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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"art film"”.
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Transformative realism: reflections of reality in political avant-garde and contemporary fine art film - Spanish Labyrinth, south from Granada
… modes of practice amongst contemporary fine art video and filmmakers towards the end of the 20th Century, led to moving image works that represent current social realities. This drew some comparisons of these forms of art to journalism and industrial documentary. The practical research is …
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BEHIND THE ART HOUSE: The Evolution of Art-House Distribution after World War II and the Rise of the Selling of Films as High Culture
… on the hitherto under-examined role played by art-film distributors in the creation and development of what I call "art-film culture" in the United States from 1945 to 1962. It is based in large part on original interviews with film distributors, film critics, and exhibitors, as well as newly …
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Triumphant bowls of socialism: A cultural history of the Soviet toilet
… traces the role of the toilet in Soviet art, film, and literature from the 1917 Russian Revolution through the end of the twentieth century. It analyzes the toilet as art object, as trope, and as metaphor in order to identify the particularities of Russian artistic and literary movements …
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The pop art/rock and roll connection: The impact of Andy Warhol on rock and roll style
… roll style. It first examines the rise of pop art as a form and ethos in America during the 1960s. In so doing it focuses specifically on the art, film, and sculpture projects of Warhol and the subsequent subculture that emerged at his Factory studio. Next, the dissertation describes the …
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Prosthetic Traveling Companions
… essay explores the potential for narrative art (film, literature, comics) to be a transformative experience in the life of the consumer (viewer, reader) through a sensuous, embodied interaction with that work of narrative art. Drawing from film, narrative and comics theory as well as primary …
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The Cinematic Treatment of <i>Tableaux Vivants</i> in D.W. Griffith’s <i>Broken Blossoms</i>
… 1875–July 23, 1948), one of the iconic American film directors of early silent cinema, felt his film <em>Broken</em> <em>Blossoms (1919)</em> to be his one art film and is considered to be an exemplary film in <em>Tableaux Vivants</em><a title="">[1]</a> usage. When this <em>Tableau …
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The Z axis and its composite matrix of perception
… techniques often mingle. Various examples from art, film, and online communities are identified to demonstrate these techniques. The thesis will present video based experiments that test our perceptions in space by playing with the constructs of spatial mediation. These artistic experiments …
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Remaking China Dolls: Imitation and Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
… Grounded in a postmodern interpretation of Barthes' flowing signification chain and with Baudrillard's analysis as an interpretive guide, this dissertation looks at case studies from fine art, film, design, and the cityscape as both cultural products and visual texts, in which imitation, both …
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Writing the self with others: collaborative photobiography in the 21st century
… self-expression across print, installation art, film, and social media sites in the works under investigation in my corpus. Collaborative photobiography, then, is arguably becoming a nearly omnipresent feature of our daily lives: how we shape and react to these self-narratives, relayed …
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Between Homes: Examining the notion of the uncanny in art practice and its relationship to post-colonial identity and contemporary society in Taiwan
… to identity issues, post-colonial society and art practice, focusing in particular on Taiwan. I explore Sigmund Freud's theory of the 'uncanny' (unheimlich) and argue that in contemporary society, experiencing the 'uncanny' is common, while it is nearly impossible to obtain the feeling of …
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Everything (Old was New) Already: Theories, Histories, and Politics of Appropriation, Contemporary Art, and Culture
… largely through contemporary Western visual art, film, fashion, and music. This thesis argues that it cannot be predetermined as to whether acts of appropriation are wholly laudatory, or wholly critical. Instead, I argue that appropriation has always carried the ability to oscillate between …
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Restoring the Earth: South African Literature and Environmental Justice
… anchored in the concept of “restoring the earth”. My concept of “restoring the earth” challenges both people-centred and nature-centred ideologies that pit the interests of human communities against those of nonhuman nature. The concept highlights literary processes of identifying, …
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Piety in Production: Video Filmmaking as Religious Encounter in Bénin
… dissertation considers the production of video films by Nàgó–Yorùbá creators along Bénin’s southeastern border with Nigeria. There they find themselves at the margins of three better-funded arts industries with contrasting attitudes toward Nàgó–Yorùbá culture and aesthetics. In Nigeria, much of …
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How do I look? Viewing, embodiment, performance, showgirls, and art practice.
… her live performance, her representation in art, film, and images, as well as how showgirls articulate their own experiences and my own pleasures in viewing showgirls can yield in terms of a revitalised language around viewing, pleasure, and embodiment. I look at the showgirl, and the debates …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Film The Representation of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Films Memory studies are gradually developing into a very important tool for historical research in international humanities. Visual art (film, …
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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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Film, Video, and Digitality: An Analysis of Cultural Form in Time-based Media
… properties of time-based image media, in particular live video. The project is practice-based with a theoretical underpinning drawn from the debates on form and meaning associated with Walter Benjamin.
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