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Showing 1 to 20 of 372 for “"Movie"”.
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Home Movie, Nowhere
<p>This dissertation functions as a personal and creative documentation of local history in the American Midwest and explores personal ties to homeplace through the aesthetic lens of the Midwestern Gothic. Spotlighting rural Iowa, this work uncovers the historical realities of a place that remains …
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Text-Driven Movie Manipulation
In this thesis, we designed a method for manipulating a character’s appearance through a textual description of their desired appearance. Our method consisted of training a video-specific neural net model with an existing architecture for extracting keypoints, manipulating a representative frame to …
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A personalized, interactive movie manual
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music
… influences to the fore at times in Hollywood movies. In the latter case, general cultural shifts in postmodern society, indicating the evolution of more actively engaged forms of reception and participation and a related desire for greater personal expression and participation among a critical …
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Creating a three dimensional holographic movie
… to create a three-dimensional holographic movie. Holograms were written on VRP-M emulsion film with the green line of an Argon-Ion laser. The type of hologram write setup favored was a reflection hologram, due to its artistic capabilities. The illusion of a floating image is much better …
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Movie Making: The Integration of Art and Business
… skills to good story telling. It happened that movie making was a highly collaborative process and a well run movie set required immense group work. How well a group meshed could be the determining factor whether a production was successful or not. On a daily basis I used leadership skills …
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Movie Making: The Integration of Art and Business
… skills to good story telling. It happened that movie making was a highly collaborative process and a well run movie set required immense group work. How well a group meshed could be the determining factor whether a production was successful or not. On a daily basis I used leadership skills …
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Design, specification, and implementation of a movie server
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Music video viewing and adolescents' perceptions of movie musicals
The study of movie musicals has led some communication scholars to note the similarities between this film genre and music videos. Other researchers have noted that music videos could be the final destruction of the nearly extinct Hollywood musical. No empirical studies were found that focused on …
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How One Writes, Makes, Markets a Movie and How an Audience Reads the Movie: Two Biographical Films of Hitler as a Case Study
<p>According to John Lukacs, German people's views on Hitler and Nazism once got examined right after the fall the Third Reich in the 1950s but this subject has lost its appeal since then. How do Germans nowadays, specifically those young ones raised in the "New Germany" after the fall of the …
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Quantitative study of the movie industry based on IMDb data
… available literature on analytics done on IMDB movie dataset and identifies that little work has been carried out in predicting the financial success of the movies. The thesis thus carries out data analytics on the IMDB movie sets and highlights several parameters like movie interconnectedness …
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Roads to the Self: Unearthing the Foundations of the Road Movie
This study explores ten “road movies” made between 1945 and 2005 chosen as exemplary in global cinema. The films originated in the U.S., Italy, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Morocco and France. The project is based on library research and film viewing and uses eclectic methods and theories embracing …
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A form-of-inhabiting movie : some geography about its physical features.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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The aesthetics of concealment : Weegee in the movie theater (1943-1950)
Between 1941 and 1945, movie theaters in the United States enjoyed a period of intense activity marked by record levels of attendance. Film scholars have explained this phenomenon by referring to the fascination exerted by "escapist" Hollywood films, which either idealized or completely negated the …
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"Movie to Movement: Creating Social Change with the Documentary Film 'Food Stamped'"
There is substantial evidence linking obesity to lower incomes. Governmental food and farm policy directly affects the affordability, availability, and accessibility of healthy food in low-income areas. Policy also impacts the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) and nutrition education …
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Affective identification with animals in the public sphere in earth, the movie.
Following Derrida's Introduction to Dissemination; "I will not feign, according to the code, either premeditation or improvisation. These texts are assembled otherwise, it is not my intention here to present them." Animal films are tied to a system of liberalism and the objectification of nature …
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Investigating default mode network activation during external task switches and movie watching
… transitions in naturalistic stimuli, such as movies. The findings indicate that DMN subnetworks are sensitive to objective transitions in stimuli and subjective event boundaries, supporting the DMN’s role in interpreting continuous external events and detecting changes in the contextual model. …
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The competency model of movie producers for cross-cultural co-production projects
Movie producers are the de facto managers and leaders of movie crews who demand a comprehensive set of communication skills to solve the hundreds of problems during daily productions. The recent rise of international co-production movies has created more and more workspaces with multicultural …
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