Essays about: "thesis cinema"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 77 essays containing the words thesis cinema.

  1. 21. Presenting The Ward : A Study of the "Educational" and Three National Institute of Mental Health-Approved Films (U.S. 1950s)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Marcus Neuman; [2022]
    Keywords : Educational films; Psych Ward; Mental illness; Patients; Stigma; Deinstitutionalization; Post-War Film; The Snake Pit; Man to Man; Mental Hospital; Back Into The Sun.;

    Abstract : The subject of mental illness and the various disorders associated with it, is frequently sensationalized and capitalized upon in visual art forms. In cinema, many narratives have addressed or challenged public conceptions of mental illnesses, raising concerns about socially relatable consequences such as stigma. READ MORE

  3. 22. 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

  4. 23. Cultural Heritage Reconstruction of the Cinema Flamman Using VR

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Joakim Burman; Jonathan Eksberg; Mirai Ibrahim; Tommi-Roy Karlsson; Johan Pettersson; Adam Rohdell; [2021-09-14]
    Keywords : Virtual Reality; User Experience; Cultural Heritage Preservation; Software Development; Game Design;

    Abstract : Virtual reality is adopted in many areas such as the military, education, health care, and preservation of cultural heritage. This thesis will further explore the possibility of cultural heritage preservation in virtual reality by reconstructing the environment of the old and defunct cinema in Gothenburg named Flamman. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Spectacle of the Alien/Migrant An exploration through Hollywood Science fiction and Horror Movies before and after 9/11

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Jonathan Cardenas; [2021]
    Keywords : science-fiction; horror; blockbuster; representation; alien; the other; myth; immigration; migrant; Hollywood; orientalism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at addressing the question of the representation of the Other within current dominant visual media. The Other, in the context of this thesis, refers to any minority community group identified as different from a certain dominant norm; depending on the context it could correspond to groups such as Women, Afro-Americans or Arabs. READ MORE

  6. 25. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
    Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE