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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Filmmakers."”.
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Confronting the challenge of distribution : women documentary filmmakers in India
… India represents. Yet, independent documentary filmmakers remain economically and politically marginalized in India and unknown in the international community. This is a study of four Indian women documentary filmmakers: Jharna Jhaveri, Rinki Roy, Manjira Datta and Suhasini Mulay. At the center …
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Nigerian filmmakers and their construction of a political past (1967-1998)
… Mistry & Ellapen, 2013), some southern Nigerian filmmakers have begun reversing such critical narratives through negotiated images of the country’s political history. In spite of that, academic attention to such videos remains on the margins of textual or isolated audience analyses. This research …
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Hybrid cinematics : rethinking the role of filmmakers of color in American cinema
This thesis explores the practices of filmmakers of color in the United States who employ strategies to circumvent industrial, financial and cultural barriers to production and distribution. To overcome these barriers, many filmmakers of color in the United States operate as independents, which can …
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Toying with obsolescence : Pixelvision filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera
This thesis is a study of the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera and the artists and amateurs who make films and videos with this technology. The Pixelvision camera records video onto an audiocassette; its image is low-resolution, black and white. Fisher Price marketed the PXL 2000 to children in 1987, …
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Encounters in documentary practice: a narrative hermeneutic inquiry with undergraduate first-time filmmakers.
… encounter documentary practices as first-time filmmakers. I argue that documentary filmmaking should be seen as a complex creative practice characterised by ethical and practical dilemmas which practitioners face. Whilst such practice clearly involves production knowledge or techne, seen as the …
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The copyright state of play : film archives in reference to the accessibility and reuse of archival footage for documentary filmmakers /
… to film archives. Interviews with documentary filmmakers were used in this study with the objective of gaining an understanding of the copyright issues that they encounter when trying to include archival footage in their films. Interviews with individuals working in film archives were also used …
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Tamarind - the Ethnic Minority Film and a way beyond
… been walked by many before me: African-American filmmakers; Non-resident Indian filmmakers; Pilipino-American filmmakers; Mexican-American filmmakers; Afro-Brazilian filmmakers; Asian-American filmmakers. The list goes on and on. The one common thread is that these people felt a need to provide …
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The return of the noble savage by popular demand : a study of Aboriginal television documentary in Australia
… truthful representation. When early documentary filmmakers began to film Aborigines they disregarded the Aboriginal audience, and spoke rather to themselves and to white audiences whom, for all kinds of reasons, they wanted to inform about Aborigines. In contrast, there are in the Australian …
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The return of the noble savage by popular demand : a study of Aboriginal television documentary in Australia
… truthful representation. When early documentary filmmakers began to film Aborigines they disregarded the Aboriginal audience, and spoke rather to themselves and to white audiences whom, for all kinds of reasons, they wanted to inform about Aborigines. In contrast, there are in the Australian …
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Funding Female Features: Crowdfunding for Gender Equity in the Film Industry
… organizational qualities limits diversity among filmmakers, such that previous research has shown women remain vastly underrepresented both on-screen and behind the camera. Crowdfunding has recently emerged as an alternative to corporate funding and traditional venture capitalism, where people …
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From Baader to Prada The Representation of Urban Terrorism in German-Language Film
This study analyses the response of filmmakers to the left-wing terrorism of the Red Army Faction (RAF) experienced by West Germany in the 1970s, and its legacy. At the height of its activity, the RAF violently shook the foundations of postwar German democracy with a string of politically motivated …
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Ghost workers: contemporary French documentary filmmaking in the global age
In recent years, French documentary filmmakers have recorded the impact globalization has had on their society; the corpus presented here gives evidence of a shared effort to question the political and ideological affiliations of a practice largely committed to leftist ideals throughout most of the …
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Filmmaker, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Negotiation of Identity in an Indigenous Film Festival
… this thesis, I show that unlike ethnographic filmmakers, indigenous filmmakers have been able to critically engage issues of identity due to their personal connection to home communities. Furthermore, many indigenous filmmakers, having had complex bicultural life experiences, are positioned to …
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The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film
… a more narrative approach to storytelling, filmmakers increasingly turned to scripted or fictional elements (events, characters, etc.) to depict or recreate “reality.” Robert Flaherty, John Grierson and other pioneering documentarians employed numerous fictional devices in their movies. …
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Mediating identity through orality in West African films adapted from literature
… examines the complexity of the ways by which filmmakers are mediating oral tradition forms as secondary orality in West African Films. The study aims to show that filmmakers mediate orality as an aesthetic source. The goal is to examine the value of the oral narrative on the screen. To study …
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Evolving Ivans and Static Soviet Women: The Gender Dichotomy in Film Portrayals of Russian Men and Women in Western Films (1939-2010)
… two dozen films, I have determined that Western filmmakers working between 193 9 and 2010 have chosen to depict Russian men and women in decidedly different ways. Representations of male Russian characters shifted significantly based on the state of foreign relations. In contrast, female Russian …
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
This dissertation considers the work of German filmmakers who traveled to the United States and India between 1919 and 1936. This subject covers a wide range of documentary and feature films made throughout the interwar period, which are significant for two main reasons. First, through these films, …
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Distorted Realities: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film
… outlook of the new generation of Spanish filmmakers, and have gained popularity as productions aimed at national and international audiences. While scholarly articles and essays have been written on some of these films and filmmakers, there has yet to be a comprehensive study of this …
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