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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Filmic"”.
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LESSONS FROM FILMIC SPACE
… in architectural discourses to relegate filmic spaces as artistic representations alleviated of physical and practical constraints; that they are just a stylised version of their built counterparts they are depicting. However, beyond the cinematic filters, the manner in which architecture …
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Filmic architecture : on motion perspective in architectural synthesis
This thesis is an inquiry into the potential of film as an extended perspective defined by the sequential juxtaposition of images. Based on the notion that linear perspective in Renaissance architecture was used as a formal tool for the poetic imagination, it is assumed that motion perspective used …
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A filmic adaptation of the Lorraine Loots's Ek is Suzie
… on the process of writing the screenplay, on filmic influences that shaped it and on the kinds of theory that illuminate what I was trying to accomplish. Thus, I investigate various creative and technical decisions made during the writing of the screenplay – dropping the novel’s narrator, the …
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
… terministic screen theory into the realm of filmic visual rhetoric, identifying ways that cinematic bodies in <italic>Videodrome</italic> shape particular messages regarding broader social problems. In doing so, I argue that rhetorical critics should focus not only on <italic>what</italic> …
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I IS ANOTHER: The fabulative filmic collaboration with someone recovering from addiction
… is a critical exploration of the fabulative filmic collaboration with Petra, a participant recovering from heroin addiction. This fabulative approach articulates a cinema practice that seeks to address the issue of addictive behaviours in a way that has rarely been investigated, with a focus …
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Filmic Fabulation: The Imagining of pre-Nakba Palestinian Women's History Beyond the Archives
… We Carve Words in the Earth in Five Vignettes, a filmic representation of Palestinian women’s histories in the pre-1948 Nakba period, during British colonisation of Palestine (1920–1948). The research underpinning this work is interdisciplinary, drawing on a range of scholarship spanning creative …
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The Essay Film and Space: The Essayistic Filmic Space as aLocation of Thought
… research investigates the function of filmic space in essayistic discourse through the dialogic relationship between the essay film My Pink City that reflects on post-Soviet urban space in Yerevan and a written thesis that examines the role of space in the essay film. The research …
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A Cinematic Dialogue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Shaping a Transnational Cinema through Filmic Exchanges
This thesis focuses on the ways in which Costa Rican filmmakers and the Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica (CCPC) privileged the social documentary format of the New Latin American Cinema (NLAC) movement to critically view current events from 1973 to 1979. By analyzing a variety of …
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Imagineering the community: The vagrant spaces of the malls, enclave estates, the filmic and the televisual
… in the 'imagined' worlds of the pictorial, filmic and televisual texts. It is suggested that these sites/sights also offer versions of a lifestyle which, in essence, sells a concept of a commendable community suggested by the mall owners/operators and the enclave estate entrepreneurs. To …
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Christian Themes in the Filmic Representation of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
… themes, I would like to lay emphasis on the filmic setting, as well. Firstly, I wish to study the features of the Gothic architecture and literature depicted in the film, namely, the representation of the frightening and gruesome atmosphere, the adoption of the supernatural and fantastic …
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Hypermasculine Victim or Psycho-Sexual Perpetrator? The Filmic Representation of Postmodern Masculine Identity-Formation in Taxi Driver and Falling Down
The thesis exemplarily examines the filmic processing of the impression of a crisis of (white) masculinity that is now commonly discussed in both populist and academic environments and discourses. The paper compares the two movies Taxi Driver and Falling Down in their representation of their …
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Palestine and the Middle East in the Popular Filmic Imaginary: Historical Memory, Grievable Lives, and Encountering the Other in Film
This study explores how American audiences encounter Palestine and the wider Middle East through popular films, and how our collective memories of conflicts in the Arab world are constructed in media. Taking into account how the discourse of film critics often prime audiences to understand films as …
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Memories, material culture, and methodology: employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women
This dissertation offers two components: the first, a written thesis, is focused on memories, material culture, and methodology in the representation of female Zimbabwean migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. The second component comprises four films, which utilize multiple unconventional …
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Die ongelooflike avonture van Afrikaanse filmaanpassings: filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature with specific focus on novels, youth literature and stage plays
… this study beacon off one sector namely that of filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature. Specific focus will be given to adaptations of novels, youth literature and stage plays. Adaptation theory has, like the study of African cinemas, only very recently moved away from the popular …
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Towards the ethnography of filmic places: video-based research and found footage filmmaking in the anthropological investigation of Mexican migrant event video
… these videos as agents in a process of ‘filmic emplacement’ as their production and consumption bring into being imagined places and selves. The project combines methodological approaches borrowed from sensory ethnography with video editing techniques inspired by avant-garde filmmaking, …
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What is 'Surreal' about Surrealism? An investigation of Surrealism as seen through the looking-glass of Jan Svankmajer
This dissertation investigates the filmic representation of surrealism in the films of Jan Švankmajer between 1964 and 2010. These films were analysed in light of two key areas expressed in recent literature regarding the representation of surrealism in film. The first key area is the complicated …
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How Can Solastalgia Restore a Lost Sense of Belonging to the Image? An autotheoretical attempt to return to a documentary practice and recover a filmic voice
… - despite all (Didi-Huberman, 2003)- activate a filmic voice. I analyse this creative practice through autotheory (Fournier, 2021) so that among notes and memories that follow and give an account of the iterations of the research process, a theoretical framework emerges. I invoke various textual …
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Manufacturing realisms : product placement in the Hollywood film
Through an examination of filmic portrayals of the trademarked product as a signifier of real ownerships and meanings of commodities, this paper is concerned with the conjunction of aesthetic and economic issues of the Product Placement industry in the Hollywood film. It analyzes Product Placement …
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A convergence of bodies in the Anthropocene: post-dictatorship memory in Patricio Guzmán’s triptych (2010-2020)
This thesis focuses on the most recent filmic triptych (Chauvin and Wilson, 2020) by Chilean documentarist Patricio Guzmán: Nostalgia de la luz (2010), El botón de nácar (2015), and La cordillera de los sueños (2020). The three documentaries engage with the intentional acts of violence committed …
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Archipelagos of Interstitial Ground: A Filmic Investigation of the Thames Gateway’s Edgelands. How Can a Multimodal (Auto)ethnographic Methodology Be Deployed to Shape Geographic Imaginations of The Thames Gateway?
… from a topographic photography tradition to a filmic, ‘more-than-visual’ (Jacobs, 2013: 714) mode of production, in response to ideas of creative ethnography as an immersive methodology. The resulting movement of films forms a ‘landscape ethnography’ (Ogden, 2011) that acts as both survey and …
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