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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Early film"”.
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The participatory potential of early cinema: a reexamination of early projected films
… formal qualities and historic context of three early films produced for the Edison Manufacturing Company by James White and Frederick Blechynden in 1897 titled Lurline Baths, Sutro Baths, and Sutro Baths, No. 1. It argues that the standard readings of early films posited by Tom Gunning and …
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‘<em>Samoye Vazhnoye</em>’: Behind the Scenes of Russian Cinema, 1908–1924
… a period of great turmoil and uncertainty, films revealed more than a unilateral relationship. Cinema was used in Russia in the late-Imperial and early Soviet eras as an active tool of entertainment, propaganda, art, education, and intellectual discussion. Studying its intersectional nature …
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Game worlds : a study of video game criticism
… of video games. Comparing the context of early film criticism and contemporary video game criticism, I argue that the public negotiation of meaning and value codifies a new medium as it emerges. In the case of digital games in particular, contemporary critics approach the question of "what …
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Geography of the Middle East through the Western Lens: A Survey of Films Set in the Middle East and Filmed in the American Southwest
… geography is a struggle in the world of film: a power balance between the work of the filmmakers and the place itself. Often, the filmmakers tip the scales in their favor and the true nature of the place is lost in translation. Throughout the history of cinema, the geography of the Middle …
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To adapt or not to adapt? : Writers and writing across prose fiction, theatre, and film 1823-1938
… in adaptations of their works to theatre and film between 1823 and 1938 to understand how unregulated adaptations, new media, media rivalries, the variable position of writers within and across media, and other social, cultural, economic, and legal contexts within the nineteenth and early …
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Wreckage, Hell, and Madness: American Drug Films and the Image of the User, 1923-1936
… drug users have taken though some of America’s early film history. By exploring and unpacking the imagery and other expressive qualities of films centering on the topic of drug use, this paper attempts to examine important cultural discussions Americans have had regarding drug users though the …
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Anticipated retrospection: manifesting pastness in moving image, an art practice enquiry
… in moving image from the perspective of artists’ film and video and asks: "if material qualities are implicated in memory as pastness, how can this be made apperceptible using art practice?” The study contributes to the understanding of temporal and material experience in contemporary art …
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Types in Transition: The Evolution of the Working Man in New Hollywood Cinema
… cinema represented a significant shift in both filmmaking style and practice. While scholars have traditionally located this break in either industrial or auteurist terms, Types in Transition argues that the quintessence of New Hollywood cinema can be found in its treatment of character types. …
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Mourning, materiality and the feminine: Sarah Pucill’s films 2004-2010
… writing-up of this PhD has examined experimental films I made between 2004 and 2010, in all five 16mm films: Stages Of Mourning, (17min, 2004), Taking My Skin, (35min, 2006), Blind Light (21min, 2007), Fall In Frame (19min, 2009), Phantom Rhapsody (19min, 2010). As I have been making films that …