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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Fiction film"”.
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Fred Zinnemann and the Documentary Fiction Film
… ethos that inform some of Fred Zinnemann's key films that synthesize elements of the documentary film and the Hollywood narrative film into a hybrid form I call the documentary fiction. The study addresses a lack of critical attention to Zinnemann's career by setting up a framework within which …
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Mnemophrenia: a science fiction film-essay on the future of cinema and artificial memories
… with theory, which then leads to the science fiction film Mnemophrenia that constitutes the practical aspect of it. I attempt to demonstrate how theory and practice can be joined to create a fruitful union, each one feeding the other. In my research, I am inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s idea …
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From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television
… they have been directly influenced by fictional technology. Computer scientists and programmers have openly drawn inspiration from Science Fiction texts such as Gene Roddenberry's television show Star Trek and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey in order to create more …
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Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of 'Welsh Wales' through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation
… 20th century, the techniques of collage and film montage were linked with the cultural production of political radicalism. The assemblage of new wholes from existing parts established a critical method for negotiating the social world. Driven by technological and cultural developments, the …
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Making Coffee
Making Coffee is a fiction film shot in Toronto during the spring of 2014. It is a social drama that explores the fatherson relationship within a contemporary Canadian society. The story also touches upon issues of immigration and the importance of friendship in coping with loneliness in a foreign …
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This Will Be My Legacy
This Will Be My Legacy is a short fiction film following Martha, a lonely and directionless young woman who is a contestant in a competition promising to send the winners to colonize Mars. The contestants must accept that, should they embark on the mission, they will likely die on Mars due to there …
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Promise Me
… by true events, Promise Me is a neorealistic fiction film that centers on Charlie Thomas (15), who is facing the reality that her mother Yolanda Thomas (40) is dying from the complications of living with HIV and can no longer parent as she has before. Loyal, Charlie insists on being her …
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The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story
… document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male survivorship with regard to rape events in such manner which contributes to the thematization of social silence. Such silence perpetuates the feminization of …
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Re-imagining multiculturalism : how newness enters the world
… landscape. Masala , the 1992 Canadian feature-fiction film, is used as an example of how cultural representations reflect a different type of engagement with multiculturalism. It is a hybrid film--a concept that helps articulate this alternative perspective. Cultural critics also contribute to …
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Life with John
Life with John is a 15-minute fiction film about a married couple, Peter and Elena, whose lives are disturbed when Peter's imaginary friend John comes to stay in their small apartment. Having hosted similar visitors in the past, Elena decides to play along and pretends that John is real. However, …
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Scripting the Docufiction: Combining the Narrative and Documentary Modes in a Social Issue Film
… efforts in an examination of the "hybrid" film. The question asked:<em> in what ways can fiction be combined with non-fiction to engage with issues of social importance</em>, is answered in analysis, and through practice. Traditional analysis is focused on films that blur the line between …
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The kid with a camera : Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic critique.
This thesis is an exploration of the film works of Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami. It argues that his films constitute a body of work that serves as a self-reflexive critique of cinema. Through both documentary and fiction film-making, Kiarostami complicates the clear divide between reality …
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The World Takes
… of living. The World Takes is a narrative short fiction film that features two young brothers and their father grappling with their own fragility as they navigate an impending eviction from their home in Trenton, New Jersey. The power is out, the heat is off, and the family car is on the back of …
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Juha the Whale
Juha the Whale is a short coming-of-age fiction film that explores the isolation a refugee mother and her young daughter face as they await the status of their claimant hearing in Toronto, Canada. Najah (45) and her daughter Noor (8), spend the days leading up to their hearing in cramped refugee …
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Unconventional story-weavers and their "Ecstatic Truth": An analysis of voice-overs in documentary film
… narration that are typically applied to fiction film and applies them to documentary film. It looks at issues of representation and truth values in the documentary films of Werner Herzog, John Marshall, Luis Buñuel and Karin Jurshcick. It argues that the choices filmmakers make regarding …
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Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Cinema: Preparatory Remarks for a Re-Reading of Cinema 1 and 2
… and Cinema 2: The Time-Image as works of film poetics. English-language commentators tend to treat the books primarily as philosophical works, and only secondarily as contributions to film theory. I argue that this interpretive strategy gets things exactly backwards. To understand both the …
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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
… 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 film theory …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… American cultural products (art, literature, and film) are intertwined with America’s Post-World War I social and political history. This project suggests that these “high” and “low’ cultural products are not only an outcome of the American social and political landscape, but also influence that …
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Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history
… essay and script for a historical feature film as a work of creative non-fiction. The first 40 pages comprise the research essay discussing archival research methods and narrative strategies employed in the creative production. The script, Dina the runaway, is based on a reading of official …
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The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
… the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema …
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