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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"american film"”.
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To spark imagination: the American Film Institute
… plays on a building for the arts. The American Film Institute is considered to be a building for the production and study as well as the presentation of film. Because imagination is the most important tool the film maker possesses and is that which the general audience becomes a part …
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Depictions of Mental Disorder in Mainstream American Film 1988-2010
… depictions of mental disorder in mainstream American film from 1988 to 2010. The research was an extension of an earlier investigation on portrayals of psychological disability in Hollywood movies (Levers, 1988, 2001). The theoretical and historical grounding for the project included Sander …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
… translation from the Victorian context to the American mediascape presages her evolving presence in three cinematic eras: classic film noir, neo-conservative retro noir, and millennial neo-noir. Feminist film criticism tends to identify the femme fatale as a protofeminist, a productive …
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Waiting Too Long to Exhale: Dysfunctional Love in African-American Film
… of romantic relationships in African-American film. My argument is that love, as expressed in African-American film, is portrayed as dysfunctional and problematic. The artifact serving as evidence of my argument and the source of my analysis is Waiting to Exhale. Due to the …
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Screening for Our Fathers: Representations of Native American Masculinity in American Film
… this work, I examine representation of Native American masculinity in the American film industry. The American film industry began just over a century ago, and one of its earliest subjects was the Native American. Throughout its history, the American film industry has maintained a steady …
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Behind Indian Teeth' : the use of humour in contemporary Native American film
… the use of humour and the comic in four films about contemporary Native Americans, largely by Native Americans (Smoke Signals, Powwow Highway, Medicine River and Dead Man). Emphasis falls on the importance of these types of positive self-representations in counteracting the legacy of …
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The Spaces Between: Non-Binary Representations of Gender in Twentieth-Century American Film
… of feminism, transgender studies, queer theory, film studies, and social activist practice. I address the question of how transphobia as a set of beliefs and behaviors is illustrated in four late-twentieth-century films, three produced in America and one originally released in Australia but later …
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The informe in David Lynch's cinema : reading American film through the 'Philosophy' of Georges Bataille
This dissertation argues that several of American film-maker David Lynch's works employ a subversive textual operation in their representations of America and American life that is comparable, in both its approach and political significance, to the collapse of conceptual systems French philosopher …
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CHANGING FILM IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VARIATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF FUTURE-BASED AMERICAN FILM
… Technology has increased the accessibility to film, making the relationship between cinema and society a salient topic of inquiry. This paper delineates patterns in American cinema’s depiction of future, or forthcoming societies and their relationships with critical events and social change. …
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Reframing (im)maturity : interrogating representations of the transition to adulthood in contemporary American film and television
… of “threshold moments” as represented in American film and television from 1999-2008, moments at which individuals are depicted as struggling to reach autonomy, this thesis uncovers the mechanisms that naturalize the figure of the adolescent as an attenuated individual possessing partially …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… and simplistic notions of national identity and American exceptionalism. Drawing on a variety of the cultural, political and aesthetic discourses which have emerged in post-9/11 studies, this thesis argues that the trauma aesthetic (re)mediates the cultural narrative of 9/11 in more complex and …
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Stereotypes and Prototypes: An Analysis of the Disempowering and Empowering Portrayals of Asian and Asian American Identity in American Film
Popular culture texts such as films have become increasingly prevalent and powerful in dictating what we believe and know to be true. Throughout history, Asians and Asian Americans have been represented through disempowering portrayals that have evolved into stereotypes perpetuated in films. …
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Inside the Heart of the Hollywood Hooker
… of gold” and discusses its use in mainstream American film from the 1960’s to the 1990’s including such films as <em>Butterfield 8, Pretty Woman, Leaving Las Vegas, Klute</em>, and <em>LA Confidential</em>. This thesis also demonstrates how the relationship between the hooker character and the …
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First Ladies of Film: The Not so Silent Women of Early American Cinema
… between the years 1906 and 1926, the American film industry offered women opportunities that existed in no other workplace. This was the golden era of female filmmaking, when many women had a high degree of control behind the camera in creative roles such as producer, director, and …
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Deslanting the Lens
… how Asian men have been represented in popular American film. From the early days of “yellowface” to caricatures like Long Duck Dong, Asian men have been relegated to perpetual foreigner status in American cinema. This paper will explore why the portrayal of Asian men has been limited to very …
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The Ben-Hur Franchise and the Rise of Blockbuster Hollywood
<p>The <em>Ben-Hur</em> films were some of the most popular, controversial, and financially successful films of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. As a result, Hollywood mindset and practices were heavily influenced by the marketing strategies and discourse surrounding these films, as many studios and …
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Christopher Durang : satire and beyond
Christopher Durang, a contemporary American playwright who has written over sixteen plays so far, including A History of the American Film, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and The Marriage of Bette and Boo, writes satiric plays. His objects of satire are mostly institutions of …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
… a debatable period in the course of American film history, with distinctive characteristics of new directorial emergence and innovative film style. However, the contemporary industrial context suggested a prominent power of stardom to effectively sustain the business in the new wave …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… material legacies? The first—or earliest extant—American film to explicitly depict “queer” sex is The Surprise of a Knight (1929). By synthesizing perspectives on archives, material culture, queer identity, film, the Internet and pornography, this paper treats Surprise as an entry point into a …
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