Essays about: "Pasolini"

Found 3 essays containing the word Pasolini.

1. 1. Wandering Through Intellectual Ashes : National Identity and the Southern Question in Postwar Marxist Italian Film. A Postcolonial Visual Ontology

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Matilde Veglia; [2022]
   Keywords : Pasolini; Gramsci; Bauman; Neorealism; Commedia all Italiana; Cinema; Italian Maxism; Postmodernity; Postcolonial Studies; The Wanderer; The Nomad;

   Abstract : This thesis is crafted as an explorative theoretical essay, which aims to disclose the continuities and shifts in constructions of Italian post-war identity through the lenses of Marxist theory and postcolonial film analysis. The research will attempt to locate three paradigmatic cases of post-war Italian cinema and their authors in relation to the historical context, as well as coeval political and theoretical developments in the country. READ MORE

3. 2. Aesthetics of Defiance : Queer Subjectivity in the Films of Xavier Dolan

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Sebastian Malmquist; [2017]
   Keywords : film; Xavier Dolan; style; queer; subjectivity; non-normative; narrative; auteur; marginaized; Pasolini; Deleuze; Bonitzer; Foucault; I Killed My Mother; Heartbeats; Laurence Anyways; Tom at the Farm; Mommy;

   Abstract : This master's thesis is an investigation into Xavier Dolan's depictions of queer and non-normative characters. Through close analyses of the director's first five films, this study identifies Dolan's recurring stylistics and narrative techniques, and how they relate to his cinematic representation of individuals who do not conform to society's norms. READ MORE

4. 3. Mise-En-Page - An Introduction To Screenplay Style & Form

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Ammar Al Subahi; [2012]
   Keywords : Screenplay; Screenwriting; Manus; Scriptwriting; Manusförfattande; Authorship; Auteur theory; Auteur-teori; Blueprint Metaphor; Pasolini; Steven Price; Steven Maras; Mise-en-page; mise-en-scene; Proto-Camera; Reading as Image Building; The Final Broadcast; Filmvetenskap; Film Studies; Filmteori; Film Theory; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to establish the screenplay as a valid, and relevant, object for study in the field of film studies in order to stimulate further research within the field and for a more prevalent inclusion of screenplays in the general discourse of film studies. I argue that accounts of the screenplay as either literature or blueprints, which stand in ideological opposition to each other, are lackluster as they overemphasize the virtues of their own side of the spectrum while at the same time undervaluing the other side; neither accounting for their own vices. READ MORE