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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Silent Film"”.
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A Brief History of Live Cinema and Rehearsal Considerations for Metropolis Triptych by Nathan Jones
… a renewed interest in the music that accompany films from the Silent Film Era (1895–1930), sparking both the revival of original scores and the composition of new scores for silent films. These modern scores involve a diverse collection of artists, musical styles, and venues that—in combination …
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Hypertextuality in the diegesis of the megamusical: the aesthetic and cognitive relationship between silent era film and contemporary musical theatre
… worlds’ (Slugan, 2021: 142) presented by silent fiction films made between 1895 and 1930 echo those of stage megamusicals by virtue of their joint musicality and metatheatricality. From this understanding, the thesis offers a unique perspective on musical theatre by examining its …
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… in a variety of literary genres and in silent film, this project shows how American Indian and Immigrant students of American democracy carved their own spaces in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American culture.
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A New score for Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1929).
… considers the relationship between music and silent film focussing particularly on the areas that inform the composition of a new score for the film Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1929). The paper begins with a consideration of the origins of the narrative and a discussion about the relationships …
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The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America
<p>In the autumn of 1921, silent film comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of a model and actress named Virginia Rappé. The ensuing scandal created a firestorm of controversy not just around Arbuckle but the entire motion picture industry. Religious and moral …
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Vom Buch zum Film: zur Frage der Adaptation bei Sternberg, Schlöndorff und Tykwer
… the problem of adaptation from literature to film through three German examples. I explore this question in the following novels and films: Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann, Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass, and Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders by Patrick Süskind; Der Blaue Engel by …
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Routine investigations: expanding the language of improvisation through interdisciplinary interaction
… are then melded with fragments of music and film dialogue and executed in live performance settings. The recordings and the accompanying commentary are structured in a chronological format, and, when used in tandem provide a detailed record of the research whereby the reader is taken through …
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Bombay before Bollywood: the history and significance of fantasy and stunt film genres in Bombay cinema of the pre-Bollywood era
… within my monograph Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies, which aimed to outline the contours of an alternative history of twentieth-century Bombay cinema. The ninth, which complements these, was published in an annual reader. This project eschews the conventional focus on India’s more …
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Un Chien Andalou – An Orchestral Film Score
Un Chien Andalou - An Orchestral Film Score, is a one-movement work for small orchestra composed as live accompaniment to the 1929 silent film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. Several factors went into my decision to compose a soundtrack for this movie. It is a well known film and …
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Wartime Art and Temporality in the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes, 1914–1928
… of “wartime” in works by artists, poets, and filmmakers belonging to the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes between 1914 and 1928. Wartime, this study argues, shaped the aesthetics and temporality of canonical works from cubo-futurist illustrated books and collage painting to agitprop theatre and …
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South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969
… examines the role of music in South African film pertaining to representation of identity of South African peoples and cultures, from the country's earliest sound films until the industry expansion of the 1970s. Chapter 1 contextualizes the study in relation to South African film and music, …
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Descendants of Charles Bovary: Male anxieties through the figure of the cheated husband in French Fin-de-siècle novels and silent films
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Sisterly Sleuths: The Hidden Cultural Work of Serial Modernism
… and her serialized novel Work (1873); two silent film serials, The Perils of Pauline (1914) and The Hazards of Helen (1914-1917); two teenage sleuth series, Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew (1930-2003) and Margaret Sutton’s Judy Bolton (1930-1967); and Sara Paretsky’s adult detective series V.I. …
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Possible sensations
… novel sensations are explored in literature and film. As an especially cogent example of filmic use of facial expression I address at length the role facial gestures play in the absence of vocal expression in Carl Dreyer's silent film classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc Constituting the latter …
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L'esthétique du silence dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett
… anguish, boredom, or despair. Influenced by silent film and circus arts, Beckett constructs a stage language composed of bodily signs, suspended rhythms, and inhabited silences. His theatre thus presents a humanity confronted with incommunicability, the passage of time, and purposeless …
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Metropolis Triptych
"Metropolis" is a German silent film directed by Fritz Lang, which premiered on January 10, 1927, in Berlin, during Germany’s Weimar Period. The film is one of the finest examples of German Expressionism and tells the dystopian story of a futuristic city in which a humanoid Robot rallies the …
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between ‘real’ and ‘reel’, the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian …
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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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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
… W. Griffith singlehandedly changed the status of films from sideshow amusements to narrative art. Griffith's techniques for creating visual narrative were intuitive and inspired from his imagination, an essential quality of the Emersonian poet. Griffith's own moral imperative was similar to …
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Stateless nation building: early Puerto Rican cinema and identity formation (1897-1940)
… 1897 and 1940. Anchored in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, I argue that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state …
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