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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"art house"”.
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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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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… they collaborated on the celebrated British art-house films The Servant (1963, based on the novella by Robin Maugham), Accident (1967, based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley), and The Go-Between (1971, based on the novel by L.P. Hartley), which won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes …
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Viceroy
<p><em>Viceroy</em> is a novel in four parts. The first section shows Francis watching a TV interview with Ida Bergson, a fashion designer from Salt Lake City. The second section follows Esther, who has fled her life in Los Angeles and is attempting to reinvent herself while working at a motel in …
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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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Japanese Cinema as Mass Art: An Export of Mass Cinema
… of cinema and contemporary media as ‘mass art’ has informed the way in which the thesis notes variation in film content, and forms the core methodology. The selected texts range from the post-war period (1948) with films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa, to contemporary animation cinema …
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A palimpsest-image: place, space and film geographies
… catalyst in the context of essay/documentary/art house films. It proposes the notion of the palimpsest-image as an orbit around three gravitational vectors: the relationship between place and space in film, the association of different art forms in the creation and interpretation of an image, …
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The Emergence and Development of Digital Film-Making in Iran
… may be unique to some extent compared to other parts of world cinema, and I show the gradual development of this phenomenon up to 2013. This investigation will reveal which parts of Iranian cinema have undergone the most changes. In the next steps, I focus on Iranian neorealism (Iranian art house …
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Radiant Sites: Projection and the Mobile Spectator in Contemporary Moving-Image Installations
… (b. 1966), Jim Campbell (b. 1956), and the partnered artists Janet Cardiff (b. 1957) and George Bures-Miller (b. 1960), all of whom have reconfigured the classical cinematic system of viewing since the 1990s. Through their works, I trace the term “expanded cinema” as a literal extension of …
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The artist biopic: a historical analysis of narrative cinema, 1934-2010
The thesis provides an historical overview of the artist biopic that has emerged as a distinct sub-genre of the biopic as a whole, totalling some ninety films from Europe and America alone since the first talking artist biopic in 1934. Their making usually reflects a determination on the part of …
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The chronotope of walking in the films of Andrea Arnold
… of the landscape and the female body that articulates their combined resistance to hegemonic narratives of exclusion and deprivation. Furthermore, by examining its chronotopicity, the function of walking as a discrete element is analysed to reveal its narrative, aesthetic, and contextual …
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Powerlines : alternative art and infrastructure in Indonesia in the 1990s
… thesis investigates why an alternative visual art and arts infrastructure developed in Indonesia during the 1990s. Initially alternative exhibition spaces developed in response to a lack of outlets through the existing commercial galleries and in reaction to the cultural hegemony of Suharto’s …
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Photographing the invisible: A practice based photographic investigation of different environments using peripheral vision as a phenomenological narrative on the consciousness of space and place
… with the world in photographic form as a participant rather than a spectator. Photographs that form the body of this research are constructed into visual narratives in order to consider an alternative way of understanding our interaction with space and place. This research uses a number of …
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Photographing the invisible: A practice based photographic investigation of different environments using peripheral vision as a phenomenological narrative on the consciousness of space and place
… with the world in photographic form as a participant rather than a spectator. Photographs that form the body of this research are constructed into visual narratives in order to consider an alternative way of understanding our interaction with space and place. This research uses a number of …