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Showing 1 to 20 of 1092 for “"Film and media"”.
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Lights camera lesson plan : higher education programme design in the film and media environment
… education are constructed by craft-specific film, television and media industry professionals. This research gathers information from these professionals, tasked with the development and design of their relevant programmes, and focuses on uncovering the influences on their decision-making in …
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Addressing gender stereotypes in Egypt and the impact of gender-based violence in film and media
… is constructed through values, traditions, and culture that influence film and media. Film and media are products of the culture; film is an art form. Media are platforms for expression of values, traditions, and culture. Storytelling conveys the attitudes of a society and transmits them …
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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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Yasumasa Morimura: Appropriator of Images, Cultures, and Identities
… appropriates Western imagery from art history, film, and media, recreating the scenes by inserting his own male Asian body into them. The scholarship regarding Morimura often acknowledges one feature of the works, emphasizing the artist’s use of appropriation and the feminist quality of the work …
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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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Storytending is a Verb! Activating Participatory Feminist Media Praxis Through Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities
This dissertation draws on my experience as a filmmaker, scholar, and co-organizer of the Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities collective to outline a feminist filmmaking and oral history archiving praxis I call storytending. Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities is a …
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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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Embodied montage : reconsidering immediacy in virtual reality
… space. This approach to the medium, a form of immediacy, effaces the material reality of the medium and can obscure the ways through which a medium can offer new forms of knowledge. Virtual reality's realism is a construct, and by acknowledging this, creators can push the medium to more …
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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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Everything I am not: Discovering who I am
… works to transcend traumatic memory to renew and heal. I suggest that traumatic memory be likened to a scar or a wound on the body. I, a contemporary black South African woman, seek to heal from the wound created by dominant structures of oppression such as slavery, colonialism, patriarchy, …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… which is rooted in Casteism, it also documents and analyses the use of the colour line in the representation of vice and virtue. Eventually, it looks into casting patterns of Hindi film directors with skin colour as a determining factor informing narratives, shaping ideological codes, dictating …
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Necessary illusions?: representations of Darfur
This thesis examined media and NGO representation of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur over an eighteen-month period between January 2004 and June 2005. It concentrated on three key questions. The first question relates to the 'noise' graph of emergencies. What factors - and what actors - were …
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Weaving a Universal Narrative: A Comparative Screenplay Analysis of Parasite and Blue Velvet
… analysis between Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986) and Parasite, (Joon- Ho, 2019), the purpose of this dissertation is to facilitate the: definitions, possibilities for further research, and a skillset upon which audiences and vocational practitioners might interpret cinematic storytelling, thus …
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Entanglements of media and space: an exploratory case study of two public arts projects in Johannesburg and Cape Town
This research presents a spatially and media sensitive analysis of the layers of discourse created by two South African public art case studies between 2017 and 2019. Public art is selected as the research object as it “necessarily explores the very meaning of public space” (Wacławek, 2011:65) and …
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‘Do I even belong?' Interrogating Afro-diasporic navigation of identity, race and space in the search for belonging
… constant was always this feeling of unbelonging, and this need to find belonging. As such, this project centers around the theme ‘finding belonging in diaspora'. Growing up in Kenya, I had never really come to terms with the politics of my Kenyanness not to mention my blackness. I had simply just …
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Family, archive, and the posttraumatic imaginary: an analysis of the role of archival material in the personal documentaries stories we tell, the Imam and I, and grandpa Ernest speaks
My short documentary, Grandpa Ernest Speaks (2021), is the creative research portion of my master's degree submission. The film is heavily influenced by post-structuralist theory regarding the archive as an experiential entity as well as posttraumatic cinema discourse (in particular, Joshua …
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