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The representation of the female body/embodiment in selected mainstream American films / A.A. JensenJensen, Amy Alexandra January 2014 (has links)
In her article “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” (1975) Laura Mulvey explains how film portrays the female characters as passive sexualised objects, on display for the male (erotic) gaze. Although, Mulvey did make amendments to the original article after it was criticised, her original article is still influential and referenced in academic writing on film. This dissertation investigates how the three selected mainstream American films, namely, Alice in Wonderland, Monster and Transamerica, have female protagonists who deviate from Mulvey’s initial standpoint and enact a new dynamic, whereby the female characters possess active bodies. In order to explain this new dynamic, the dissertation provides an overview of relevant theory in order to establish the necessary analytical tools to investigate the representation of the female body. These tools are taken from feminist notions of the body, most importantly Mulvey’s notions, in order to establish what constitutes an active female body that subverts the male gaze. This subversion is most notable when examining the iconography of the active female body. The dissertation also draws from the overview the importance of place and space, the embodiment of the characters’ inner workings in specific locations, and their relationship with the locations in which they are depicted. Since all three films include a physical journey on which the respective protagonists embark the examination of borders and border crossings is included. The dissertation shows that journeys bring with them the opportunity for the body to be active, as each female protagonist is on a journey to self-discovery. The changing settings in which the protagonists find themselves are an embodiment of their inner workings. Topographical borders mark the entering of new locations. However, concomitant symbolic and epistemological borders are also crossed. The female protagonists need to make choices concerning their lives and as a consequence alter the representations to reflect bodies that subvert the male gaze. These female bodies are active. However, they are active in different ways. Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, delves into her psyche to emerge a changed and independent Victorian woman. Bree, from Transamerica, heals the relationships with her family and is able to have her gender reconstructive surgery to become a physical woman. These two female protagonists have positive representations of the active female body. The protagonist from Monster, Aileen, is represented in a constant state of abjection and her active body is portrayed in a negative light. Whether represented in a positive or egative light, these chosen films all portray an active female body that does subvert the male gaze, and hence represent a new dynamic different from the one Mulvey described. / MA (Language Practice), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2014
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The representation of the female body/embodiment in selected mainstream American films / A.A. JensenJensen, Amy Alexandra January 2014 (has links)
In her article “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” (1975) Laura Mulvey explains how film portrays the female characters as passive sexualised objects, on display for the male (erotic) gaze. Although, Mulvey did make amendments to the original article after it was criticised, her original article is still influential and referenced in academic writing on film. This dissertation investigates how the three selected mainstream American films, namely, Alice in Wonderland, Monster and Transamerica, have female protagonists who deviate from Mulvey’s initial standpoint and enact a new dynamic, whereby the female characters possess active bodies. In order to explain this new dynamic, the dissertation provides an overview of relevant theory in order to establish the necessary analytical tools to investigate the representation of the female body. These tools are taken from feminist notions of the body, most importantly Mulvey’s notions, in order to establish what constitutes an active female body that subverts the male gaze. This subversion is most notable when examining the iconography of the active female body. The dissertation also draws from the overview the importance of place and space, the embodiment of the characters’ inner workings in specific locations, and their relationship with the locations in which they are depicted. Since all three films include a physical journey on which the respective protagonists embark the examination of borders and border crossings is included. The dissertation shows that journeys bring with them the opportunity for the body to be active, as each female protagonist is on a journey to self-discovery. The changing settings in which the protagonists find themselves are an embodiment of their inner workings. Topographical borders mark the entering of new locations. However, concomitant symbolic and epistemological borders are also crossed. The female protagonists need to make choices concerning their lives and as a consequence alter the representations to reflect bodies that subvert the male gaze. These female bodies are active. However, they are active in different ways. Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, delves into her psyche to emerge a changed and independent Victorian woman. Bree, from Transamerica, heals the relationships with her family and is able to have her gender reconstructive surgery to become a physical woman. These two female protagonists have positive representations of the active female body. The protagonist from Monster, Aileen, is represented in a constant state of abjection and her active body is portrayed in a negative light. Whether represented in a positive or egative light, these chosen films all portray an active female body that does subvert the male gaze, and hence represent a new dynamic different from the one Mulvey described. / MA (Language Practice), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2014
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Contributions aux interfaces d'entrées / sorties rapides en technologies Silicium-Sur-Isolant partiellement et totalement désertées / Contributions to high-speed Input/Output interfaces in Partially-Depleted and Fully-Depleted Silicon On Insulator technologiesSoussan, Dimitri 05 July 2013 (has links)
Des spécificités de la technologie SOI partiellement désertée (PD-SOI), comme son gain en vitesse, et l'isolation diélectrique des transistors, sont intéressantes pour la conception d'interfaces entrées/sorties. Toutefois, l'emploi de cette technologie conduit à des phénomènes indésirables tels que l'effet d'histoire, une consommation statique accrue et l'effet d'auto-échauffement. Dans ce travail, une analyse de ces effets a été menée. L'influence de l'auto-échauffement s'est révélée négligeable. Un schéma électrique employant un mécanisme de polarisation active a été proposé afin de supprimer l'effet d'histoire et de contrôler la consommation statique tout en conservant un gain en vitesse. Le circuit de test, en 65nm PDSOI de STMicroelectronics, montre que la solution proposée permet d'améliorer la gigue du temps de propagation lors d'une transmission. La deuxième partie de ce travail s'intéresse à la technologie SOI totalement désertée (FDSOI). Cette dernière apporte un meilleur contrôle électrostatique des transistors et un degré de liberté supplémentaire en conception par le contrôle de leurs tensions de seuil via la face arrière. Dans un premier temps, cette caractéristique a été validée pour les entrées/sorties sur un circuit fabriqué en 28nm FDSOI de STMicroelectronics. Elle a été ensuite exploitée pour la calibration de l'impédance de sortie d'une interface LPDDR2 et la compensation des fluctuations environnementales. La solution proposée dans ce travail tire profit de la modulation par face arrière pour réaliser la calibration durant la transmission, contrairement à l'état de l'art, ce qui a pour effet d'augmenter la bande passante. / The characteristics of Partially-Depleted SOI (PD-SOI) technology, as its speed improvement and the dielectric isolation of the transistors, turn to be interesting for input/output interface. However, using this technology leads to side effects, such as history effect, higher static consumption and self-heating effect. In this work, an analysis of these effects was carried out. Self-heating appears to be negligible. To address the two other effects, a solution with active body control has been proposed in order to suppress the history effect and to reduce the static consumption while keeping the speed improvement. The test chip, processed in PDSOI 65nm from STMicroelectronics, shows that the proposed solution improves the jitter during transmission. The second part of this work involves Fully-Depleted SOI (FD-SOI) technology. This technology brings a better electrostatic control of transistors and an additional degree of freedom for circuit design, thanks to threshold voltage control through back biasing. First, this feature has been validated on input/output circuit processed in FD-SOI 28nm from STMicroelectronics. Then, back biasing has been exploited for output impedance calibration and for environmental fluctuation compensation, based on LPDDR2 standard. The proposed solution in this work takes benefit of the impedance modulation through back biasing in order to perform the calibration during transmission, as opposed to the state-of-the-art techniques. Thus, the overall communication data rate increases.
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