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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"commercial film"”.
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The Social Construction and Broaden-Build Effects of Appreciation, Recognition, and Reward at Work As Portrayed in Four Contemporary Films
… this project applied content analysis to four commercial film dated 2004 to 2013. Verbal utterances, tangible awards, written forms of acknowledgement and symbolic actions were among some of the characteristics that were categorized as evoking positive, negative or ambiguous emotions. The …
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Complicating the nation: the archival legacies of amateur cine-culture in Ireland (1900-1984)
… Ireland from 1900-1980. Amateur cine-culture and filmmaking have existed in Ireland since the earliest days of cinema, though these efforts are often marginalised in established historical accounts, characterised as minor digressions or failed attempts in service of the greater goal that dominated …
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Evaluation of Packaging Film Mechanical Integrity Using a Standardized Scratch Test
Polymeric packaging films see widespread use in the food packaging industry, and their mechanical integrity is paramount to maintaining product appearance, freshness, and overall food safety. Current testing methods, such as tensile or puncture tests, do not necessarily correlate well with field …
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The Media Rhetorics of Advertising Film : Communication-theoretical starting-points for the study of the production and interpretation of meaning in advertising film
… purpose of 'The Media Rhetorics of Advertising Film' is to clarify the conditions of and possibilities for the study of the production and interpretation of meaning in advertising film. I have attempted to answer the following questions: How is advertising film constituted from the producers' …
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Life on the margins : the autobiographical fiction of Charles Bukowski
… on such aspects of Bukowski s art as the uncommercial nature of his publishing history, his strong emphasis on literary simplicity, the appearance of the grotesque and Bukowski s obsession with nonconformity, drinking and sex. These aspects illuminate the distinctive nature of Bukowski s art …
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Destabilizing the Nuyorican: <i>Rivera’s Women</i> and Nuyorican Cinema
… as part of my research on Nuyorican Cinema, the films of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.</p> <p>An unknown part of U.S. independent cinema, these diasporic films destabilize the way independent films continue to be categorized through gender, race, ethnicity, and language. Using the Capstone as a …
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EMANCIPATING DESIRE, EMPOWERING FANTASY: CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA
… for progressive social change, I examine new film practices, genres, networks, industry structures and social struggles in Indonesia and Malaysia today which are aided by the advancement in new digital technology. Unlike established film industries in the West, the structure of Indonesian and …
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Notions of the Gothic in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
The films of Alfred Hitchcock were made within the confines of the commercial film industries in Britain and the USA and related to popular cultural traditions such as the thriller and the spy story. However, many of the films possess characteristics associated with 'high' culture. Part of the …
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The Eltro
… of an audio signal whenever the accompanying film needed to run at a different rate so that a commercial could fit into the standard 30 or 60 second time slots. If, for example, a commercial film needed to run faster, and the audio signal were simply sped up by the same amount, we’d get the …
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Microcapsule-based self-protecting coatings
… using industry standards is on par with the best commercially available systems at a fraction of the cost. We take advantage of the natural “anti-corrosion” properties of lawsone, an extract of the hemp plant, and use this as the core payload for our anticorrosion microcapsules. The capsules are …
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… 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 2002 - roughly, the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Center - and how this cinema …
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Would You Recommend This Picture to Your Friends? A History of Hollywood Test Screenings
… During the post-production phase of a narrative commercial film, a studio will typically hold a test (or preview) screening to gauge audience reaction. An unfinished version of the film is screened before an audience of nonprofessional “regular moviegoers,” after which viewers fill out …