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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"PN1993 Motion Pictures"”.
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Developing cinematic culture: a South American case study
The thesis examines the way that different agents, organisations and institutions intervene in the cinema practice of South America. Using Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru as case studies, the thesis outlines the way state and institutional organisations, commercial bodies, international …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
“Brutality” has long been held up by critics to be one of the defining features of the Italian filoni; a body of popular genre film cycles (peplum mythological epics, horror films, giallo thrillers, poliziotteschi crime dramas, westerns and others) released during a frenzied period of film …
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Fragmented Memory, Incomplete History: Women and Nation in War Films of Bangladesh
The most important and celebrated chapter in the history of Bangladesh is its nine-month long Liberation War (Muktijuddho in Bengali) of 1971. My research explores the ways in which memories and histories of the war are shaped by the gender dynamics of nationalism in different periods through …
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Empathising With Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity In Documentary Film
This practice-based research explains how non-human subjectivity can be suggested in documentary film and identifies film techniques that allow a spectator to empathise with an onscreen animal. It argues that a spectator cannot be told to feel empathy, and instead should be offered an experience …
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Weathering the maelstrom: the effect of digital workflows on craft identity in independent cinema
This thesis asserts a revival 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 …
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The Spanish Civil War in cinema
In this thesis I present a case study of the Spanish civil war in cinema. I examine how this period has been represented in cinema through time, in different countries and in various cinematic forms. I reject the postmodern prognosis that the past is a chaotic mass, made sense of through the …
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The subversion of sympathy in British social realism: uses of laughter in the cinematic representation of the British working-class
… of the social realist form, towards a form of emotional realism that has a far more inclusive tendency. Influenced, in part, by Terry Lovell’s assertion that realism should more readily harness its ability to provide the pleasures of “common experiences”, “solidarity” and a sense of identity and …
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Creative industries policy and practice. a study of BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen
This thesis examines creative industries policy in film and television in Scotland. It explores the impact that different approaches to creative industries policy have on creative practice in two media industries, BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen, and reflects on how each of these bodies …
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Spectacular physicalities: female athleticism in contemporary cinema
This thesis provides a critical account of contemporary female sports films. The research presented here is interdisciplinary in nature as it is situated in relation to (feminist) discourses around women and/in sport as well as women and/in cinema. Taking into account the embodied, discursive and …
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THE COMMUNICATING VILLAGE: HUMPHREY JENNINGS AND SURREALISM
This thesis examines the films of Humphrey Jennings, exploring his work in relation to surrealism. This examination provides an overview of how surrealism’s set of ideas is manifest in Jennings’s documentary film work. The thesis does not assert that his films are surrealist texts or that there is …
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Reel wars: Cold War, civil rights and Hollywood's changing interpretation of the American Civil War 1945-75
This study is an examination of America's evolving sense of racial and national identity in the period from 1945 to the mid 1970s as refracted through Hollywood's representation of the American Civil War - a powerful event in American memory which still resonates today. Civil War films have been …
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
The thesis examines how postclassical American film invents Black male characters. It uses Levi-Strauss and Barthes’ methods of analyzing myth and critiques hegemonic authorship through Jung’s work on archetypes in the collective unconscious and the ‘shadow’. Using Othello as a prototype character, …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
Metaphor is not just a mere decorative device, but must be regarded as a central process in language and cognition. This dissertation explores the possibility to employ Max Black's interactional theory of metaphor and cognitive metaphor theory to study metaphor in film language. This point of view …
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Cinematic representations of women in France and Germany, 1918-1933
This thesis is an examination of the cinematic representations of women in the inter-war period in France and Germany. By investigating five films produced during the period from 1918 to 1933, this work analyses the portrayal of women in two societies facing great upheaval. I examine the …
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An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema
This thesis examines subtitles written for heritage films from France and Spain, using six films as case studies. Beginning by offering an overview of the history of subtitling, bringing together a range of different accounts of the field, it aims to situate current approaches to subtitling in …
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The Representation of Japan in British POW films of the 1950s
This thesis analyses the formation of images and representations of Japan in British films of the 1950s. Japan's image changed drastically during and after World War II, as knowledge of Japan's maltreatment of prisoners of war (POWs) became known. The thesis considers four films and the novels or …
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Genre, gender, giallo: the disturbed dreams of Dario Argento
This thesis presents an examination of the giallo films of Dario Argento from his directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) to The Stendhal Syndrome' (1996). In opposition to the dominant psychoanalytical approaches to the horror film generally and Argento's giallo specifically, …
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Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015 : visibility, memory, gender : writing and re-imagining National Socialist atrocity for the stage
This dissertation examines the case of two satellite concentration camps of Buchenwald in the German towns of Altenburg and Meuselwitz and the fate of the – mostly female – prisoners, forced to work in the factories of the arms manufacturer HASAG. The dissertation itself consists of two parts: In …