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Murphree, Hyon Joo Yoo. "Toward an "accented" critique of culture theorizing postcolonial East Asia /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1342729001&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Li, Chun-hoi Benjamin. "Madame butterfly and orientalism." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B22535305.

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Tateishi, Ramie. "Film genre and the Asian subject /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9992385.

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Kumar, Priya Haryant. "Ruptured nations, collective memory & religious violence : mapping a secularist ethics in post-partition South Asian literature and film." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37904.

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This dissertation maps the emergence of a 'secularist ethics' in post-independence South Asian literature and film, an ethics which is a deeply felt poetic response to particular historical conjunctures marked by religio-nationalist conflict in the Indian subcontinent. It is my argument that literary and cultural productions, in striving to dream and envision a world free of violence, terror and religious intolerance, have some central contributions to make to contemporary intellectual and political debates on secularism. Through close readings of fictions by Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Mukul Kesavan, Bapsi Sidhwa, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Jamila Hashmi, Jyotirmoyee Devi, and Lalithambika Antherjanam, as well as films by M. S. Sathyu, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Khalid Mohamed and Shyam Benegal, which are concerned to address the issue of peaceful co-existence between different religious communities and nations in the Indian subcontinent, I argue that literary and imaginative endeavors by way of their alternative secularist imaginaries enable us to begin to imagine the possibilities of more habitable futures. Significantly, the 'secularist' fictions and films I invite attention to in my project enable a revisioning of the secular in terms quite different from normative understandings of liberal secularism. Such a renewed secularism seeks to make visible the normalization and neutralization of majoritarian religious beliefs and practices as constitutive of the representative secular-nationalist self in post-Partition India; it also emerges, significantly, from a gendered critique of the deep-seated patriarchal norms underlying most religious communities. Responding to different moments of crisis, predominantly the Partition of India in 1947, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and the destruction of the Babri Masjid in 1992, the radical secularist poetics of these works call attention to the fundamentalist agenda of Hindu nationalism, the limit

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Liu, Zhan. "Communicating race and culture in media appropriating the Asian in American martial arts films /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2008/l_zhan_091108.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in communication)--Washington State University, December 2008.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 31, 2008). "Edward R. Murrow College of Communication." Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-85).

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Bae, Juyeon. "The representation of Asian others in Korean cinema since 2003 : multiculturalism, nationalism and sub-imperialism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33610/.

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This thesis elucidates current industrial and representational tendencies in South Korean films that depict Asian others. Asian others such as migrant workers, marriage migrants, overseas ethnic Koreans and North Korean defectors have become increasingly important in South Korean filmic discourse and practice since 2003. This thesis examines how contemporary Korean cinema has responded to the multicultural society and how it seeks to articulate Korean nationalism in the globalised era through the appropriation of Asian others. Such films are intertwined with governmental policies of multiculturalism and discourses on globalisation and thus reflect historical formations both inside and outside South Korean cinema. In particular, this thesis places the celebration of multicultural identity in Korean cinema into dialogue with existing debates on nationalism and sub-imperialism. Through case studies of selected films, this thesis investigates the tension between a changing society and emerging sub-imperial perspectives. The specific interest of this thesis lies in the examination of historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural trajectory in the representation of Asian others, since this discursive structure has been formed around Asia and its regional socio-political history. In doing so, this thesis aims to shift the discursive sphere of these films, which is limited to the discussion of multiculturalism and globalisation, to an expanded sphere which embraces historical and regional perspectives.

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de, Feo-Giet Danielle Karanjeet J. "Fantasies of authenticity, anxieties of culture : global capital, entertainment and cultural nationalism in the contemporary popular cinemas of India and China since 1990." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:39cbae3c-354c-4ebc-be09-386af42f78d0.

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My thesis is dedicated to the study of popular, commercial cinema as a force within the discourse of national and personal identity in the rapidly changing mega-economies of India and China, and their diasporas, since the watershed year of 1990. Its purpose is to reveal the unique pattern of like and unlike that exists between the "Social Representations" (Serge Moscovici 2000) of contemporary India and China on screen through a juxtapositional comparative approach, close visual analysis, and the development of original theoretical tools. Tense networks of fantasy and anxiety emerge as popular culture actively circulates their shared experiences of changing global status, uneven economic growth (Gong Haomin 2012), and social change. Transnational subjects, Hua and Desi, arrive on screen ready to carve out culturally inflected modernities, in search of "tradition" and "values" to suit contemporary cultural-nations-beyond-borders. I treat film as consumer product, diegetic entity, and text: hence narrative, visual, linguistic and contextual aspects of over fourteen popular commercial films ("Bollywood" and "Yulepian"), are explored. My analysis comprises two interlocking halves: the first two chapters focus chiefly on identities - Hua and Desi, and diasporic persons. The former, conduits for the cultural nation to re-think modernity, the latter a dreamed vanguard of "claim-staking" ethnicised global consumers, defenders of the cultural nation in the "host" country. Chapters Three and Four focus on genres - comedy and history films. Through comedy, these films create state-serving heterotopias or challenge the status quo; perhaps they build cultural nationalist mythos, or lace cynical questions through lavish history film. To understand internecine relationships between economics, society and the imagination, entertainment film cannot be dismissed - in India and China, where change has had intended and unintended consequences unfolding even as uncertainty looms, I show that fresh study, especially in comparison, is absolutely essential.

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Yuan, Yilei. "Subtitling Chinese cinema : a case study of Zhang Yimou's films." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7724/.

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In recent years, more and more Chinese films have been exported abroad. This thesis intends to explore the subtitling of Chinese cinema into English, with Zhang Yimou’s films as a case study. Zhang Yimou is arguably the most critically and internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker, who has experimented with a variety of genres of films. I argue that in the subtitling of his films, there is an obvious adoption of the domestication translation strategy that reduces or even omits Chinese cultural references. I try to discover what cultural categories or perspectives of China are prone to the domestication of translation and have formulated five categories: humour, politeness, dialect, history and songs and the Peking Opera. My methodology is that I compare the source Chinese dialogue lines with the existing English subtitles by providing literal translations of the source lines, and I will also give my alternative translations that tend to retain the source cultural references better. I also speculate that the domestication strategy is frequently employed by subtitlers possibly because the subtitlers assume the source cultural references are difficult for target language subtitle readers to comprehend, even if they are translated into a target language. However, subtitle readers are very likely to understand more than what the dialogue lines and the target language subtitles express, because films are multimodal entities and verbal information is not the only source of information for subtitle readers. The image and the sound are also significant sources of information for subtitle readers who are constantly involved in a dynamic film-watching experience. They are also expected to grasp visual and acoustic information. The complete omission or domestication of source cultural references might also affect their interpretation of the non-verbal cues. I also contemplate that the translation, which frequently domesticates the source culture carried out by a translator who is also a native speaker of the source language, is ‘submissive translation’.

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Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle. "Amidst slums and skyscrapers the politics of walking and the ideology of open space in East Asian global cities /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2001. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3051067.

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Khor, Denise. "Asian Americans at the movies race, labor, and migration in the Transpacific West, 1900-1945 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3291752.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 17, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-213).

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Hurlstone, Lise Danielle. "Performing Marginal Identities: Understanding the Cultural Significance of Tawa'if and Rudali Through the Language of the Body in South Asian Cinema." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/154.

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This thesis examines the representation of the lives and performances of tawa'if and rudali in South Asian cinema to understand their marginalization as performers, and their significance in the collective consciousness of the producers and consumers of Indian cultural artifacts. The critical textual analysis of six South Asian films reveals these women as caste-amorphous within the system of social stratification in India, and therefore captivating in the potential they present to achieve a complex and multi-faceted definition of culture. Qualitative interviews with 4 Indian classical dance instructors in Portland, Oregon and performative observations of dance events indicate the importance of these performers in perpetuating and developing Indian cultural artifacts, and illustrate the value of a multi-layered, performative methodological approach. These findings suggest that marginality in performance is a useful and dynamic site from which to investigate the processes of cultural communication, producing findings that augment sole textual analysis.

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Weber-Fève, Stacey A. "There's no place like home homemaking, making home, and femininity in contemporary women's filmmaking and the literature of the Métropol and the Maghreb /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148746370.

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Bao, Ying. "In Search Of Laughter In Maoist China: Chinese Comedy Film 1949-1966." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218342529.

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Arora, Kulvinder. "Assimilation and its counter-narratives twentieth-century European and South Asian immigrant narratives to the United States /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3200730.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 1, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-248).

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Brown, James, and katsuben@internode on net. "South Korean Film Since 1986: The Domestic and Regional Formulation of East Asias Most Recent Commercial Entertainment Cinema." Flinders University. School of Humanities (Screen Studies), 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071122.143238.

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This thesis investigates the historically composed political and economic contexts that contributed to the late 1990s commercial renaissance of Korean national cinema and that have sustained the popularity of Korean films among local and regional audiences ever since. Unlike existing approaches to the topic, which emphasise the textual characteristics of national film production, this thesis considers relations between film production, distribution, exhibition, and ancillary markets, as well as Korean cinemas engagement with international cinemas such as Hollywood, Hong Kong, China and Japan. I argue that following the relaxation of restrictive film policy towards the importation and distribution of foreign films between 1986 and 1988, the subsequent failure of the domestic film industry to compete against international competition precipitated a remarkable shift in consensus regarding the industrys structure and functions. Due to the loss of distribution rights to foreign films and the rapid decline in ticket sales for Korean films, the continued economic viability of local film companies was under enormous threat by the early 1990s. The government reacted by permitting conglomerates to seize control of the industry and pursue vertical and horizontal integration. During the rest of the decade, Korean cinema was transformed from an art cinema to a commercial entertainment cinema. The 1997/98 economic crisis led to the exit of conglomerate finance, but streamlined film companies were able to withstand the monetary meltdown, continue the domestic revitalisation, and, since the late 1990s, build media empires based on the expansion of Korean cinema throughout the Asian region.

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Cazdyn, Eric M. "Problem cinema : culture, capital and form in Japan /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9908497.

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Chan, Kim-mui Eileen. "Postmodernity and recent Hong Kong cinema /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18539191.

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Carbonaro, Joseph. "Enabling church members to evaluate the moral content of feature films." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Tam, Siu-yan Xavier. "Between penumbrae and shadow contextualizing transnational queer Chinese cinemas /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B44142663.

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Van, Liew Maria. "Democratic women : gender, national discourse and the cinema of post-Franco Spain /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9820983.

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Wang, Qi. "Writing against oblivion personal filmmaking from the forsaken generation in post-socialist China /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619151901&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Restoule, Jean-Paul. "How "Indians" are read the representation of aboriginality in films by native and non-native directors /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30998.pdf.

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Craddolph, Hayden V. "Developing a community of independent film/video producers to foster creation, marketing, and distribution of digital media." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?EP21256.

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Yang, Jing. "The construction of the Chinese woman in 1990s American cinema." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43813185.

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Lau, Tsz-wan Christal. "Ethics in the production of Hong Kong movies." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39559105.

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Williams, Danielle E. Winn J. Emmett. "Local motion picture exhibition in Auburn, for 1894-1928 a cultural history from a communication perspective /." Auburn, Ala., 2004. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2004/SUMMER/Communication_and_Journalism/Thesis/willide_31_Williams.pdf.

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Tiburzi, Brian M. "The fifth generation Chinese cinema's "great leap forward" /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1445180.

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Galt, Rosalind. "Redrawing the map of Europe space, history and spectacle in new European cinema /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=kV9ZAAAAMAAJ.

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Gulledge, Jim. "A search for myth and metanarrative in films popular among college students an alternative model for Christian evaluation /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Szaloky, Melinda Terezia. "Mutual images transcendental reflections on cinema and the aesthetic between Kant and Deleuze /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1906570811&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Zhu, Ying. "From art to commerce : Chinese cinema in the era of reforms /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Ming, Kee-ying Thomas. "An analysis of the filmic : a philosophical grounding for film aesthetics /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B15949941.

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Berrien, John P. "The portrayal of the clergy in selected American films from the 1930's to the 1970's." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Luce, Micah. "The cinema and the church experiential [koinonia] in audience and congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p051-0115.

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Suen, Pak-kin. "Filming gay representations : male homosexuality in Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23242036.

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Potter, George Alexander. "Iphone to IMAX: the social implications of screen size." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/potter/PotterG1208.pdf.

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Screen size changes the way the moving image affects viewers and specific content is more likely to be influential if screened on the most appropriate media type. The ever-increasing popularity of portable devices, like the iPhone, means that viewers are watching more content on smaller screens than ever before. At the same time, movie theatres and Imax screens are still as popular as ever and seeing something on the big screen holds some kind of magic for the viewer. This fact has not been lost on environmental filmmakers who are increasingly finding ways of using different sized screens to promote their cause. Ultimately, the size of the screen not only determines what viewers watch, and how they are affected by what they see, but can actually be the deciding factor for whether they take action on an issue.

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Dawson, Harold. "The commodification of tragedy a critical examination of contemporary film /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=786.

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Lee, Tain-dow. "Reforming film study at the level of higher education in Taiwan, the Republic of China /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487265143147137.

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Falicov, Tamara Leah. "The contemporary Argentine film industry, 1983-1998 : state cultural policy within a global market /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9956448.

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Kunkle, Daniel James. "No brute images the need for a Reformed and transcendental approach to the movies /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Terry, Patrick Alan 1984. "Space In-Between: Masumura Yasuzo, Japanese New Wave, and Mass Culture Cinema." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11477.

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viii, 111 p. : ill. (some col.)
During the early stage of Japan's High Economic Growth Period (1955-1970), a group of directors and films, labeled the Japanese New Wave, emerged to strong critical acclaim and scholarly pursuit. Over time, Japanese New Wave Cinema has come to occupy a central position within the narrative history of Japanese film studies. This position has helped introduce many significant films while inadvertently ostracizing or ignoring the much broader landscape of film at this time. This thesis seeks to complexify the New Wave's central position through the career of Daiei Studios' director, Masumura Yasuzo. Masumura signifies a "space in-between" the cultural elite represented by the New Wave and the box office focus of mass culture cinema. Utilizing available English language and rare Japanese sources, this thesis will re-examine Masumura's position on the periphery of film studies while highlighting the larger film environment of this dynamic period.
Committee in charge: Prof. Steven Brown, Chair; Dr. Daisuke Miyao, Advisor

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Schweitzer, Dennis C. "Ton & traum : a critical analysis of the use of sound effects and music in contemporary narrative film /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1108483481.

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Lee, Christina H. P. "Beyond the pink : (post) youth iconography in cinema /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050930.124547.

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Noble, Fiona. "Post-transition transitions : childhood, performance and immigration in post-Franco Spanish cinema." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227226.

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Yeung, Yuk-ngan. "Gender representation in films." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?

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Tam, Siu-yan Xavier, and 譚兆仁. "Between penumbrae and shadow: contextualizingtransnational queer Chinese cinemas." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44142663.

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Athique, Adrian Mabbott. "Non-resident cinema transnational audiences for Indian films /." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060511.140513/index.html.

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Crilly, Shane. ""Gods in our own world" representations of troubled and troubling masculinities in some Australian films, 1991-2001 /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37939.

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The dominance of male characters in Australian films makes our national cinema a rich resource for the examination of the construction of masculinities. This thesis argues that the codes of the hegemonic masculinities in capitalist patriarchal societies like Australia insist on an absolute masculine position. However, according to Oedipal logic, this position always belongs to another man. Masculine yet 'feminised,'identity is fraught with anxiety but sustained by the 'dominant fiction' that equates the penis with the phallus and locates the feminine as its polar opposite. This binary relationship is inaugurated in childhood when a boy must distinguish his identity from his mother, who, significantly, is a different gender. Being masculine means not being feminine. However, as much as men strive towards inhabiting the masculine position completely, this masquerade will always be exposed by the elements associated with femininity that are an inevitable part of the human experience. Yet, the more men are drawn to the feminine, the more they risk losing their masculine integrity altogether under the patriarchal gaze. Men, in this dualistic regime, are condemned to negotiate their identity haunted by the promises of the phallus and the fear of its loss. I begin with a model of masculine integrity represented in the image of an ideal father, Darryl Kerrigan, from The Castle and then proceed to problematise it through an examination of its excesses observed in the father of David Helfgott in Shine. In the second chapter I investigate two films that represent mothers as the principal threat to masculine integrity: Death in Brunswick and Proof. Both films reveal a misogynistic impetus, which is expressed as violence against women in The Boys, the sole focus of my middle chapter. With misogyny and violence still resonating, I follow the contours of my argument through an examination of Chopper and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in the fourth chapter, where I emphasise the performative nature of identity, before arriving at a discussion of men and their relationships in the final chapter (Mullet, Praise, and Thank God He Met Lizzie).
Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Humanities, 2004.

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Haygood, Ashley. "The rise of controversial content in Film." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Ray, Radharani. "The rhetoric of postcolonialism Indian middle cinema and the middle class in the 1990s /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035171.

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