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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"film distribution"”.
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Online independent film distribution : what is missing?
… a new model for online platforms for independent films. Today, platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, and YouTube are in the face of major industry challenges: more competitors are entering the market; consumers are demanding more diverse content and higher quality service; and cost of content …
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Perspectives on film distribution in the U.S. : present and future
I believe film has the power to transform people's lives and minds and to enlighten today's generation like any other medium. This is why I wanted to write my thesis about film distribution as it will determine the future of the industry itself. The way films are distributed, accessed and consumed …
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Theorising the cultural impacts of film distribution in the cinema and beyond
This thesis explores the links between film cultures and film distribution. What happens to film culture when a film is passed between friends on a USB, or downloaded from a cyberlocker, or purchased on a copied DVD at a local grocery store? Beyond the cinema and the major commercial players of the …
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Flexible home entertainment: Hollywood's response to home video
This dissertation in the field of film studies, communications studies and new media raises important issues about the relationship between corporate strategies and the convergence of media. A history of home video distribution, it covers the relationship between film distribution and home …
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Stardom, Spectacle, Show, and Salability: United Artists and the Founding of the Hollywood Blockbuster Model
<p>United Artists was an independent film distribution company that Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford jointly formed in 1919 to maintain creative autonomy over their work. Without the benefit of block booking practices through studio-owned theater houses, each …
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Condensation in horizontal smooth round tube
… directly confirmed the presence of liquid-film layer in SCH region. A correlation was made to calculate the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) in CSH region. However, flow characteristics in CSH region are almost never discussed, and little of the physics behind heat transfer mechanism in this …
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The Intersections of Social Activism, Collective Identity, and Artistic Expression in Documentary Filmmaking
… but few have studied the unique role documentary films play in inspiring activism and disseminating the agendas of new social movements. With this in mind, I studied how political strategies and artistic expressions intersect within the documentary filmmaking industry. Drawing from preexisting …
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BEHIND THE ART HOUSE: The Evolution of Art-House Distribution after World War II and the Rise of the Selling of Films as High Culture
… the hitherto under-examined role played by art-film distributors in the creation and development of what I call "art-film culture" in the United States from 1945 to 1962. It is based in large part on original interviews with film distributors, film critics, and exhibitors, as well as newly …
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Exploring the formal and informal distribution mechanisms for Colombian documentary films
Historically, documentary films have always encountered very serious problems of distribution and have struggled immensely to find reliable audiences, even though, ironically, documentaries are accepted by many as significant tools for the promotion of important historical, social and cultural …
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A multi-scale model integrating both global ring pack behavior and local oil transport in internal combustion engines
… results and previous experience showed that oil film distribution on the piston varies significantly along the circumference and the oil leakage occurs locally. Therefore to predict oil transfer across different ring pack regions, one needs to integrate both global and local processes. This work …