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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"history of cinema"”.
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The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia
… studies the emergence since the late 1970s of a feature-film industry in British Columbia. The thesis asserts that the relationship of this cinema its place of production can be best understood in terms of media globalization, rather than in the more conventional terms of national cinema …
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Il cinema in missione. La pratica cinematografica dei missionari italiani lungo il XX secolo tra apostolato e antropologia
The thesis reconstructs the cinema’s experience of Italian missionaries during the XX century in a historical-pragmatic key. Italian missionaries, who started producing movies around the Twenties, have used cinema as a helpful instrument for religious propaganda. They have considered the rules of …
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Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema
… the ways in which certain contemporary fiction cinema posits its narratives as real. Looking at a broad overview of realist movements through the history of cinema, it draws out the codes and conventions which filmmakers have employed and suggests that realist cinema is typically characterised …
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Geography of the Middle East through the Western Lens: A Survey of Films Set in the Middle East and Filmed in the American Southwest
<p>Representation of cinematic geography is a struggle in the world of film: a power balance between the work of the filmmakers and the place itself. Often, the filmmakers tip the scales in their favor and the true nature of the place is lost in translation. Throughout the history of cinema, the …
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IL CINEMA DI PIER PAOLO PASOLINI SECONDO LO STATO. CENSURA, MAGISTRATURA E PARLAMENTO
The thesis examines the types of interventions implemented by Italian State institutions towards Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema. The perspective of the institutional history of cinema was taken, in consideration of how cinema is part of an industrial context which has effective repercussions on the …
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Affective cinema : between style, chance and the moving body
Affective Cinema is a practice research project in film, informed by art cinema and experimental film traditions, and by conceptual fields derived from film theory and philosophy (specifically film ontology, and the philosophy of Deleuze, Bergson and Barthes). The primary outcome of the research is …
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Contemporary Developments in Cinema Exhibition
he work offered for this PhD by Published Works charts the history of cinema exhibition in Britain from the late 1950s to the present. At the start of this period, cinemagoing as a form of public entertainment entered a long period of decline that was only arrested with the development and growth …
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The lives of film: heritage, restoration, and the materialism of cinema
In this dissertation I argue that a new cinematic apparatus [dispositif] has appeared in the last three decades that ties the ontology of the medium to the precarious physical life of celluloid. I refer to this apparatus as the "new materialism" of cinema. The dissertation traces the development of …
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Adapting Mozambique : representations of violence and trauma in Mozambican cinema and literature
… Mia Couto’s Terra Sonâmbula (1992) - and the cinematic adaptations of those novels - Margarida Cardoso’s A Costa dos Murmúrios (2004) and Teresa Prata’s Terra Sonâmbula (2007). All four works take place in Mozambique and actively engage with the two primary conflicts that occurred in …
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Offerings for a ghost film: From fragmented work to cosmic assemblages
… its starting point an unfinished film. The short history of cinema has been dominated by notions of what constitutes a film and what does not. While the establishment of technical standards enabled cinema to become one of the most pervasive global art forms, this curtailed many elements of the …
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Elementi postmoderni nell'horror americano contemporaneo. Forme testuali e culturali della mutazione 1968-1998
This research argues for an analysis of textual and cultural forms in the American horror film (1968- 1998), by defining the so-called postmodern characters. The “postmodern” term will not mean a period of the history of cinema, but a series of forms and strategies recognizable in many American …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
This thesis examines the representation of maternity in contemporary art cinema, focusing on selected films by Claire Denis, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker and, in a coda, Alice Diop. It proposes that these recent directors all explore maternity from the perspective of ‘transgression’, …
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Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
… nationalism and class as tools in the production of French high-brow and avant-garde film culture. To date, scholars have largely studied French cinema of the inter-war period through the now canonical lens of this reflexive, self-critical community of cinephiles concerned with the state of French …