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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Film history"”.
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The South According To Quentin Tarantino
This thesis explores the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s portrayal of the South and southerners in his films Pulp Fiction (1994), Death Proof (2007), and Django Unchained (2012). In order to do so, it explores and explains Tarantino’s mixture of genres, influences, and filmmaking styles in which he …
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An investigation into fluid film lubrication in dynamically loaded bearings
… the computational analysis of ruptured liquid films in both steadily and dynamically loaded bearings. The approach is based on the principle of oil flow continuity. A cavitation algorithm, proposed by H. G. Elrod, was implemented for studies of hydrodynamic lubrication in infinitely long …
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Distorted Realities: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film
… cinema has embraced the fantastic genres in filmmaking. Films such as El día de la bestia/The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995), Los otros/The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001), El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) and Los cronocrímenes/Timecrimes (Nacho …
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Wreckage, Hell, and Madness: American Drug Films and the Image of the User, 1923-1936
… users have taken though some of America’s early film history. By exploring and unpacking the imagery and other expressive qualities of films centering on the topic of drug use, this paper attempts to examine important cultural discussions Americans have had regarding drug users though the 1920s …
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The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives
… the role of gendered authorship in the U.S. film industry and focuses on how women’s directorial labor is represented in film history and its accumulated archives. Specifically, the project evaluates women’s labor in the cinematic paradigm of second wave exploitation films—films produced …
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The Go-Between. The Film Archive as a Mediator Between Copyright and Film Historiography.
… premise that only in being accessible can the film reach its potential for history making, the contribution of the film archive to a particular film historical narrative is fragmented: the films that are extant are not necessarily available and the ones that are available are not necessarily …
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Celluloid heroes: A study of fictional characters in popular film as vehicles for cultural myth
… of three fictional characters from popular film in an attempt to define the role of cultural myth in American society and demonstrate how these myths are distributed through popular culture media. The study will examine the film history of each character, analyze which myths these characters …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
… a debatable period in the course of American film history, with distinctive characteristics of new directorial emergence and innovative film style. However, the contemporary industrial context suggested a prominent power of stardom to effectively sustain the business in the new wave of new …
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Influencing factors in film costume design: the films of Cleopatra
… factors which have influenced costume design in film history by observing the various representations of the historical figure Cleopatra in motion pictures. Beginning with a brief history of the changing role of the costume designer in film, and a brief history of both the historical and …
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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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That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931
… of synchronized sound cinema took place. Using film critiques, advertisements for theatres, letters to the editor and editorials in the Montreal popular press to examine appeals made to audiences, I locate patterns and relationships of moviegoing. This study makes clearer the development of a …
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He Who Rules "Cinema" Rules Everything: Kalimán as Bridge Between 1960s and 1970s Mexican Cinema
… cinema, society, and culture. The two Kalimán films, El Hombre Increíble and El Siniestro Mundo de Humanón, occupy a unique liminal position in Mexican National Cinema, capturing the transformations that took place during the early 1970s until 1976, a time now known as the Prodigious Decade.1 …
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Pictures in Motion: The Cinematic Art of Zheng Zhengqiu and His Shanghai Contemporaries, 1910--1935
… (1889-1935) was the most influential Chinese filmmaker in early Chinese cinema; his historical position parallels D.W. Griffith's in American film history. My dissertation examines the evolution of Zheng's cinematic art, tracing its origins from a cross-media perspective and through his …
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The Ministry of Information and the British Film Hero during World War 2
… between the government and the British film studios, relating to feature film content and production, during the period of the Second World War. It explores government policy and institutional organisation, and investigates the impact of underlying film production processes and …
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Film matters: Historical and material considerations of colour, movement and sound in film
The narratives presented in most film histories seem to ignore the essential material components of analogue film stock. Film matters focuses on material components of the film image – specifically colour, movement and sound – with the aim of telling a material history in a contemporary, …
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A place for West Side Story (1961): Gender, race, and tragedy in Hollywood's adaptation
… Broadway, Hollywood created a highly successful film version. Although directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins strove to remain faithful to the original production in many ways, the change in medium necessitated a number of alterations, including those that conformed to the particular …
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British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice
… European counterparts54 and how the individual filmmaking practices of these British directors both conform to and deviate from classic definitions of art cinema. In this way, this thesis shall demonstrate the ways in which British art cinema can be characterised not only as a belated …
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Only Underwater Can We Breathe: The Book of Mermaid Contemplations
… Christian Andersen’s tale, Disney’s animated film, and almost every other Western mermaid myth, the mermaid has been constrained, silenced, and victimized, isolated from her female lineage and genuine female relationships for centuries. Like the mermaid, the female body in the American …
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Beyond the Image: Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters, and The Method
… trend within popular culture, society, and film studies scholarship. While this tendency can be traced consistently throughout film history, it is particularly apparent within the discourse surrounding the transitional period of postwar Hollywood (1945 - 1960). Though frequently …
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Architecture beyond the frame filmmaking and the adjacent space
Filmmaking operates behind the closed doors of the studio system. Entire compounds of private space are devoted to the practice of film. Generic city streets, practical sets, a digital environments have had a long history of substituting for real locations. My thesis proposal examines the inversion …
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