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Nugent-Williams, Rosalind Louise. "Thespioprudence : Australian film directors and Film performance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15999/1/Rosalind_Nugent-Williams_Thesis.pdf.
Nugent-Williams, Rosalind Louise. "Thespioprudence : Australian film directors and Film performance." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15999/.
McCurdy, Marian Lea. "Acting and its refusal in theatre and film." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10038.
Wells, Zachery D. "We Should Be Together: An Exploration of Acting in and Directing the Same Film." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1402947699.
Bester, Lelia. "Assessment of a training programme for actors to make the shifts from theatre acting to film acting." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75514.
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Pierce, Zechariah H. "The Actor Behind the Camera." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4113.
Chamberlain, Amberly. "The naked truth| An examination of gender bias in the field of acting." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118892.
This thesis exposes unconscious gender bias in actor training and the entertainment industry. Such exposure will aid teachers and industry professionals in identifying language and practices that perpetuate this prejudice, and ultimately, effect revisions, forging a new standard for good acting. I posit that images generated by an industry that continues to drive this bias through unequal opportunities for women, double standards, and the preeminence of the male gaze in cinematic practices, contribute to situating women as objects of desire, rather than as subjects who command professional equity and respect. I will introduce the science behind this long-standing problem and the need to reorient the brain toward gender equality, thereby offering means through which students, educators, and industry professionals can forge an equitable environment, one that empowers young women to take ownership of their presence in the entertainment industry and thus society’s perception of them.
O'Rourke, Christopher Paul. "Models, artistes and photoplayers : the film actor in Britain, 1895-1929." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610163.
Koble, Sean. "Acting the Role of Gods: Shinoda Masahiro's Cinematic Confrontations with the Absolute Image." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18363.
Foley, Damian T. "Fleshing out the fictive soul: A screen actor’s personalisation of characterisation through collaborative subtextual improvisation." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2022. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2600.
Roberts, Jhanneu. "The True Cost of Our Entertainment: An Inside Look to Modern Method Acting and its Consequences." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1322.
Hannon, William M. "THE GENERALIZED UNIVERSAL REYNOLDS EQUATION FOR VARIABLE PROPERTY FLUID-FILM LUBRICATION AND VARIABLE GEOMETRY SELF-ACTING BEARINGS." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1156347717.
Williams, Derek JG. "Pavlov's Dog." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618987375859709.
Stoner, Zachary. "Hell is a Game Show: An Artistic Interpretation of the Afterlife." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524835391884507.
White, David Maurice. "Pedagogical Fusion." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/993.
Brown, David Cleveland. "How to be a Misanthrope: Creating the Title Role in Moliere’s The Misanthrope." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2128.
Hart, Hilary. "Sentimental spectacles : the sentimental novel, natural language, and early film performance /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3120625.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-181). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Baker, Angela Katherine. "Alba Emoting : a safe, effective, and versatile technique for generating emotions in acting performance /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2514.pdf.
Quintal, Shanda. "Fair to Middlin’: How the Mediocre White Male Trope as the Exemplar of Human Experience and Universal Truth Fails to Adequately Prepare the Diverse Field of Contemporary Actors and Audiences in Film, Television and Theatre Today." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2678.
Greve, Sabrina Tozatti. "O Ator do teatro ao cinema: um estudo sobre apropriações." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-06022018-100232/.
This project aims at investigating the role of the actor and his/her model of acting for the screen, from a theatrical perspective. Starting with the System created by Konstantin Stanislavski, I establish a trajectory of appropriations, contemplating primarily the researches of Soviet filmmakers Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin. Then, I analyze the arrival of Stanislavski\'s ideas at the United States, and how they influenced both American theater and cinema. The creation of the Actors Studio and the formulation of the American Method of acting will be approached mainly through Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg\'s ideas. Finally, in Brazil, I analyze the project Prêt-à-Porter (1998 - 2011), created by Antunes Filho, which influenced the formation of a whole generation of actors also present in contemporary film production. Thus, I highlight some procedures that highly contributed to the creative process of actors, from the stage to the screen.
Carnicé, Mur Marga. "La Política de l'actriu en l'obra d'Anna Magnani." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401858.
Walker, Caitlin J. "The Art of the Silent Story." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/353.
Hart, Hilary 1969. "Sentimental spectacles : the sentimental novel, natural language, and early film performance." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/297.
The nineteenth-century American sentimental novel has only in the last twenty years received consideration from the academy as a legitimate literary tradition. During that time feminist scholars have argued that sentimental novels performed important cultural work and represent an important literary tradition. This dissertation contributes to the scholarship by placing the sentimental novel within a larger context of intellectual history as a tradition that draws upon theoretical sources and is a source itself for later cultural developments. In examining a variety of sentimental novels, I establish the moral sense philosophy as the theoretical basis of the sentimental novel's pathetic appeals and its theories of sociability and justice. The dissertation also addresses the aesthetic features of the sentimental novel and demonstrates again the tradition's connection to moral sense philosophy but within the context of the American elocution revolution. I look at natural language theory to render more legible the moments of emotional spectacle that are the signature of sentimental aesthetics. The second half of the dissertation demonstrates a connection between the sentimental novel and silent film. Both mediums rely on a common aesthetic storehouse for signifying emotions. The last two chapters of the dissertation compare silent film performance with emotional displays in the sentimental novel and in elocution and acting manuals. I also demonstrate that the films of D. W. Griffith, especially The Birth of a Nation, draw upon on the larger conventions of the sentimental novel.
Provost, Rebecca. ""Don't Tread On Me": Reading The Dialectical Nature of Laura Linney's On Screen Performance Process." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/180.
Caldwell, Toebey T. "A PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING A WEB SERIES, SNAPTV." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/588.
Balso, André. "Robert RYAN ou la fureur souterraine : jeu d'acteur d'une "non-star" hollywoodienne." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC008/document.
Robert Ryan (1909-1973) was one of those actors who never became a movie star. However, he was not completely in the shadow of his famous contemporaries. Celebrated for his part in Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire (1947), he was this "non-star" actor playing neurotic, violent, affirmative and disorientated film noir characters, but he was not only that. If he has been forgotten today, like most actors of his kind, he nevertheless made seventy-three movies, sometimes directed by filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann, Max Ophuls or Fritz Lang, and he also had a career in theatre and television. Through the description of some of his roles, by analyzing the peculiarity of his acting style, and trying to place him within the aesthetic history of American cinema, the following text deals with one of those underrated "Hollywood standby", that were vital to the craft of American cinema
Goulden, Jan. "The western, the buddy movie and noir : lesbian re-readings of the American action movie." n.p, 1999. http://library7.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=13.
Christie, Elizabeth, and elizabeth christie@unisa edu au. "Explosions in the Narrative: Action films with Lacan." Flinders University. Screen Studies, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071121.092301.
Blose, Chris. "Ideas in action : film theory in film criticism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1421115.
Becerra, Martin. "Not Dead At All." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2370.
Sandeau, Jules. "The Unsinkable Kate : l'évolution de la persona de Katharine Hepburn et sa réception aux Etats-Unis." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BOR30048.
Acknowledging the extraordinary longevity of Katharine Hepburn as a high-profile Hollywood star, this study seeks to shed light on the reasons behind this lasting success by examining her reception in the United States throughout her career. Combining both star studies and reception studies, this thesis articulates the analysis of her persona (her theater and film roles, her acting and media image) with evidence of her reception by the United States audience (critics, fan letters, polls, box-office figures, etc.). Using a diachronic approach, the evolutions of her image and its reception are incorporated within the framework of a socio-historical context in constant evolution, to which Hepburn tried to adapt with differing success depending on the period. The examination of the extra-filmic materials that contribute to her image or testify to her reception allow us to shed new light on Hepburn’s performances, analyzed from a socio-cultural, aesthetic and acting perspective. Special attention is given to the gender, class and age-related dimensions of her persona
Gordon, Derek, and David Rogoff. "Action Jacksons." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/72.
Lynn, Emma. "Fan Remake Films: Active Engagement With Popular Texts." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1615121429167803.
Meakin, Douglas Boyd. "Active devices in polycrystalline silicon." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240344.
Collins, Ryan William. "It's All Coming Back to You: 1980s Retro Film Culture and the Masculinity of Cult." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011874/.
Marty, Stéphanie. "Communication et processus décisionnel : le choix du film des jeunes publics au cinéma." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20045/document.
Since its creation, cinema is at the heart of discussions within societies. It arouses curiosity and attracts interest from many: publics, critics, professionals, main economic actors, researchers… While these latter have contributed to a huge amount of works based on cinema’s audiences and practices, only one question remains: How cinema audiences make their film selection? Although many actors and initiatives are developed to help, support, advice and orient the audiences, the approach and the decision-making process of a movie remain misunderstood and unexplored. This research aims to remedy to this contradiction, by highlighting the underlying motivations present in the decision-making process of the young cinema audience. Anchored in a both exploratory and comprehensive process-based approach, this research conceives this process in a communicational perspective by taking in account its complexity, and by analyzing it globally and transversally. We study the “on-going decision-making process” – the decision “as practice” - made inside the cinema. This perspective allows having a look distant from the dominants theories. Furthermore, by articulating theoretical and empirical points of view, and by giving special attention to the triangulation of data, our approach delivers keys to rightfully understand the decision-making process in general and in particular
Gan, Feng Yuan 1967. "Thin film transistors with chemically deposited active channels." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38192.
The incorporation of the thermal oxidation process for the fabrication of TFTs described in the first procedure is useful for studying the properties and deposition of active semiconductor layers. However, it may not be suitable for large-scale production due to the high temperatures involved and the thermal requirements of the substrate. To reduce the process temperatures and the requirements for substrates, it is necessary to employ methods other than thermal oxidation for gate oxides. In this work, in addition to thermal oxidation, the anodization method will be used to form gate oxides for the second fabrication procedure on glass substrate. In addition, some samples were prepared with thin gate dielectric films by magnetron-sputtering method. The effects of anodization conditions on the quality of the anodic dielectric were investigated by measuring the breakdown electric field and leakage current density of the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors fabricated.
Results of electrical measurements carried out on the CdSe-TFTs with A12O3 and Ta2O5 gate dielectrics showed field effect mobilities of 3.4 and 0.67 cm2/V-s and threshold voltages of 3.2 V and 8.2 V, respectively. Field effect mobilities of 0.2 and 2 cm2/V-s and threshold voltages of 4.3 and 5.2 V were observed for CdS-TFTs, again with Al2O3 and Ta 2O5 gate dielectrics. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Campos, Natália di Loreto. "Produção e caracterização de filmes biodegradáveis ativos de amido de semente de jaca." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/74/74133/tde-07122017-152954/.
Indiscriminate use of plastics has been generating environmental problems, like accumulation of materials, water pollution, as well as depleting a non-renewable resource (crude oil). This has been causing concern, therefore scientists and industries are seeking alternatives for these materials, for example, the employment of natural and/or biodegradable materials and the reuse of wasted byproducts. Starch is a natural polymer with many promising aspects, like its biodegradability, low cost and availability. Aiming at prolonging shelf-life of food products, starch has been investigated as a feedstock for development of edible active films and coatings. Besides acting as a barrier against gases and as mechanical protection, packages also may carry active substances (antioxidants, antimicrobials, etc.). The effects of the incorporation of (0.3; 0.5 and 1.0) g α-tocopherol/100 g filmogenic dispersion on the morphological, mechanical, optical, surface, water vapor permeability, barrier to UV/Visible light and antioxidant properties of jackfruit seed starch films were studied. Addition of α-tocopherol increased the tensile strength and the elastic modulus up to 0.5%. It also increased the water vapor barrier, possibly due to α-tocopherol\'s hydrophobic nature and because it caused a tortuosity effect in the polymer matrix, although the film solubility was not significantly affected. α-tocopherol improved the UV light barrier, especially in the wavelengths between (200 and 310) nm. The opacity and the color parameter b* increased significantly, which means that films with α-tocopherol became more opaque and yellowish. Surface hydrophobicity increased with the incorporation of α-tocopherol, especially for the 0.5% α-tocopherol film. The antioxidant activity increased significantly up to 0.5% α-tocopherol. The film without α-tocopherol presented no antioxidant capacity. Therefore, jackfruit seed starch films incorporated with α-tocopherol have potential to be used as edible active coatings for high fat content foods. Between the formulations produced, the one with 0.5% of α-tocopherol was the best, because it presented an antioxidant activity similar to the film with 1.0% of α-tocopherol and superior characteristics, like microstructural, mechanical, optical and surface properties.
Breedlove, Allegra B. "Hamlet #PRINCEOFDENMARK: Exploring Gender and Technology through a Contemporary Feminist Re-Interpretation Of Hamlet." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/667.
Cheng, Nancy Shui-Yen. "Getriebene Melancholiker Helden - Körper - Action in Hollywood." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2005. http://d-nb.info/990745465/04.
Ma, Fuyuan. "Electrochemically active organic thin films." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0020/NQ44501.pdf.
Hedman, Anna Elisa. "Morphology of the Action Babe Cinema : En strukturell studie av 2000-talets filmer med kvinnliga actionhjältinnor." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Cinema Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7030.
The subject of my thesis is what I have chosen to call the “action babe cinema” of the 21st century, essentially action-movies featuring a female heroine in the lead role. Inspired by the theories of Vladímir Propp, author of Morphology of the Folktale, I have tried to reveal the underlying structure of these films. I have chosen eleven films which form my material, and from these extracted a number of functions (which means the actions of a character), that reoccur frequently. The heroines’ transformation can be seen as a central theme of the action babe cinema, and I have divided the films into two groups depending on the course of the transformation, either from soft to hard or the other way around. One of my findings is how there seems to be a constant need to explain the hard and tough characteristics of the female action-heroine, implying that it isn’t a natural trait for a woman. The functions have been further visualised and exemplified throughout the text, and I have found that the functions tend to be repeated in a similar pattern depending on which group they belong to. I also use the functions in an extended analysis of Kill Bill vol. 1 and Kill Bill vol. 2. The application of Propp is discussed and I present my point of view on the subject. Finally I discuss the results of my study, and what binds these films together and set them apart.
Iahnke, Aline Oliveira e. Silva. "Filmes biodegradáveis com propriedades funcionais produzidos a partir de resíduos industriais." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/129775.
Edible films and coatings have gained increasing attention and interest from the industry and researchers, as they represent an alternative to replace commonly used plastics for packaging in the food industry. In this context, biodegradable films were produced from the residues from the manufacture of nutraceutical capsules, mainly composed of gelatin, glycerin and water, and combined with different residue flour derived from the minimal processing of carrot and beet root. All the prepared films were characterized regarding their physicochemical, mechanical, barrier, optical and antioxidant properties. The films which presented improved characteristics and greater functionality were selected to be studied regarding their structure, thermal stability and protection against primary oxidation of sunflower oil packed in the films. In general, the addition of the flour into the gelatin-based films caused: reduction in the moisture content, water solubility, swelling, water vapor permeability and elongation at break; increase in the opacity and percentage inhibition of DPPH radical; greater protection against the effects of light and primary oxidation of sunflower oil; and less smooth and homogeneous structure when compared to films without addition of flours. Furthermore, the studied films showed thermal stability up to approximately 200 ° C. Thus, it was possible to develop biodegradable films with functional properties from industrial residues and contribute to the development of sustainable technologies.
Gallagher, Mark. "Action figures : spectacular masculinity in the contemporary action film and the contemporary American novel /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978590.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-335). Includes filmography (leaves 335-337). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Cheng, Nancy Shui-Yen. "Getriebene Melancholiker : Helden - Körper - Action in Hollywood /." Frankfurt, M. ; Berlin ; Bern ; Bruxelles ; New York, NY ; Oxford ; Wien : Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990745465/04.
Henry, John B. "Characterisation and screening of novel aromatic thin-film materials." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3782.
Mdege, Norita. "Heroines, victims and survivors: female minors as active agents in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27845.
Malape, Maibi Aaron. "Low temperature growth of Amorphous Silicon thin film." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7768_1254727160.
The growth of amorphous hydrogenated silicon (a-Si:H) thin films deposided by hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) has been studied. The films have been characterised for optical and structural properties by means of UV/VIS,FITR,ERDA, XRD.XTEM and Raman spectroscopy. Low subtrate heater temperatures in the range form 130 to 200 degrees celcius were used in this thesis because it is believed to allow for the deposition of device quality a-Si:H which can be used for electronic photovoltaic devices. Furthermore, low temperatures allows the deposition of a-Si:H on any subtrate and thus offers the possibility of making large area devices on flexible organic substances. We showed that the optical and structural properties of grown a-Si:H films depended critically upon whether the films were produced with silane gas or silane diluted with hydrogen gas. We also showed that it is possible to to deposit crystalline materials at low temperature under high hydrogen dilution ratio of silane gas.
Johansson, Daniel. "VO2 films as active infrared shutters." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-6458.
Farrugia, Thomas. "Biocatalytically active protein-polymer bioconjugate films." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730866.