Essays about: "Documentary cinema"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words Documentary cinema.

1. 6. Sync Event : The Ethnographic Allegory of Unsere Afrikareise

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Rosshagen Erik; [2016]
   Keywords : Experimental Ethnography; Film Sound; Audio-Vision; Experimental Cinema; Documentary; Ethnographic Film;

   Abstract : The thesis aims at a critical reflexion on experimental ethnography with a special focus on the role of sound. A reassessment of its predominant discourse, as conceptualized by Cathrine Russell, is paired with a conceptual approach to film sound and audio-vision. READ MORE

3. 7. The End Has No End : Framing Death and the Phenomenology of Dying in Documentary Cinema

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Carlos Pereira; [2015]
   Keywords : Near Death; Documentary cinema; Phenomenology of image and death; film analysis; film theory; aesthetic experience; time consciousness;

   Abstract : In a world denying and deconstructing mortality, the intersection between the phenomenology of image and death and the phenomenology of time consciousness seems to call for new attention in contemporary media culture. The recurrent motif of death in fictive film narratives is opposed to its far more complex and controversial counterpart in documentary cinema. READ MORE

4. 8. Film as Autobiographical Essay; Mirror, Reenactments and Voice in The Beaches of Agnès (2008) by Agnès Varda

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Ana Paula Perez Cordova; [2012]
   Keywords : The Beaches of Agnès; Agnès Varda; Essay Film; documentary; autobiography; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : This thesis provides a formal analysis of Agnès Varda’s documentary The Beaches of Agnès (2008), focusing on how the formal elements in the film such as voice-over, reenactments and the use of mirrors create a sense of self-awareness in the film. Through Agnès Varda’s extensive body of work it is possible to see the historical movement of the essay film, from its relation to the French Cinema from the 1950s through its growth and expansion to the digital world. READ MORE

5. 9. This war will never be forgotten : A study of intertextual relations between Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy

   University essay from Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia

   Author : Ieva Kisieliute; [2009]
   Keywords : Troy; The Iliad; Wolfgang Petersen; Homer; Hollywood epic; Cinema; Intertextuality; Ancient Greece; War; Ancient Warfare; Modern Warfare; USA Foreign Politics; Achilles; Hector; Agamemnon; Ancient Hero; Modern Hero; Ancient Greek Gods; Brad Pitt; Mass Culture;

   Abstract : In 2004 Troy was released in movie theatres worldwide and almost immediately sparked up discussions on film’s relation to the ancient epic of Homer.  The main purpose of this paper is to see the connection between Troy and Homer’s The Iliad – motion pictures’ only officially credited source of inspiration. READ MORE

6. 10. The transparitions of time in space in four fiction films by Knut Erik Jensen

   University essay from Filmvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Aurore Berger; [2005]
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   Abstract : Knut Erik Jensen’s oeuvre is often described from a typical Norwegian point of view. The corpus of films studied is restricted to his documentary production and to the breakthrough of Stella Polaris in 1993. READ MORE