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Biderman, Shai. "Philosofilm: towards a cinematic philosophy." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31509.
Full textThis dissertation examines existing attempts to answer the question "Can film philosophize?" (the"CFP question") and offers an original, affirmative account of the possibility of philosophizing by means of film. Focusing OD. narrative fiction films, this dissertation shows how the practice of philosophy can be transformed, and its powers expanded, through its encounter with the realm of moving images. The first chapter presents the groundwork for such a discussion, laying bare the scope of the various theoretical bases through which film and philosophy have been thought to intersect. The chapter follows the threads of extant discussions, from (a) explicitly philosophical approaches to film ("philosophy of film") to (b) in-depth studies of film's thematic constructs ("film theory") and (c) proposals of the symmetry or even fusion of film and philosophy ("film-philosophy"). Each of the three subsequent chapters addresses one of three possible answers to the CFP question.Chapter two focuses on a conservative approach ("the exclusivist thesis") that negates the possibility of any meaningful philosophical capacity in film. Chapter three considers a more moderate view ("the inclusivist thesis") that acknowledges the cinematic capacity for philosophical argumentation, in a manner that is unique, but only partial. The fourth and last chapter introduces an innovative perspective ("the integralist thesis") that countenances a unique cinematic potential to philosophize by insisting on a radical conception of the practice of philosophy itself. To reach this ultimate conclusion, the dissertation elaborates two crucial features of film - the non-linguistic nature of its narrative and the role played by the audience in film - and shows that exclusivists and inclusivists fail to take these features into consideration (largely owing to the principles from which these theorists set out to answer the CFP question). Exclusivists and inclusivists argue that film cannot philosophize (at least not properly) because philosophizing is an essentially linguistic endeavor and film is not.If, however, those crucial features are taken into account, it becomes apparent that exclusivist and inclusivist approaches alike are fatally flawed. The dissertation concludes, in conversation with the integralists, with an affirmation of film's philosophical potential.
Baracco, Alberto. "Phenomenological hermeneutics of film philosophical thinking : a hermeneutic method for film world interpretation." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37321/.
Full textSorensen, Abigail. "The Feminine Sublime in 21st Century Surrealist Cinema." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464046230.
Full textYanick, Anthony Joseph. "Prolegomena to a Theory of Cinematic Bodies: What Can an Image Do?" Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1386619321.
Full textBodley, Antonie Marie. "The android and our cyborg selves| What androids will teach us about being (post)human." Thesis, Washington State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3715164.
Full textIn the search for understanding a future for our selves with the potential merging of strong Artificial Intelligence and humanoid robotics, this dissertation uses the figure of the android in science fiction and science fact as an evocative object. Here, I propose android theory to consider the philosophical, social, and personal impacts humanoid robotics and AI will have on our understanding of the human subject. From the perspective of critical posthumanism and cyborg feminism, I consider popular culture understandings of AI and humanoid robotics as a way to explore the potential effect of androids by examining their embodiment and disembodiment. After an introduction to associated theories of humanism, posthumanism, and transhumanism, followed by a brief history of the figure of the android in fiction, I turn to popular culture examples. First, using two icons of contemporary AI, Deep Blue, a chess playing program and Watson, a linguistic artificially intelligent program, I explore how their public performances in games evoke rich discussion for understanding a philosophy of mind in a non-species specific way. Next, I turn to the Terminator film series (1984-2009) to discuss how the humanoid embodiment of artificial intelligence exists in an uncanny position for our emotional attachments to nonhuman entities. Lastly, I ask where these relationships will take us in our intimate lives; I explore personhood and human-nonhuman relationships in what I call the nonhuman dilemma. Using the human-Cylon relationships in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series (2003-2009), the posthuman family make-over in the film Fido (2006), as well as a real-life story of men with their life-sized doll companions, as seen in the TLC reality television series My Strange Addiction (2010), I explore the coming dilemma of life with nonhuman humanoids.
Buffington, Chelsea. "Technohumanity| Films as a Lens for Examining How Humans and Technology Co-shape the World." Thesis, Salve Regina University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808905.
Full textUtilizing a postphenomenological lens, in this study, I analyze Human Security Era (1990s–2010s), techno-futurist films as case studies to explore how humans and technology can and do co-shape a more harmonious world, resulting in TechnoHumanity. To build a techno-humane world, humans must find a way to spur technological innovation and advancement, embedding ethics in design to avoid a dystopian path to dehumanization. Films, and specifically the content or text of the films, provide case studies for a postphenomenological analysis to explore designed, in-design, and future technologies and their interrelationship with humanity.
Hrehor, Kristin A. "Violent Content in Film: A Defense of the Morally Shocking." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/537004.
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Violent content in film has been extensively debated from a myriad of different perspectives, and both within and across a number of different disciplines. Oftentimes, the more violent the content that a film contains, the more likely such content is considered to negatively detract from the value of the work in question. However, this dissertation provides an argument to the contrary with respect to a specific set of cinematic examples and a particular way in which violent content is represented within them. In what follows, I argue that there are grounds to believe in the philosophical value of engaging with works that “morally shock” their audiences through the representation of violent content. First, by analyzing a combination of works ranging from the more conservative American classic Deliverance (1972) to the more controversial French avant-garde Irréversible (2002), I provide a case for reclassifying violent films into different genres, only one of which contains films which elicit a particular kind of response that I single out for further examination. In considering the implications of our responses to these “morally shocking” films, I provide a foundation against which such films can be considered to have a distinct kind of philosophical value by exploring their significance with respect to: (1) issues of interpretation and value in the philosophy of film, (2) recent developments in research on moral judgment, and (3) arguments both for and against the idea that film can be thought of as a kind of philosophy. Ultimately, I argue that our response of moral shock to the content of these films has the subversive effect of destabilizing our moral orientation and consequently motivating philosophical reflection in innovative ways.
Temple University--Theses
Mindich, Brad. "Reflecting on the Past, Understanding the Present, and Controlling the Future| Pre-Nostalgia and Its Impact on Memory, Temporality, and Identity as Represented in Classic Films from the 1980s." Thesis, Dartmouth College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10189805.
Full textPre-nostalgia exists at the intersection of identity, memory, and temporality. The core difference between what is understood to be a nostalgic feeling versus a pre-nostalgic feeling comes from the individual?s motivation to act due to an instantaneous awareness of, or concern with, missing something at the exact moment of loss and prior to the creation of a recallable memory. The degree, scope, and nature of the motivation and the thing being missed are specific to the individual at that moment in time, and the catalyst for this awareness and its subsequent behavior is primarily due to an engagement with a cultural object. The types of cultural objects in question are almost infinite ? music, film, cars, art, or another individual, among many others. This immediate connection with the object triggers a response from the individual that causes what I have described as a conscious or subconscious temporal compression and a newfound awareness of the perceived distance and proportion between this experience/awareness and the individual?s past, present, and future, and their understanding of their sense of self. This thesis seeks to explore and demonstrate the existence of this virtually undocumented phenomenon via two analytical and interrelated processes. First, I draw on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and nostalgia theory as foundational disciplines to document an academic structure of pre-nostalgia. Second, using the medium of film as a cultural object, I apply my research to identified characters, scenes, and soundtracks from several films from the 1980s to objectively demonstrate the manifestation of this phenomenon. The purpose of this dual analytical approach is to provide both spectators and evaluators of this theory an environment in which to objectively observe and understand what I believe is an intrinsic phenomenon, and my overarching goal is to advance the academic and practical discussion of memory and nostalgia theories.
Moore, Abigail. "With Great Power: A Narrative Analysis of Ethical Decisions in Superhero Films." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/558570.
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This study examines ethical decision-making processes as practiced by the cultural mythic hero of our time: the superhero. This study conducts a rhetorical narrative analysis of three key superhero films (The Dark Knight, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War) to locate moments when superhero characters make ethical decisions. The study evaluates their decision-making process using three ethical frameworks selected for their popularity in ethics courses as well as their relevance to the subject material; deontology, virtue ethics, and utilitarianism. Superheroes are famous for doing ‘the right thing’, and the purpose of this study is to determine to what degree these films function as an ethics education tool for the public which consumes them. In other words: do these films have a potential to instruct the viewer in answering ‘what is right’? This study looks closely at the ethical decision-making process in superhero films and determines the ways in which superhero films may indicate a potential for teaching ethical theory when these characters make the moral decisions for which they are famed. This study determined that utilitarianism and virtue ethics are both highly visible in superhero films, but rather than serving as a medium for learning, these films build and glorify a cult of personality. Ultimately, these films create messages which encourage the viewer to blindly accept ethical decisions made by the powerful, and to tolerate – and even crave – a tyrannical ruler. Because of the cultural impact these films have, a propagandistic message like this reaches millions of people, and it is vital to understand what the contents of that message are.
Temple University--Theses
Roesch, Matthew. "Les Sensations fortes: The phenomenological aesthetics of the French action film." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499821478202158.
Full textAshton, Dyrk. "USING DELEUZE: THE CINEMA BOOKS, FILM STUDIES AND EFFECT." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151342833.
Full textHoltmeier, Matthew. "ETSU Philosophy Club Lecture Series." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7821.
Full textBauer, Shad A. "Film, Music, and the Narrational Extra Dimension." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1365444831.
Full textHendricks, Jonathan. "Playing-With the World: Toy Story's Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6709.
Full textWatson, Ian T. "The Psychology of Theatre and Film: In Theory and Practice." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4202.
Full textIcleanu, Constantin C. "A CASE FOR EMPATHY: IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, AND NOVELS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/33.
Full textNordle, Ryan. "Ethics in Iran: Jacques Lacan and the Films of Abbas Kiarostami's "Koker Trilogy"." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1067.
Full textHoltmeier, Matthew. "Vital Coasts, Mortal Oceans: The Pearl Button as Media Environmental Philosophy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7825.
Full textYakubov, Katya. "The Monstrous Self: Negotiating the Boundary of the Abject." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4815.
Full textKrob, Madison. "Up On Digital Hill." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1627573944283589.
Full textSwanson, Stephen C. "The Stranger in the Dark: The Ethics of Levinasian-Derridean Hospitality in Noir." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182190991.
Full textNir, Oded. "Nutshells and Infinite Space: Totality and Global Culture." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1404773762.
Full textWeber, Micah H. "WORK/DEATH, OF EACH IN THEIR OWN." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5446.
Full textFaucilhon, Emmanuelle. "Cinéaste amateur dans les colonies : expérience, filiation et reconstruction cinématographique." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3145.
Full textThe films corpus is made by amateur films shot by colonials in the French colonies, Madagascar and Senegal. This source corpus is enriched by contemporary films using these amateur films and films from the colonial era. As part of a practice of action research, two films were made. In 3 movements we tried to determine the value colonial home movies may have today. We relied on the pragmatic anthropology and ordinary philosophy to understand the issues of these films. The starting assumption was that these films had been abandoned, they had no more value as a result of a colonial state denied by settlers. Our historical and sociological surveys show that this lack of value is a denial of reality of the colonial situation, denying both injustice and emotional ties that had been created mainly between the settler children and servants. Hence the paradox of films called "domestic" is that domestics are absent. This lack is essential. Without nannies and boys, these films are a no man's land. Moreover, the colonial context creates a report view illegitimacy illegality of these films. In conclusion we propose firstly a cinematic reconstruction method that puts the heart of its system linked to the three actors amateur films: the filmmakers, the filmed people and those in the fields Out. Secondly we propose the creation of an institute of colonial amateur films based on principles established by an ethic of audiovisual archiving that allow former colonized to reclaim the images of their own past at a time when there was a monopoly of audiovisual means of production. This would respond to a memorial, audiovisual and emotional justice
Vang, Jens. "Avenging the Anthropocene : Green philosophy of heroes and villains in the motion picture tetralogy The Avengers and its applicability in the Swedish EFL-classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86044.
Full textLelièvre, Samuel. "Image et sens dans l'herméneutique et la philosophie de l'art de Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0078.
Full textRicoeur’s philosophical project can be broadly termed as a philosophical anthropology. Within this context, a main role is given to the issue of imagination through the resources of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and reflexive philosophy. The issue of picture, however, remains quite unknown and has not been much questioned; it might even be undermined by being reduced to the context of reproductive imagination as opposed to that of productive imagination within Ricoeur’s anthropology, and due to the emphasis on the linguistic relationship to sense or meaning. Yet, instead of opposing the plane of picture to the plane of sense or meaning, an articulated connection between those two planes should be sought. The issue of symbolism opened by Ricoeur in his Philosophie de la volonté provides the starting point for our investigation. From that early hermeneutics on to La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli, via De l’interprétation. Essai sur Freud, La Métaphore vive, and Temps et récit, one could also consider that picture makes us think. But the issue of symbolism cannot be distinguished from that of imagination. One also has to link two paths of Ricoeur’s philosophy through the issue of symbolism, one that is orientated in the path of hermeneutics – the progression to the standpoint set by Du texte à l’action –, another that links the project of a philosophical anthropology to the fields of art and aesthetics. The research is thus structured around four parts. A first part is focused on the articulated connection between Ricoeur’s philosophy of imagination and philosophical aesthetics by addressing the hermeneutical prospect as the condition for the effectiveness of this connection. Extending this hermeneutical stance, a second part seeks to establish a bond between Ricoeur’s notion of a critical hermeneutics and the issue of picture. A third part, concurrent with the context of a critical hermeneutics, aims to consider imagination as mediating the plane of art and the plane of experience by referring to Ricoeur’s reading of analytic philosophy and, more specifically, analytic philosophy of art. Relying on the previous parts, a fourth part finally addresses the field of film, articulating ontological, narrative, and social layers to a philosophical hermeneutics
Demirkan-Martin, Vulcan Volkan. "Queerable spaces : homosexualities and homophobias in contemporary film : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Studies in the University of Canterbury /." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Cultural Studies, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2575.
Full textFisk, William M. "The Horse's Ass: A Survey of Comediology." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2404.
Full textPoch, i. Rodrigo Chantal. "Cineastes d’un món caigut: una interpretació de l’obra d’Andrei Tarkovski, Werner Herzog i Terrence Malick." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670314.
Full textThis thesis is an interpretation of the work by filmmakers Andrei Tarkovski, Terrence Malick and Werner Herzog from the idea of the loss of a link between man and world and the possibility of restoring it through cinema.
Lupo, Melissa Cecelia. "The Political Repercussions of Homosexual Repression of Masculinity and Identity in Martin Sherman's BENT." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1294870010.
Full textBatchelder, Daniel Lev. "American Magic: Song, Animation, and Drama in Disney's Golden Age Musicals (1928-1942)." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1523442817785887.
Full textWilliams, Langston A. "Stay Woke." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2439.
Full textRandall, William Sanford. "How Methane Made the Mountain: The Material Ghost and the Technological Sublime in Methane Ghosts." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460722538.
Full textMorrow, Stephen M. "The Art Education of Recklessness: Thinking Scholarship through the Essay." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492288407200045.
Full textWood, Sarah. "Lost film found film." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/48012/.
Full textMarkodimitrakis, Michail-Chrysovalantis. "Gothic Agents Of Revolt: The Female Rebel In Pan's Labyrinth, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460074928.
Full textClementi-Smith, Jonathan. "Divine horsemen and people inbetween : a study of the spaces between magical time and mechanical motion." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3998.
Full textMoore, Ashley N. "Fisher of Men." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1408.
Full textAustin, Travis R. "Laminated PAINT." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5462.
Full textGontovnik, Monica. "Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female ColombianArtists." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106.
Full textCulp, Andrew C. "Escape." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1377255356.
Full textYip, Sheenie. "Sinofuturism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1174.
Full textBiermann, Brett Christopher. "Travelling philosophy from literature to film /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2006. http://dare.uva.nl/document/51450.
Full textNigianni, Chrysanthi. "Rethinking 'queer' : a film philosophy project." Thesis, University of East London, 2008. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3844/.
Full textHowell, Danielle Marie. "Cloning the Ideal? Unpacking the Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Anxieties in "Orphan Black"." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460059315.
Full textFox, Neil James. "How film education might best address the needs of UK film industry and film culture." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/575401.
Full textFogelholm, Jens. "Lost in Space : Sökandet efter mening hos människan i Titan A.E." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339480.
Full textGu, Erdan. "Studies in thin film systems and X-ray multilayer film design." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1992. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU547604.
Full textNewson, Pamela Lynn. "Studies of diamond film formation." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30529.
Full textMcKinley, Iain Stewart. "Studies in thin film flows." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366911.
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