Esta dissertação surgiu no contexto do mestrado em “Gestão Cultural” da Universidade da Madeira, e propõe como tema: o “Cinema e formação de público: perspectivas sobre a programação alternativa ao circuito comercial na Madeira no início do século XXI”. Durante a redacção foi re…
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O presente estudo consiste em uma elaboração reflexiva acerca da obra e teoria do cineasta russo Andrei Tarkovsky. Atravessaremos inicialmente algumas análises e teses filosóficas sobre os conceitos de sagrado e de tempo, a fim de moldar um alicerce teórico na ânsia por firmar u…
This PhD by publication derives from a body of research which examines how material drawn from reality -that is, subjects, images or stories founded in ‘documentary’- can be used to visualise and interpret unpresented subjective spaces-thoughts, feelings, dreams- which I term th…
This dissertation concerns Japan’s domestic film industry structure and transformation between 1971-2002. It tracks the generative mechanisms of stasis and change in the major studios’ output of narrative feature films to illuminate an underrepresented history in Japanese cinema…
The dichotomous paradigm constituted by the realist tradition of Chinese cinema has become the epic and inertial discourse for understanding Chinese modernity. However, I argue that some new filmmakers after the sixth generation of directors have used the narrative and aesthetic…
To explore an actor’s process is to explore the foundation of all acting methods. The purpose of this document is to do just that. From character creation to final performance of the role of Tom Collins in West Virginia University’s spring 2021 production of Jonathan Larson’s Re…
O cinema de animação tem vindo a tornar-se uma modalidade relativamente acessível da expressão cinematográfica, sobretudo ao longo das últimas décadas, em que assistimos a um boom na produção de curtas-metragens independentes. Se, nos seus primórdios, a produção de cinema de ani…
“ Bilim Kurgu Sinemasında İktidar ve Teknoloji İlişkisi ” isimli bu tez çalışması, iktidar ve teknoloji arasında var olduğu düşünülen ilişkiyi ele almakta ve bu ilişkinin bilim kurgu sinemasındaki karşılığını filmlerdeki içerikler üzerinden analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmad…
This dissertation uncovers a vast archive of fictional female telegraph, telephone, and typewriter girls, combining rigorous historical research with feminist, psychoanalytic readings of mass cultural texts to show how the global gendering of low-level communication work shaped …
Since its early development, African American cinema has been engaged in an ongoing critical-cultural conversation on race, representation, and religion through the visual and aural storytelling possibilities of film. Representations of the black church and black Christianity ha…
The cinema intermission (or samosa break, in Bombay vernacular) has long been phased out in many parts of the world, but remains a pervasive ritual for audiences in India. This dissertation focuses on a transnational history of the intermission and its role as a multi-sided plat…
National and international cinemas occupy two different territories in critical reception and criticism with an overlapping realm and unbridged gaps in between. The study of cross-cultural adaptations in a national cinema demands an understanding of the cultural, social, and pol…
Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht ausgewählte Expanded Cinema-Arbeiten der 1950er bis 1970er Jahre. Das Hauptaugenmerk der Untersuchung liegt dabei weniger auf der technisch-medialen Erweiterung und Entgrenzung, die bisher meist im Mittelpunkt der wissenschaftlichen Ausein…
Nature and Nurture is an animated short film about a mother wolf raising her newborn cub through its first year of life. Humanity has started to develop near their home and we see how that affects their ecosystem and existence from the perspective of the wolves. It is fiction ba…
Writing, or art of any kind, can be cathartic, depending on the subject matter. The term catharsis here refers to the experience shared by the tragic hero and audience in a common emotional tension that gets released in a fictional process that provides clarity. I would assert t…
In this work, I examine representation of Native American masculinity in the American film industry. The American film industry began just over a century ago, and one of its earliest subjects was the Native American. Throughout its history, the American film industry has maintai…
This thesis illustrates how Melodrama and the melodramatic mode have been adapted within contemporary cinema as both a means of commenting on prior LGBTQI representation, and of exposing mainstream audiences to the issues still faced by many within this spectrum. Through my anal…
The film Loving (2016) portrays the true story of the Loving v. Virginia (1967) plaintiffs in a narrative that individualizes the struggle against institutionalized oppression through a story of a couple’s love. This paper will show how (1) the narrative elements in the film Lov…
The Gate is a four-minute 2D animation. Genderless children are raised inside the walls of a rigid city. At the age of 12, the children are force to become "adults," and give up their emotions and memories. When they become adults, their faces are hidden by masks, and they loose…