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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Film genre"”.
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Visual Splendors and Intellectual Games: Heritage as an International Film Genre
… best characterize heritage cinema. The genre realizes an arguably feminine aesthetic sensibility, along with feminist themes that contribute to a prevalent ideology of ""thoughtful"" liberalism. Moreover, in replacing the female body with images of nature highly evocative of maternal …
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The Gender Differences in Subjectivity among Superbeing Characters in the Comic Book Film Genre
This study intends to evaluate the extent to which gender inequality permeates representation in the media. By drawing on the literature of feminist phenomenology I define subjectivity as the tendency of characters to interact with the world around them rather than merely have that world act upon …
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Learning about the criminal justice protagonists: a content analysis of gender messages in the crime film genre
… as a method to systematically evaluate crime films over a period of 20 years to investigate what gender messages were apparent in the genre. A sample of 42 crime films was drawn beginning in 1972 through 1992. The main and supporting characters were analyzed to determine if gender differences …
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The horror film genre as an interpretive device in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams 's Suddenly last summer
As my thesis, I have made an adaptation for film of Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The play tells the story of a young woman, Catharine Holly, who has been institutionalized shortly after her return to New Orleans from a vacation on the island of Cabeza de Lobo. Her cousin, Sebastian, …
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Buddy films and gender identity : representing the bonds of masculinity /
The study examines the buddy film genre and the representation of masculinity in relation to the homosocial and the homoerotic. As a genre, the buddy films focus on male relationships, thematically seeking to mediate the boundaries surrounding the homosocial continuum and the intimacy and eroticism …
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Her Closet: Narrative Short Film
… and exhibition applied to the short narrative film, Her Closet. It critiques the film from story conception, directing and writing applications especially. Contexts for the film are applied in topics of film genre, story form and psychological approaches. This written thesis serves to explain …
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Hero in West and East
… popular press, this research considers western film theories, as well as the specific Chinese film ecology of the current decade 1999-2009. Reflections on the different readings of the filmic text are discussed with the focus on martial arts film genre and its political implications. A …
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The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film
… a more narrative approach to storytelling, filmmakers increasingly turned to scripted or fictional elements (events, characters, etc.) to depict or recreate “reality.” Robert Flaherty, John Grierson and other pioneering documentarians employed numerous fictional devices in their movies. …
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The antihuman unconscious in twenty-first century science fiction cinema: structure of feeling, the political unconscious, and problematising the human in science fiction films produced since 1999
… future, and this is reflected in science fiction films of the last twenty years, many of which feature images and narratives of the commodification, vilification, and annihilation of humanity. Utilising Raymond Williams’ structure of feeling, whereby dominant cultural attitudes are challenged by …
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Mediated Masculinities: The Forms of Masculinity in American Genre Film, 1990-1999
… as forms. Specifically, I closely read Western films and masculine crisis films from 1990 to 1999 to map how cinematic forms constitute the potential to alter normative modes of masculinity. To launch this endeavor, I rely on a theoretical hybrid of Brinkema-Deleuze-Spinoza that foregrounds …
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
The horror film genre utilizes spectacles of the human body while alluding to our worst fears beyond the silver screen. "Body horror" is a unique sub-genre that distorts the very nature of human flesh for horrific effect. David Cronenberg's <italic>Videodrome</italic> (1983) is an exemplary body …
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The British historical film, 1930-1990.
… to understand the ways in which the historical film has vexed its many critics, and in doing so will look beyond its perceived inadequacies to provide a new appreciation of its character, appeal, f unction and development. I have attempted to achieve these goals through a substantial generic …
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Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment
… of acting and spectatorship in theatre and film, focusing on representations of the human body in the work of Samuel Beckett and Peter Weiss. I argue that film and theatre acting must be theorized in specific relation to each other, and that media comparisons should be a central aspect of …
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Music video viewing and adolescents' perceptions of movie musicals
… scholars to note the similarities between this film genre and music videos. Other researchers have noted that music videos could be the final destruction of the nearly extinct Hollywood musical. No empirical studies were found that focused on the relationship between music video viewing and …
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Yugoslav war cinema : shooting a nation which no longer exists
… and challenging the discourse of the nation. Films depicting the Partisan war experience during the "national war of liberation", the foundational narrative of socialist Yugoslavia, played a significant role in constructing and deconstructing Yugoslavia's revolutionary past. After the death of …
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As cem cadeiras: comédia fílmica como fonte historiográfica
A Hundred Chairs: Film Comedy as Historiographycal Source. The uses and limits of historic approaches essayed on nine film adaptations of a sovietic novel, Dvienatsat Stuliev de Ilf e Petrov, 1927: Keep Your Seats, Please!, Dreizehn Stühle, EI Sillón Y Ia Granduquesa, It's in the Bag!, As Treze …
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(Re)Animating the Horror Genre: Explorations in Children's Animated Horror Films
<p>This project seeks to define the subgenre of children's animated horror film by examining its classification within the children's film genre and its use of generic conventions of horror. While this project does not aim to conflate children's film as a genre and animation as a medium, the scope …
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Creando barrios. Vecindarios, cine y poesia. La concepcion del espacio urbano en Espana. 1970-1985.
… notion in the readings of the <em>Quinqui</em> film genre and the Poetry of the Experience (<em>Poesía de la Experiencia</em>), two art forms that propose a new approach to the urban space. My dissertation attempts to show the spatial conception proposed by different cultural products in a way …
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
… of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early travelogue films to the emergence and proliferation of …
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