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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Film festivals"”.
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International Film Festivals as Field-Configuring Events
… is forthcoming on events such as international film festivals that serve a similar function. A new theoretical framework - field-configuring events (FCEs) by Lampel' and Meyer (2008) seeks to rectify the lack of attention paid to 'events' by organization scientists. . Adopting their framework, …
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Film festivals in Africa: a study in sustainability
The sustainable future of film festivals in Africa is a vital issue based on the critical role that film festivals play in African filmmaking, and yet has not been widely investigated. This thesis identifies four key factors that I argue are essential to this sustainable future. These factors are: …
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Seeking Mirrors: Representation and Identity at Asian Pacific Islander Film Festivals
… of Asian Pacific Islander (API) attendees at API film festivals. Compared to mainstream media, where less than 6% of characters are API, API film festivals focus exclusively on films featuring API characters, as well as international films from Asia. API film festivals, therefore, are rich sites …
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Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty: Pathways Through Turtle Island Film Festivals and Diverse Media Ecosystems
This dissertation follows Indigenous filmmakers today and examines their surrounding support structures through: the development of Kin Theory, an Indigenous media makers database, the 4th World Media Lab fellowship for emerging Indigenous filmmakers, and the world's largest presenter of Indigenous …
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Beyond the Screen: The Integration of XR Media in Canadian Cultural Institutions
… its foray into cultural institutions like film festivals and artist-run centres (ARCs) remains an underexplored research area. Furthermore, existing literature often examines the technological facets of XR, overlooking its cultural impact. Addressing this gap, this dissertation is a …
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Filmmaker, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Negotiation of Identity in an Indigenous Film Festival
… proliferation of indigenous created films and the festivals that feature them. The Denver Indigenous Arts and Film Festival is an annual festival that exclusively showcases films made by and with indigenous peoples. The festival’s 2009 theme of “Telling Our Stories” emphasized …
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RABBIT/RIDES: CONNECTING A CONTINENT BY BIKE
… of 2011, I set out on an ambitious documentary film expedition, Connecting the Continent. For sixty-five days and 2,700-miles I pedaled a mountain bike from Mexico to Canada along the spine of the Rocky Mountains. Throughout the expedition I documented both my adventure and the wildlife of the …
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RABBIT/RIDES: CONNECTING A CONTINENT BY BIKE
… of 2011, I set out on an ambitious documentary film expedition, Connecting the Continent. For sixty-five days and 2,700-miles I pedaled a mountain bike from Mexico to Canada along the spine of the Rocky Mountains. Throughout the expedition I documented both my adventure and the wildlife of the …
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24 frames a second: the cosmopolitan cinephilia of South Korean college students
… ethnographic heart of my work is a university film club (tongari) located in Seoul. I also observed a student-run film magazine as well as major and minor international film festivals. Demographically, the age cohort of university students represents the most active users of film in South Korea …
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The Dream Machine: Moving beyond the dichotomy between genre and auteur cinema
… with limited export potential and auteur films that are increasingly restricted to the film festival and museum circuit. The inclusive vision of film as a universal art form has been superseded by a strongly perceived dichotomy between a more erudite “auteur cinema” on the one hand and a …
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Audiovisual Indigeneities and Cosmopolitics: Shifting Political Grounds in the New Landscapes of Communication and Resources of Hope in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
… has cultivated close relations with Indigenous filmmakers from Bolivia and drawn inspiration from Indigenous audiovisual production from Canada. This independent collective is based in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Brazilian state with the second-largest Indigenous population, the largest portion of …
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EMANCIPATING DESIRE, EMPOWERING FANTASY: CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA
… for progressive social change, I examine new film practices, genres, networks, industry structures and social struggles in Indonesia and Malaysia today which are aided by the advancement in new digital technology. Unlike established film industries in the West, the structure of Indonesian and …
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Culture versus Commerce: New Strategies for the Internationalization of Catalan Cinema
… in relation to the predominance of Hollywood films in the international film market and the measures — and theoretical approaches upon which they are based — that nation-states and the European Union undertake to protect their film production and to ensure that it reaches their own audiences, …
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A Network of Actors Influencing English Subtitles of Dialects and Other Culture-Specific References in Chinese Films
Since the 1980s, Chinese films have steadily made their presence felt by scoring key awards at prestigious international film festivals, capturing the English-speaking audience's attention. In particular, the work of the fifth- and sixth-generation directors, such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia …
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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
… art history) and without (including fashion and film curation and cultural production). My submission combines curatorial and textual work - three Fashion in Film Festivals and associated publications, plus three articles on fashion film - which, taken together, bridge historical, theoretical and …
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TURKISH FANTASY FICTION FILMS THEN AND NOW: AN ANALYSIS OF FANTASY FILMS PRODUCED IN EARLY 1970s TURKEY
… very few examples of fantasy fiction genre films since its beginning in 1914 except for the 1970s Yeşilçam era. The first film ever to be made in Turkey by a Turkish filmmaker (Fuat Uzkınay) is credited as Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı (The Destruction of the Russian Monument at …
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Translating the experience of drowning to film form
… with translating the experience of drowning to film form. A hybrid of Practice as Research (PaR) and narrative methodologies under a constructionist conceptual framework was used to examine small stories from thirteen survivors and visualise their experiences of drowning. This was a journey of …
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
… 1990s Queer Cinema exploded onto the independent film scene in North America. Most film festivals at the time featured several queer films that broke the boundaries of film-making techniques, conventional narration, and what was considered acceptable by mainstream audiences. By openly discussing …
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Contexts of Short Animated Documentary Production in the United Kingdom
… practice as an independent animated documentary filmmaker. I approach animated documentary as a ‘conjunctional’ practice (Ward, 2003, p.7), taking place at the boundaries of other communities of practice and governed by both the formal systems of the commercial media industries and the informal …
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