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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"film theory"”.
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The discourse of psychoanalytic film theory
This study reads contemporary psychoanalytic film theory as a discourse which implies specific stylistic practices in its investigation of three areas: the cinema (as apparatus), the film (as text) and film theory itself (as discourse). The study proceeds by examining the respective staging of …
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A gaze of one's own : feminist film theory, with application to Klute
… is concerned with the development of a field of film theory around the place of the female spectator. Chapter 1 presents an historical overview of some trends in the development of film theory, with emphasis on the emergence of a paradigm in which theories of semiotics, ideology and …
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Citing the viewer : ethnography, film theory and experiences of martial arts action cinema.
… and opinions of people who actually watch films into any film theory or criticism genuinely concerned to analyse, evaluate or otherwise interpret films and/or those who watch them. In particular, it suggests there is a need to re-think the status of film experiencers as informants who are …
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Theoretical investigation of the importance of heat effects in gas absorption using the film theory: an application to a second order irreversible reaction, A
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-163).
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A Narrative in One Scene
<p>Filmmakers are visual storytellers, thus it is important to understand basic film theory as well as the elements of a narrative, such as voice, look, and feel. It is just as important for filmmakers to understand how film theory and the elements of a narrative work together to effectively convey …
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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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An aesthetic analysis of the most popular post-secondary Spanish language introductory pedagogical videos.
… American universities. Elements of philosophy, film theory, and foreign language pedagogy are combined to analyze the existing video series and to develop a theoretical template for further examination and production. This study involves a historical examination of the aesthetic, an ideological …
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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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Screening interiority : dream, the unconscious, emotion and imagination in cinematic language
The portrayal of film characters' inner experience ensures a level of audience engagement often precluded in primarily plot-driven narratives. Yet, there is a prevailing notion that interiority is the exclusive domain of literature. To counter this pedagogy, the thesis explores how filmmakers can …
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Ethnography of Indian diaspora women watching Bollywood cinema in South Africa
… and marketed. The world's largest Indian film industry based in Bombay (Mumbai), known as Bollywood, is owned by big business men who are highly patriarchal in their mindset. Since Bollywood Cinema is owned predominantly by Indian men, it is not surprising that their patriarchal values are …
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The Possibilities of Sort Of
… to embrace this multiplicity. Using the film theory construct of extra-diegetic and relative qualifier 'sort of' to investigate Pulp Fiction, Bose Wave CD player, Sunset Boulevard, American Apparel, and The Uncanny.
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and men.</p> <p>I …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… stars to the elementary mechanism of film projection (twenty-four times per<br/>second): cinema is repetition. It is perhaps little wonder then that psychoanalysis is often<br/>thought of as one of the discourses with which to write about film in the 20th century.<br/>However, this …
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Framing Sex and Spatiality in French Queer Cinema: Nolot, Dieutre, Guiraudie
… lens of contemporary French queer cinema. While film and media studies has recently seen the critical ascendance of spatial, embodied and proprioceptive theory on the one hand, and a burgeoning interest in queer sexualities, counterpublics and relational practices on the other, the conceptual …
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“Grinding the walls to dust”: feminist media praxis
… in St. Paul, Minnesota. The author, a feminist filmmaker and scholar, filmed both the prison poets and the high school students, and critically "read" still frames of the video footage, to show how educational practices in public schools and prisons can work to subvert mainstream narratives of …
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Images and Voices from the Cumberland Mountains: Surface Coal Mining and the Evolution of Appalshop's Documentary Activism.
<p>Since the early 1970s, Appalshop, a regional film workshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, has been examining social, economic, and environmental issues important to the people of Appalachia. Appalshop’s goal has always been to give a voice to a community that is often stereotyped and misunderstood by …
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A Binary Within the Binary: Machinima as Digital Agency and Growing Commercial Incorporation
This thesis traces machinima, films created in real-time from videogame engines, from the exterior toward the interior, focusing on the manner in which the medium functions as a tool for marginalized expression in the face of commercial and corporate inclusion. I contextualize machinima in three …
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“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind
… calls into question some of the basic tenets of film theory and film academia in that it is a film that is essentially impossible to credit to a single <em>auteur </em>because of the death of its director decades before the film’s release<em>. </em>This thesis seeks to reconcile the fundamentals …
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Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Cinema: Preparatory Remarks for a Re-Reading of Cinema 1 and 2
… and Cinema 2: The Time-Image as works of film poetics. English-language commentators tend to treat the books primarily as philosophical works, and only secondarily as contributions to film theory. I argue that this interpretive strategy gets things exactly backwards. To understand both the …
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To Know Their Stories: Using Playbuilding to Develop a Training/Orientation Video on Person-Centered Care
… approach and an application of narrative and film theory. This work adds to the discussion of how the health care system may benefit from arts-based methods of knowledge construction.
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