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Showing 1 to 20 of 1085 for “"Film and Media Studies"”.
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Report on the implementation of an impact campaign for the documentary film, This Land: From cinema to community centres - a guide to developing a grassroots impact strategy
This Land is a forty-eight minute narrative documentary which tells the story of a small village in rural South Africa, where the community resists the development of a mine on their land. The impact campaign for This Land evolved over time, as did my role in. It could be described as a process of …
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Home Movie as Process: Developing a Reading of the Moving Image in the Home Mode
… remains an object of study far under-theorized and under-researched in the discipline of film and media studies, in part, because of the very nature of its unique qualities as a moving image produced and exhibited in the home mode. It is the goal of this thesis to develop a theoretical framework …
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American socio-politics in fictional context: transformers and the representation of the United States
… developed for the support of the Transformers brand, with their underlying emphasis on the sale of action figures, have been dismissed as a somewhat juvenile and uninteresting text. Little to no serious academic analysis of any of the various iterations of the franchise has been undertaken. With …
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Work in Motion: Labour and Aesthetic Production in the Animated Film Industry
… intersection between the representation of work and the work of representation, this thesis explores how animation has historically mediated technological transformations in film production through its self-reflexive engagement with labour. I track the entanglement between animated images and …
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Pop Potentiality: Renegotiating Networks of Power and Relation Through Contemporary Speculative Fiction
… was born out of a passion for the multitudinous and ever-increasing ways that I get to enjoy stories in my everyday life. My dissertation turns a critical eye to various popular media forms and speculative genres to examine how new and rapidly evolving narrative modes circulate concepts about …
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Smell as Self-identity: Capitalist Ideology and Olfactory Imagination in Das Parfum’s Multimedia Storytelling
… a cultural signifier in <em>Perfume</em>’s multimedia storytelling. By establishing the theoretical ground upon the historical importance of scent, the thesis focuses particularly on its close interrelationships with the politics of identity, an issue elaborated in Patrick Süskind’s novel …
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The reel truth: the importance of historical accuracy in film
… is to build a case that historical accuracy in film is an especially important criteria when teaching using film, and that educators and their students should be able to discuss any historical inaccuracies in a way that does not diminish enjoyment of the film. Aside from students, there should …
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Sensing the markets: the crisis of Turkish financial markets
… everyday practices of financial trading and expertise at the intersection of market technologies, intersubjective relations on the trading floors, and the volatile aftermath of the failed military coup in 2016 in Turkey. Inspired by Ann Cvetkovich, I ask: How does capitalism feel at the …
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The 'author' in theory and documentary practice: authorship, (auto)biography and shared textual authority
… irony in assembling a range of published and broadcast outputs which share my name, for the precise purpose of contextualising them in a Commentary concerned with interrogating the very idea of individual authorship. This submission consists of a number of such outputs, the work of over …
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Reading Dario Argento's 'Inferno' (Italy)
Inferno (1980) is a cult classic film written and directed by Dario Argento that both extends and resists the giallo genre. In the film, Argento continues his tradition of building a dense network of allusions that refers to his own and others’ films, as well as to canonical and ‘popular’ works of …
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Unreal Reality: Post-socialist China's Massive Infrastructural Agenda in Jia Zhangke's "Three Gorges Films"
<p>This thesis focuses on Chinese Six-Generation film director Jia Zhangke’s “Three Gorges films” <em>Still Life</em> (2006) and <em>Ash Is Purest White</em> (2018) to demonstrate the impact of post-socialist China's massive infrastructural agenda on Chinese citizens’ lives and psyches in …
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Bending Family Friendly into Fear: Nostalgia, Minstrelsy and Horror in Bendy and the Ink Machine
<p>When one thinks of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, fear and horror are not terms normally associated with this iconic American cartoon character; however, the video game Bendy and the Ink Machine turns animated bodies (cartoons) into bodies the player fears. In this game family friendly cartoon …
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The gamefulness of joel and ethan coen
<p>This dissertation examines the games and gamelike strategies and tactics employed by Joel and Ethan Coen in both their approach to filmmaking and their relationship to the American cinematic establishment. It suggests that an understanding of the brothers' gamefulness is necessary for …
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Phenomenologies of Women's Illness in Ingmar Bergman's 1970s Films
… of these works remain largely unexplored. Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop, 1971), Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte,1976), and Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten, 1978), are pivotal examples of this shift, where illness is not merely an individual experience for these women but a complex, embodied …
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