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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Historical film"”.
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The British historical film, 1930-1990.
… thesis aims to understand the ways in which the historical film has vexed its many critics, and in doing so will look beyond its perceived inadequacies to provide a new appreciation of its character, appeal, f unction and development. I have attempted to achieve these goals through a substantial …
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HBO and the Holocaust: Conspiracy, the historical film, and public history at Wannsee
… and directed by Frank Pierson, is an unusual historical film because it reenacts the Wannsee Conference in real time, devoid of the usual clichés prevalent throughout Holocaust films. It also engages with historiographical arguments and makes a few of its own. This thesis argues that dramatic …
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A shanda fur de Yehudim: Jewishness in network sitcom television.
… television. Sources for the study included: historical film analysis, sociological studies on stereotyping and Jewish culture. The thesis studies how past forms of Jewishness impacted the current depictions of Jewishness on the television sitcom. After an introduction discussing Jewishness in …
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As cem cadeiras: comédia fílmica como fonte historiográfica
A Hundred Chairs: Film Comedy as Historiographycal Source. The uses and limits of historic approaches essayed on nine film adaptations of a sovietic novel, Dvienatsat Stuliev de Ilf e Petrov, 1927: Keep Your Seats, Please!, Dreizehn Stühle, EI Sillón Y Ia Granduquesa, It's in the Bag!, As Treze …
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Vibrating Existence: Early Cinema and Cognitive Creativity
This thesis collects together technical, historical and neurological evidence to examine how our perceptual and cognitive experience of cinema has changed diachronically and especially as a result of the transition from analogue to digital cinema projection. The slow arrival but sudden dominance of …
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Presenting Korea's Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films
… Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films” examines the revival of the cinematic genre of sagŭk in South Korea in the 2000s. The diegesis of sagŭk film portrays premodern dynastic eras of Korea. This project analyzes the evolution of the genre by genealogically tracing its …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… and the economic crisis provided Korean filmmakers with a motivation to re-examine the past. The research contained herein will focus on these Korean reexaminations of the past. With regard to this re-examination, Korean cinema employed two main trends. Some films refer to historical and …
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Historický film jako informační zdroj a jeho komparace s knižními tituly
… then it will consider the characteristics of the film and its historical significance from the perspective of the viewer. As the subject of examination, on which the thoughts and findings will be demonstrated, is chosen the important English King- Henry VIII., who has been depicted in many movies …