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Brereton, Pat. "Ecological utopianism and Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622149.
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The primary focus of this dissertation is to explore a range of light/dark ecological metaphors, which can be read across popular Hollywood cinema from the 1950s to the end of the century. In particular this representational growth in ecological consciousness will be surveyed across a range of genres including Westerns, road movies and science fiction fantasies in particular. Alternative embodiments and agencies of an ecological consciousness, especially feminist and native American Indian, will be closely examined, alongside a white, middle-class, liberal, eco-sensibility, which has become more dominant within modern Hollywood, as evidenced by the Spielberg oeuvre. Each chapter will address a specific theoretical aspect of the study while drawing on detailed examples to illustrate the thesis in general. It is the overall contention of this study that such symbolic expression is both 'shrinking the world' while at the same time 'giving citizens, governments and corporations a heightened consciousness that there are real global ties and maybe a global identity for the occupants of spaceship earth' (Allen et al. 1995: 173). Alongside a more tangible and overt expression of 'light' ecology in film, the human species evolving symbiotic relation with the cosmos (and the resultant oneness with nature) will also be explored. This burgeoning thematic expression is often codified within the duality of a utopian/dystopian future particularly evidenced in the science fiction genre, which continuously adapts and modifies notions drawn from 'deep ecology'. The primary strategy used to uncover such ecological expression incorporates the close textual exploration of space/place alongside moments of excess/sublime within many 'feel good' utopian/dystopian Hollywood texts. This will be articulated through a variety of expressions of rural/urban space and landscape as codified within particular eco-registers by various human and post-human agents, which sometimes transcend the more normative ideological textual specificities of race/class/gender.
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Davison, Annette. "Hollywood theory, non-Hollywood practice : cinema soundtracks in the 1980s." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310816.
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Johnson, Jeb E. Mr. "Exploring Hollywood Cinema: A Look at Cinematic Techniques and the Classical Hollywood Ideology." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/350.
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The focus of this thesis is to explore the ideas behind Hollywood Cinema and techniques used to craft camera shots of today’s cinema. The movie industry is one of the United States’ biggest export profits; because of this, American movies standout above the rest. I will be exploring and demonstrating the researched techniques of American cinema.
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De, Gobbi Francesca <1994>. "Hollywood and Ecology: raising awareness through cinema." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16514.
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The thesis analyses three Hollywood movies: An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Wall-E (2008) and Avatar (2009) and how they differently present the theme of ecology. Even though directors may not have the ecological theme in mind, the thesis highlights the ability of each movie to raise awareness for a huge number of audiences on environmentalism. The analysis includes explorations of politics, comedy, and fantasy as crucial factors for the reception of the ecological message. Despite the different interpretations that a movie can elicit, by presenting such a complicated theme, the thesis concentrates on the power of image that a film could provide, especially thanks to the potential of a Hollywood production company.
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Sengul, Ali Fuat. "Cinema And Representation In International Relations: Hollywood Cinema And The Cold War." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606291/index.pdf.
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the Hollywood cinema and the United States governments enjoyed a close relationship during the period in question. The latter actively involved in the inscription of the wills and desires of US Foreign policymakers into the American popular culture. The thesis will also extend the discussion to a politic cultural assessment of how the United States, through the films, represents and re-presents its superiority, and more importantly, how these films affect and shape the spectators perceptions about its foreign policy.
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Fradley, Martin. "White masculinity and paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410313.
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Chard, Holly. "Mainstream maverick? : John Hughes and new Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51552/.
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My thesis explores debates on the commercial and textual priorities of New Hollywood cinema through examination of the career of John Hughes. I argue that scrutiny of Hughes' career and the products associated with him expose the inadequacy of established approaches to cinematic authorship and New Hollywood cinema. By mounting a historically grounded investigation of Hughes' career, his status within the cinema industry, and his work as a commercially successful and agenda-setting filmmaker, I aim to reevaluate existing perspectives on post-1970s mainstream popular U.S. media. Drawing on an extensive array of previously unexamined primary materials, the thesis focuses on Hughes' shifting status as a “creative producer” within the U.S. film industry, as well as on the construction of the John Hughes “brand” during the 1980s and 1990s. I explore how Hughes secured considerable industrial power by exploiting opportunities presented by expanding ancillary markets and changing production agendas. I argue that established models for conceptualising industrial trends, such as Justin Wyatt's “high concept”, fail to capture the complexities of Hollywood's commercial strategies in this period. I conclude that historical research can challenge previous assumptions and contribute to a more detailed and precise understanding of the operations of the U.S. film industry in this period. By scrutinizing the films that Hughes wrote, produced and/or directed, I consider how Hughes' films are complexly determined industrial productions that are shaped both by a set of radically fluctuating commercial imperatives, as well as by Hollywood's standardized formats and frameworks. The production of Hollywood cinema may be a collaborative enterprise, but I argue that certain individuals and institutions can exert greater control over aspects of the process. In conclusion, I suggest that such a historical methodology can illuminate not just the work of one particular filmmaker but can shed new light on the broader operations of Hollywood as a commercial culture industry.
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MacDowell, James. "The final couple : happy endings in Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49034/.
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This thesis concerns a very common, yet surprisingly under-examined, concept: the Hollywood ‘happy ending’. Focusing on an aspect of this convention that I call the ‘final couple’ (i.e.: an ultimate romantic union), the study examines movies from throughout the history of popular American cinema in order to interrogate common critical assumptions about ‘happy endings’. Chapter 1 questions the existence of the homogenous norm the ‘happy ending’ by attempting to define it – a task more challenging than the convention’s reputation would have us believe. Chapter 2 looks at the relationship between ‘happy endings’ and closure, arguing that, while some films succeed in making their final couples feel emphatically ‘closed’, others use different strategies to render the same convention comparatively ‘open’. Chapter 3 examines the connection between ‘happy endings’ and ‘unrealism’, considering firstly the traditionally close conceptual relationship between the ‘happy ending’ and fiction tout court, before, secondly, exploring the ways in which the final couple relates to debates concerning the ‘openness’ of life and the ‘closed’ nature of narrative. Chapter 4 addresses the ideology of ‘happy endings’ by discussing (1) what potential the concept of the final couple might be said to have for structuring viewers’ real-life romantic relationships, (2) the ideological implications of closure, and (3) the different ideological meanings that a final couple can convey in what is often taken to be an innately ‘conservative’ genre, the romantic comedy. The results of my analyses suggest that ‘happy endings’ are as conducive to variation as any other artistic convention – a fact that has significant ramifications for our thinking about Hollywood conclusions.
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Machado, Elsa C. S. Andrade. "Vigilantism, masculinity and star image in Hollywood cinema." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18349.
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Oliveira, Sandra Cristina Reis Marques de. "Representations of American youth in Hollywood film in the 1980s." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2762.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesO presente trabalho propõe-se examinar diferentes representações da adolescência no cinema de Hollywood, particularmente na década de 80. Esta dissertação inicia a sua análise debruçando-se sobre as representações da adolescência no cinema de Hollywood, no período após a II Guerra Mundial, numa tentativa de determinar alguns acontecimento que afectaram a forma como essas representações evoluíram até ao final da década de 80. Finalmente, uma reflexão sobre os aspectos mais relevantes das representações da adolescência no cinema na época conservadora de Ronald Reagan. ABSTRACT: This present study aims to examine different representations of American youth in Hollywood film, particularly in the 1980s. This dissertation begins with an examination of some representations of American youth after World War II in an attempt to investigate the trends which affected its representations and how they have evolved from then until the end of the 1980s. Finally, it offers some detailed reflections on depictions of adolescence in Hollywood film during the Reagan years.
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Macedo, Litiane Barbosa. "Hollywood romantic comedies." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2014. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/123434.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2014.Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-06T18:12:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 326765.pdf: 1947912 bytes, checksum: 24a5ffd6256800c0a39b95337f4997fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014
Comédias românticas têm sido produzidas no cinema popular desde os primeiros filmes com som (Grindon, 2012). Considerando a popularidade deste gênero (Abbott & Jermyn, 2009), e o papel da mídia na construção de identidades como provedor de modelos de como ser e agir (Gauntlett, 2008), a investigação destes tipos de filme pode ajudar a desvendar as representações de gênero de contextos sociais específicos. Além disso, uma perspectiva social semiótica para analisar textos fílmicos pode contribuir para interpretar criticamente como os recursos semióticos são usados em contextos distintos, e como esses recursos constroem a realidade através de discursos, dando oportunidade para questionar estas representações nas quais são normalmente consideradas como naturais. Portanto, o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar criticamente a representação das protagonistas, Ellie Andrews e Margaret Tate das comédias românticas Aconteceu Aquela Noite (1934) e A Proposta (2009), com base nos estudos de Semiótica Social e Multimodalidade, Linguística Sistêmica-Funcional, Estudos de Gênero e Filme. Este estudo pretende desvendar a construção semiótica-discursiva destas representações, e então contrastá-las a modo de indicar se os discursos sobre feminidade mudaram com o passar dos anos, assim como os papéis das mulheres dentro do contexto de relacionamentos íntimos heterossexuais. Os procedimentos da pesquisa envolvem uma análise verbal e visual detalhada das cenas selecionadas através do sistema de transitividade (LSF) e significados representacionais (GV), e a interpretação dos resultados sob a perspectiva das referencias teóricas deste estudo. Os resultados mostram que, apesar de algumas mudanças progressivas com relação à representação da mulher, ambos os filmes reforçam normas tradicionais de gênero e papeis de feminidade em relações amorosas.
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Gruffman, Mathias. "Alternativ Hollywoodestetik : En studie över fyra filmers förhållande till Classical Hollywood Cinema." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Humanities, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1555.
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This essay studies stylistic differences as well as homage’s between four films produced in two different contexts, New Hollywood and alternative aesthetics today in America. This is done in order to answer the question how alternative Hollywood works against or with Classical Hollywood Cinema in cases like style and narrative. The Work is done by a theory of neoformalism and the definition made by them of Classical Hollywood Cinema. The essay finds small changes, although kind of important witch are mainly shown in editing and causal motivation. It’s found that, in these films Classical Hollywood Cinema still contributes with a huge part.
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Pilkington, Patrick. "The courtroom trial sequence in Hollywood cinema, 1934-1966." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/79404/.
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This thesis examines representations of the courtroom trial in Hollywood cinema produced between 1934 and 1966. The primary method is close textual analysis, which has been neglected in previous work on trial sequences in cinema. However, I argue that a rigorous engagement with both the conventions of the courtroom trial form and individual films’ use of these conventions requires close attention to the text. The introductory chapter identifies the dominant conventions, meanings and ideology underpinning Hollywood representations of the courtroom trial by looking at the treatment of space, character, procedure and drama in a number of films produced between 1957 and 1962 that serve as a representative sample of the conventions of trial representation in Hollywood cinema. I conclude that the narrative scenario of the courtroom trial tends to dictate a set of formal strategies that respect and affirm the American adversarial trial system. However, I also use this chapter to begin mapping out the ways in which individual films are able to nuance their representation of the courtroom trial despite its multitude of fixed components. My subsequent chapters examine how different genres and modes inflect the dominant representations of the courtroom trial as I look in detail at trial sequences in, respectively, the social problem film, the woman’s melodrama and film noir. This method involves firstly engaging with existing criticism on each genre and considering how previous definitions and identified conventions, meanings and representational strategies might be said to affect that particular genre’s representations of the courtroom trial. My second chapter examines representations of the courtroom trial in the social problem film, which I argue cleaves relatively closely to the representational model outlined in my introductory chapter. However, through close readings of two case studies, Dust Be My Destiny and Pinky, I also demonstrate the differences in how both films handle the didacticism and resolution that the trial form offers the social problem film, and identify competing voices in the text that complicate what could be viewed as a solely affirmative depiction of the court system. My third chapter examines representations of the courtroom trial in woman’s melodrama, employing as primary case studies Peyton Place and Madame X. My analyses of these films demonstrate how the female-centred melodrama can, to different degrees, challenge the patriarchal structures of the court by emphasising the female protagonist’s viewpoint. My final chapter looks at courtroom trial representations in film noir. I provide close readings of trial sequences in Stranger on the Third Floor and The Lady from Shanghai. Here I argue that noir’s use of the courtroom trial exemplifies the genre’s oft-situated difference from conventional forms in Hollywood cinema of the period. Noir trials consistently challenge notions of the adversarial trial system as the correct one for seeking justice.
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Stubbs, Jonathan. "Inventing England: representations of English history in Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441622.
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This thesis examines the representations of English history in Hollywood cinema with a particular emphasis on popular films released between 1950 and 1964. Adopting a principally empirical and archival approach, I examine why Hollywood filmmakers and audiences have been so attracted to images and narratives from English culture, why these images and narratives have so frequently focused on England's past, and why the resulting English historical films became so prominent in the 1950s and early 1960s. My first chapter establishes a broad context for Hollywood's English historical cinema by tracing the history of Anglo-American relations from the eighteenthcentury. Further contextual material is provided in Chapter Two, which examines the presence of English historical material in the American film history up to 1950. Chapter Three examines the long script development of Ivanhoe (1952) and Knights of the Round Table (1953) and the ways in which they were redrafted to suit their changing political contexts. The remaining chapters focus on the period between 1950 and 1964. Chapter Four surveys the major production trends of the period, while Chapter Five examines the connections between the English historical films and British `runaway' production. Chapter Six analyses Around the World in 80 Days (1956) in the context of postwar American internationalism, while Chapter Seven examines a more ambiguous treatment of similar themes in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Finally, Chapter Eight looks at the construction of an ostensibly more modem image of England in Tom Jones (1963) and the first three James Bond films.I argue that American investments in the English past during the 1950s and early 1960s can be traced to three historical developments: first, the newfound acceptability of English culture as British economic and political power diminished; second, the growing resemblance between England's imperial past and America's internationalist present; and third, the efforts of the Hollywood studios to adapt to a business model where profits increasingly derived from international markets.
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Withers, Emma Jane. "Virtual corporeality : narrative and spectacle in Hollywood VR cinema." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65820/.
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This thesis is an inquiry into the emergence, development and eventual transmutation of the 'virtual reality' (VR) subgenre. I critically intervene in discourse on cinema, digital media, phenomenology and science fiction (SF) to explore how these films refract and enact Hollywood cinema‘s engagement with digital media and imaging technologies. Given that these films are about bodily immersive mediated experiences, I argue, their reflexive displays of special effects technologies are far from anti- or contra-narrative, as certain analyses imply. My emphasis on the imbrication of narrative and spectacle motivates a critical questioning of further, often interrelated and mutually sustaining dichotomies between body and mind, cognition and affect, cinema and digital media, real and virtual, reflection and immersion. Via close textual analysis with a phenomenological leaning, I explore how these films variously disrupt such binaries. As both old and new media produce and address differently mediated publics, they adopt, adapt and assimilate the narrative-aesthetic modalities of other (digital) media, negotiating their impacts upon our phenomenological relations to the world and to cinema. Through reflexive allusions to their increasingly mediated extradiegetic contexts, they function to uphold cinema‘s ability both to present innovative technological spectacle and to represent contemporary experiential realities. I explore how earlier VR films Tron and The Lawnmower Man aesthetically and conceptually 'map' VR, and how Strange Days and The Matrix ambivalently explore the implications of intensified and widespread virtual experience in radically different ways. I characterise Avatar and Source Code as 'Post-VR' cinema, in which formerly upheld dichotomies – particularly between 'real' and 'virtual' – prove untenably anachronistic. I ultimately maintain the value of an approach to popular cinema which apprehends genre, context and convergence, while advocating sustained and detailed close analysis as a means of grasping cinema‘s narrative-aesthetic functions in the digital age.
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Tzioumakis, Yannis. "The cinema of David Mamet : independent filmmaking in Hollywood." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2004. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20466/.
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This thesis examines the cinema of David Mamet with particular reference to the five films he made between 1987 and 1997. Its objectives are: to explore Mamet's distinct approach to filmmaking; to analyse the ways in which this approach shaped the formal organisation of his films; and to account for the specific aesthetic effects produced. The central argument advanced is that Mamet's filmmaking practice, which has, to a large extent, been influenced by practices he adopted during his long standing service to American theatre, is markedly different from dominant models of filmmaking in contemporary US cinema. As a result, his films have consistently demonstrated evidence of an idiosyncratic visual style, which has attracted considerable - mostly negative - criticism. This thesis also considers a number of institutional parameters that have impacted on Mamet's cinema. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of independent distributors such as Orion Pictures and The Samuel Goldwyn Company who allowed the filmmaker to maintain his distinct aesthetic vision, despite his lack of success at the US box-office. Mamet's close association with the institutional apparatus of American Independent Cinema is examined throughout the thesis. My approach to Mamet's cinema takes place within a number of critical contexts that Film Studies uses to discuss both individual films and the work of a filmmaker as a whole. These contexts include: the classical/post-classical Hollywood cinema debate; auteur criticism; performance studies; film adaptation studies; and genre criticism. I use these frameworks to examine particular aspects of Mamet's cinema and also to establish fresh critical perspectives which will enhance our understanding of some of his films. One such perspective involves the proposal that Mamet utilises the generic form of the 'con-artist film,' a film genre previously unexplored within genre studies. This thesis challenges some of the established critical assumptions about David Mamet's cinema and bestows upon it the attention it deserves.
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Sergi, Gianluca. "The Dolby era : sound in Hollywood cinema, 1970-1995." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2002. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20344/.
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Historically the understanding and appreciation of cinema have been shaped by a bias towards the image. Consequently, film sound has received little attention: today we know very little about how sound works in the cinema, especially in contemporary terms. My particular concern is to provide a first substantial account of sound in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Since the arrival of Dolby technologies in the early 1970s, the seismic nature of the changes that have taken place in mainstream cinema are so pervasive as to suggest that we are indeed in a new 'era' of cinema, the Dolby era. This period in the history of cinema has been characterised by a variety of factors such as the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers as well as a new 'kind' of audience. The thesis investigates these changes and their implications within a historical framework that has its roots in the 1960s, exploded in the 1970s, and matured beyond expectations over the past two decades. The thesis is structured around an exploration of the central features and figures that have characterised the Dolby era. It includes an examination of the reasons behind the success of Ray Dolby and Dolby Laboratories, as well as an analysis of the impact that technological innovations in film sound have had on filmmaking practices and the industry at large. The thesis advocates a move towards closer dialogue and integration between the world of academia and that of practitioners by focussing specifically on professional practices through a series of interviews with leading Hollywood practitioners. Finally, the thesis proposes an original approach to some key areas of film studies, namely film audiences, film narrative construction and film analysis.
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Laisney, Simon. "Quel style de montage pour le Nouvel Hollywood ?" Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030158.
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En 1967, sous l’influence du jeune cinéma européen, Hollywood accède à son tour à la modernité : le « Vieil Hollywood » laisse place à un « Nouvel Hollywood ». Ce mouvement de renouvellement du cinéma américain, symboliquement inauguré par Bonnie and Clyde d’Arthur Penn et Le lauréat de Mike Nichols, est, explique-t-on, le fait d’une génération nouvelle de cinéastes, parmi lesquels, outre Penn et Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, William Friedkin,Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby... Il est aussi le fait d’une génération nouvelle de monteurs, qui, en complicité avec leurs réalisateurs, éprouvèrent de nouvelles formes d’expressivité esthétique et narrative, sans craindre de contrevenir aux règles conventionnelles instituées par leurs aînés ; parfois même en réaction contre ces règles. On peut notamment citer, parmi ces fidèles et précieux collaborateurs, Dede Allen, Walter Murch, Sam O’Steen, Verna Fields, Alan Heim, Paul Hirsch, Robert C. Jones, Richard Marks, ou encore Ralph Rosenblum. Nous veillons à déterminer, dans cette thèse, la part de responsabilité, tant collective qu’individuelle, de cette nouvelle génération de monteurs dans le mouvement de renouvellement esthétique du cinéma américain. Et, au-delà des personnes, d’apprécier ce style de montage néohollywoodien, d’évaluer son importance dans la constitution du style neuf des films américains des années 1970, de même que l’étendue de ses innovationsIn 1967, under the influence of European art films, Hollywood underwent important changes in the course of the 1960s : « Old Hollywood » was taken over by a « New Hollywood ». This process of renewal of American cinema, which has been symbolically launched by Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, is due, it has been said, to the arrival of a new – mostly film-school educated – generation of filmmakers, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma,George Lucas, William Friedkin, Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson or Hal Ashby. It is also due to the arrival of a new generation of film editors who did not fear to challenge the doctrine of classical Hollywood editing and break the established rules in order to take a chance and try new ways of telling a story. These films editors are, amongst others, Dede Allen, Walter Murch, Sam O’Steen, Verna Fields, Alan Heim, Paul Hirsch, Robert C. Jones, Richard Marks, or Ralph Rosenblum. Our thesis examines the share of responsability, on both a collective and individual level, of this new generation of film editors in this process of renewal of American cinema in the 1960s and 1970’s. Its goal is, more generally, to determine and appreciate this new editing style, realize its importance and its influence on the Hollywood Renaissance style, as well as the wide range of its innovations
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Kendrick, James. "Screen violence and the New Hollywood." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3167809.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1202. Adviser: Joan Hawkins. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 15, 2006)."
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Adamson, Kristian. "Ethics and emancipation in postfeminist Hollywood." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9425.
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The thesis develops new methods to critique postfeminist film by combining research into production cultures with an analysis of representations of women’s ethical subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Tania Modleski, Angela McRobbie and Yvonne Tasker, the thesis argues that critiques of postfeminism centered on evaluations of “positive” and “negative” representations has resulted in a discursive stalemate. This stalemate signals the need to consider new ways of thinking about postfeminist film. The first half of the thesis reports on original research of 700 films from 1980 to 2009. This research, supplemented with data from Martha Lauzen and Stacy Smith, demonstrates that men are overwhelmingly over-represented in key creative roles while women’s participation rates have stagnated or are in decline. The data also reveals how traditional expectations of women’s labour are repeated within creative industries and in particular Hollywood. The second half of the thesis concerns the concept of ethical subjectivity. Starting with an overview of the philosophical category of the ethical, the concept is developed into a broad analytic framework with reference to specific feminist demands. A number of popular and high-grossing Hollywood films that are historically subject to feminist analysis are reconsidered using this new framework. This second look reveals the ambiguity that operates as a means to hide the regulation of women’s ethical subjectivity in postfeminist film. The synthesis of these two approaches demonstrates how postfeminism acts as a proxy for patriarchy in the management of the meaning and scale of feminism and women’s emancipation in Hollywood. This result shows the potential value in considering labour and production as part of cultural analysis of postfeminism and indeed cultural studies more broadly.
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Luthers, Helga Hladgerdur. "Irreversible contamination? Global Hollywood and the (not so) national cinema." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3165834.
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Peacock, Steven John. "Magnificent intimacy : a relationship of style in contemporary Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443760.
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Coppel, Eva Parrondo. "Mapping textual surfaces : psychoanalytic theory, subjectivity, and 1940s Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341714.
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Bennett, Joy L. "From Hitler to Hollywood: Transnational Cinema in World War II." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320957912.
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Marques, Susana Raquel Ferreira. "Imaginando o Este : representações do Japão no cinema de Hollywood." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4843.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesO presente trabalho tem como objectivo investigar as representações do Japão e da cultura japonesa no cinema de Hollywood, incidindo em particular nos filmes mais recentes. Para uma melhor compreensão das imagens mais recentes do Japão, uma perspectiva cronológica e o respectivo contexto histórico são apresentados. Uma vez que as representações do povo japonês por parte do cinema de Hollywood têm por base estereótipos que se formaram nos primeiros contactos entre o Ocidente e o Japão, esta dissertação inclui uma possível definição de estereótipo, bem como uma análise sobre a percepção do Japão como o “Outro.” Finalmente, algumas novas direcções na representação do Japão e as razões que motivam essa mudança serão tidas em consideração.
This present study aims to investigate the representations of Japan and Japanese culture in Hollywood cinema, focusing particularly on more recent films. In order to better understand recent images of Japan, a chronological perspective and its historical context will be discussed. Since representations of the Japanese people in Hollywood cinema are based on stereotypes, which were formed in early contacts between the West and Japan, this dissertation includes a working definition of stereotyping as well as an analysis on the perception of Japan as the “Other.” Finally, some new directions in the representation of Japan and the reasons that underlie these changes will be taken into consideration.
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Shiel, Mark Anthony. "Radical agendas and the politics of space in American cinema, 1968 to 1974." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313985.
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Warczinski, Anne. "Luc Besson : entre exception culturelle et Hollywood." Master's thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-124365.
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« L’exception culturelle franco-française est morte » (cité dans L’Express 19.11.2009). C’est ce que Jean-Marie Messier, président et directeur général de Vivendi (Altman 2002), a déclaré lors de la fusion de son entreprise avec la société de production américaine Universal en 2001 à New York (Vidal/Ministère de la culture et de la communication 2002). Cette déclaration a provoqué l’outrage aussi bien dans le gouvernement français que parmi les professionnels du cinéma, d’autant plus que Messier a ajouté que « les angoisses franco-françaises sont archaïques » (cité dans ebd.). En effet, depuis les négociations du GATT en 1993, l’exception culturelle, un concept qui a été mis en place par le Ministère de la culture afin de protéger la culture française de l’hégémonie américaine, est l’une des préoccupations principales de l’État français. Le gouvernement considère qu’il est nécessaire de mettre en place une politique protectionniste vis-à-vis des biens culturels pour empêcher que la France soit envahie par la culture américaine et de mettre fin à la « cocacolonisation », du moins au niveau culturel (Cohen 2002). Ce protectionnisme culturel sous forme d’une exception culturelle est propre à la France et à l’Union Européenne, qui a copié le modèle, et c’est pour cette raison qu’il est intéressant d’y réfléchir ; à plus forte raison puisqu’elle semble fonctionner : la France est le deuxième pays exportateur de films dans le monde (Lanzoni 2002:363). Ce qui semble alors paradoxal, c’est que la profession française du cinéma elle-même n’ait pas trouvé de consensus au sujet de l’exception culturelle. En effet, Luc Besson, l’un des cinéastes français qui connaît un très grand succès en France, aux États-Unis et dans le monde depuis les années quatre-vingt, a déclaré : « There is no cultural exception » (cité dans Maule 2006:31). L’hégémonie culturelle venant des États-Unis joue également un rôle primordial dans le développement d’une exception culturelle en France qui cherche avant tout à protéger sa propre culture contre une mondialisation culturelle unilatérale dont les règles sont dictées par les États-Unis. La nécessité d’instaurer un modèle français protégé a en effet principalement pour but de freiner l’influence américaine sur les produits culturels français, que ce soit au niveau de l’économie (aspect commercial) ou au niveau de la diffusion et de la création du cinéma (aspect productif). Dans ce contexte du conflit franco-américain dans le domaine de la culture et du cinéma, nous voyons émerger depuis le milieu des années 1980 un nouveau réalisateur français qui est à la fois admiré et exécré : Luc Besson. Il a créé un modèle de réalisation et de production unique dans le monde, se détachant à la fois de l’exception culturelle et du système américain des grands studios libéraux. Il fusionne les deux modèles de production pour en faire un modèle unique dans le monde, destiné à concurrencer Hollywood de façon efficace et innovatrice.
Au cours des recherches menées pour ce travail, il s’est rapidement avéré que la littérature au sujet du système de protection de la culture française est nombreuse. De même, nous trouvons une multitude d’oeuvres au sujet de l’hégémonie culturelle américaine. Cependant, il n’existe pratiquement aucune oeuvre qui fait la comparaison entre les deux systèmes ou qui analyse comment le système français de l’exception culturelle, dominé par la culture américaine, change sous l’influence de cette dernière. En outre, très peu d’auteurs s’intéressent aux films de Luc Besson et les analysent en profondeur alors qu’il connaît un succès particulièrement important en tant que réalisateur et producteur, peut-être parce que ce dernier est souvent considéré comme étant trop commercial et trop en écart avec les exigences de l’exception culturelle en France (Maule 2011:46). En effet, ce sont surtout des chercheurs britanniques qui s’intéressent à ses films même si le travail académique au sujet de Besson reste toujours très limité (ebd.). Le but du présent travail sera donc d’explorer un nouveau terrain de la recherche du cinéma français en tentant de faire cette comparaison directe mentionnée ci-dessus ainsi que d’accorder à Luc Besson l’importance qu’il mérite puisqu’il constitue incontestablement un metteur en scène important pour le paysage cinématographique de la France des années 2000.
Au cours de ce travail, nous allons donc nous poser les questions suivantes : Qu’est-ce que l’exception culturelle et comment fonctionne-t-elle ? Quelles sont les difficultés auxquelles l’exception culturelle doit faire face ? Le cas échéant, comment expliquer son succès ou son échec ? La France a-t-elle réussi à résister face à l’hégémonie culturelle des États-Unis et si oui, comment ? Quelle est l’influence des États-Unis sur la création cinématographique en France et quels sont les aspects qui opposent principalement ces deux pays au niveau de la création, de la production et de la diffusion des produits du cinéma ? Quel rôle Luc Besson joue-t-il dans le paysage cinématographique de la France et dans le monde ? Et comment les films de Luc Besson traduisent la façon de travailler de ce réalisateur et producteur, apparemment situé entre deux chaises dans ces deux mondes du cinéma tellement opposés ? Finalement, comment peut-on situer Luc Besson dans les deux systèmes, est-il un réalisateur plutôt français ou plutôt hollywoodien ? Ce sont les problématiques principales auxquelles le développement qui suit va tenter de répondre.
Afin d’apporter des réponses à toutes ces questions, nous allons voir, dans un premier chapitre théorique, comment fonctionne l’exception culturelle française et, plus précisément, comment l’exception culturelle peut se définir, et quelles sont les difficultés auxquelles ce système cinématographique se voit confronté aujourd’hui. Ensuite, dans un deuxième chapitre, nous examinerons Luc Besson en tant que réalisateur français et/ou hollywoodien ainsi que ses films « pré-EuropaCorp », c’est-à-dire ses oeuvres réalisées avant la création de sa propre grande société de production en 2000. Dans un troisième chapitre, nous nous intéresserons au Luc Besson « post-EuropaCorp », c’est-à-dire aux changements dans la réalisation et la production survenus suite à la création d’EuropaCorp en 2000. La problématique centrale du deuxième et troisième chapitre tournera autour de la francité et/ou du caractère hollywoodien de Luc Besson et de ses films. Finalement, le quatrième et dernier chapitre constituera une synthèse et un bilan personnel des trois premiers chapitres. Il exposera également, dans une deuxième partie, les perspectives de Luc Besson et EuropaCorp dans le futur.
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Gaudeaux, Ariane. "Petites lucarnes sur grands écrans. Poétique historique de la télévision au cinéma.États-Unis, 1954-2002." Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST0030.
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De même qu’un acteur, lors de chacune de ses apparitions, colore la pellicule cinématographique de toute son histoire, la présence d’une télévision à l’écran d’un film de fiction cinématographique est la source d’une infinité de significations historiques, esthétiques, sociologiques et politiques. De Rear Window (Fenêtre sur cour, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) à Far From Heaven (Loin du paradis, Todd Haynes, 2002), cette thèse observe la façon dont les cinéastes américains critiquent les effets de la télévision sur le spectateur et sur la société, en adoptant une approche poéticienne, sociologique et historienne. Existe-t-il, comme Marshall McLuhan semble le penser, une essence des médias, et par conséquent, une essence de la télévision ? Si cette dernière en a une, est-elle négative ? La télévision apparaît-elle comme un « médium froid » (McLuhan) aux yeux des cinéastes américains ? Les cinéastes utilisent-ils la télévision comme point de comparaison pour affirmer le caractère artistique du cinéma ? Les films de nombreux cinéastes sont analysés (parmi lesquels Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, John Carpenter, Richard Fleischer, Sidney Lumet et David Cronenberg) pour permettre une réflexion sur ces questions. En filmant la télévision, les cinéastes créent un phénomène d’hypermediacy (Jay David Bolter et Richard Grusin), où s’affrontent réflexivité et fascination pour le médiumAs well as an actor brings with him his whole history each time he appears on the screen, television’s presence in a movie generates an infinite source of historical, aesthetical, sociological and political meaning. From Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) to Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002), this thesis observes the way american directors criticize the effects of television on the spectator and on society, adopting an approach inspired by poetics, sociology and history. Is there, as Marshall McLuhan seems to think, an essence of medias, and consequently, an essence of television ? If so, is it negative ? Does television appear as a « cool medium » (McLuhan) in the American director’s eye ? Do directors use television as a comparing point to assert the artistical quality of cinema ? Many directors’ movies are analyzed (including Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, John Carpenter, Richard Fleischer, Sidney Lumet and David Cronenberg) to allow a reflection on those questions. By filming television, directors create a hypermediacy phenomenon (Jay David Bolter et Richard Grusin), where reflexivity faces a fascination for the medium
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Deakin, Peter. "Masculine identity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/masculine-identity-in-crisis-in-hollywoods-fin-de-millennium-cinema(3dbc0abe-2d83-460b-ae95-bf447f608c3e).html.
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At the turn of the millennium, cultural and gender commentators were announcing that an apocalypse was under way. Men were changing. Patriarchy was crumbling. Masculinity, in short, was in crisis. Inaugurating a collective of ‘masculinity in crisis movies’, this thesis contends that Hollywood cinema also had its own relationship to the millennial crisis in masculinity. A relationship that was in fact so prevalent and extensive, that it came to the tune of 23 titles all released in the fin de millennium moment. Each film replicating the terms of wider cultural discourse, each with a representational concern with the crisis and the apparent ‘masculine malaise’.The thesis also proposes that a dichotomous structure underpinned this cinema in which two altering identity complexes were voiced. On the one side, a presence that is distinctly feminine, where existential suffering is relieved through consumerism and conformity; whilst the other, which vitally is (re)-presented as the ‘preferred’, offered a deeply masculine, often hyper-sexual, anarchic and more violent presence. This thesis will seek to investigate these representations, whilst attempting to place them in a broader macro sphere of American socio-cultural history and commentary.From visceral male anger spectacles like Fight Club (1999) and American Psycho (2000), to ‘New Man’ white collar bashing in Office Space (1999) and American Beauty (1999), this cinema seemed to be in direct dialogue with a larger, and vitally elegiac, commentary on masculinity-in-crisis.By marking key distinctions and comparisons between ‘masculinity-as-experienced’ in socio-cultural and historical readings and ‘masculinity-as-represented’ in textual approaches to the films and their surrounding paraphernalia, this work engages with both the real and reel at the fin de millennium moment. The thesis demonstrates why the concept of a single, fixed and unified ‘authentic’ definition of masculinity may be untenable, and why perhaps this cinema seemed to struggle to avoid essentialism, irony and self-parody as fragmented characters seemed to offer equally fragmented promises of redemption through ‘traditional’ displays of masculinity.What were the origins of the ‘crisis’, and how far was the crisis an actual or primarily a discursive one? Did this cinema help create or propel the crisis rather than sooth it, and how did the representation of ‘schizophrenic’ or ‘bipolar’ masculinity speak to the crisis and its audiences in general? Why did this section of Hollywood cinema decide to re-present these identities and what, if anything, can we learn from them? This research seeks to provide answers to these questions.
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Thompson, Henry. "Freedom from choice : the persistence of censorship in post-1968 American cinema." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/freedom-from-choice-the-persistence-of-censorship-in-post1968-american-cinema(970b7db4-f08a-4f64-b195-bac6b23fcde0).html.
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Jack Valenti, then President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), formally announced the commencement of a new Motion Picture Code and Rating Program on November 1, 1968; a mode of industry self-regulation designed to replace the, by then discredited, Production Code. Despite the Program's intended role in providing freedom of choice, censorship has persisted after 1968. Censorship is defined here as the efforts by some to restrict the viewing options of others, for reasons of personal morality, commercial self-interest or ideological necessity. American moviegoers and other consumers of American cinematic culture have, paradoxically, been freed from choice. The availability of 24/7 porn on cable television and the undoubted explosion of explicit violence in mainstream cinema after 1968 are superficial distractions from the homogenising effects of both the pressure to make movies that can be screened to large predominantly teenage audiences and the pressures not to upset vocal pressure groups. In extending and mapping out the territory of the consumer the industry has, both in the types of movie on offer and in the mode of regulation chosen, effectively curtailed the space for the citizen to ask more demanding questions either about movie content or about the benefits of allowing a small number of media conglomerates to construct the viewing menu. The Program remains in place but its efficacy has been widely questioned. The thesis breaks the development of the Program into three phases organised around Richard Heffner's operation of the Program between 1974 and 1994. In the early years, despite the self-styled liberalism of the New Hollywood renaissance, both ideological and commercial constraints were applied to content. Only after Heffner's arrival in 1974 did the Program begin to function as Valenti had originally envisaged. However, the slow emergence of narrowcasting and the expansion of conglomerate ownership ensured the continuance of commercial self-censorship. These changes found maturation in a third phase of the Program's operation, after 1994. The research considers evidence of commercially motivated self-censorship as well as evidence of politically motivated censorship. The cumulative effect of industry change has been a commodification of entertainment- a denial of any interest other than that of the consumer- and the privatisation of a key part of the process of setting cultural norms. The thesis considers the risks for a functioning democracy posed by the emergence of a global entertainment complex that has an overwhelming economic interest in shaping the 'marketplace of ideas'.
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Callaghan, Lisa. "Hollywood images of masculinity : Eastwood, Hoffman, Redford and Schwarzenegger." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295783.
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Jones, Nick. "Space and the contemporary Hollywood action sequence." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/18062.
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This thesis investigates the manner in which the action sequences of contemporary Hollywood cinema reflect and constitute ways of imagining space. The thesis proposes that these sequences are highly spatialised presentations of bodily interaction with the world, and as such manifest cultural anxieties regarding the relationship between the individual and the built environment, and work to assure their viewers of the capacity of the human form to survive the disorienting spaces of contemporary architecture, globalisation and technology. In order to demonstrate this, the aesthetic and formal properties of action sequences are read alongside critical work exploring how space shapes social life, including influential texts by Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Fredric Jameson and others. These readings reveal that both action sequences and critical spatial theory are similarly attentive to the difficulties, contradictions and possibilities of built space. A range of action sequences from Hollywood films of the last fifteen years, including sequences from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The International, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Jumper, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Sucker Punch, Inception, Swordfish, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, TRON: Legacy, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Dredd 3D are analysed for how they depict space and spatial agency. Rather than concentrating upon the narratives of these films, the chapters of the thesis deal in turn with the ways in which action sequences express contemporary developments within the built environment; the consequences of globalisation; the impact of these spatial changes upon mental life; the challenges to bodily engagement raised by digital technology and cyberspace; and the modifications to representing space on film prompted by stereoscopic exhibition. Examinations of these sequences are used to build a model of the action sequence that suggests spatial appropriation and ideas around place-creation are crucial elements of the form.
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Niemeyer, Fernanda. "Câncer, corpo e cinema : lições de Hollywood sobre adoecer e morrer." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/27151.
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O estudo busca conhecer o modo pelo qual o corpo do doente com câncer é apresentado por um conjunto de 15 filmes produzidos em Hollywood, entre 1970 e 2007, cujo tema central gira em torno do personagem adulto com câncer em estágio avançado. Com base nos Estudos Culturais, em sua vertente pós-estruturalista, penso que aprendemos a ver o corpo doente de diferentes formas, nas mais diversas instâncias educativas, sendo o cinema uma delas. A partir da análise cultural, sustentada pelas noções de “discurso” e “subjetividade”, propostas pelo filósofo Michel Foucault, articulo uma das possíveis leituras do corpus fílmico. Tal leitura possibilitou a construção de três lições de Hollywood sobre adoecer e morrer de câncer: “Primeira lição de Hollywood: aprendendo a ser doente”, “Segunda lição de Hollywood: aprendendo a cuidar do corpo doente” e “Terceira lição de Hollywood: aprendendo a morrer de câncer”. Nelas, avalio como o discurso cinematográfico atua como uma pedagogia cultural que produz sujeitos que vêem o corpo doente de determinado modo, que ensina a cuidar desse corpo e a morrer de câncer, nos dando pistas sobre como aprendemos a nos relacionar com a doença a partir dos artefatos midiáticos. Com isso, minha proposta é suscitar reflexões que possam contribuir, de alguma forma, para a assistência e para a docência em Enfermagem.The study aims at learning how the body of the cancer patient is portrayed by a set of 15 movies produced in Hollywood between 1970 and 2007 whose central theme is about an adult character with cancer at advanced stage. Based on the Cultural Studies and their post-structuralism version, I think that we learn seeing the sick body in different ways, under the most varied educative instances, among which the movie picture stands out. Starting from the cultural analysis, supported by the notions of “discourse” and “subjectivity”, as proposed by philosopher Michel Foucault, I articulate one of the possible readings of the movie picture corpus. Such reading allowed the construction of three Hollywood lessons about getting sick and dying of cancer: “First Hollywood lesson: learning how being sick”, “Second Hollywood lesson: learning how taking care of the sick body” and “Third Hollywood lesson: learning how dying of cancer”. In such lessons, I make an assessment of how the movie picture discourse acts as a cultural pedagogy that produces subjects who see the sick body in a certain way and teaches how taking care of such body and how dying of cancer and therefore gives us hints about how we learn to get along with the disease from media artifacts. Thus, my proposal is raising reflections that may somehow contribute to care and education in Nursing.
El estudio busca conocer el modo como el cuerpo del enfermo con cáncer es presentado por un conjunto de 15 películas producidas en Hollywood, entre 1970 y 2007, cuyo tema central es acerca del personaje adulto con cáncer en estado avanzado. Con base en los Estudios Culturales y su versión posestructuralista, pienso que aprendemos a ver el cuerpo enfermo de distintas formas, en las más diversas instancias educativas, siendo el cine una de ellas. A partir del análisis cultural, sostenido por las nociones de “discurso” y “subjetividad”, propuestas por el filósofo Michel Foucault, articulo una de las posibles lecturas del corpus cinematográfico. Tal lectura posibilitó la construcción de tres lecciones de Hollywood acerca de quedarse enfermo y morir de cáncer: “Primera lección de Hollywood: aprendiendo a ser enfermo”, “Segunda lección de Hollywood: aprendiendo a cuidar del cuerpo enfermo” y “Tercera lección de Hollywood: aprendiendo a morir de cáncer”. En ellas, evalúo de qué forma el discurso cinematográfico actúa como una pedagogía cultural que produce sujetos que ven el cuerpo enfermo de determinado modo, que enseña a cuidar de ese cuerpo y a morir de cáncer, dándonos señales acerca de cómo aprendemos a relacionarnos con la enfermedad a partir de los artefactos de los medios. Así, mi propuesta es suscitar reflexiones que puedan contribuir, de alguna manera, para la asistencia y la enseñanza en Enfermería. Palabras-
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Stevenson, Samuel David. "Transatlantic projections : American cinema and Europe, 1917-1933." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580091.
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Jenkins, Claire. "Family entertainment : representations of the American family in contemporary Hollywood cinema." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2763/.
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The family plays an integral role in Hollywood films of almost every genre. Hollywood’s renditions of the American family, however, remain largely traditional and no longer reflect contemporary reality. This thesis explores how contemporary Hollywood deals with the family, posing the question: ‘Has Hollywood created its own monolithic family model?’ The thesis demonstrates that, rather than offering a solid monolithic family model, the Hollywood family displays a tension between traditional and liberal attitudes, wanting to move forward but unable to let go of the past. The thesis places Hollywood’s representations within a wider cultural framework, utilising social history, feminism and psychoanalytic discourses. This is done through three case studies exploring the nuclear family, and a fourth extended chapter that analyses Hollywood’s alternative families. Chapter One takes as its focus the father-daughter relationship in sequels and series. This relationship is symptomatic of a shift towards a new generation in Hollywood where masculinity is not necessarily the central concern. Although the father-daughter films indicate a renewed interest in women’s familial roles they essentially demonstrate a crisis of masculinity and a traditional, patriarchal model. Chapter Two analyses the mother’s role through the films of Meryl Streep. This chapter situates a discussion of the Hollywood mother within a postfeminist society and questions whether this new generation of Hollywood has promoted a diversification of the maternal role, finding that traditionalism still dominates as maternity and ‘traditional’ femininity remain central concerns. Chapter Three explores the superhero family. This unconventional family is a further symptom of Hollywood’s new generation. That said, the unconventional is used as a tool to promote the conventional – the nuclear family. Superheroics are used to recuperate dysfunctional families and provide an easy ‘fix’ for their troubles. Chapter Four examines the prevalence in contemporary Hollywood of alternative family models. Although these are many and varied, Hollywood’s alternative families (discussed here in terms of single-parents, divorce, gay and lesbian families, the working-class family and the Black American family), ultimately conform to the standards of the nuclear norm, giving further credence to the argument that Hollywood’s families are torn between traditionalism and attempts to embrace liberalism and diversity.
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Arslan, Savas. "Hollywood alla Turca: A history of popular cinema in Turkey." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1133214001.
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Stevens, David. "Alternative Hollywood 1967-1976 : The quest for authenticity in contemporary American cinema." Thesis, University of Reading, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515783.
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Petry, Daniel Bassan. "01010110 01000110 01011000: efeitos visuais e softwares no cinema da nova Hollywood." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2013. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3318.
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Partindo de uma afetação criada pelos filmes da Nova Hollywood que utilizam efeitos visuais, surge a necessidade de reflexão sobre o que são e como agem estes efeitos (analógicos e digitais) no cinema comercial contemporâneo e na cultura visual, principalmente através do entendimento de que o cinema é parte integrante desta cultura. Com os trabalhos de Manovich (2002, 2008), Mirzoeff (1999), Zielinski (2002) e Mitchel (2004) como base, percebemos a importância da inclusão do software na produção de produtos culturais, transformando a cultura contemporânea também em cultura do software. Realizando uma busca de inspiração arqueológica analisamos os filmes Um homem de cabeça (Georges Méliès, 1898), Star Wars: Episódio IV (George Lucas, 1977), Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994), a trilogia O Senhor dos Anéis (Peter Jackson, 2001, 2002 e 2003) e Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) identificamos relações entre os softwares utilizados para a criação de efeitos visuais digitais com as técnicas existentes nos filmes criados, utilizando somente procedimentos analógicos. A partir dessas traçam-se as relações existentes entre os filmes, com intenção de entender como os efeitos visuais atuam no cinema contemporâneo.
From an affection created by the movies that make use of visual effects and compose the New Hollywood, an urge for thinking about what are and how the visual effects (analog and digital) act in the contemporary cinema and visual culture is born. Considering cinema as part of the visual culture, with the researches of Manovich (2002, 2008), Mirzoeff (1999), Zielinski (2002) and Mitchel (2004) as base, we realize the value of the insertion of software in the production of cultural products, modifying contemporary culture in a software culture, amongst others. Conducting a research of archaeological inspiration we analyzed the movies The four troublesome heads (George Méliès, 1898), Star Wars: Episode IV (George Lucas, 1977), Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2001, 2002 and 2003) and Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) we identified relationship between the software’s used for creating visual effects and the techniques that are in the movies made only with analog procedures. From this we trace the relationship between the movies, with intend of understanding how visual effects act in contemporary cinema.
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Kydd, Elspeth. "'Touched by the tar brush' : miscegenation and mulattos in classical Hollywood cinema." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Reg_Diss_05.
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Drake, Philip Justin. "Stardom after the star system economies of performance in contemporary Hollywood cinema /." Connect to e-thesis, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/942/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Glasgow, 2002.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, 2002. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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LIMA, Cecília Almeida Rodrigues. "Da Bond girl à comédia romântica: identidades femininas no cinema de Hollywood." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2010. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/3628.
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Esta dissertação visa analisar a construção de identidades discursivas para a mulher, como oferecida pelos filmes de comédia romântica hollywoodianos produzidos a partir de 1960, levando em consideração os mecanismos psicológicos envolvidos nesse processo. Os estudos de gênero; os trabalhos sobre a indústria cultural e sobre o cinema, pensado em relação ao aparato da psicanálise; além de alguns conceitos de Michel Foucault sobre o discurso em sua dimensão de poder, foram as ferramentas teóricas utilizadas para realizar a pesquisa. A análise do corpus permitiu identificar duas grandes categorias de protagonistas femininas na comédia romântica, que chamamos de Princesas Urbanas e de mulheres Emocionalmente Desprendidas. A partir daí, foi realizado um estudo comparativo entre a mulher protagonista do gênero de comédia romântica com a coadjuvante do cinema de ação, bem representadas pelas bond girls da franquia do agente secreto 007, subdivididas em Donzelas em Perigo, Femme Fatales e Heroínas. Foi possível estabelecer analogias entre as Princesas Urbanas e as Donzelas em Perigo e entre as Emocionalmente Desprendidas e Femme Fatales. Também foram verificadas as mudanças instituídas e autorizadas na identidade feminina pelo cinema de comédia romântica ao longo dos anos, e como elas se relacionam com os avanços do discurso feminista no meio social: por exemplo, a presença do ambiente de trabalho ou o surgimento de personagens estressadas e inseguras
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Hall, Sheldon Tait. "Hard ticket giants : Hollywood blockbusters in the widescreen era." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323254.
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Macedo, Káritha Bernardo de. "Carmen Miranda em Hollywood : filmes para uma boa vizinhança." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2014. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1457.
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This dissertation aims to analyze how Carmen Miranda films, produced between 1940 and 1945 in the United States, contributed with the symbolic construction of a Latin American cultural identity by Americans , questioning the extent to which the cinematic narratives of Latin America accounted for a U.S. power strategy over Latin America articulated by the Good Neighbor Policy. The production of these films is connected to a stage of the Good Neighbor Policy of intense rapprochement with Latin America countries, marked by a cultural approach that intended to convince them of the U.S. leadership, as well as the superiority of the American way of life, along with all the products associated with it. The Twentieth Century- Fox movies Carmen Miranda starred in that period are taken as documentary sources and object of this research. From the nine film productions made by Fox, the movies Down Argentine Way (1940), That Night In Rio (1941) and Week-End In Havana (1941) were united under the thematic axis Latin American Spaces , becoming the object of analysis of this research. It was also used as a source, news of The New York Times about the selected films, from the period of their release. It is suggested a hybrid methodology for analysis, that combines elements of cinema theories to the historians approach. For the internal analysis of the films, it was chosen to work with Aumont and Marie (2009) proposals, through the stages of description, segmentation, interpretation and implementation of microanalysis. Based on the analysis performed, it was observed that through Carmen Miranda s movies, American cinema, submerged in the cultural context and in the economic and political interests surrounding these productions, built a particular point of view about Brazil and the rest of Latin America, in which the U.S. was up to modernity, rationality and labor, while Latin America was identified with backwardness, agriculture, irrationality, laziness and anything that can be associated with pleasure. Thus, promoting the deterritorialization of cultures contained in the construction of Latin America.
Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar como os filmes de Carmen Miranda, produzidos entre 1940 e 1945 nos Estados Unidos, contribuíram com a construção simbólica de uma identidade cultural latino-americana sob o olhar estadunidense, questionando em que medida as narrativas cinematográficas de América Latina correspondiam a uma estratégia de poder dos Estados Unidos sobre a América Latina, articulada pela Política da Boa Vizinhança. A produção destes filmes se liga a uma etapa da Política da Boa Vizinhança de intensa aproximação com os países da latinoamericanos, pautada por uma abordagem cultural que visava convencê-los da capacidade de liderança dos Estados Unidos, bem como, da superioridade do American way of life, junto com todos os produtos que vinham associados a ele. Os filmes da Twentieth Century-Fox em que Carmen Miranda atuou nesse período são tomados como fontes documentais e objeto da pesquisa. Das nove produções realizadas pela Fox, os filmes Serenata Tropical (Down Argentine Way, 1940), Uma Noite No Rio (That Night In Rio, 1941) e Aconteceu em Havana (Week-End In Havana, 1941) foram unidos sob o eixo temático Espaços Latino-Americanos , tornando-se objeto de análise desta pesquisa. Também foram utilizados como fonte, notícias do jornal The New York Times sobre os filmes selecionados, do período de seu lançamento. Sugere-se uma metodologia de análise mista que agrega elementos das teorias de cinema à abordagem da história. Para a análise interna dos filmes, escolheu-se trabalhar com as propostas de Aumont e Marie (2009), através das etapas da descrição, segmentação, interpretação e realização de microanálises. Com base nas análises efetuadas, foi possível observar que através dos filmes de Carmen Miranda, o cinema estadunidense, imerso no contexto cultural e nos interesses políticos e econômicos que cercavam essas produções, construiu uma visão particular acerca do Brasil e do restante da América Latina, na qual aos Estados Unidos cabia a modernidade, a racionalidade e o trabalho, enquanto a América Latina era identificada com o atraso, o agrário, a irracionalidade, a preguiça e tudo que fosse associado ao prazer. Promovendo, dessa forma, uma desterritorialização das culturas contidas nessa construção de América Latina.
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Baker, James J. III. "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Hollywood Tragedy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/266.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a product of the era he was at his zenith: the roaring 1920s. By the time he arrived in Los Angeles, he was short on money and the audience for his novels and writing was waning. This work explores his time in L.A., his attitude toward cinema & the Hollywood system, and how he incorporated what he learned from screenwriting into The Last Tycoon, the unfinished novel that Fitzgerald aimed to revive his own career with.
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Lenos, Melissa. "Deja View: Cultural Functions of Hollywood Remakes." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/42057.
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This dissertation examines Hollywood remakes of US films in order to discern how the narrative and formal modifications between originals and remakes are analogous across sets of films. Performing a discourse analysis that utilizes theories of popular culture and social memory, I argue that the patterns of changes confirm that remakes fulfill some functions of modern-day folktales: stories that are adapted for the needs and interests of their contemporary audiences but that simultaneously tend to reaffirm and promote traditional ideologies. By analyzing shifts and alterations in narrative, visual and structural tropes and changes in trends of representation, I examine the ways in which such phenomena as political and social movements and historic events are depicted and consider what cultural needs these representations may fulfill for their audiences. My process was driven by several research questions. First, what kinds of films get remade? Secondly, what are the differences in content and structure in each set of films analyzed in this study and what are the relationships between the remakes and their original source films? Finally, my primary questions are: how do narrative structures, characterizations and plots change or stabilize within the same story over time? How can we utilize these changes and constants to identify the cultural functions remakes may serve that make them so prevalent right now?
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Bather, Neil Edward. ""There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2564.
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir refers to the lands of Mordor as the place where evil never sleeps. Cinematic evil itself never sleeps, always arising in new forms, to the extent that there exist as many types of evil as there are films. This thesis examines this constantly shifting construction of evil in American popular cinema between 1989 and 2002 - roughly, the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Center - and how this cinema engaged with representations of enemies and of evil per se. The thesis uses content and thematic analysis on a sample of the 201 most successful films at the U.S. box office during the period. In these films, cinematic evil is constructed according to a visual aesthetic that attempts to engage with societal values, but fails to do so due to the emphasis on its visual construction and its commodification. As Baudrillard argues, evil has become a hollow concept devoid of meaning, and this is especially so for cinematic evil. It is recognised, and is recognisable, by the visual excessiveness of its violence (or potentiality for violence), and by certain codes that are created in reference to intertextual patterns and in relationship to discourses of paranoia and malaise. But cinema in this period failed to engage with the concept of evil itself in any meaningful way. Cinematic evil mirrors the descent into the chaos and disorder of a postmodern society. All cinematic evil can do is to connect with this sense of unease in which the 'reality of evil' cannot be represented. Instead, it draws on earlier icons and narratives of evil in a conflation of narrative and spectacle that produces a cinema of nostalgia. Moreover, stripped of narrative causality, these films express a belief, unproved and unprovable, that evil things and evil people may arise in any form, in any place and at any time: a cinema of paranoia. Together, these factors produce a cinema of malaise, perpetually confronting an evil it is unable to define or locate.
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Arzani, Francesca <1990>. "Dietro i fili dell'immaginario collettivo. Hollywood fra spettacolo e propaganda." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20630.
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L’iconosfera in cui siamo costantemente immersi è composta di immagini effimere, ridondanti, eternamente disponibili e infinitamente riproducibili. Nel corso dell’ultimo secolo le immagini sono diventate il principale medium di relazione con il mondo, tramite le quali apprendiamo e comunichiamo. Un’immagine non costituisce mai materia inerte: essa agisce sui nostri sensi e mette in gioco le nostre emozioni, andando a suggestionare e sedurre la nostra parte inconscia e desiderante al di sotto della superficie cosciente e razionale. Questo potere delle immagini è stato ampiamente impiegato nell’industria pubblicitaria e nelle operazioni di propaganda politica.
Il cinema – fabbrica di immagini per eccellenza – non è rimasto immune da certi condizionamenti. Le sue caratteristiche tecniche lo rendono simile alla natura di un sogno: il montaggio, la struttura narrativa e l’uso di archetipi universali portano lo spettatore a identificarsi con i protagonisti sullo schermo e a esperire con loro le proprie catarsi. Attraverso la ripetizione di determinati temi e messaggi il cinema può generare miti e plasmare l’immaginario collettivo.
L’industria di Hollywood, analizzata nel periodo che va dalla Grande Depressione agli albori della Guerra Fredda, si è rivelata una formidabile macchina di mobilitazione e coinvolgimento della psiche umana al servizio della propaganda di Stato; una fabbrica di auto-celebrazioni tramite le quali condurre l’imperialismo culturale nel resto del mondo.
La tesi vuole mettere in evidenza i processi tramite i quali certe visioni del mondo vengono propagate, al fine di elaborare uno sguardo consapevole per la lettura del nostro passato e del nostro presente.
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Yu, Julia. "Translating the Language of Film: East Asian Films and Their Hollywood Remakes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/138.
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Hollywood remakes of East Asian films clearly change more than just the language of a film, and the choices that producers and directors make in order to tailor a foreign film so that it better appeals to American audiences creates an entry point that allows for a more direct comparison of aesthetic styles, cultural tastes, and narrative conventions. An analysis of two case studies, South Korean hit film My Sassy GIrl (2001) and Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002, 2003, 2003) remade into My Sassy Girl (2008) and The Departed (2006), explores the principles of Korean and Hong Kong commercial film industries and how they differ and interact with those of Hollywood.
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McGill, Amy. "The contemporary Hollywood film soundtrack : professional practices and sonic styles since the 1970s." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/41173.
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Since the 1970s, the soundtrack in Hollywood has come of age as a complex and sophisticated site of cinematic art. Greater combinations of sounds expressing a wider spectrum of tones, textures and volumes can be heard at the movies more than ever before, while behind the scenes, the number of personnel producing them has grown considerably. Moreover, this era has witnessed a proliferation of different artistic and professional approaches to sound. This thesis provides a detailed and wide-ranging picture of these developments and how they were ultimately affected by changes within the American film industry. Drawing on a range of accounts by contemporary sound practitioners and critics, the thesis explores sound production practices, focusing on the sound designer and composer, their creative choices, collaborative relationships - or “sound relations” - and the technologies they employ. The soundtrack is also examined in terms of “sonic style”: the ways in which sound effects, music and the voice function variously in the service of contemporary film narration and genre. It is argued that Hollywood sound production practices and styles have diversified to a high degree, particularly during the last three decades. Industrial realignments on the “New Hollywood” landscape in the 1970s and the integration of the independent and major sectors throughout the 1990s have introduced greater flexibility to mainstream filmmaking norms. These events have played key roles in the expansion of its different sonic styles and working practices in contemporary Hollywood. I take George Lucas and David Lynch, their respective sound design partners Ben Burtt and Alan Splet and composers John Williams and Angelo Badalamenti, and identify distinctions between their professional modus operandi and sonic styles to illustrate the growing diversification within the industry. Most importantly, these examples are used to demonstrate both the intricacy and variety that characterises the styles and crafts of the contemporary Hollywood soundtrack.
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Ressler, Christopher Michael. "Let's All Go to the Movies." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79683.
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Welcome to the movies! Welcome to the stars! Welcome to this grand illusion! All of it's yours.
New Urbanism. Hollywood thinks you're stupid. Scientology. Retro-futurism. Taking back color from toiletries. Personal politics. Cutting off the legs of the bioscopes. The architecture of Fun. The death of Entertainment. Freedom of speech. Sticky floors. Googie. Suburbia. Popcorn. The way we live our lives. All seen through the limelight of a night at the movies.Master of Architecture