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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Film language"”.
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition.
… project for emancipation. This study and my film practice trace the genesis of the term “Black” to denote peoples of African origin, and interrogate its political, aesthetic and social consequences. My practice-based research explores and applies formal interventions in film, where memory, …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition
… project for emancipation. This study and my film practice trace the genesis of the term “Black” to denote peoples of African origin, and interrogate its political, aesthetic and social consequences. My practice-based research explores and applies formal interventions in film, where memory, …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
… but must be regarded as a central process in language and cognition. This dissertation explores the possibility to employ Max Black's interactional theory of metaphor and cognitive metaphor theory to study metaphor in film language. This point of view has not yet been considered within film …
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Absence and presence: investigating the cinematic representation of Northern Irish unionists (1981-2020)
… unionists and focusses on feature-length fiction films released between 1981-2020. Prior to this contemporary period, only a handful of mainstream cinema releases featured identifiable unionist characters and their culture. The thesis examines this curious ‘cinematic deficit’ in fiction films that …
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Experimental Film: Catholic and Feminist Readings of my Films (2010-2016)
… Portfolio (2010-2016) which consists of three films and one multi-media installation. These films are experimental but look very different from my previous work. This reflects my decision to address figuration and realist representation in order to expand and develop my experimental film …
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Cinematic Palimpsests: Polysemy and In(ter)dependency in the Spectator Experience
… </strong>formal aspects of<strong> </strong>film language, relationships between film texts, and the construction of cinematic meaning in conversation with the spectator. Originating in Medieval Europe, a palimpsest is traditionally defined as a book or similar physical text “created by a …
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The Great Dance : myth, history and identity in documentary film representation of the Bushmen, 1925-2000
… thesis utilises a sample of major documentary films on the Bushmen of Southern Africa as primary sources in investigating change over time in the interpretation and visualisation of Bushmen peoples over seventy-five years from 1925 to 2000. The primary sources of this thesis are seven …
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Teletexts :video literacy, television texture and serial drama
… form with sponsorship by detergent companies. Film theory has provided the basis for much of our understanding of moving pictures, but the film medium is increasingly being displaced by the electronic image. The metaphor of film language or grammar has proved to be difficult to sustain beyond a …
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New vernaculars and feminine ecriture; twenty-first century avant-garde film
… parameters of – and aims to construct – a new film language for a feminine écriture within a twenty first century avant-garde practice. My two films, Radio and The New World, together with my contextualising thesis, ask how new vernaculars might construct subjectivity in the contemporary …
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Permeable boundaries: exploring the architecture of the psyche in cinematic spaces through collage
… within it, to the perception of space itself. Film offers a distinctive representation of this subjective experience through its narrative form and command of visual, audio and temporal language. The emotive and visceral power of film render it an accessible and immersive medium, and as such …
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South Korean golden-age comedy film: industry, genre, and popular culture (1953-1970)
… dissertation, “South Korean Golden-Age Comedy Film: Industry, Genre, and Popular Culture (1953 -1970),” examines the socio-cultural and political aspects of comedy films made in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, the era in which the South Korean nation mobilized in the name of “development” …
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Transcending the oral roots of screenwriting practices in the Nigerian cinema
… has no developed tradition of screenwriting and films tend to be built on principles and techniques derived from oral heritage. Thus the oral and the performative dominate Nigerian film language. The core research problems and questions of this project revolve around how screenwriting practices …
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Rehearsing Reality: An Interactive Docufragmentary Exploration of the Theatre of the Oppressed's Engagement with the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST)
… whether particular applications of theatre and film can be used to understand and possibly transform points of view and raise consciousness about contemporary issues in the world. The Theatre of the Oppressed created by Augusto Boal comprises a series of interactive games, exercises and other …
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Videos in motion: Processes of Transnationalization in the Southern Nigerian Video Industry: Networks, Discourses, Aesthetics
… that have affected the southern Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood) during the first decade of the 2000s, and interpret their significance in relation to the industry’s history and recent developments. Transnationalization processes have affected the industry at different levels, which …
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A new narrative frame: sound design and conceptual storytelling in German film 1930-1933.
… as global political and economic forces, sound film became rapidly established as an innovative element in German cinema. With the arrival of technology enabling the production of synchronous sound for cinema film, the era of live sound accompaniment in cinemas drew to a close. This thesis …