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Hoare, Jonathan Giles. "Imperialism & 'alternative' film culture : the Empire Marketing Board film unit : 1926-1933." Thesis, Kingston University, 2010. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/21827/.
Full textHaupt, Adam. "Stealing Empire : debates about global capital, counter-culture, technology and intellectual property." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8646.
Full textThis thesis examines the agency of marginalised subjects in the context of global capitalism and the information age. The key question that is addressed is whether transnational corporations have appropriated aspects of cultural identity, creative expression and technological innovation for their own enrichment - to the detriment of civil society. Where this is the case, this thesis considers what opportunities exist for issuing challenges to the power of global corporations. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's concept of Empire provides the theoretical foundation for examining cultural, technological and legal conflicts between the interests of citizens and those of corporations. Hardt and Negri theorise the ways in which former imperial powers continue to extend their military, economic and political power in former colonies. The authors argue that former imperial powers no longer compete with each other for the same resources because they now co-operate with each other through multilateral organisations and trade agreements. Ultimately, the key beneficiaries of these modes of co-operation are global corporations that tend to monopolise the production and distribution of technological and cultural products at the expense of the public interest and the functioning of democracy. This work considers the possibilities of responding to Empire and resisting globalisation through strategies that employ some of the same decentralised, network-based techniques that benefit global corporate entities. Hardt and Negri's concept of 'the multitude' as a multiplicity of singularities makes sense of the diverse struggles under discussion in this study, providing the conceptual basis for possibilities of multiple engagements with Empire that are not reductive and that do not exclude certain interest groups. This is an interdisciplinary project that uses case studies to analyse the relationships between law and policy documents, technological development, and the production of cultural texts (such as hip-hop music). Specifically, this work explores the MP3 revolution and Napster (version one); digital sampling in hip-hop; hip-hop activism on South Africa's Cape Flats and these activists' use of new media in their pursuit of social justice. It addresses concerns about the commodification of youth culture as well as debates about intellectual property and the United States' use of trade agreements as enforcement mechanisms that serve the interests of its own corporations. This thesis presents an overview of copyright and trade agreements in order to examine the vested interests that underlie them. In keeping with the focus on globalisation and cultural imperialism, US legislation - such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - is discussed in relation to alternatives to proprietary approaches toward intellectual property, such as open source software and Creative Commons licenses.
Sadegh-Vaziri, Persheng. "Iranian Documentary Film Culture: Cinema, Society, and Power 1997-2014." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/363567.
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Iranian documentary filmmakers negotiate their relationship with power centers every step of the way in order to open creative spaces and make films. This dissertation covers their professional activities and their films, with particular attention to 1997 to 2014, which has been a period of tremendous expansion. Despite the many restrictions on freedom of expression in Iran, especially between 2009 and 2013, after the uprising against dubious election practices, documentary filmmakers continued to organize, remained active, and produced films and distributed them. In this dissertation I explore how they engaged with different centers of power in order to create films that are relevant to their society. To focus this topic, my research explores media institutions, their filmmaking practices, and the strategies they use to produce and distribute their films. This research is important because it explores the inherent contradictions in the existence of a vibrant documentary film community in a country that is envisioned as uniformly closed and oppressive in the West. The research is also personally motivated, because I have close connections to the Iranian documentary film world, where I previously made films and produced television programs. I conduct the study with a multi-faceted approach, utilizing participant observation in the field in a four-month period, in-depth interviews with key players, personal reflections, and textual analysis of the films. I focus on about twenty filmmakers and their films, chosen from a pool of more than 500 documentary filmmakers, giving a cross section of this community based on their age, sex, and their professional history and success within Iran and internationally.
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Viljoen, Estella. "New masculinities in a vernacular culture : a comparative analysis of two South African men's lifestyle magazines." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8129.
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This thesis chronicles the emergence of men's lifestyle magazines within South Africa between 1997 and 2007. It aims to contextualize the emergence of these magazines within the broader South African context and position each magazine as representing a nuanced masculine ideal to the mainstream male readers. This thesis then offers a critical reading of two more marginal men's lifestyle magazines, namely, MaksiMan (2001-2007) and BLINK (2004-2007).
Aceti, Lanfranco. "European avant-garde : art, borders and culture in relationship to mainstream cinema and new media." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2005. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/7762/.
Full textSachs, Aaron Dickinson. "The hip-hopsploitation film cycle: representing, articulating, and appropriating hip-hop culture." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/591.
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.
Full textShaw, Neil. "Culture and gentrification on upper Long street : a study of Long street's evolution and contemporary incarnation, with a look at documentary styles and the cinematic city." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7972.
Full textKonkle, Amanda. "MARILYN MONROE’S STAR CANON: POSTWAR AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE SEMIOTICS OF STARDOM." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/28.
Full textCohen, Hart K. "From ethnographic film to indigenous media : communications and the evolution of the ethnographic subject." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75987.
Full textOmar, Hadeer. "Egyptianization: Culture hacking as a method." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4114.
Full textCloeren, Nicole B. ""C" is for Cookie, Culture, and Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon in the United States." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626195.
Full textLester, Isabel T. "The Power of Media in the Criminal Justice System: How Celebrity Culture has Affected the Prosecution of Professional Athletes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1077.
Full textHall, Stefan. "“You’ve Seen the Movie, Now Play the Game”: Recoding the Cinematic in Digital Media and Virtual Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300365433.
Full textau, M. Stein@murdoch edu, and Michael Stein. "The Chinese Combat Film Since 1949: Variants of 'Regulation', 'Reform' and 'Renewal'." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061123.141154.
Full textEvdoxia, Tsaousi. "Girlhood through film representation : Reconstructing spaces and places for girls." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183372.
Full textMoot, Dennis. "Visual Culture, Crises Discourse and the Politics of Representation: Alternative Visionsof Africa in Film and News Media." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596021641358625.
Full textTarrant, Patrick Anthony. "Documentary practice in a participatory culture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/26975/1/Patrick_Tarrant_Thesis.pdf.
Full textTarrant, Patrick Anthony. "Documentary practice in a participatory culture." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/26975/.
Full textDaley, KaRyn Elizabeth. "The Role of Documentary Film in the Emerging Social Entrepreneurial Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5663.
Full textDonofrio, Nicholas Easley. "The Vanishing Freelancer: A Literary History of the Postwar Culture Industries." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11532.
Full textHagener, Malte. "Avant-garde culture and media strategies the networks and discourses of the European film avant-garde, 1919-39 /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2005. http://dare.uva.nl/document/77937.
Full textAmador, Lui. "Deslanting the Lens." Scholarship @ Claremont, 1999. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/93.
Full textBaracco, Alberto. "Phenomenological hermeneutics of film philosophical thinking : a hermeneutic method for film world interpretation." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37321/.
Full textLIANG, Xiaodao. "中国大陆九十年代以来独立电影文化的构成与城市青年文化实践." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2007. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/7.
Full textRichards, Samantha. "Pacing Your Fears: Narrative Adaptation in the Age of Binge Culture." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1087.
Full textMolapo, Mpaki. "The cross-cultural camera of Akira Kurosawa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11010.
Full textThis minor dissertation is undertaken to examine the cross-cultural similarities that are revealed by motion pictures through analyzing the work of Akira Kurosawa and contrasting it with selective mainstream cinema texts. Kurosawa is a critical case in point due to his welding of Occidental and Japanese ideas into his films, and his origin from a hybridized Japan, a society which historically has freely absorbed and embellished itself from numerous cultures, including America, Korea, China and Europe.
Kurash, Jaclyn Rose. "Mechanical Women and Sexy Machines: Typewriting in Mass-Media Culture of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440348446.
Full textConnelly, Thomas J. "Accelerated Culture: Exploring Time and Space in Cinema, Television and New Media in the Digital Age." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/50.
Full textSibielski, Rosalind. "What Are Little (Empowered) Girls Made Of?: The Discourse of Girl Power in Contemporary U.S. Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277091634.
Full textCronje, Franci. "Border crossings : how students negotiate cultural borders during digital video production." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10299.
Full textThis thesis explores emerging patterns of communication in student video production and the extent to which such patterns signify cultural border crossings in a South African upper income group school context. The investigation was carried out with specific reference to the politics of difference, an educational philosophy defined by Henry Giroux (2006) as border pedagogy. Within the framework of multimodal pedagogy, four learners from diverse cultural backgrounds collaborated with one another in a timeframe of three days to create digital video productions using guidelines provided by the researcher. The production unit was observed in order to answer questions around the utilisation of video production in the classroom, as well as how learners interact and negotiate cultural issues while producing video. The data was analysed with a custom-made multimodal toolkit as proposed by Baldry and Thibault (2006). By employing Kress and Van Leeuwen's four strata of Discourse, Design, Production and Distribution various types of data illuminated themes around social memory, race, the influence of class difference, and gender representation. Assessment techniques in terms of the multimodal theories of Kress and Van Leeuwen (2001) also enabled the researcher to look at the way in which meaning is made "in any and every sign, at every level, and in any mode" (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2001: 4). The classroom intervention was designed to encourage adolescents as "unique hybrids" (Bhabha 1994) to cross borders of cultural identity, hypothesising that difference might emerge more clearly in the negotiation and video production process, than what might crystallise in analyzing the final video production. Metaphorical border crossing in a cultural and racial sense might become more apparent in production than final product. The negotiation of Border Difference took preference over the ultimate erosion of these borders.
Tunney, Ruth. "Interaktivt Innehåll och Konvergenskultur : En diskursiv fallstudie av Black Mirror: Bandersnatch." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för medier och design, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14272.
Full textBelyst av Netflix-specialaren Bandersnatch som ett kulturellt fenomen var syftet med denna studie att analysera hur "nya" berättarformer existerar i dagens konvergenskultur. Detta gjordes genom en diskursiv fallstudie om TV-recensenters mottagande av Bandersnatch, ihop med mindre jämförande diskurser som behandlade relativt traditionella film- och TV-organisationer inom mediebranschen samt ett onlineforum. Därmed påvisades också hur konvergenskulturen vidgade uttrycket av interaktivt innehåll. Teman inspirerade av recensionerna inkluderade exempelvis kategoriseringen av Bandersnatch som medieprodukt. De teknologiska aspekterna av interaktiva element användes vidare i analysen av resultaten. Ytterligare diskuterades detta i relation till teorier om design och konvergenskultur. Slutligen indikerade studien att Netflix Bandersnatch jämfördes med både analoga och digitalamedieprodukter. Filmens teknologiska aspekter ansågs förminska berättarupplevelsen som film, men skapade snarare en typ av nöje som återfanns i TV-spel. En osäkerhet om framtiden av film som en konstform uppdagades också, medan tittarens kontroll fortsatte att diskuteras, inte bara i relation till Bandersnatch, utan också i förhållande till helheten av det interaktiva och deltagande digitala medier-landskapet.
Lingli, Ying. "Relationship between Foreign Film Exposure and Ethnocentrism." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1242850053.
Full textTran, Anthony. "Piracy on the Ground: How Informal Media Distribution and Access Influences Cultures in Contemporary Hanoi, Viet Nam." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149675/.
Full textFröjdh, Eira, and Saad Elhachimi. "Lush authenticity : The construction of authenticity in branded entertainment." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44282.
Full textFlint, Rob. "Film, video, and digitality : an analysis of cultural form in time-based media." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2004. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/2021/.
Full textBauer, Robert B. "Resisting the Resistance: The Emancipation of Students from the Hidden Curriculum of Commodified Resistant Narratives in Young Adult Dystopian Film Through Open Pedagogical Space and Culture-Jamming." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5621.
Full textMiller, Rachel R. "The Girls' Room: Bedroom Culture and the Ephemeral Archive in the 1990s." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu159361168956799.
Full textBouxsein, Benjamin D. "An Analysis of the Depiction of Romantic Relationships in Western Cinema Compared to Cultural Perceptions of Relationships." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556721347157763.
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 textHohe, Meredith K. "American Dreams and Red Nightmares: Popular Media and the Framing of a Cold War Enemy, 1949-1962." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1283266257.
Full textXu, Wei Wei. "Career management : a study of the Chinese film production industry." Thesis, Kingston University, 2012. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/23025/.
Full textChandler, Yuell "Chuck" E. IV. "OPERA AND THE MODERN CULTURE OF FILM: THE GENESIS OF CINEMOPERA, ITS INTERTEXTUALITY AND EXPANSION OF OPERATIC SOURCE MATERIAL." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/1.
Full textMcMillan, Rachel K. "POPULAR MEDIA AND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE: INTERPRETING RECENT HISTORICAL TRENDS IN INTERMARRIAGE." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/573.
Full textNoble, Jonathan Scott. "Cultural Performance in China: beyond resistance in the 1990s." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1047438964.
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Greene, Justin R. "I Am an Author: Performing Authorship in Literary Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5346.
Full textLee, Leiya Ho-Yin. "Viewing and viewing again : film narrative and the time-travelling spectator." Thesis, Kingston University, 2017. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/38725/.
Full textCheng, Ling-Yan. "Cross-media and cultural study of music in Hong Kong film and Cantonese opera." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569123.
Full textGupta, Anjali. "Beneath Still Waters: An Exploration of Transmedia Narratives and Twitter Fiction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/604.
Full textNyberg, Evelin. "Leadership, assembled : A narrative analysis of the construction of leadership in relation to democracy in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame." Thesis, Jönköping University, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53618.
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