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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"popular cinema"”.
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Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000
… How do the representations of Muslims in Hindi Popular Cinema deny the community identification with the nation. It establishes Hindi cinema as the 'de facto' national cinema and explores the nature of identity and communal relations between the two major Indian religious communities, Hindus and …
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The Competitors: violent women protagonists in popular cinema - a creative and critical thesis
The Competitors Violent Women Protagonists in Popular Cinema: A Creative and Critical Thesis is a practice based PhD thesis in creative and critical writing. This research comprises an original feature length screenplay and an accompanying critical thesis. The screenplay, The Competitors, is a …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
… genealogical study of the intersections between popular cinema, popular religion and politics in South India. It proceeds with a particular focus on the discursive field of Telugu cinema as well as religion and politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh from roughly the 1950s to the 2000s. By …
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From Peter Pan to Hannibal Lecter : The various faces of masculinity in popular cinema.
… is to investigate how mass appeal within a popular media is possible given the cultural diversity of modem society. My hypothesis is that as well as differences between ethnographic groups there is probably similarities. As patriarchy is an aspect of our culture that crosses class, racial …
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The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /
… on the Russian Symbolic as represented through popular cinema of the post-Soviet period. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 became one of the most traumatic experiences for many Russian people. The trauma of the collapse of the Soviet Union penetrated the everyday reality of the Russian …
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… of Mordor as the place where evil never sleeps. Cinematic evil itself never sleeps, always arising in new forms, to the extent that there exist as many types of evil as there are films. This thesis examines this constantly shifting construction of evil in American popular cinema between 1989 and …
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Not Art: An Action History of British Underground Cinema
… and a (re)definition of British Underground Cinema culture (1959 - 2(02). The historical significance of Underground Cinema has long been ideologically entangled in a mesh of academic typologies and ultra leftist rhetoric, abducting it from those directly involved. The intention of my work is …
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AFGANTSY: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF A FORGOTTEN GENERATION
… duty.” As a result, private narratives and popular myths about those at war – known as the afgantsy – circulated for years before the Politburo chose to assemble heroic icons from the fallen. By focusing on the afgantsy, this dissertation offers a case study in the mobilization of civil …
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Mediated Masculinities: The Forms of Masculinity in American Genre Film, 1990-1999
… crisis films from 1990 to 1999 to map how cinematic forms constitute the potential to alter normative modes of masculinity. To launch this endeavor, I rely on a theoretical hybrid of Brinkema-Deleuze-Spinoza that foregrounds genre films as vibrant forms of difference. This foregrounding …
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Prison Blockbusters: Relationships Between Prison Cinema and Student Perceptions
… students' perceptions, as they relate to prison cinema. It also discussed and analyzed reoccurring themes in prison cinema that perpetuates the prison culture in the United States. Specifically, this research addressed the following research question: How is exposure to prison cinema related to …
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Nadir : a graphic interpretation of dispossession and aspects of conflict
… have also looked to film as a source, including popular cinema such as George Miller's "Mad Max" series, as well as the more serious aspects of cinema, for example, the films of Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders. While my prints do not necessarily fall within the mainstream of …
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I testi della paura e dell'incubo
… evolution of the genre. The Italian horror cinema cannot be conceived or thought of without the films made by Mario Bava and Dario Argento in the period examined by the research.
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four …
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El antihéroe en el cine de la 'Otra Escuela de Barcelona': Arquetipos antiheroicos del cine popular barcelonés durante el franquismo
… figura del antihéroe en las películas de géneros populares realizadas desde mediados del franquismo hasta la llegada de la Transición por parte de un grupo de cineastas al que nos referimos como la ¿Otra Escuela de Barcelona¿. Para ello, hemos tratado de identificar en estas la presencia del …
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Failure to deliver: transitional masculinities in late and post Francoist films (1963-1984)
… evolution of models of masculinity in mainstream cinema during these transitional years. This period is considered as one of the most prolific in Spanish film, as its corpus includes more than a thousand films that chronicled the social transformation from perspectives, themes, genres and …