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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Film narrative"”.
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Theater, Film, Narrative
Play, screenplay, short story.
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Simple pornographers? The Marquis de Sade and the evolution of the hard-core pornographic film narrative
… and the contemporary hard-core pornographic film. Concentrating on the libertine novels of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), it studies how his work demonstrates rules and structures in relation to the representation of sex that are still visible in modern pornography. By focusing on four …
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Femme noir : a subcategory of neo noir film
This study identifies a new subcategory of film noir, the femme noir. Traditional film noir films use gendered binaries, male gaze and scopophilic treatment of the female characters to limit and fragment women characters. This dynamic is most obvious in the binary between the ‘looking’ male …
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Falling Into Form: The Documentary Failures of Fictional Film-Makers
The medium of film presents us with an imitation-reality locked within an invisible narrative structure. The effects of this all-pervasive narrative structure on our daily lives, on how we construct ourselves and those around us, changes both with time and with technology. One way in which such …
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Prosthetic Traveling Companions
<p><strong>This essay explores the potential for narrative art (film, literature, comics) to be a transformative experience in the life of the consumer (viewer, reader) through a sensuous, embodied interaction with that work of narrative art. Drawing from film, narrative and comics theory as well …
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Fragments and Fantasies of Freedom: Queer Cultural Production during the Spanish Transition (1975-1982)
… voices and visions that resisted this official narrative. Each of these selected works—rooted in transgression, fantasy, and refusal—challenges the normative temporality and heteronormative structures promoted during the Transition, proposing instead alternative, queer visions and utopian …
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Weaving a Universal Narrative: A Comparative Screenplay Analysis of Parasite and Blue Velvet
… critics, and audiences develop statements on the film's central theme. The approach of this thesis is to appreciate, acknowledge, elaborate upon, and challenge the filmmakers' artistic statements while contributing to the methodologies by which viewers might further appreciate the universality of …
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
… by definition, but research indicates the narratives often promote creationist ideas about this important process in biology. I explored how nature programs influenced knowledge construction about evolutionary theory using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Because …
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
… by definition, but research indicates the narratives often promote creationist ideas about this important process in biology. I explored how nature programs influenced knowledge construction about evolutionary theory using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Because …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Film The Representation of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Films Memory studies are gradually developing into a very important tool for historical research in international humanities. Visual art (film, …
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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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The Confessional
… an examination of the production of the thesis film The Confessional. Each of the key areas of the production are examined, including the writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound, and technology. In each of these areas, many choices came together to form the final …
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The Window: An Experimental Short Film About a Man Who Lives His Life in Darkness
… visual element in the narration of a short film. The project specifically considers the visual and paralinguistic nature of typography and its discourse with moving image. A creative consideration of these issues is then synthesized into the short film, the window.
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T. Hanks for Everything
… actor Tom Hanks has had on her life through narratives that blend the personal with the biographical, developing both the writer’s and Hanks’ characters side-by-side. The writer uses humor as a mechanism to navigate the world, to deflect pain, and to find healing in the midst of it. This …
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Film, Music, and the Narrational Extra Dimension
… addresses the role of so called nondiegetic film music, also known as background or score music, as it pertains to the overall structure of processes involved in cinematic presentation. Some of the questions that are normally asked here are: Where is this music supposed to be coming from? Who …
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The Rhetoric of Rape-Revenge Films: Analyzing Violent Female Portrayals in Media from a Narrative Perspective of Standpoint Feminism
In this study, narrative analysis, informed by the perspective of standpoint feminism, is applied to movies featuring female protagonists throughout the past five decades of the “rape and revenge” genre of filmmaking to understand the extent to which probability and fidelity function in these five …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
… focus on Ukrainian novel, poetry, drama, film and museum practice, and examines how different cultural narratives frame the question of the agency of the perpetrator. While Soviet-era Ukrainian texts characterise the perpetrators as purely ideological participants, post-Soviet and diaspora …