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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"cinema studies"”.
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Singaporean Cinema in the 21st Century: Screening Nostalgia
… prevalent in Singaporean films. However, current studies of Singaporean cinema either adopt an auteurist approach or focus on the resistance against the government and the marginality of citizens from the lower social stratum, denying nostalgia a rightful position in the burgeoning field of …
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Cinema, Culture and the Social Formation: Ideology and Critical Practice
… at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. The Structuralist approach is traced, in cinema studies, to the work of Christian Metz, and to its elaboration in the project of the journal Screen. The Culturalist Approach is seen as operating with a …
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Refashioning Difference: Costume and the Materiality of African and Afro-diasporan Cinemas
… research has explored costume from non- Western cinemas, nor have scholars addressed how both the intersections of gender and race have influenced the ‘fashioning’ of onscreen subjectivities. These are not irrelevant considerations, given the historical link between the expansion of Western …
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Beyond the Aesthetic Machine: Disney's Multiplane Camera and the Role of Special Effects Technologies in the Animation Industry
… Snow White and Pinocchio. Animation and cinema studies scholars who have studied the multiplane camera have primarily analyzed the device's aesthetic contributions. This dissertation argues that the multiplane was far more than an aesthetic machine. Combining Cinema and Media Studies with …
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Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
Comics studies is a relatively new and fundamentally cross disciplinary field. While this has led to rich and inventive analysis combining theory from a range of scholarly practices, it has also resulted in theory being applied to drawn narratives which take little account of material factors …
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Cinéma sénégalais: évolution thématique du discours filmique dans les oeuvres de Sembene Ousmane, Djibril Diop Mambety, Moussa Sène Absa, Jo Gaye Ramaka et Alain Gomis
This work aims at filling a gap in African cinema studies. The plurality in film production has been neglected or overseen by Africanist critiques as well as most of the filmmakers from the continent. Such continental shield of a monolithic Africa has been carried by European anthropologists and …
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再现/见南洋 : 香港电影与新加坡(1950-65) = Filming Nanyang : Hong Kong - Singapore Connection (1950-65)
… cultural identities in overseas. This thesis studies Hong Kong cinema as an independent field for academic research, which also conducts dialogues in the notion of national Chinese cinema(s) within recent scholarship. I situate Hong Kong cinema parallel to the development of the national …
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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
… my contribution to the field of fashion in cinema, and use the particular interdisciplinary scope of my work as a lens through which to reframe this field. As many have argued already, problems of fashion and costume in cinema have traditionally been overlooked and marginalised within cinema …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… North Sumatran film project, articulating a cinema practice that seeks to address a genocide that has barely been investigated. The primary footage comprises extensive interviews, re-enactments and dramatisations of the various practices and procedures that constituted the core of the 1965-66 …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA MAJOR PROFESSOR: Deborah Tudor, Ph.D. The recent tendency of returning to history in Korean cinema corresponds with the conjuncture of democratization and globalization from 1992, which is an antithesis of the former conjuncture: …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
ABSTRACT Motorcars and Magic Highways examines the nexus between transportation and communication in the development of the automobile across the twentieth century. While early responses to the automobile emphasized its democratizing and liberating potential, the gradual integration of the …
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Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood
… not an uncommon premise in Australian national cinema. However, this is not all there is to know about Tasha; she is preoccupied, not by a love interest or by a drug addiction, but by ninjutsu, and vigilantism. This is where Tasha finds its unique approach to Australian cinema’s historic …
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The performance-within, creative authenticity, and practical knowledge: linking theatre, film, and philosophy in the work of Ingmar Bergman
… insert traditional forms of performance into a cinematic narrative, and therefore is a locus for intermedial analysis. Intermediality has constituted a new and robust area in Bergman studies over the past decade. This relatively recent emphasis on the intermedial aspects of Bergman’s work has …
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The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives
… the project evaluates women’s labor in the cinematic paradigm of second wave exploitation films—films produced under the exploitation style from 1960 to 1980—and utilizes a case study of director Stephanie Rothman to articulate the lack of industrial, disciplinary, and archival attention …
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Unfamiliar sounds in familiar settings: On the cosmopolitan labour of film composers in Istanbul
… a new approach to filmmaking, the New Turkish Cinema, developed during a time of economic and cultural resurgence. Now in a mature phase, Turkish films and television programs are rapidly becoming a focus of local and global interest, as Turkey grows as a consumer marketplace and as a player in …
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Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being
… Edison and W. K. L. Dickson that dominated early cinema. Noël Burch’s theory of film, wherein films are analyzed as a combination of Institutional and Primitive Modes of Representation, provides the framework I use to contextualize my films in relation to the dominant visual aesthetic of today’s …