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Radovich, Tom. "Critical Mass." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/494.
Full textErickson, Mary P. A. 1977. "Independent Filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest: A Critical Analysis of the Regional Film Landscape." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11527.
Full textThousands of films are produced every year in the United States, and only a fraction of these is made by mainstream Hollywood film studios. Independent filmmakers working in regional locations produce the majority of these films, retaining financial, creative and distribution control and working with locally-based cast and crew members. This film activity must be acknowledged in order to fully understand the American film industry. This study examines regional independent filmmaking through case studies of two film communities: Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Using political economy of communication as the primary theoretical foundation, this study focuses on the infrastructure (systems, policies, resources and practices) that supports and/or limits the production and distribution of independent films. The research utilizes extensive document analysis of historical materials and contemporary documents produced by organizations and individuals, as well as a survey of 60 film professionals and interviews with over 40 film professionals. A central challenge to independent filmmaking is the term "independent," which has been contested by film professionals and scholars; therefore, this study analyzes and offers a new definition of "independent filmmaking." The history of filmmaking activity in Portland and Seattle is presented, as well as an extensive discussion of the contemporary landscape of regional independent filmmaking in these two communities. The study finds that there are a multitude of contradictions pertaining to financing, distribution, labor and myths of independent filmmaking. These contradictions present a range of opportunities and challenges that often simultaneously conflict with each other. The filmmaking communities in Portland and Seattle have notable networks of support, including professional and educational organizations, film festivals, government initiatives and a few locally-operated distributors. However, filmmakers in both cities also share challenges in financing, distribution and labor. The study argues that regional independent filmmaking has made a dynamic and influential contribution to the American film industry and cultural production but has been under-explored in academic scholarship. The research also points to the need to examine and understand the contradictions of independent filmmaking to improve the circumstances and infrastructure that support regional independent filmmaking.
Committee in charge: Dr. Janet Wasko, Chairperson; Dr. Gabriela Martinez, Member; Dr. H. Leslie Steeves, Member; Dr. Michael Aronson, Outside Member
Boscarino, Mary Anita. "Desiring Japan: Transnational Encounters and Critical Multiculturalism." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313179889.
Full textCouret, Nilo Fernando. "Peripheral Humor, Critical Realism: Latin American Film Comedy, 1930-1960." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4831.
Full textCunningham, Phillip Lamarr. "“Well, It Is Because He’s Black”: A Critical Analysis of the Black President in Film and Television." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1307779402.
Full textLuck, Renberg Teresa. "English film instruction in Swedish EIL middle schoolclassrooms : Using Critical Literacy with film texts." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-26735.
Full textSeijo, Maxximilian. "Anti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theory." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7933.
Full textChasse, Hilary Marie. "Youth in China: An Analysis of Critical Issues Through Documentary Film." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2969.
Full textThe cultural face of modern China is constantly changing, whether through economic reforms, political campaigns, or social values. The ultimate inheritors and current carriers of this society in flux is the current post socialist, post 1989 youth generation. This paper examines the cultural changes that are occurring in China through six documentary films made in the 21st century that focus on youth and young adults as the representatives of the issues that the directors explore. In two films, the issue of the Single Child Policy will be examined in terms of the social repercussions the policy has created for modern youth, including gender, ethnic, and class inequalities. In the next two films, the economic conditions that have produced millions of migrant examined as it relates to the changing family values in much of China. The last two films explore the consumer culture of today’s modern youth, and how this culture impacts the expressive output of this generation. I conclude through these films that although the youth of today have been irrevocably shaped by these, and other, cultural changes that have occurred during their lifetime, they are still most fundamentally influenced by the traditional values of Chinese culture including relationships, family, and collective expression
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: International Studies Honors Program
Discipline: International Studies
Mohsenzadeh, Yassaman. "A minor apocalypse : theorising the pregnant body." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244352.
Full textLIU, Jingya. "Chronotope and regional Chinese independent films." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2010. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/2.
Full textO'Hara, Mark William. "Foucault and Film: Critical Theories and Representations of Mental Illness." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1415896906.
Full textGavin, Emma. "Dreadful Women: An Exploration of Gender-Based Social Values and Expectations Through Viewer and Critical Reception of Female Antagonists on Television." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/448.
Full textMcGill, Genevieve. "Moving image, montage and memory : the development of a critical documentary practice, exploring Irish identity through an exploration into found film archives and the cinematic treatment of time and memory." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2013. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5888/.
Full textHoltmeier, Matthew. "Combining Critical and Creative Modalities through the Video Essay." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7819.
Full textSchweitzer, Dennis Christopher. "Ton & Traum : A Critical Analysis Of The Use Of Sound Effects And Music In Contemporary Narrative Film." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1108483481.
Full textHutcheson, Linda. "Beyond the frame : a critical production case study of the advance party initiative." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/17851.
Full textGallagher, Meghan M. "John Berger, Paris Hilton, and The Rich Kids of Instagram: The Social and Economic Inequality of Image Sharing and Production of Power Through Self-Promotion." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/545.
Full textMoss, Bradley David. "Positioning, Spectatorship, and Teen Films: Giving Students the Power for Effective Media Education." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3108.pdf.
Full textHudrlik, Mikhel L. "Prosthetic Adaptation: Disability in/of Richard III in Manga and Film." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/748.
Full textHoldsworth, Claire. "History has tongues : re-evaluating historiography of the moving image through analysis of the voice and critical writing in British artists' film and video of the 1980s." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/10771/.
Full textWatson, Ian T. "The Psychology of Theatre and Film: In Theory and Practice." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4202.
Full textTorres, Ines Galiano. "Exploring Ethnic Stereotypes through the Production of Five Short Films." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3035.
Full textAustin, Brent John. "CELEBRITIES, DRINKS, AND DRUGS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF CELEBRITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE AS PORTRAYED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/104.
Full textWilson, Graeme John. "Angry White Men: How Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead Predicted the Trumpian Zeitgeist." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1551274929080533.
Full textÖsterholm, Johan. "Civiliserade nordbor och primitiva främlingar : En kritisk diskursanalys av journal- och förfilm i folkhemmets Sverige." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1131.
Full textThis essay examines a small selection of Swedish newsreel and documentary short films, primarily travelogues, produced shortly before and after the second world war. The general aim is to expose differences in the representation of “The Other” and the “ethnic Swede” by applying a critical discourse analysis. The purpose is to illuminate how the material positions the latter as the norm and then contextualize this with xenophobic currents that had developed up until the middle of the twentieth century. Theoretical and methodological framework is drawn from the field of cultural studies as well as the nonfiction film. The analysis shows that the Swedish newsreel and travelogue indeed, to a high degree, possessed these currents even though part of them, mainly the anti-Semitic ideas, seems to relapse after the Holocaust.
Zhao, Meng. "The Media, Education, and the State: Arts-Based Research and a Marxist Analysis of the Syrian Refugee Crisis." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/education_dissertations/8.
Full textCarlovici, Corina. "Analyzing Freedom Writers : An analysis of the depiction of race in the film Freedom Writers and how using such films adds to student knowledge, values and attitudes." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104494.
Full textRawson, Angela. "A critical linguistic analysis of a popular comic genre in Japan." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1021.
Full textIcleanu, Constantin C. "A CASE FOR EMPATHY: IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, AND NOVELS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/33.
Full textKitenge, Denis. "Optical detection of CO and H2 based on surface plasmon resonance with Ag-YSZ, Au and Ag-Cu nanoparticle films." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2047.
Full textKudva, Sonali S. "It's Not All About Song and Dance: How the Natyashastra Informs Contemporary Bollywood." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556281429094399.
Full textFowler, Charity A. "Negotiating Desire: Resisting, Reimagining and Reinscribing Normalized Sexuality and Gender in Fan Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4852.
Full textAlphin, Caroline Grey. "Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88796.
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A dominant trend in cyberpunk scholarship draws from Fredric Jameson’s diagnosis of postmodernism as the logic of late capitalism, using Jameson’s spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality, and waning of affect, along with Jameson’s characterization of Baudrillard’s simulacrum to interpret postmodern cultural artifacts. For many cultural critics, the city of cyberpunk is thoroughly postmodern because parallels can be drawn between the cyberpunk city and the postmodern condition. However, very little work has considered the ways in which cyberpunk can defamiliarize the necro-spatial and necro-temporal logic of neoliberalism. This project moves away from more traditional disciplinary aesthetic methods of analyzing power and urban systems, such as interpretation and representation. It problematizes the biopolitical present in three different ways. First, by weaving in and out of an analysis of the narratives, discourses, and spatio-temporalities of cyberpunk and neoliberalism, I seek to produce epistemological interferences within these genres/disciplines, and thus, to disrupt the conceptual and lived biopolitical status-quo of late-capitalism. Second, this study problematizes accelerationism as a viable alternative to leftist politics and suggests in the end that accelerationism is a form of neoliberal resilience. And, finally, this study works towards offering a biopolitics that theorizes death in terms of ordinariness and suggests that biopolitics is still a useful analytic within neoliberalism. Methodologically, the project utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, pulling from political theory, genre studies, discourse analysis, and digital ethnographic research. Professionals and scholars interested in contesting neoliberalism will benefit from this study as it offers ways to problematize neoliberalism’s reality construction.
Chatelain, Megan E. "Minority Representations in Crime Drama: An Examination of Roles, Identity, and Power." Scholarly Commons, 2020. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3716.
Full textHart, Phoebe. "Orchids : intersex and identity in documentary." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29712/25/Phoebe_Hart_Thesis_redacted.pdf.
Full textHart, Phoebe. "Orchids : intersex and identity in documentary." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29712/.
Full textLinscott, Charles P. "Sonic Overlook: Blackness between Sound and Image." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1438950059.
Full textTsakiri, Maria. "What are you looking at? : representations of disability in documentary films." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24517.
Full textLongley, Emily. "Like Me: Generation Z, Instagram, and Self-Branding Practices." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1093.
Full textTalero, Álvarez Paula. "WHY KATNISS EVERDEEN IS OUR FAVORITE FEMINIST – AN ANALYSIS OF THE HEROINE OF THE HUNGER GAMES FILM SAGA AND HER RECEPTION BY YOUNG FEMALE SPECTATORS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5583.
Full textWilliams, Langston A. "Stay Woke." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2439.
Full textPoncelet, Eric Claude 1962. "The Japanese family/firm analogy: A critical analysis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291719.
Full textBrinkman, Eric M. "Inclusive Shakespeare: An Intersectional Analysis of Contemporary Production." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595003420023716.
Full textNordbeck, Daniel. "Film som historieförmedlare - En studie kring spelfilm i historieundervisningen." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35155.
Full textThe purpose of this study is to examine problems and possibilities you may encounter when using historical motion-picture when teaching history. Motion-picture as an intermediary of history has increased in recent years. Today, motion-picture with historical motives works as an intermediary to many people, especially youths. Motion-picture is in many cases used for entertainment purposes. One of the big reasons to why I do this study is to look at how teachers can work with motion-picture in history teaching apart from the entertainment purposes. Furthermore, I believe it is important that the teacher has knowledge of motion-picture since it is a frame of reference for many youths.The study is based on literature studies of previous researchers' results of the relationship between history and picture. In the study, motion-picture is discussed and analyzed from the following perspectives: pedagogical theories, communication theory, reception, authenticity, dramaturgy, identity and identification, contemporary impressions in the historical motion-picture, uses of history, historical consciousness, a critical approach and source criticism. The idea is that from these perspectives a matrix/compilation of what the teacher should think about when she/he uses a motion-picture in history teaching will be presented.The results of the study have shown that the use of motion-picture in history teaching is far more complicated than just pressing "play". But if the teacher only plans the use of picture carefully, from various aspects, is it relatively easy to identify the problems and see the benefits.
Balmer, B. R. "Processing studies on Bi-2212 superconducting thick films." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326142.
Full textBurns, Andrew R. "Confirmation of Prophecy by Proxy: Audience Anticipation and Reception of the 2014 Movie Left Behind and its Relevance to the Dispensational Premillennialist Worldview." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2019.
Full textSkärström, Cajsa-Malin, Erik Wallstedt, and Linus Wennerström. "Entrepreneurial Learning : Entrepreneurial response to firm failure." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7730.
Full textThere is a lot of research conducted in the field of general entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning, and entrepreneurial innovation. However, as Jason Cope (2003) came across during his research, there is little to none research made within the field of entrepreneurial learning from failure, especially from bankruptcy. The purpose of this thesis is to explore if it is possible forentrepreneurs to obtain “higher-level learning” from a bankruptcy. The research concerns whether or not entrepreneurs can learn from their mistakes, and in turn use this learning in order to become more successful entrepreneur in future undertakings. The thesis contributes to a research project on entrepreneurial response to firm failure, initiated by Anna Jenkins (2008).
As stated above, there is little to none research conducted in the field of entrepreneurial learning from a bankruptcy. Therefore theories considered closely and partly related to the subject have been revised. The overarching theory, the “Experiential learning theory” (Kolb, 1984) describes how experience can be transformed into genuine knowledge, through the steps: experiencing an event, reflecting on the event, understanding the principle under which the particular event falls and testing this new understanding under different circumstances. Jason Cope (2003) has found that entrepreneurs can obtain higher-level learning from experiencing discontinuous criticalevents by going through the phases; facing, overcoming and reflecting on events that occur during the running of a firm. This learning can be transformational; the entrepreneur realizes that current methods are insufficient, forcing him or her to adapt and change methods in future undertakings.
The main objective in this thesis was not to draw any final conclusions, rather to explore newvaluable information that can be interpreted in the main project as well as in future projects. To gather information we used a qualitative method, in which we interviewed five entrepreneurs who had recently experienced a bankruptcy. The empirical findings were later analyzed in thelight of the frame of references and the authors own viewpoint, by conducting a within case/cross case comparison.
The results show that two out of five entrepreneurs had transformed the experience from their bankruptcy into new genuine knowledge, thereby confirming that it is possible to obtain higherlevel learning from a bankruptcy. They realized their own mistakes and changed their methods in order to avoid making the same mistakes again. Three of the respondents had not critically reflected on their bankruptcy, thereby gained no new knowledge of how to change their methods in future undertakings. The major reasons as to why they were unable to do so were that they blamed external factors as the reason for bankruptcy. One of the interviewees was emotionally blocked during the bankruptcy and therefore unable to contemplate what had went wrong.
Det finns mycket forskning inom området entreprenörskap, entreprenöriel inlärning, och entreprenöriel innovation. Däremot finns det, vilket Jason Cope (2003) har upptäckt, lite eller ingen existerande forskning inom området entreprenöriel inlärning från ett misslyckande, som till exempel en konkurs. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att utforska om det är möjligt för entreprenörer att uppnå ”higher-level learning” från en konkurs. Vi ämnar undersöka om entreprenörer kan lära sig av sina misstag och sedan använda dessa lärdomar i framtida projekt i sin strävan mot att bli bättre entreprenörer. Uppsatsen är tänkt som ett bidrag till ett forskningsprojekt om entreprenörers reaktion på företagsmisslyckande, bedriven av Anna Jenkins(2008).
Som nämnt ovan finns det knappt någon existerande forskning angående entreprenöriel inlärning från en konkurs, vilket har lett till att de teorier som är relaterade till ämnet har blivit reviderade. Den övergripande teorin, ”The Experiental Learning Theory” (Kolb, 1984) beskriver hur erfarenhet kan bli omvandlad till kunskap genom att följa stegen: aktivt uppleva en händelse,reflektera över händelsen, kunna förstå och analysera händelsen, och slutligen använda sin nya kunskap vid ett senare tillfälle. Jason Cope (2003) har upptäckt att entreprenörer kan nå en ”higher-level learning” genom att uppleva diskontinuerliga kritiska händelser och gå igenom dessafaser: tillmötesgå, övervinna/bemästra och reflektera över händelser som inträffar under företagandets gång. Den här inlärningen kan sedan omvandlas; entreprenören inser att hans nuvarande företagarmetoder inte är optimala, vilket leder honom/henne till att anpassa sig till situationen och ändra sina metoder i framtida projekt.
Målsättningen med den här uppsatsen var inte att dra några avgörande slutsatser, utan istället att utforska och behandla ny, värdefull information som kan bli användbar i den avhandling vi önskar bidra till, samt för andra framtida forskningsprojekt. För att samla information använde vi oss av kvalitativa intervjuer. Vi intervjuade fem entreprenörer, vilka alla nyligen hade upplevt en konkurs. Empirin analyserades sedan med hjälp av våra utvalda teorier och våra egna synpunkter, genom att göra en ”cross case comparison”.
Vårt resultat visar att två av fem entreprenörer har omvandlat sina upplevelser kring konkursen till genuin kunskap och därmed bekräftat att det är möjligt att uppnå ”higher-level learning” av en konkurs. De har insett sina egna misstag och ändrat sina metoder för att förhindra att samma misstag upprepas. Tre av respondenterna har inte reflekterat kritiskt över konkursen, och därför inte fått någon ny kunskap angående hur de skulle kunna ändra sina metoder inom företagande inför framtida projekt. Den främsta anledningen till varför de var oförmögna att reflektera över händelsen var att de skyllde konkursen främst på externa faktorer. En av de intervjuade var även känslomässigt blockerad under konkursen och därför inkapabel att begrunda sina misstag.
Senger, Saesha. "Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, and Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/150.
Full textHaas, Tara Nicole. "Critiquing the Critic: A Case for Journalistic Criticism in the Theatre." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5512.
Full textKojo, Lovis. "Filmkritikens retorik : En kvalitativ studie av recensioner till hög- och populärkulturella filmverk." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-146647.
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