hispanic masculinity in US cinema 1998-2008 : genre, stardom and machismo." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374586/.

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This thesis examines how the conventions of four distinct genres, the star personas of two key Hispanic male stars and conceptions of Hispanic men as 'macho' intersected in constructing images of Hispanic masculinity in Hollywood between the years 1998 and 2008. The work makes an original contribution to knowledge as the first extensive study of Hispanic masculinity in contemporary Hollywood and affording new insights into the way in which genre conventions and star personas contributed to these representations. The structure is based around four genre based case studies. The first analyses ho

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Fisher, Kevin B. "Intimate elsewheres altered states of consciousness in post WWII American cinema /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1565346871&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Raphael, Raphael. "The new American grotesque : freaks and other monstrous and extraordinary bodies /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1883697101&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Budziszewski, Przemyslaw. "Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4269/.

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This thesis is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the American public. Specifically, it focuses on the emergence of these films in the 1970s, their almost complete disappearance during the Reagan presidency, and subsequent reemergence in the early 1990s. Placing representative texts in the context of U.S. political and social reality of the last three dec

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Phillips, Julie D. "Rape myths in the American movie industry : a content analysis and feminist criticism." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/941729.

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This study explored rape depictions and rape myths in the mainstream American filmindustry. Four rape myths pervade American culture. The myths argue that women "ask" for rape, "deserve" rape, lie about rape, and are not really hurt by rape. These myths place blame on the victim and absolve the rapists on any wrongdoing. Furthermore, these myths attempt to justify male sexual aggression against women.This study explored film's portrayal of the rape event, the victim, the rapist, and the depiction of specific rape myths. A content analysis of 16 American films released between 1982 and 1994 rev

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Gonzalez, Felix M. Kendrick James. ""What's the matter with bigamy?" the American family in the wartime comedies of Preston Sturges /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5314.

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Yang, Jing, and 杨静. "The construction of the Chinese woman in 1990s American cinema." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43813185.

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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

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Davis, William. "To make the better film movies, women's clubs and the fight over censorship in the American South, 1907-1934 /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-3/davisw/williamdavis.pdf.

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Bather, Neil. ""There is evil there that does not sleep-" : the construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002 /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070125.105814/.

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

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

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Ross, Miriam. "Developing cinematic culture : a South American case study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1669/.

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The thesis examines the way that different agents, organisations and institutions intervene in the cinema practice of South America. Using Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru as case studies, the thesis outlines the way state and institutional organisations, commercial bodies, international interests and alternative practices have converged, even with individual discrepancies, to develop a national and regional cinematic culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Practices from funding and production through to distribution and exhibition are investigated in order to provide an overv

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Fyvie, Erica Gwen. "The myths of the American dream interracial and inter-ethnic relationships in Hollywood films /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0016/MQ56174.pdf.

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Mosher, Jerry Dean. "Weighty ambitions fat actors and figurations in American cinema, 1910-1960 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1495959291&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Watkins, Jessica. "From fallen women to risen heroines representations of gender and sexuality in American film, 1929-1942 /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=539.

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Ward, Katherine. "Tracing the heroine in masculine spectacle : gender, technology, and the role of the destroyer in recent American film." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56771.

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This thesis explores the changing relationship of power, technology, and gender in recent Hollywood films. Beginning with ideas of gender "truths" in philosophical thought, I posit that the representation of violence is inseparable from the notion of gender, and that ideas of gender are always historically specific.<br>I examine masculinity and aggression in Vietnam films, arguing that masculinity must struggle to renew its privilege and its illusion of purity.<br>Finally, I examine combat roles for women where the heroines have accessed "male" technology to become subjects of the social act.

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Võ, Ch'o'ng-Đài Hồng. "An assemblage of fragments history, revolutionary aesthetics and global capitalism in Vietnamese/American literature, films and visual culture /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3386844.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 11, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-168).

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Sloan, Anna C. "Imperial Hollywood : American cinematic representations of Europe, 1948-1964." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57453/.

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This thesis examines the tourist films, a cycle of Hollywood films made between 1948 and 1964 in which an American travels abroad to Europe. The films share an experience of Europe that is organised around spectacular visual experiences, encounters with European antiquity – architecture, rituals, foods, older forms of transport – and other classic aspects of tourist experience. While many scholarly approaches to postwar Hollywood and its relationship to Europe have focused on industrial and political issues, this thesis takes a different tack, looking closely at the film text and examining its

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Charbonneau, Stephen Michael. "Screen angst young auto-ethnographies and alterity in American documentary /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1383469851&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Reburn, Jennifer. "Watching men : masculinity and surveillance in the American serial killer film 1978-2008." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3390/.

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This thesis explores the depiction of masculinity in the American serial killer film with a particular focus on the articulation of surveillance. I trace shifts and trends in films made between 1978 and 2008. Drawing on existing analyses of the serial killer panic, I argue that cinema swiftly assimilated FBI rhetoric which influenced the development of the serial killer as a cultural figure. In particular, I highlight the profiler as a crucial element of serial killer discourse. This thesis tracks the development of this figure within American cinema, investigates the influence of this charact

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Pillai, Nicolas. "The happy couple : American marriages in Hollywood films 1934-1948." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50024/.

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This thesis examines Hollywood narratives of married life produced between 1934 and 1948. Using Stanley Cavell’s seminal Pursuits of Happiness as a point of departure, I compare the depiction of benign domesticity across four chapters. Combining textual analysis, genre criticism and studio archival research, I re-evaluate Cavell’s notion of ‘films in conversation’, and suggest that narratives of marriage call for an approach that considers intertextuality, audience address and the interaction of star personae. My first two chapters focus on MGM’s six Thin Man films, discussing an ongoing serie

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Hinchliffe, Alexander. "Contamination and containment : representing the pathologised other in 1950s American cinema." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11021/.

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This thesis examines the complex role played by film in the maintenance of an American “self” in opposition to a series of politically and culturally defined pathological “Others” in the 1950s. I reveal how popular imagery and political rhetoric combined to link domestic “deviants” such as juvenile delinquents, homosexuals, domineering or passive mothers and drug addicts with the Communist “Other,” portraying each as essentially pathological, an insidious and sickly threat to the health of the American home and family. By analysing case-studies within a wide-reaching and inter-connected cold-w

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Gallimore, Adam. "Subjectivity, immediacy, and the digital : historical reassessment in contemporary American cinema." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/62970/.

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This thesis investigates various forms of historical reassessment in contemporary American cinema (2005-2013), with a particular emphasis on the role that digital technologies play in re-framing, re-negotiating, and re-vivifying historical figures and events. The focus of this work concerns questions relating to cinema’s relationship with history, and how this has been achieved through changing narratives and film aesthetics. It uses critical analysis to propose that a new range of practices and tools have been utilised to address and challenge conventions of specific historical genres, such a

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

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Overpeck, Deron. "Out of the dark American film exhibition : political action and industrial change, 1966-1986 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1459904671&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Liu, Zhan. "Communicating race and culture in media appropriating the Asian in American martial arts films /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2008/l_zhan_091108.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in communication)--Washington State University, December 2008.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 31, 2008). "Edward R. Murrow College of Communication." Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-85).

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Pauw, Waldemar. "The narcissistic masculinity of Travis Bickle : American "Reality" in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1761.

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Brookes, Ian. "Coming home : veteran readjustment, postwar conformity and American film narratives, 1945-1948." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28846/.

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The aftermath of World War II witnessed large-scale military demobilisation and. in its wake, a vast influx of returning servicemen. Their homecoming signalled a transition from military to civilian life which was often described as 'readjustment.' The term is usually taken to imply a process of homogenisation which engendered a condition of conformity in ex-servicemen and, by extension, in society at large. This thesis argues against this view and demonstrates that 'readjustment' wasn't intended to reproduce conformity but, on the contrary, was to provide the means for the reconversion of the

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McDonald, Paul. "Public bodies, private moments : method acting and American cinema in the 1950s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34659/.

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The thesis deals with two central issues: a) the construction of a framework for the study of film acting which places performance in a cultural context b) the cultural significance of Method acting during the 1950s with specific reference to American cinema of the period The first chapter considers the ways in which the voice and body in film acting are made meaningful in the context of beliefs about acting and personal identity. The chapter also proposes ways for situating the practical activity of film acting in a context of cultural production. The remaining chapters study the cultural sig

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Wang, Ting. "Global Hollywood and China's filmed entertainment industry." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3230167.

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Zhao, Meng. "Understand the misunderstanding a study incorporating uses and gratifications theory on why Chinese film audiences see America the way they do /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2008. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Lamberti, Justin V. Winn J. Emmett. "Fagidaboudit the American dream and Italian-American gangster movies /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/LAMBERTI_JUSTIN_26.pdf.

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Johnstone, Sara R. "A special relationship : the British Empire in British and American cinema, 1930-1960." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58603/.

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This project sets out to scrutinize three decades of feature length fiction films about the British Empire produced by American and British filmmakers beginning in the 1930s through to the end of the 1950s. It compares British and American film in these three decades because such a comparative study has yet to be done and situating such a study within the changing historical contexts is important to chart shifting patterns in filmmaking in these two cultures. Focusing on film narratives that favour sites of modern colonial conflict as setting, namely India, the African colonies and Ireland, th

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Sutton, Travis Benshoff Harry M. ""According to their wills and pleasures" the sexual stereotyping of Mormon men in American film and television /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9825.

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Cavallero, Jonathan J. "Italian/American filmmakers in American motion pictures : the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino /." [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:3301350.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Depts. of Communication and Culture and American Studies, 2007.<br>Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0413. Adviser: James Naremore.

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Artt, Sarah. "Under the red light : images of prostitution in Klute, Pretty baby. McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and American gigolo." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33269.

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This thesis deals with the image of the prostitute in four films: Klute (1971) Pretty Baby (1978) McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1972) and American Gigolo (1980). It includes a review of the image of the prostitute in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These earlier images are compared and contrasted with the images presented in the four films and used to analyze how women are represented through the role of the prostitute in Klute, Pretty Baby and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. American Gigolo presents male prostitution in a manner conventional to prostitution, but unconventiona

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Brown, Tom. "From intimate pleasures to spectacular vistas : musicality and historicity in French and American 'classical' cinema of the 1930s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1119/.

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This thesis considers the role of spectacle in two modes of filmmaking in the French and American 'classical' cinemas of the 1930s. I examine the relationship of spectacle to the emotions and drama of musical films, and to the 'history-telling' of biopics, war films and other genres of historical cinema. One reason for the comparison is the hegemonic position of classical Hollywood cinema in film scholarship. Although I am respectful of the insights offered by the concept of a 'classical' cinema, a more central motivation for this study is the failure of much criticism to account for the relat

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Ferguson, Laura Elizabeth. "Kicking the Vietnam syndrome? : collective memory of the Vietnam War in fictional American cinema following the 1991 Gulf War." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2672/.

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This thesis analyses the concept of the “Vietnam Syndrome” and its continuing manifestation in fictional American films produced after the 1991 Gulf War, with reference to depictions of the Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq Wars. Based on contemporary press reports as source material and critical analysis, it identifies the “Vietnam Syndrome” as a flexible and altering national psychological issue characterised initially as a simple aversion to military engagement, but which grew to include collective feelings of shame, guilt and a desire to rewrite history. The thesis argues that the “Syndrome” was not

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Willis, Andrew. "Violent exchanges : genre, national cinemas and the politics of popular films : case studies in Spanish horror and American martial arts cinema." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13908/.

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This thesis argues that in order to understand the way in which films work one has to place them into a variety of contexts. As well as those of production, these include the historical and culturally specific moments of their creation and consumption. In order to explore how these contexts impact upon the textual construction of individual and groups of films, and our potential understanding of them, this study offers two contrasting case studies of critically neglected areas: Spanish horror cinema since the late-1960s; and US martial arts films since the late 1980s. The first places a range

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Raynes, Hayley Susan. "Movie in search of America: The rhetoric of myth in Easy Rider." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2804.

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This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of the movie Easy Rider. It explores how auteurs Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern's use of road, regional, and cowboy mythology creates a text that simultaneously exposes and is dominated by the ironies inherent in American culture and breathes new life into the cowboy myth, reaffirming the cowboy's place as one of America's most enduring cultural icons.

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Flook, Christopher A. "A critical analysis of masculinity portrayals in film : definition, ideal, and possible solution." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379432.

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The purpose of this thesis is to critically analyze masculinity portrayals in film at the turn of the Twenty-First Century. Specifically, the films Fight Club and American Beauty are analyzed to determine how these films define masculinity and render the ideal male. This analysis finds that the portrayal of men in these films closely matches the perception of a masculinity crisis. The films also offer a solution to the crisis that follows the philosophical theories suggested by Friedrich Nietzsche. It is concluded that masculinity is a social construction that needs new ideals and definitions

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Sinwell, Sarah E. S. "Fear of a queer cinema danger, sex, and identification in contemporary American independent film /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3264324.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 1705. Adviser: Joan Hawkins. "Title from dissertation homepage (viewed Jan. 14, 2008)."

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