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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Independent film"”.
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Online independent film distribution : what is missing?
… proposes a new model for online platforms for independent films. Today, platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, and YouTube are in the face of major industry challenges: more competitors are entering the market; consumers are demanding more diverse content and higher quality service; and cost of …
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SIF and the emergence of independent film and video in Sheffield
… to investigate the emergence and development of independent film and video culture in Sheffield using a case study of the Sheffield Independent Film group (SIF) as a lens through which to frame the moving image community of the period loosely defined, 1976-1985. The study will ask: what were the …
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Into the Mainstream: Independent Film and Video Counterpublics and Television in Britain, 1974–1990
This thesis looks at independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid 1970s to late 1980s. It examines a period of time in which diverse radical film- and video-makers in Britain contributed towards struggles against capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism and homophobia. New social …
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The Screenplay Business: Managing creativity in script development in the contemporary British independent film industry
… is sometimes said to be a blueprint for a film, and its genesis and development is therefore important to our understanding of how films are created. Film business studies has traditionally avoided close study of the screenplay development process, perhaps as a result of the film studies …
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The Sheffield Film Co-operative and the Women’s Liberation Movement
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss feminist independent film, its working practices and issues its films represented using the Sheffield Film Co-operative (1975-1991) as a case study. The study uses the seven demands of the national Women's Liberation Movement as a framework to analyse issues …
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Deconstructing National Identity: Character, Place, and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
… by analysing its representation in contemporary independent cinema. Drawing upon the poststructuralist work of Jacques Derrida (and limited applications of his thought to film scholarship), this project theorises a rigorous (but non-programmatic) model for conducting deconstructive readings of …
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Weathering the maelstrom: the effect of digital workflows on craft identity in independent cinema
… of the traditional craft workshop in modern independent film production, as a reaction to tensions introduced by digital technologies, such as unpredictable workflows and shifts in craft authority. Using participant observation, the thesis builds a framework of deep texts grouped around the …
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Stardom, Spectacle, Show, and Salability: United Artists and the Founding of the Hollywood Blockbuster Model
<p>United Artists was an independent film distribution company that Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford jointly formed in 1919 to maintain creative autonomy over their work. Without the benefit of block booking practices through studio-owned theater houses, each …
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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
… gender and cultural work in British documentary film production. It investigates documentary filmmaking as creative labour by using interview, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis. The methods allow analysing experiences of class and gender and modes of articulating them. Thus, the …
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A Sonic Arts Approach to Sound Design Practice
… the development of a sonic arts approach to film sound design. An interdisciplinary conceptual framework that combines selected theories of electroacoustic music and apposite perspectives from film soundtrack studies informs the approach. Over the course of the research, a broadening …
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Neon signs, underground tunnels and Chinese American identity : the many dimension of visual Chinatown
… makers including photographers, writers and filmmakers. By looking at these through the lens of tourism, I create a framework for analyzing the many cinematic depictions of the neighborhood. In the last chapter, I return to the actual spaces of lived Chinatowns, in particular San Francisco's …
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Kodak's worst nightmare Super 8 in the digital age: A cultural history of Super 8 filmmaking in Australia 1965-2003
… charts the extraordinary history of the Super 8 film medium, a popular amateur home movie format first introduced in 1965 and largely assumed to have disappeared with the advent of home video technologies in the early 1980's. Kodak's Worst Nightmare investigates the cultural history of the Super …
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EMANCIPATING DESIRE, EMPOWERING FANTASY: CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA
… for progressive social change, I examine new film practices, genres, networks, industry structures and social struggles in Indonesia and Malaysia today which are aided by the advancement in new digital technology. Unlike established film industries in the West, the structure of Indonesian and …
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Sustaining independent filmmaking in the age of the internet : the case of audience building
The Internet has brought new hope to independent filmmakers - hope of turningfilmmaking into a sustainable undertaking. The Hunt for Gollum recreates and extendsa blockbuster movie on little financial resources. The Cosmonaut is funded withthe help of its audience. 15Malaysia is distributed on the …
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
During the 1990s Queer Cinema exploded onto the independent film scene in North America. Most film festivals at the time featured several queer films that broke the boundaries of film-making techniques, conventional narration, and what was considered acceptable by mainstream audiences. By openly …
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MIA-mi: Exploring the Affect of Digital Cinema Through Micro-Budget Production Techniques
… from the University of Central Florida. The film is a satirical and naturalistic look at the standing global image of a city, Miami, FL, and its inhabitants. The guiding question behind the production is whether a portrayal of a city, outside of its stereotypical portrait in mass media, could …
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A new narrative frame: sound design and conceptual storytelling in German film 1930-1933.
… as global political and economic forces, sound film became rapidly established as an innovative element in German cinema. With the arrival of technology enabling the production of synchronous sound for cinema film, the era of live sound accompaniment in cinemas drew to a close. This thesis …
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
Considering the increase in slave films in recent years, this interdisciplinary project explores the cross-generic development of nineteenth-century slave narratives into their contemporary cinematic iterations. Continuities and changes in the (self-) representation of African Americans are …
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Finding Treasure: The Story of a Micro-budget Digital Film
Treasure is a feature-length narrative fictional film directed by Chris Williamson as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the School of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Central Florida. This thesis is a documentary record of …