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Showing 1 to 20 of 255 for “"filmmaking"”.
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Propaganda and documentary filmmaking
… The written thesis is an analysis of documentary filmmaking as a form of discourse. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, a French historian and philosopher, the two basic approaches to documentary filmmaking are explored: the observational documentary and the propagandistic documentary. The …
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Washington, D.C. Center for Filmmaking
The Washington, D.C. Center for Filmmaking is placed in the middle of a growing area of different uses, on the block bordered by 8th, 9th G and H streets. Across G street, the old Patent Office now houses the national Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery. Churches, schools, and …
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A kaupapa Māori framework approach to filmmaking
… aim of this project is to explore kaupapa Māori filmmaking practices through practise-led research. I will focus on the processes and environments and how these create barriers or encourage Māori filmmaking aspirations. This thesis also investigates kaupapa Māori methodologies and processes used …
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
… experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early travelogue films to the emergence and proliferation of subjective approaches. Moreover, it analyses experimental travelogue films and the capacity of non-linear and non-narrative structures …
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Palestinian filmmaking in Israel: negotiating conflicting discourses
… offers an in-depth analysis of Palestinian filmmaking inside Israel by Palestinians citizens of Israel. It addresses a lacuna in the research of Palestinian cinema by examining in detail the context of production of Palestinian films within the Israeli film industry, outlining the structural …
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Embodied Landscapes: process and participation in filmmaking
… project applies experimental materialist filmmaking strategies to explore creative ways of working in landscapes with human and nonhuman participants. The research defines landscapes as multi-vocal gatherings of experiences and assemblages that interact in unfinished stories and therefore …
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Cross-Cultural Filmmaking in New Zealand National Cinema
… and financial partnerships in fiction filmmaking affect both the output and the very notion of New Zealand national cinema. Although the culture of commercialism in transnational financial partnerships is volatile and, therefore, the degree to which authorial control and cultural …
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Filmmaking at the borders: Improvisation and (Re)Presenting others
… research develops new improvisational filmmaking methods that move beyond problematic refugee narrativisation, particularly addressing how “sympathetic” portrayals often inadvertently reinforce the notion of refugees as “suffering subjects”. Through the making of a feature-length film, …
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Direct cinema : filmmaking style and its relationship to "truth"
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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Architecture beyond the frame filmmaking and the adjacent space
Filmmaking operates behind the closed doors of the studio system. Entire compounds of private space are devoted to the practice of film. Generic city streets, practical sets, a digital environments have had a long history of substituting for real locations. My thesis proposal examines the inversion …
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Documentary filmmaking as an ethical practice: looking for life stories
In this context statement, Documentary Filmmaking as an Ethical Practice: Looking for Life Stories, I look back over two decades of my own media practice and draw concrete lessons from the experiences I had, as I faced ethical dilemmas while working. Conventional documentary too often falls into …
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Piety in Production: Video Filmmaking as Religious Encounter in Bénin
… and audience members. This intimacy turns video filmmaking into what I call a production public, a group whose activities not only create media, but also negotiate the audiovisual aesthetics by which religion and culture are shown on screen. In the face of disappearing profits and intense …
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www.swarmtv.net: non-hierarchy through open source approaches to distributed filmmaking
An increasing number of filmmaking projects borrow approaches from open source programming methodologies in the practical process of film production. The potential benefits of open filmmaking include fast development times, customizable storytelling, less-biased reportage and a rich learning …
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Ghost workers: contemporary French documentary filmmaking in the global age
… to reinvent social and political documentary filmmaking as an ethical praxis committed to the reconciliation of individual emancipation and collective responsibility. The demise of workers’ movements and trade unions in the last decades has led filmmakers to explore other modes of subversion …
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Evocative and evidentiary : interpreting the city through non-fiction filmmaking
… evidentiary, which classify the applications of filmmaking to the interpretation of cities. The research focuses on two American urban planning films that represent radically different ways of organizing their visual content in order to advocate a specific kind of urban reform: The City (1939) by …
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The Designer's Story: filmmaking from the perspective of the production designer
The production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a film, working in close collaboration with the director, producer and director of photography. They create the environment and visual style for the story to take place in. As head of the art department they oversee the …
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Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being
… Here Now investigates the relationship between filmmaking and well-being with two specific aims: to illuminate how and why the process of making films inflicts stress on the filmmaker, and to determine what can be done within this process to prioritize the filmmaker’s well-being. My empirical …
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Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project
… nor last to raise these dilemmas in documentary filmmaking, I was interested in making the film ethically by drawing on a set of practices and ideas from participatory and collaborative filmmaking. In the making of this film I was also influenced by my own values and political commitments. This …
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Responsible filmmaking: ethics and spectatorship through the lens of Michael Haneke
… through his films: why is responsible filmmaking important, how does Haneke approach his own filmmaking and how does a responsible approach to filmmaking influence the position of spectators. Firstly, I draw from Stanley Cavell's film theory to read our current experience in a media …
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