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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"contemporary films"”.
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The Social Construction and Broaden-Build Effects of Appreciation, Recognition, and Reward at Work As Portrayed in Four Contemporary Films
Many employees feel underappreciated, unrecognized, and undervalued in todays corporate, white collar environment (Herman& Dasborough, 2008; Ariani, D. W. 2013). Global economic crises, rising housing prices and high unemployment have all contributed to the prevailing thought that it an employee …
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Screening Difference: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Autism in Contemporary Film
<p>This study examines how contemporary films (2015-2025) construct ideologies about autism and difference through representational practices. The research investigates a purposefully sampled corpus of feature films featuring autistic characters. Data were collected through close textual analysis …
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Hollywood's image of the working woman
… of working women in main stream Hollywood films. The thesis compares films portrayals of working women from "women's films" of the 1930s and 1940s with more contemporary films from the 1980s and 1990s. The paper explores the idea that there are "hegemonic processes" at work in American …
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Intolerable Masculinity: Screening Men's Shame and Embracing Curious Futures
… therefore open to change, this thesis presents contemporary films which appear to critique men’s socially significant status, but instead obscure their responsibility to change through a performance of shame. Referencing Sara Ahmed’s (2014) study of national performances of shame alongside …
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Branding the Native: The Indigenous Condition in Contemporary Peruvian Literature
… In South America, specifically in Peru, contemporary narrative and film depicts the guerra interna between the subversive movement, Sendero Luminoso, and the Peruvian government and its impact on the developing country. This study focuses on three texts --Mario Vargas Llosa\'s Lituma en …
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Contemporary portrayals of blacks and mixed-blacks in lead roles: Confronting historical stereotypes of African Americans on the big screen
… by black and mixed-black men and women in four contemporary top-grossing box office films released from 2010-2015. The qualitative textual analysis assesses whether leads played by black or mixed-black people conform to or stray from Hollywood’s historical messages that have allowed for racial …
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Amid the debris: ruins of underdevelopment in contemporary Brazilian documentary
This thesis defines an aesthetics of ruins in contemporary Brazilian documentary. It examines strategies of spatial representation employed by present-day documentary-makers and places their films into three groups. The first focuses on the federal capital, Brasília (The Age of Stone (2013) and …
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Lo visible, lo invisible y lo imaginable: Neoliberalismo y ciudad en las producciones culturales de posguerra en Centroamérica
… in detail in a selection of six contemporary films and texts. With this in mind, I center the dissertation around four goals: to draft and explain a theory of the Central American urban imaginaries in accordance with the researched neoliberal urban theory, to illustrate the …
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Exploding spaces : present and future urban spaces cinematically considered
… study seeks to understand the visual dynamics of contemporary science fiction cities in film by exploring a number of diverse architectural and cinematic influences. The argument is initiated through a consideration of utopianism and science fiction, before moving onto specific architectural …
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Skin flicks
… Renaissance works, nineteenth century nudes and contemporary films. It also questions the ability of images to represent anything other than skin through a discussion of iconoclasm and its relation to some contemporary critical practices in the arts.
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The Intensity of Recollection-Images in Suspicious River and The Law of Enclosures
… of past, present, and future displayed in contemporary films such as Irreversible, Memento, Run Lola Run, and Caché where causality and chronology can prove ostentatiously deconstructed. However, few film scholars have paid attention to films that conceal temporal layering behind the guise …
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An exploration of the applicability of Linda Aronson's flashback theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting
… and past stories. Chapter Three analyses four contemporary films which involve flashbacks in the light of Aronson's theoretical framework and tests the impact of genre and theme when deciding where the dramatic connections should be between past and present stories and in determining their …
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Punishment, Injustice, and Modernity: Incarceration in Argentine Cinema
… and Aguirre 1996), however, I argue that the films of my corpus dramatise the entanglement of modernisation and modernity in the multidirectional flows of emotions, violence, and capital across prison walls. Be they ‘progressive’ or ‘reactionary’, these films offer structural assessments of …
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Enhancing acquisition of intercultural nonverbal competence : Thai English as a foreign language learners and the use of contemporary English language films
… the use of the same four American and Australian contemporary films. The experimental intervention involved explicit teaching of nonverbal communication and the other more traditional one provided exposure to the same native speaker interactions in the same four films, but with classroom …
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Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
… of television. Through an analysis of popular contemporary films such as the Star Wars Trilogy that are shown to be heavily invested with archetypal motif, discourses for each of the King’s Court archetypes are presented. Foucault’s notion of the rituals and gestures that constitute the true …
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… women, as the majority of modern mainstream films is produced and directed by men who portray women’s bodies in ways that appeal to the “male gaze.” These portrayals include using stereotypical images and representations, including observable “gazing” and objectification of female bodies, …