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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"cinematic realism"”.
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Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema
… proposes to examine the production of sensory realism in world cinema by using as case studies the cinemas of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (US). These cinemas are bound together through the hyperbolic application of the long take, which promotes a sensory …
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… indigenize non-Iranian female figures within cinematic narratives while navigating the censorial constraints of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (MCIG). By analyzing four films spanning the 1990s to the 2020s, the dissertation argues that these adaptations function as dynamic sites …
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Montage and ethnicity : experimental film practice and editing in the documentation of the Gujarati Indian community in Wales
… differing from the conventions and coda of cinematic realism. On this basis, it is argued that the move to equate the discourses of realism and modernism in the cinema with formal codes - a tendency that characterised classical film theory and later political modernism, is reductive. The …
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'reel' Gangs Or 'real' Gangs: A Qualitative Media Analysis Of Street Gangs Portrayed In Hollywood Films, 1960-2009
… framework of social constructionism and cinematic realism, a content analysis of 25 `street gang' films was conducted to (a) determine the comparability of depictions of street gangs in Hollywood films with those characteristics of defining a street gang in the law enforcement and …
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Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being
… itself. I pit these conclusions against the cinematic realism theories championed by André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer and Dziga Vertov. Unlike them, I reject the notion that the camera sees what I see and the idea that it has the ability to record or reproduce my experience of the world. …
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British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice
… in European art cinema such as Italian neo-realism and the French Nouvelle Vague, individual forebears such as Resnais, Godard, Pasolini and Wenders, and previous examples of art films in Britain.Furthermore in examining the filmmaking practices of these leading British art cinema directors …
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An examination of the emotional impact of the insertion of documentary footage into trauma cinema
… same effective way as other emotion-eliciting cinematic devices, such as close-ups, cut zoom ins, and poignant non-diegetic music, to augment the narrative engagement of the spectator and to enhance the experience. In summary, this thesis contributes to knowledge in that it identifies possible …