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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"film analysis"”.
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Power and pleasure : the politics of film analysis and feminist community media education
This dissertation examines the value of feminist film theory for the analysis of representations of women in visual media, and the potential of media education for establishing a culture of critical viewing. Feminist film theory is thus critically considered, as are associated debates within …
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Development of a Time of Flight - Energy spectrometer for applications in Heavy Ion - Elastic Recoil Detection thin film analysis
… in Heavy Ion – Elastic Recoil Detection thin film materials analysis, and secondly, to measure stopping powers of heavy ions in thin foil compound materials using the newly built spectrometer. Key to the performance of the assembled spectrometer was its timing resolution. Characterisation …
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The Public Secondary School And Teacher In American Films Of The 1990s
… schools and educators were portrayed in American films of the 1990s. Thirty films were selected for study that were produced and released in the decade of the 1990s. Content analysis and a "Film Analysis Form" produced answers to eight questions regarding the learning environments, portrayal of …
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Inflicted Viewing: Examining Moral Masochism, Empathy, and the Frustration of Trauma Cinema
<p>The contemporary turn of psychoanalytic film analysis has opened a new mode of understanding cinematic language. However, rejecting classical psychoanalysis would be premature. This thesis will place the two in conjunction, specifically through Sigmund Freud’s conceptualization of moral …
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INCONMENSURABLE: AN ARCHIVE OF THE UNSPOKEN
… that blends memoir, photographic storytelling, film analysis, and imagined reality to interrogate the complicated nature of inheritance. This project grapples with themes of mixed identity, insider and outsider politics, Indigenous storytelling, movement, silence, erasure, survival, loss of …
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Developing a framework of quality in radiographic service delivery in Ghana
… assurance and quality control procedures: reject film analysis and diagnostic reference levels. Phase 2 was a qualitative design which used semi-structured interviews of six radiographers, six patients and three managers to further explore and explain the quality of service issues identified in …
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A shanda fur de Yehudim: Jewishness in network sitcom television.
… Sources for the study included: historical film analysis, sociological studies on stereotyping and Jewish culture. The thesis studies how past forms of Jewishness impacted the current depictions of Jewishness on the television sitcom. After an introduction discussing Jewishness in general, …
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Well I'll Be: Positive Images Of Southern Women As Response To Feminism From 1980-2000
… was culled from personal as well as literary and film analysis. I utilized historical works and studied the media forms intimately. This paper argues that although the south may be dissolving into the rest of the country, the image of the southern woman remains distinct. Through marketing, …
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What’s in a name?: Revealing the function of the criminal pseudonym through a content analysis of ten characters in twelve films
… This study, through the observation of 12 films, investigates the prevalence and functions of the pseudonym within the criminal subculture as represented in each movie. Basic descriptive values and a content analysis revealed that the pseudonym has a symbolic value to the characters, which …
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Distracted spectatorship, the cinematic experience and franchise films
… is integral to embodied experience of film spectatorship and fandom. Drawing on theoretical grounding from film theory, classical cultural studies and fan studies, the study sheds light on how inhabiting the position of distracted spectator involves maintaining several identities …
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The Collision Of Romanticism And Modernism In Post-World War II American Cinema: A Theoretical Defense Of Intellectual History In The Undergraduate Classroom
… of literature, which could also be applied to film, and explained how one could determine whether or not a work of art represented Modernism or Romanticism.</p> <p> This study has two main objectives. In terms of historical inquiry, the study will apply the conclusions of Rand and Petigny as to …
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PECULIAR THEORY: THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY IN SIEGFRIED KRACAUER’S THEORY OF FILM
ABSTRACT The republication of Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality by Siegfried Kracauer (1889 – 1966) in 1997 marked not just the highpoint of a period of renewed interest in his work, a period initiated by a series of events organized to mark the centenary of his birth, but also the …
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
Considering the increase in slave films in recent years, this interdisciplinary project explores the cross-generic development of nineteenth-century slave narratives into their contemporary cinematic iterations. Continuities and changes in the (self-) representation of African Americans are …
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Compositions of crisis: Sound and silence in the films of Bergman and Tarkovsky
This thesis examines seven films from the cinemas of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky—Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), and The Silence (1963), and Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986). These films were …
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Compositions of crisis: Sound and silence in the films of Bergman and Tarkovsky
This thesis examines seven films from the cinemas of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky—Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), and The Silence (1963), and Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986). These films were …
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Kim Ki-duk and the Cinema of Sensations
Despite the apparent usefulness for film analysis, the notion of "sensation" disappears in Deleuze's two Cinema books (Cinema 1: The Movement-Image [1983] and Cinema 2: The Time-Image [1985]) published right after Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (1981), which develops the idea of sensation. …
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Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary
… tourist literature, generic literature, memoirs, film, and art. The images and texts on the women participate in larger discussions of embodiments of difference, the construction of cultural memory, the material consequences of those representations, and lived experience. Thus, this project …
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For the potential of Kierkegaardian analysis in Soviet studies through the study of Soviet film
… use of Kierkegaardian philosophy as a tool of analysis in the field of Soviet studies demonstrated through the character analysis of select Soviet films. From Danish, existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s model of faith, presented in his follow-up to Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, I will …
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Study of the Valence Tautomer Complex [Co(sq)(cat)(3-tpp)2] for Applications in Molecular Spintronics
… development and experimental methods. Thin films of VT molecules were prepared from solution via a drop-casting approach. For thin film analysis, we have developed a custom made, fully automated Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) with a sensitivity on the order of 1 × 10-5 emu, as well as a …
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