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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"independent films"”.
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
… and most significantly American myth, in independent films about America in cultural terms, and their attempts to deconstruct the myths of nation and culture. The independent films about America analyzed in this thesis range from the 1960s to the 1990s, made by filmmakers across movements …
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Memories of Motherland: Gender, Diaspora and National Identity in 1990s Indian Popular Culture
… nationhood in 1990s India. Several popular films of the 1990s are discussed as narratives expressing longing for an extended family and a homogeneous national identity under the leadership of a traditional father figure. In contrast, independent films interrogate the primacy of ethnic and …
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Online independent film distribution : what is missing?
… proposes 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 …
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Deconstructing National Identity: Character, Place, and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
… by analysing its representation in contemporary independent cinema. Drawing upon the poststructuralist work of Jacques Derrida (and limited applications of his thought to film scholarship), this project theorises a rigorous (but non-programmatic) model for conducting deconstructive readings of …
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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s
… on creating negative stereotypical roles in films. The thesis then focuses on the film period of silent era through the post-war period, up to the 1950s in classic Hollywood, and discusses independent Black films and Hollywood’s so-called “race” films.</p> <p>There were African American women …
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Corrupted, Tormented and Damned: Reframing British Exploitation Cinema and The films of Robert Hartford-Davis
… sex comedies from the 1970s, a handful of horror films, or as a loosely fixed generic description dependent upon prevailing critical or academic orthodoxies. However, exploitation was a term used by the British industry in the 1960s to describe a wide-ranging and eclectic variety of films – these …
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Destabilizing the Nuyorican: <i>Rivera’s Women</i> and Nuyorican Cinema
… as part of my research on Nuyorican Cinema, the films of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.</p> <p>An unknown part of U.S. independent cinema, these diasporic films destabilize the way independent films continue to be categorized through gender, race, ethnicity, and language. Using the Capstone as a …
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Sustaining independent filmmaking in the age of the internet : the case of audience building
The Internet has brought new hope to independent filmmakers - hope of turningfilmmaking into a sustainable undertaking. The Hunt for Gollum recreates and extendsa blockbuster movie on little financial resources. The Cosmonaut is funded withthe help of its audience. 15Malaysia is distributed on the …
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Movie Making: The Integration of Art and Business
I am enrolled in two very different master programs: The Creative Pulse and Media Arts. Some questioned the load of working toward both graduate degrees simultaneously. Fortunately the programs married each other well and one aided the other. Skills adopted in both were critical to the project foot …
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Movie Making: The Integration of Art and Business
I am enrolled in two very different master programs: The Creative Pulse and Media Arts. Some questioned the load of working toward both graduate degrees simultaneously. Fortunately the programs married each other well and one aided the other. Skills adopted in both were critical to the project foot …
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From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
… produced stage plays, televisual work, and independent films for public viewing. PASLA operated for twenty-seven years, if with financial difficulty, much longer than many of its contemporary community cultural arts organizations within Watts and the Watts Curfew Area. Vantile Whitfield and …
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Libertad, ingenio y disrupción : la zona gris de Miguel Urrutia en su batalla contra la maquinaria del cine
Miguel Urrutia Mora es un artista colombiano que llevó el término “cine independiente” a otro nivel. Creador y fundador del movimiento Cine Recursivo, cuyo objetivo es concientizar a las personas que el cine no es una industria y que la creatividad reemplaza el dinero, impulsándolos a hacer sus …