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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"commercial cinema"”.
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From Surrealist Film to Surrealism in Film (Surrealism in the 20th Century Commercial Cinema)
… Chapter VI, ""Surrealism in Contemporary French Cinema,"" explores the dispersion of Surrealism in contemporary French cinema, while the conclusions point to other possibilities of research in various world cinemas. Covering a period of eight decades, this research puts into perspective the …
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The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia
… The thesis asserts that the relationship of this cinema its place of production can be best understood in terms of media globalization, rather than in the more conventional terms of national cinema development. Through an assessment of the history of cinema in British Columbia, the political …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… by the vast number of popular literature, commercial cinema and television programs of this subject. I argue with Wulf Kansteiner (2006) that to understand collective memory, we should explore mass media representations. As the majority of highbrow artifacts do not reach the general public, …
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Between Fiction and Documentary: Dangerous Liaisons and the Self-Reflexive Film
… that alternative representations to mainstream, commercial cinema are created.</p>
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Labour and the media in Britain 1929-1939 : a study of the attitudes of the Labour movement towards the new media, film and radio, and of its attempts to use them for political purposes
… leaders of the Labour movement attributed to the cinema immense power to captivate audiences, disarm the critical senses, and exercise a near-hypnotic influence. In the content of newsreels, the workings of the censorship system and the determination of the National Government to prevent a …
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… of Mordor as the place where evil never sleeps. Cinematic evil itself never sleeps, always arising in new forms, to the extent that there exist as many types of evil as there are films. This thesis examines this constantly shifting construction of evil in American popular cinema between 1989 and …