Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis critical engagement paper is intended to reflect on the film I made for my Master of Fine Arts degree in media production. The first part describes the film and its main ideas and goals. Then it proceeds to elucidate the core and primary theories and concepts that founded my approach to cinema, particularly this project. Therefore, the theoretical part expands upon Jacques Lacan's concept of the Real and Julia Kristeva's idea of abjection (which she relates to the experience of immigration) and Slavoj Zizek’s Lacanian reading of partial objects as organs without bodies. After covering the theoretical aspects of my project, the paper discusses my methodology. In this part, the techniques and aesthetics selected to illuminate my theoretical findings are reviewed. The principal method used in this project is stop-motion animation which helped me link the idea of the animated objects as the Zizekian undead to Kristeva's reading of the immigration experience. It thus has allowed me to foreground the main intention behind this project: namely, to creatively address the challenges of immigration by harnessing the potentials of animation. The potential of the non-traditional and experimental animation helped me pinpoint issues that cannot be represented otherwise.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Media Production
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Rezaian, Narges
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Saul, Gerald
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Stojanova, Christina
- Mather, Philippe
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:uregina.scholaris.ca:10294/15003