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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Hollywood cinema"”.
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Research into the impact of digital technology on contemporary Hollywood cinema
… computer generated images, or COl, in mainstream Hollywood cinema has become a dominant tool in contemporary flimmaking. Until now the impact of CGI has been scarcely written about, mostly confined to small sections of academic publications, film magazines, like Sight and Sound, film journals, …
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The Representation of Celtic Tiger Irish Masculinity in Hollywood Cinema: 1994-2008
… of Celtic Tiger Irish masculinity in Hollywood cinema. It considers the “Celtic Tiger” as an economic phenomenon that had cultural ramifications and affected the meanings attached to Irishness at a local and global level. Each chapter takes a trope or stereotype connected to the …
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Set Pieces: Theatrical Space and the Arrangement of Things in Classical Hollywood Cinema
This thesis develops a sustained account of the cinematographic set piece. While the term is ubiquitous in production discourse, it lacks a clear definition and usually names expensive spectacles or displays of performance virtuosity. Here it is redefined as a bracketed, overtly theatrical sequence …
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Types in Transition: The Evolution of the Working Man in New Hollywood Cinema
… 1960s and lasting for around a decade, The New Hollywood era of American cinema represented a significant shift in both filmmaking style and practice. While scholars have traditionally located this break in either industrial or auteurist terms, Types in Transition argues that the quintessence of …
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Screening Insurrection: The Containment of Working-Class Rebellion in New Deal Era Hollywood Cinema
… I explore the ways in which New Deal era Hollywood cinema represented the growing spirit of collective action that defined the 1930s. Specifically, I examine the ways film redirected the collective impulse of the radical left by positioning a strengthened heteronormative family as the path …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
Repetition is inherent to cinema. From the complex interweaving of genre cycles and<br/>Hollywood stars to the elementary mechanism of film projection (twenty-four times per<br/>second): cinema is repetition. It is perhaps little wonder then that psychoanalysis is often<br/>thought of as one of the …
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Temporality, Spatiality and Looking in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
… atypical representations of time and space in cinema can alter the spectator's habitual perceptions, particularly regarding the structuring of looks identified by Laura Mulvey in her article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. In the present work, I argue that the use of real time in the …
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Frank Sinatra, hi-fi, and formations of adult culture : gender, technology, and celebrity, 1948-62
… formations in the fields of popular music and Hollywood cinema has been neglected. The dissertation presents an extensive amount of archival and artefactual research as part of a reconstruction of the dominant institutions, forms, and practices of adult popular music and cinema. It examines the …
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“Ek sal jou heeltyd dophou.” (I'll be watching you the whole time) Surveillance and the Male Gaze in Films by Black South African Women
… 1975 essay, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' on the male gaze in Classical Hollywood cinema serves as the springboard for a close textual analysis of Jyoti Mistry's Impunity (2015) and Nosipho Dumisa's Nommer 37 (Number 37) (2018). I set out to determine how Mistry and Dumisa use the …
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Addicted to the Addict: Hollywood's Sinuous Relationship With the Drug-Addict in the 1970s
… how the representation of the drug-addict in Hollywood cinema has changed due to governmental and studio policy change, social shifts of opinion, and economic structure. This discussion and exploration primarily focuses upon narrative Hollywood film as this industry has a long and varied …
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The Dream Machine: Moving beyond the dichotomy between genre and auteur cinema
… omnipresent than ever in modern society, the cinema is suffering an identity crisis, with some commentators questioning whether the medium is already dead. Hollywood cinema has shifted predominantly towards superhero and fantasy franchises complemented by kids animation movies, while Europe is …
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Secreting History: the spectral and spectacular performance of political violence
… can only be imagined) and their spectacular Hollywood renditions (imaginary, but projected in spectacular realism). The aim here is to identify and analyse the exchanges - imaginary and material - between the spectral and the spectacular rather than point to the accuracy of detail (or …
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Corrupted, Tormented and Damned: Reframing British Exploitation Cinema and The films of Robert Hartford-Davis
… film functioned as an alternative to mainstream Hollywood cinema, and served as a way of introducing to audiences shocking, controversial themes, as well as narratives that major American studios were reluctant to explore. Whereas American exploitation cinema developed in parallel to mainstream …
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… of Mordor as the place where evil never sleeps. Cinematic evil itself never sleeps, always arising in new forms, to the extent that there exist as many types of evil as there are films. This thesis examines this constantly shifting construction of evil in American popular cinema between 1989 and …
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E.U.A. e Hollywood : o desejo da projecção global
… uma vez que os seus símbolos, os seus ícones (cinematográficos e, entre outros, musicais), os seus meios de comunicação social, a sua fast food e o que se entende pela sua identidade cultural parecem ser, até à actualidade, facilmente identificáveis por uma grande parte da população mundial. Há …