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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Film and Television"”.
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How Film and TV Music Communicate
This Commentary contextualises and places within a critical framework, three books on Film Music written by myself.(1) The books, written between 2013 and 2015, are targeted toward students of film music and professional practitioners. This Commentary has given me the opportunity to address a …
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Galdosian Novels Adapted in Film and Television: 1970-1998
In twentieth-century filmmaking, most film critics agree that nineteenth-century novels had a special attraction for filmmakers because they established a national discourse or mythology and generated authoritative figures for their cultures. In the case of Spain, Galdós is a popular …
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The Progression of African American Representation in Film and Television
<p>Representation of African Americans in film and television has made great progress over the years. In the past, many works were created by non-Black filmmakers and showrunners who included Black characters that possessed stereotypical traits. This had led to numerous forms of misrepresentation …
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British National Identity and Maritime Film and Television, 1960-2012
… the mythology connected to the maritime sphere and notions of British national identity and collective unity through the projection of the maritime in British film and television. Specifically, it traces the evolution of this myth through the period 1960-2012, a post-Imperialist era …
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Film and Television: An Analytical History of Economic and Creative Integration
An analytical history of film-television relationships indicates that major film producers and television have merged. Integration has occasioned mutual adaptations, and any competition remaining between the two media is mitigated by shared economic goals and philosophical assumptions interlocking …
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Logics of Attention: Watching and Not-Watching Film and Television in Everyday Life
… draws from a series of qualitative interviews and take-home diaries conducted with groups of home film and television audiences to examine everyday practices of media attention and distraction. Often taken as clear and separate experiential states, attentiveness and distractedness are actually …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… questions of community, politics, neoliberalism, and ecologies in twenty-first century US film and television. Specifically, I examine the work of three American filmmakers — Kenneth Lonergan, Mike White, and Paul Schrader — whose works, I suggest, can be characterised as narratives of …
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RESEARCH ON THE COPYRIGHT VALUE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DRAMAS
… works, such as Ghost Blows Out Light the Light and Silent Separation, have become widely popular, making intellectual property (IP) one of the hottest areas of the surge of IP copyright investment. The “Internet Plus” era, supported by big data technology and the entertainment industry, …
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<i>Presenciar el pasado</i>: Witnessing the Spanish and Argentine Dictatorships through Film and Television
… explores the ways in which recent (1999–2017) films and television series ask today’s spectators to witness the 20<sup>th</sup>-century Spanish and Argentine dictatorships by analyzing these texts on both a narrative and technical level. I examine torture in the Argentine films<em> Garage …
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Reframing (im)maturity : interrogating representations of the transition to adulthood in contemporary American film and television
… turn of the twenty-first century, institutional and cultural changes caused adolescence as a life stage to become increasingly overdetermined, while simultaneously blurring its definitional boundaries. Although the concept of youth as a culturally defined category is of relatively recent origin, …
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#MeToo media and Hollywood: challenging sexual violence in film and television and the limits of media industries
… in 2017, there has been an influx of narrative film and television texts that address the #MeToo movement—both implicitly and explicitly—in their narratives. Taken together, these texts make up a distinct cycle of film and television I term "#MeToo Media." This dissertation seeks to uncover how …
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Thriller, Horror, Hacker, Spy: The Hacker Genre in Film and Television from the 1970s to the 2010s
This thesis argues that hacking and surveillance have formed a ‘hacker’ genre in film and television that begins to emerge from the influences of 1970s films, forming between the 1980s and 1990s and continuing to develop through to the 2010s, grouping together computer hacking, surveillance and …
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‘But it’s an awfully, awfully slow process’: Women and the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT), 1960-1989
… between women workers in the British film and television industries and their trade union, the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT), between 1960 and 1989. This thesis contributes a longitudinal case study of an individual union to the British …
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Managing mobility in practice : empirical studies of the everyday practices and technology use of film and television freelancers
… the fields of human computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) have increasingly sought to understand the role that mobility takes in shaping people’s actions and interactions via technologies. This thesis contributes to this endeavour by exploring the mobile …
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On Objects and Affections: Contemporary Representations of the Gay Man/Straight Woman Dyad in Popular Film and Television
… of popular media. The study problematizes and critically evaluates how the narrativization of the dyad both challenges and reinforces stereotypes of gay men and at the same time circulates a troubling image of femininity in the figure of the straight woman. This line of argument is extended …
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From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television
… such as Apple's Siri application, IBM's Watson, and Google's Now are not just the products of innovative computer scientists; they have been directly influenced by fictional technology. Computer scientists and programmers have openly drawn inspiration from Science Fiction texts such as Gene …
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Layering time : the representation of tradition in contemporary multimedia performance
… thesis project my Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Television, chose to create a theatrical production that incorporated multiple video projections as well as performance forms such as dance, drama, music and ritual. This explication then begins answering the question, 'how does a student …
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Performing Transition: Depictions of the Transgender Experience
… does exist it relied on stereotype and convention. This too is often the fate of transgender individuals when they are depicted on the screen and stage. The majority of film and television depictions of transgender individuals are inadequate. When they are depicted at all the …
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