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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"art cinema"”.
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British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice
… with examining two general aspects of British art cinema between 1975 and 2000; namely, how the British art cinema operates as an art cinema in the context of its 1960s and 1970s European counterparts54 and how the individual filmmaking practices of these British directors both conform to and …
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Women Directors in ‘Global’ Art Cinema: Negotiating Feminism and Representation
The thesis explores the cultural field of global art cinema as a potential space for the inscription of female authorship and feminist issues. Despite their active involvement in filmmaking, traditionally women directors have not been centralised in scholarship on art cinema. Filmmakers such as …
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From score to song—The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime
… the Shell achieving cult-like status on both the art-cinema circuit as well as via home-video releases. The 2010s have seen anime consumption move primarily to digital streaming platforms, while in cinemas, anime releases have become some of Japan’s highest grossing films of all time. Existing …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… the representation of maternity in contemporary art cinema, focusing on selected films by Claire Denis, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker and, in a coda, Alice Diop. It proposes that these recent directors all explore maternity from the perspective of ‘transgression’, both as it pertains to …
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Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
… framework informed by theory drawn from fine art, cinema studies, and the close reading of comics. By examining the relationship between different materials of drawing and the body, between technologies of reproduction and embodied responses to haptic images, and the performative relationship …
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Films Lost in the Cosmos: Radicalism and the Reception of Jean-Luc Godard's Movies
… and interpretive mechanisms of the international art cinema of the 1960s. In fact, the radical effects attributed to Godard's work may be beyond the ability of any historian or scholar to reconstruct, since these effects depend heavily on the subjectivities of each individual spectator, who--due …
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Affective cinema : between style, chance and the moving body
Affective Cinema is a practice research project in film, informed by art cinema and experimental film traditions, and by conceptual fields derived from film theory and philosophy (specifically film ontology, and the philosophy of Deleuze, Bergson and Barthes). The primary outcome of the research is …
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New Constructions of House and Home in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Cinema (2005-2015)
… political treatment of the home in Southern Cone cinema, away from allegorical affirmations of the family, and towards a reflection on film’s ability to both delineate and disrupt lived spaces. In the works examined, the displacement of attention from human subjects to the material environment …
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Illusions for life: on the importance of illusions for our life and the role of cinema in creating these illusions
The relationship between art, illusion and reality has been part of philosophical debate for centuries. With the increasing use of digital technologies in modern cinema, this debate entered a new dimension. This thesis aims to discuss the notion of illusions as a system of stories and values that …
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Turbo Film As Artistic Apparatus And As Manifesto For The Uncertain Future Of Moving Images
… an unclassified film genre and its specific artistic practice. This practice, at the intersection of experimental films, art-cinema and Youtube user- generated videos, I refer to as “Turbo Films.” Beginning with a critical perspective on video art and experimental film history, as it relates …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
… the relationship between narrative modes in cinema and literature and adopts the lineage laid out by Lukács that connects the oral tradition and epic poetry to the novel. I attach art cinema to this lineage and seek to justify its position as an equally significant medium representative of …
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Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
… To date, scholars have largely studied French cinema of the inter-war period through the now canonical lens of this reflexive, self-critical community of cinephiles concerned with the state of French cinema. By contrast, I draw on alternative archival sources—including letter columns in popular …
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
… fizkul’tura and medical journals, and Party debates. This textual discourse is considered alongside visual primary sources – documentary and non-fiction film and photography, painting and sculpture, and feature films. In my analysis of these visual primary sources I identify three …