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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"Documentary film"”.
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Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare
… of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Brad Speck. The film follows two actors (through observational shooting) - Kevin Wickersham, a waiter who is trying theatre for the first time, and Jeffrey Johnson, a theatre college student trying Shakespeare for the first time - as they relate to a process and …
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Documentary Film: I Named Her Angel
… in a constructive manner. The main aim of this documentary film project is to serve as a small step towards helping different cultures to understand each other better. This documentary film conveys the basics of Mevlevism by following the formal gatherings of a Mevlevi den in Istanbul, Turkey. A …
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Mama D's 2 Blocks: A Documentary Film
… while supporting local renewal efforts. The film documents their joining together, without electricity or running water, and assisting in the rebuilding process undertaken by Mama D and other neighborhood residents. This film captures a community in action, how it survived, and the first …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… I argue that the formal capacities of documentary film offer unique potential to challenge the naturalized visions of the carceral state through their ability to exploit these tensions. The documentaries discussed in this dissertation operate as “carceral counter-visions,” as they play …
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Documentary Film as Evidence in the Digital Era
… – a written component which follows, three short documentary films on a Digital Video Disc (DVD), which can be found attached at the back of the written thesis, and a website on the World Wide Web, which is dedicated to the aforementioned films and can be found at the following address: …
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Dormant Images: Documentary Film, Volcanoes, and the Archive
… intersections of volcanoes and the archive in documentary moving images. Responding to two growing interests across the humanities – in geological materialities and temporalities and in the physical site and concept of the archive – the thesis examines the largely unmapped interactions between …
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Independent documentary film production : making "Three Day Gold".
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Empathising With Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity In Documentary Film
… how non-human subjectivity can be suggested in documentary film and identifies film techniques that allow a spectator to empathise with an onscreen animal. It argues that a spectator cannot be told to feel empathy, and instead should be offered an experience that allows them to practise empathy …
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Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement
… forward-thinking solutions. Environmental documentary film has the ability to dramatize the reality of environmental issues and empower audiences to become an active part of the change necessary to address environmental crises. Utilizing a specific genre of environmental documentary film in …
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Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement
… forward-thinking solutions. Environmental documentary film has the ability to dramatize the reality of environmental issues and empower audiences to become an active part of the change necessary to address environmental crises. Utilizing a specific genre of environmental documentary film in …
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The manifestations of political power structures in documentary film.
… political and social power structures between filmmaker and protagonist are manifested in the aesthetics and cinematic means of documentary film. Through a synthesis of filmmaking practice and “hidden knowledge” with critical theories from the fields of cultural studies and political philosophy …
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Race Day An Explication of the Documentary Film One Mind
… explication in support of my twenty-five-minute documentary film entitled One Mind. One Mind follows Ashwill Petersen's journey as he prepares and competes in his first 100km trail running race at George Mountain Ultra Trail (MUT) 2022. Even though the film only follows one person's story, it is …
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Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film
The South African film industry, like the rest of the country, has gone through a very difficult and trying time over the last century and has been faced with enormous challenges since 1994. South Africa is still in a process of transition and the turbulent era of Apartheid is still vivid in our …
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The Beloved: A documentary film on the history and aftermath of Fremantle’s Rajneesh sannyasin community – and – Hidden Realities: Transcendental Structures in Documentary Film: An exegesis
… a ‘transcendental structure’ in relation to a documentary film form, and what outcomes, specific to a non-fiction mode of representation, result from the application of this structure. A transcendental structure in film has a long history of investigation and interpretation in narrative fiction …
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The effort to forget : collective memory and documentary film in Québec
… narrativization itself, as embodied through the documentary films. Conclusions are drawn with respect to the role of forgetting in the imagined community of the nation, and suggestions are formulated with respect to the understanding of collective amnesia in further study on collective memory.
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Depictions of Queer female characters in contemporary South African documentary film
… South African lesbians in contemporary local documentary films. In order to do so, the author focuses on two films: Breaking out of the Box (dir. Zethu Matebeni and S’bu Kheswa, 2011) and Difficult Love (dir. Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid, 2010). These films are analysed in the light of a …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… with a range of national and international filmmakers. Through examining the daily practices of producing and distributing social documentary films, I show how people used media as an ethical and political practice to purposefully shape and transform face-to-face human relationships. I argue …
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Ghosts, Imagination and Theatre: re-enacting the futural past through documentary film
… in WWII The research has resulted in a film, The Deathless Woman (89’ 2019), a hybrid documentary film that has been created in response to European sites of atrocity against the Roma. This practice employs a number of experimental strategies that seek to supplement the limited …
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