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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"Film studies"”.
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Design, deployment and assessment of a movie archive system in a film studies context
… a movie archive system for students of Film Studies in Dublin City University. In particular, our system uses several recent multimedia technologies to automatically process digital video content but at the same time we use the usability engineering process to relate to the real tasks of …
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Effect of surface treatment on the mechanical properties of the polysulfone-Al/Li bonded system including thin film studies of moisture intrusion and the viscoelastic response of the interphase region
… use of primers, and infrared spectroscopy studies have been carried out. The mode of moisture intrusion into the polysulfone-Al/Li oxide interphase region is discussed. Specifically, water molecules diffuse into the polysulfone rather than transporting along the interface. Moisture then …
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Queer Tropical Frames: New Representations of Queerness in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
… of queer theory, decolonial thinking, and film studies in Latin America. Situated within this relatively unexplored intersection, this thesis draws critical attention to the place of queerness in the twenty-first-century upsurge of Latin American LGBTIQ-themed cinema. In my analysis, I …
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'Shadowy Copies'? Film Adaptations of the Second Austrian Republic
… has been passed between literature and film studies, frequently dismissed as ‘shadowy copies’ and parasitic reproductions, the unwanted bastard child of the disciplines searching in vain for an academic home. Despite the emergence of insightful new scholarship into the development of …
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Citing the viewer : ethnography, film theory and experiences of martial arts action cinema.
… and opinions of people who actually watch films into any film theory or criticism genuinely concerned to analyse, evaluate or otherwise interpret films and/or those who watch them. In particular, it suggests there is a need to re-think the status of film experiencers as informants who are …
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The discourse of psychoanalytic film theory
This study reads contemporary psychoanalytic film theory as a discourse which implies specific stylistic practices in its investigation of three areas: the cinema (as apparatus), the film (as text) and film theory itself (as discourse). The study proceeds by examining the respective staging of …
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The contemporary horror film
This thesis approaches the contemporary horror film from a number of directions. Firstly, it is considered in relation to the historical roots of horror fiction, the tradition of the literary Gothic which stretches back as far as the late eighteenth century. The same chapter elaborates the broad …
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On a Good Day, You Get to Kill a Whore: Narrative Misogyny and Female Audiences in Supernatural
… and methodological concepts from both film studies and audience studies, in order to develop a new model through which to study media texts and fans. I apply this model to an analysis of female characters in the television program Supernatural and to self-identified female fans of …
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Flexible home entertainment: Hollywood's response to home video
This dissertation in the field of film studies, communications studies and new media raises important issues about the relationship between corporate strategies and the convergence of media. A history of home video distribution, it covers the relationship between film distribution and home …
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Permutations of cinephilia: aesthetics, technology, and social consciousness
… both as a moving historical force behind film reviewing and as the engine behind several contemporary developments in the way we think and write about cinema. To do so, in the first chapter I evaluate the major attempts to theorize cinephilia and identify certain defining trends. In the …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
… cognitive metaphor theory to study metaphor in film language. This point of view has not yet been considered within film studies, yet it is indispensable for the analysis of complex metaphorical structures in film texts, and it may also provide a precise framework for the understanding of …
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Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices
… that the future of feminist work in writing studies must explore new media as a research method. The majority of the chapter examines the connections such work can make with feminist film studies and feminist ethnography, and provides a brief history of feminist work in composition. The …
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Transcending the documentary : the films of Arthur Lipsett
… Lipsett (1936-1986) was an innovative 'collage' filmmaker who worked at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1958 to 1970. By combining 'found film footage' and sound with images he shot, his work explored the human condition and challenged conventional notions of documentary film and …
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In the Name of the People: Yugoslav Cinema and the Fall of the Yugoslav Dream
… various interpretive perspectives and utilizes film studies, cultural studies, political history, and postcolonial studies to discuss how the Yugoslav society and its political system are scrutinized through allegory, satire, and genre revisionism, for instance, and to elucidate what the films …
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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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EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD
… images of childhood that the Fifth Generation filmmakers created throughout a thirty-five year period of post-Maoist social transition in China since the beginning of the market reform and opening policy in 1978. To look at evolving childhood through their films is to position the construction …
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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film
<p>As an artist and Film Studies student, I saw the capstone option as an opportunity to consolidate academia with the art of filmmaking into one project. This became <em>Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness</em>, an experimental short film written, directed, and edited by me. It is a film …
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VFX – A New Frontier: The Impact of Innovative Technology on Visual Effects
… demanded by audiences, of media production (filmmaking and storytelling) and of the media industries, VFX remains a relatively under-research area within academic media or film studies. Innovations in technology are instrumental to the continuous developments in VFX technology, enabling the …
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WE-MOVEO Audience Innovation and the Democratization of Data
… and creator-centred resource for independent filmmaking within the contemporary platform economy. While commercial streaming platforms generate extensive behavioural analytics to optimise engagement and retention, independent filmmakers remain largely excluded from meaningful access to …
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A palimpsest-image: place, space and film geographies
… in the context of essay/documentary/art house films. It proposes the notion of the palimpsest-image as an orbit around three gravitational vectors: the relationship between place and space in film, the association of different art forms in the creation and interpretation of an image, and the …
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