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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"film criticism"”.
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
<p>This thesis explores Brady Corbet's 2018 film <em>Vox Lux</em>, focusing on its portrayal of female trauma and the subsequent gendered division in its critical reception. The film centers on Celeste, a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative …
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Cut off by the 'Iron Curtain'
… of Polish cinema in English-language film criticism? Judging by the number of books about Polish cinema as a whole or about Polish directors and their films it would seem that the answer must be negative. However, a closer look at other books about world cinema and especially French …
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Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment
… of acting and spectatorship in theatre and film, focusing on representations of the human body in the work of Samuel Beckett and Peter Weiss. I argue that film and theatre acting must be theorized in specific relation to each other, and that media comparisons should be a central aspect of …
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Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars: Japanese Women, Hong Kong Cinema, and Transcultural Fandom
… Employing contemporaneous fan-produced writing, film criticism, journalism, and promotional literature for films, media technologies, and transnational travel to Hong Kong in the reconstruction of its discursive surround, the dissertation interrogates the dialectical relationship between fan …
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Game worlds : a study of video game criticism
This paper explores the relation between criticism and establishment of narrative forms and genres, focusing on the cultural situation of video games. Comparing the context of early film criticism and contemporary video game criticism, I argue that the public negotiation of meaning and value …
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Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India
… Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and in the country, where media and people are heavily censored and policed by anti-Romeo squads under the Modi administration. The item girl breaks the sexual tension with a mega hit song and hook step that fuels the economy of dance and …
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New Nations, Anxious Citizens: Social Change and Filmmaking in the West African Sahel, 1950--1980
… examines the first generation of Sahelien filmmakers, their films, and the broader Sahelien film industry as mechanisms of change in the Sahel---in particular in Senegal, Mali, and Niger---from the time of independence to circa 1980. This dissertation considers the complex roles of Sahelien …
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In Particularity We Trust:richard Dutcher's Mormon Quartet And A Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Film Style
… 2008, writer/director Richard Dutcher made four films with narratives focused primarily on members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The films are explicitly Mormon-related in their content, but I argue they are also inherently Mormon in their style. Critic and filmmaker Paul …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
… presence in three cinematic eras: classic film noir, neo-conservative retro noir, and millennial neo-noir. Feminist film criticism tends to identify the femme fatale as a protofeminist, a productive transgressor of social norms whose worth has only been posteriorly discovered. In opposition …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… working within the legacy of 1970s feminist film criticism and moving image must contend with a changed socio-political and institutional landscape where feminism faces the threat of capitalistic and neoliberal co-optation, while its suitability to provide an inclusive framework for …
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Critical choices in print and cyberspace : a content analysis of three print-based film critics and three Internet-based film critics.
… in the traditional mass media to see how their criticism matches in content, thoroughness, and emphasis with amateur critics writing on the Internet. Six critics were purposely selected for study: three print-based (Roger Ebert, Kenneth Turan, and Janet Maslin) and three amateur, Internet-based …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
… can be traced back to the late 1920s, but women film directors only became fully active from the mid-1970s, coinciding with the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). The war gave rise to a new generation of filmmakers who wanted to document and portray the political and social realities …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… of the Italian filoni; a body of popular genre film cycles (peplum mythological epics, horror films, giallo thrillers, poliziotteschi crime dramas, westerns and others) released during a frenzied period of film production between the late 1950s and mid 1980s. A disproportionate emphasis on …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
… discursive field of cinema, I refer to not only filmic texts, but also disciplines of film making, practices of publicity, modes of film criticism as well as practices of viewership all of which are an inalienable part of the institution of cinema. Telugu cinema continued to produce mythological …
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The AIDS Film: A New Communication Model for a New Genre
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Eastern European Cinema vs. Hollywood: Bosnia War Films
… of this study is to compare and contrast the films from the Hollywood and Eastern European arenas. This study will specifically examine the Hollywood blockbuster Behind Enemy Lines and the Serbian film, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame in contrast with one another. Each of these films creates a …
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The Many Faces of Mildred: A Detailed Analysis
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Mediální obraz dánského režiséra Larse von Triera v kontrastu populárního a odborného magazínu
… the personal and the professional life of the films' creator including his works. The thesis represents the controversial filmmaker Lars von Trier in the context of his work and personality. Emphasis is placed on journalistic work at the weekly periodical Reflex and the quarterly magazine Film …