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Lee, Chi-kwan Anita, and 李至君. "Analysing female desire: queer theory in contemporary cinema." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42574705.
Full textLee, Chi-kwan Anita. "Analysing female desire : queer theory in contemporary cinema /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42574705.
Full textSinwell, Sarah E. S. "Fear of a queer cinema danger, sex, and identification in contemporary American independent film /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3264324.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 1705. Adviser: Joan Hawkins. "Title from dissertation homepage (viewed Jan. 14, 2008)."
Soles, Carter Michael. "Falling Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith, Queerness, and Independent Film." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9021.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 415-429). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
McDougald, Melanie. "Where I am, There (Sh)it will be: Queer Presence in Post Modern Horror Films." unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07162009-154006/.
Full textTitle from file title page. Margaret Mills Harper, committee chair; Calvin Thomas, Mary Hocks, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 14, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48); filmography (p. 49-51).
Ryan, Joelle Ruby. "Reel Gender: Examining the Politics of Trans Images in Film and Media." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245709749.
Full textPillion, Owen L. "On Objects and Affections: Contemporary Representations of the Gay Man/Straight Woman Dyad in Popular Film and Television." Thesis, Connect to this title online, 2000. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20003/pillion%5Fowen%5Fl/index.htm.
Full textTam, 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.
Full textRyan, Christopher James. "Hunks of Meat: Homicidal Homosociality and Hyperheteronormativity in Cannibal Horror." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343086134.
Full textTam, 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.
Full textMulligan, Georgia. "The queer cinema of Jacques Demy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/107760/.
Full textMacleod, Allison. "Spaces of collision : queer masculinities in recent Irish cinema." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5246/.
Full textHughes, Katherine Ross. "Queer possibilities in teen friendships in film, 2000-2009." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4085/.
Full textPeach, Ricardo. "Queer cinema as a fifth cinema in South Africa and Australia." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/425.
Full textMak, Anson Hoi Shan. "Bi aII means the trouble with Tong Zhi discourse : beyond queer looks in the East is red and Swordsman II /." Connect to this title online, 2000. http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31223163.
Full textMak, Hoi-shan Anson. "Bi all means : the trouble with Tong Zhi discourse : beyond queer looks in the East is red and Swordsman II /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22030463.
Full textBlose, 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.
Full textMak, Hoi-shan Anson, and 麥海珊. "BI AII means: the trouble with Tong Zhi discourse : beyond queer looks in the East is red and Swordsman II." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31223163.
Full textFurstenau, Marc. "Cinema, language, reality : digitization and the challenge to film theory." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84508.
Full textThis thesis begins with a critical review of the vast theoretical literature dealing with the digitization of the cinema. Most theorists have come to the conclusion that the cinema is dead because digitization has severed the ties between what we see on the screen and real life. At root, this conclusion is derived from a structuralist, nominalist position prevalent in contemporary film theory.
I argue, instead, that film theory needs to re-address the complex issue of the relationship between image and reality, rather than simply accepting the traditional view. In so doing, I follow Stanley Cavell's call for a more thorough consideration of realist traditions in film theory, the premise of which is an unquestioned relationship between representation and reality.
The complexity and subtlety of that relationship has been addressed most systematically and fruitfully by Charles Saunders Peirce. Indeed, many structuralist theorists have made reference to Peirce in response to the shortcomings of a semiologically inflected film theory. In the second step of my argument, however, I show that structuralist theory has produced misleading conclusions, since a Peircian semiotics is incommensurable with the structuralist position. In fact, this implicit conflict has led theorists to doubt the real in the digital cinema, rather than investigating the logically necessary continuity of reality and representation, regardless of its technological kind.
Ho, Ka-hang Jason. "Reinterpreting a queer experience a study of Stanley Kwan's films and their reception /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34877642.
Full textHo, Ka-hang Jason, and 何家珩. "Reinterpreting a queer experience: a study ofStanley Kwan's films and their reception." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B34877642.
Full textIsaacs, Bruce. "Film Cool: Towards a New Film Aesthetic." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1156.
Full textIsaacs, Bruce. "Film Cool: Towards a New Film Aesthetic." English, School of Letters, Art and Media, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1156.
Full textThe influential theorist, David Bordwell, talks about various modes of watching film: the intellectual, the casual, or the obsessive interaction with cinema practiced by the film-buff. This thesis is an attempt to come to terms with film and film culture in a number of ways. It is first an attempt at reinscribing a notion of aesthetics into film studies. This is not an easy task. I argue that film theory is not adequately equipped to discuss film in affective terms, and that instead, it emphasises ways of thinking about film and culture quite removed from the act of film ‘spectating’ – individually, or perhaps even more crucially, collectively. To my mind, film theory increasingly needs to ask: are theorists and the various subjectivities about whom they theorise watching the same films, and in the same way? My experience of film is, as Tara Brabazon writes about her own experience of film, a profoundly emotional one. Film is a stream of quotation in my own life. It is inextricably wrapped up inside memory (and what Hutcheon calls postmodern nostalgia). Film is experience. I would not know how to communicate what Sergio Leone ‘means’ or The Godfather ‘represents’ without engaging what Barbara Kennedy calls the ‘aesthetic impulse.’ In this thesis, I extrapolate from what film means to me to what it might mean to an abstract notion of culture. For this reason, Chapters Three and Four are necessarily abstract and tentatively bring together an analysis of The Matrix franchise and Quentin Tarantino’s brand of metacinema. I focus on an aesthetics of cinema rather than its politics or ideological fabric. This is not to marginalise such studies (which, in any case, this thesis could not do) but to make space for another perspective, another way of considering film, a new way of recuperating affect.
Goodyer, Meigan Gates. "Literary theory, the novel and science media." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/goodyer/GoodyerM0508.pdf.
Full textInsell, Maria Katherine. "Avant-garde film theory and praxis : an historical analysis of the narrative/anti-narrative debate." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28074.
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Ng, Kal. "Architectural cinema a theory of practice for digital architectural animation /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4308574X.
Full textMunro, Emily J. "The language problem in European cinema : discourses on 'foreign-language films' in criticism, theory and practice." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3776/.
Full textZhao, Meng. "Understand the misunderstanding a study incorporating uses and gratifications theory on why Chinese film audiences see America the way they do /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2008. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
Full textTodd, Jeffrey M. "Einstein's film theory of montage and architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21653.
Full textOlivier, Francois. "A queer (re) turn to nature? : environment, sexuality and cinema." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95805.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is in interested in the potential of (New) Queer Cinema, with its often cited subversive qualities, as a means to delineate the historical and discursive dimensions of an ongoing relationship between the politics of nature and sexual politics, and to articulate the complex array of ideas that result from this relationship. In this thesis, I investigate how a selection of films actively reproduce, question, deconstruct, or reinforce particular constructions of nature and/or epistemologies of (homo)sexuality, often demonstrating such ideas through particular expressive modes, such as nostalgia, mourning, melancholia, and postmodern play, and by referencing certain literary forms, such as the pastoral, georgic and elegy. To facilitate the analysis I outline above, I have chosen to investigate three films which enable me to move from national to transnational and postcolonial cinematic contexts. I read these films alongside a selection of literary/historical texts that I feel inform or preface each filmic text. The first film is James Ivory’s adaptation (1987) of E.M. Forster’s novel, Maurice. The second is Derek Jarman’s elegiac film, The Garden (1990), which I read alongside the English filmmaker’s journal, Modern Nature (1991). And finally for my third chapter I turn to the work of Canadian filmmaker, John Greyson; specifically Proteus (2003), his recent collaboration with South African activist/filmmaker, Jack Lewis. This final filmic text prompts questions of postcoloniality and Eurocentric modes of knowledge production. I provide context for my argument by outlining recent developments in the history of Queer Cinema and by introducing two distinct but related areas of recent academic enquiry – firstly the notion of Queer Ecology (alongside related studies on the “gay pastoral”) and, secondly, the field of Green Film Criticism or Ecocinema.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis handel oor die potensiaal van (Nuwe) “Queer Cinema”, met sy bekende ondermynende eienskappe, om die historiese en diskursiewe dimensies van ’n voortgesette verhouding tussen die politiek van die natuur en van seksualiteit af te beeld, en om die komplekse verskeidenheid van idees wat volg uit hierdie verhouding, te verwoord. In hierdie tesis doen ek ondersoek na die wyse waarop ’n versameling films sekere konstruksies van ‘natuur’ en/of epistemologieë van ‘(homo)seksualiteit’ aktief herproduseer, bevraagteken, dekonstrueer of versterk. Hierdie idees word dikwels uitgebeeld deur middel van sekere ekspressiewe modusse soos nostalgie, rou, melankolie of postmoderne speelsheid, en deur verwysing na sekere literêre vorme of genres soos die pastorale of landelike gedig en die elegie. Die bostaande analise is gebaseer op drie films wat my in staat stel om te beweeg tussen nasionale, transnasionale en postkoloniale kontekste. Ek beskou elk van hierdie films in die lig van ’n gepaardgaande versameling literêre/historiese tekste wat volgens my sentraal staan tot die volle verstaan van die filmiese tekste. Die eerste film is James Ivory se aanpassing (1987) van E.M. Forster se roman, Maurice. Die tweede is Derek Jarman se elegiese film, The Garden (1990), wat ek tesame met hierdie Engelse filmmaker se joernaal, Modern Nature (1991), beskou. Laastens kyk ek na die werk van die Kanadese filmmaker John Greyson, met spesifieke fokus op sy onlangse samewerking met die Suid-Afrikaanse aktivis en filmmaker, Jack Lewis, in die verfilming van Proteus (2003). Hierdie finale filmiese teks vra vrae oor postkolonialiteit en Eurosentriese vorme van kennisproduksie. Ek kontekstualiseer my argument deur ʼn beskrywing te bied van die onlangse verwikkelinge in die geskiedenis van “Queer Cinema” en van twee afsonderlike, maar verwante akademiese gebiede wat onlangs aandag geniet, naamlik die idee van “Queer” Ekologie (en die nou-geassosieerde ‘gay pastorale’) en Groen Film Kritiek of “Ecocinema”.
Pillion, Owen L. "Queer affluence, popular media, and the matter of the openly gay spokesperson." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4661.
Full textThe entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 19, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
Ng, Kal, and 吳家龍. "Architectural cinema: a theory of practice for digital architectural animation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4308574X.
Full textOgawa, Sho. "Conflicting views of homosexuality among the mainstream films and gay "pink" films of Japan." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1217700754.
Full textHoffman, Warren D. "Gay-valt : queer performance and identity in twentieth-century Jewish American literature, theater, and film /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3135065.
Full textMackay, Cameron Hugh. "Buzz in motion pictures : what is buzz and how can marketing create it?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/64115/1/Cameron_Mackay_Thesis.pdf.
Full textChoudhuri, Sucheta Mallick Kopelson Kevin Kumar Priya. "Transgressive territories queer space in Indian fiction and film /." Iowa City : University of Iowa, 2009. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/346.
Full textMarie, Laurent. "The French Communist Party and French cinema 1944-1999." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3061/.
Full textBenfey, Matthias Wilhelm. "Religious cinema as virtual religious experience : a theory of religious cinema applied to Werner Herzog's Herz aus Glas." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72087.
Full textThe thesis defines religious cinema as virtual religious experience; therefrom a theory of religious cinema is derived. This derivation depends on a discussion of the essential elements of the cinematic experience and permits the expansion of the category of religious cinema beyond its traditional frontier. Throughout the dissertation, a dialogue is maintained with general cinema theory on the one hand and religious cinema criticism on the other. The purpose of this dialogue is to increase credibility (in the former case) and to demonstrate originality (in the latter case).
Finally, extrapolating from a specific dialogue between Crossan and Ricoeur, a critical method is developed, then applied to Werner Herzog's Herz aus Glas, a transcription of which is included as an appendix.
Hubbard, Christine Karen Reeves. "Rebellion and Reconciliation: Social Psychology, Genre, and the Teen Film 1980-1989." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279235/.
Full textBritt, Tara Danielle. "Phenomenology, film and curriculum theory an inquiry into the intellectual persona of teachers /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/summer2007/tara_d_britt/britt_tara_d_200708_edd.pdf.
Full text"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." In Education Administration, under the direction of Linda M. Arthur. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-144) and appendices.
Pedlingham, Graeme G. "The (un)scene of memory : energetic theory and representation in theatre and film." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6939/.
Full textMussell, Simon Paul. "Constellations of Adornian theory and film : readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6964/.
Full textMiller, Heather Anne. "Tonto and Tonto speak an indigenous based film theory /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/miller/MillerH0506.pdf.
Full textHickey, James William. "Cinemaesthetics : a college-level curriculum in film and communication theory, aesthetics and ethics, critical thinking, reading, and articulation skills /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10992649.
Full textTypescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Carla Seal-Wanner. Dissertation Committee: Robert McClintock. Includes bibliographical references: (leaves 176-178).
Dancey, Angela Clair. "Before and after the makeover in film and culture /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1126899524.
Full textVaughan, Michael Hunter. "From camera to code : Godard, Resnais and the problem of representation in film theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d8752498-1a8c-48ec-b774-b3e9f1e410ea.
Full textForrett, Steven Lawrie. "Movie poster advertisements: A relevance theory persepctive." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3236.
Full textChang, Hsin-Ning. "Viewing the Long Take in Post-World War II Films: A Cognitive Approach." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1227302639.
Full textMaysonet, Joel R. "Wine & Beer." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4951/.
Full text吳晶. "杜琪峯的電影世界 : 香港電影作者個案研究 = The cinema world of Johnnie To : a case study of auteur in Hong Kong." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/906.
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