University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visual Splendors and Intellectual Games: Heritage as an International Film Genre
Abstract
dc:description"The study proposes that a combination of richly detailed visuals and sound and the central narrative perspective of an intellectual outsider observer, puzzling out social relations, best characterize heritage cinema. The genre realizes an arguably feminine aesthetic sensibility, along with feminist themes that contribute to a prevalent ideology of ""thoughtful"" liberalism. Moreover, in replacing the female body with images of nature highly evocative of maternal plenitude, these films shift away from standard gratification of male visual pleasure. I argue in conclusion that in addressing generally human fantasies of regression, heritage films satisfy female spectatorial pleasure alongside, but not in opposition to, that of film theory's projected male spectator."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Patriche, Alina
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Curry, Ramona
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3111626
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81399