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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"film aesthetics"”.
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AI Film Aesthetics: A Construction of a New Media Identity for AI Films
… Artificial Intelligence is poised to take the film industry by storm. While the current applications of it help streamline production practices, its escalating employment in the generation of film scripts and visuals complicates notions and functions of authorship and new media aesthetics. This …
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The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
… the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema …
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Vocational Survival: Expanding the Film Value Chain for the Independent Filmmaker
… an argument for expanding the traditional FilmValue Chain model in order to address what it means to be an independent filmmaker. The research focuses specifically on the filmmaker’s journey or course of action, rather than on film aesthetics or artistry, and ultimately presents this as a …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… and influential composers for scholars of film music. His concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk or "total art work," which combined music, visuals and storytelling, played an indelible role in the creation of film aesthetics, especially with regard to music and sound design. Yet, Wagner's actual …
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Cineplastick: Synthetic Materials in the Films of Mary Ellen Bute, Jim Davis and Jeff Keen
… thesis I engage with the work of experimental filmmakers for whom plastic was an indispensable profilmic medium. I trace the development of three careers against the backdrop of the cultural history of synthetic materials, which proliferated in the middle decades of the twentieth century. …
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Die ongelooflike avonture van Afrikaanse filmaanpassings: filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature with specific focus on novels, youth literature and stage plays
… of some cultural practices in the imagination of filmmakers, audiences and the screen (2011). Because this study models itself on new frameworks of investigating African cinemas, it contextualises Afrikaans cinemas within African cinemas. Afrikaans as a language should own its connections of a …
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THE MULTI-IMAGE: The Origin and Possibilities of Visual Collage in Cinema
… Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov), modern silent films (focusing on Guy Maddin), David Lynch, Peter Greenaway and Jean-Luc Godard. Through this history, the thesis traces the recurring thematic purposes employed using the multi-image, including revelation, fragmentation, multiplicity and fluidity, …
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The Beloved: A documentary film on the history and aftermath of Fremantle’s Rajneesh sannyasin community – and – Hidden Realities: Transcendental Structures in Documentary Film: An exegesis
… structure’ in relation to a documentary film form, and what outcomes, specific to a non-fiction mode of representation, result from the application of this structure. A transcendental structure in film has a long history of investigation and interpretation in narrative fiction film theory …