Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF document. Text in English and Korean. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [3], 39 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).

L'ensemble de notre démarche se fonde sur un constat : le scandale, souvent abordé à travers des discours moraux le condamnant ou le célébrant, est en réalité un évènement protéiforme et profondément ambigu. Il trouve sur la scène le lieu par excellence de son déclenchement, le théâtre étant étroitement lié aux idées de surgissement et d'immédiateté. Le théâtre et le scandale, communément associés aux notions du spectaculaire, de l'exhibition et du conflit, ne sauraient toutefois s'y réduire pour des auteurs en quête d'une définition de leur identité et de leur relation aux autres. Les années 1940 à 1960 en France constituent une période troublée et instable qui mène des dramaturges pourtant très différents à converger vers un même but : la création d'une communauté dynamique. Le scandale représente pour eux un moyen de communication privilégié entre la scène et la salle, offrant l'espoir d'un théâtre capable de concilier l'individu et la cité. / Our whole approach is based on the observation that scandal, often addressed through moral discourses that condemn or celebrate it, is actually a protean and profoundly ambiguous event. Because drama is closely linked to the concepts of emergence and immediacy, scandal finds on stage the perfect place for its release. However, in the eyes of authors seeking a definition of their identity and their relationship to others, drama and scandal, although commonly associated with notions of the spectacular, exhibition and conflict, should not be reduced to this trope. The years 1940 to 1960 in France are a troubled and unstable period, leading playwrights from different horizons to converge towards the same goal: creating a vibrant community. Scandal represents for them a privileged means of communication between the stage and the audience, offering hope of a theatre capable of reconciling the individual and the city.

In the light of recent changes on the audiovisual scene in Poland, audiences can choose among different AVT modalities. Although voice-over still prevails on Polish TV, subtitles have become more and more popular as an alternative form of film translation on television. Due to rapid technological advances, commercial requirements and differences in Polish viewers’ preferences, it is thus crucial to understand how audiences at different levels of English proficiency (low, medium, high) retrieve meaning, especially complex ironic meaning relayed through different methods of film translation, such as subtitles and voice-over and the extent to which verbal and non-verbal semiotic channels contribute to irony comprehension. Wilson and Sperber’s (1981, 1992; 1995) echoic theory of irony has been selected as the theoretical framework, given its ability to account for multimodal irony in audiovisual texts as well as the significant importance of non-verbal semiotic resources in the generation and interpretation of irony. The study employs triangulation, incorporating descriptive, experimental and interactionist components. The descriptive component involves multimodal transcription (Baldry and Thibault, 2006) of selected fragments in which irony plays a pivotal narrative role. This procedure aims to determine what non-verbal modes contribute to the multimodal construal of irony and how it is relayed in the subtitled and voiced-over translations. In the experimental component, viewers’ eye movements are recorded using eye-tracking technology while watching subtitled and voiced-over fragments of Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). In the interactionist components, a questionnaire is used in order to elucidate how and/or whether they retrieve ironic meaning as intended by the filmmakers in the selected excerpts. The most obvious finding to emerge from the descriptive data analysis is that multimodal irony is not relayed by the film dialogue alone but, rather, in unison with non-verbal semiotic resources. The instances of multimodal irony in the two Sherlock Holmes films were found to perform narrative and comedic functions by combining the visual, kinesic and acoustic modes of film language. The analysis and comparison of SL dialogues and TL translations revealed two broad categories of irony relay, namely: preservation and modification. The majority of the instances of multimodal irony were modified in the subtitled version, while preservation is only sporadically opted for. In its voiced-over counterpart, the intended meaning is preserved and modified in equal proportions. The experimental component showed major differences in gaze patterns among the participants with different language skills in the subtitled clips. For instance, on average, LLPs spent more time reading the subtitles than HLPs or MLPs. Similar visual behavior, on the other hand, was observed among all viewers in the voiced-over clips in which the on-screen character’s face attracted the greatest amount of visual attention. The interactionist strand showed that the viewers retrieved the intended meaning to various extents depending on their English language proficiency. This data undergirds an assessment of the effectiveness of subtitles and voice-over in the translation and reception of multimodal irony on screen.

Orientador: Milton Sogabe / Banca: Monica Tavares / Banca: Agnus Valente / Resumo: Com o advento do computador, novos paradigmas de imagem surgiram e uma nova relação com aquele que a frui se impôs. Nesta dissertação, analisamos as potencialidades das imagens compreendidas em tal contexto e os seus desenvolvimentos em instalações interativas através dos seus modos de solicitar a participação do público. Para este estudo, tomamos como direção o parâmetro de Pierre Lévy: a possibilidade de reapropriação e recombinação dos elementos materiais da imagem pelo público. Buscamos, ainda, dois aspectos iniciais que consideramos pertinentes ao nosso objeto de estudo: a realização de entrevistas com o público e a vivência com tais imagens e instalações. O primeiro esteve presente unicamente em um momento inicial da pesquisa, apenas para tomarmos consciência das dimensões e dos aspectos do diálogo proporcionado pelas imagens. No que concerne ao segundo, optamos por vivenciar e analisar imagens de três instalações participantes do Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica - File 2009, que aconteceu no período da pesquisa. A partir da análise das imagens selecionadas, com a apresentação de um projeto de instalação interativa de nossa autoria e, ainda, através da abordagem dos conceitos que perpassam as instalações interativas e das potencialidades em aberto de suas imagens, surgiram reflexões a respeito da maneira de como a imagem se manifesta ao público, como este é inserido na imagem e como dela passa a tomar parte. Com isso, pudemos articular os conceitos e as práticas que envolvem essas produções, procurando criar um discurso mais particular para o recorte dado a essa pesquisa / Abstract: With the advent of computers new image paradigms have emerged and a new relationship with the one that possess have prevailed. In this dissertation, we analyze the image potencials seen in that context and its development in interactive installations through the ways of asking for the audience to join. For this study, we took as a guidance the Pierre Lévy's parameter the reappropriation possibility and the recombination of others image material elements by the audience. Yet we search two initial aspects considered relevant to the study: interviewing the audience and the experience with such images and installations. The first one was present only in an initial phase of the research. Only so we can be counscious of the dimensions and the dialog aspect given by the images. As for the second one, we have chosen to live and analyze images from three installations of the Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica - File 2009. From the analysis of the selected images with a Project presentation of interactive installation o four authorship and yet through the concept approach that pass by the interactive installations and of the open potentiality of its images, it will generate reflexions about the way the image manifests itself to the audience, how it is inserted on the image and posses it. With all that, we could articulate concepts and the practices that involve those productions, trying to create a more particular speech to the focus given to this research / Mestre

Cette thèse porte sur comment les publics de théâtre sont représentés au sein du discours des politiques culturelles tant en France qu’au Chili. Ceci est mis en rapport aux figures des publics destinataires des sites internet (y compris les réseaux sociaux numériques) de quatre théâtres publics de référence qui déclarent avoir une programmation dite « contemporaine » et « classique ». La question principale est d’identifier comment ces représentations circulent dans ces dispositifs. L’hypothèse centrale souligne le fait qu’il y a un rapport entre les conditions sociales et symboliques des discours des politiques culturelles qui s’actualisent dans les écris d’écran (Bonaccorsi, 2013) par des signes langagiers, visuels et numériques. L’approche théorique et méthodologique est principalement sémiodiscursive toujours à l’égard des nouvelles catégories émergentes des nouveaux corpus provenant d’internet (Rouquette, 2009). Cette recherche a permis de conclure que les politiques culturelles des deux pays tiennent un discours sur l’accès pour « tous » à la culture, « tous » étant, d’une part, la figure d’un « public plus citoyen » et d’autre part la figure d’un « public plus consommateur ». D’ailleurs les sites internet compris dans l’étude, même s’ils partagent une scène englobante et générique, actualisent (par des signes langagiers, visuels et numériques) différemment leur scénographie (Maingueneau, 2013) en fonction de l’éthos (Charaudeau, 2009) de chaque théâtre. Pourtant, les figures d’un « public national » et « potentiel acheteur » circulent comme traces des discours des politiques culturelles parmi les sites et au sein de réseaux sociaux où en plus, on observe une prise de parole profane (Pasquier, 2009), c’est-à-dire, des spectateurs. / The subject of this thesis concerns how the audience of theatre is represented within the discourse of cultural policies in France and Chile. This is related to the audience of internet websites (including social networks) of four public theatres of reference who report to have both a « contemporary » and « classical » program. The main question is to identify how these representations are transmitted amongst these devices. The principal hypothesis underlines the fact that there is link a between the social and symbolic conditions of the discourses of cultural policies which appear in « les écrits d’écran » (Bonaccorsi, 2013) through linguistic, visual and digital signs. The theoretical and methodological approach is primarily semiotic-discursive with regard to new categories emerging from Internet-based corpus (Rouquette, 2009).This research led to the conclusion that the cultural policies of these two countries have a discourse on access to culture for « everybody »; « everybody » being, on one hand, a « more citizenly audience » and, on the other hand, a « more consumer audience ». Moreover, the internet websites in this study update their scenography differently (through linguistic, visual and digital signs), even if they share a generic and global scene (Maingueneau, 2013), all of which is dependent on the ethos (Charaudeau, 2009) of each theatre. However, the « national audience » and the « potential buyer » appear as traces of the discourses of cultural policies among websites and social networks where, we can additionally observe a profane speech (Pasquier, 2009), namely, from the audience.

Increasingly, people attend live music event for diversified experiences that they could not have from listening to music at home or watching a broadcast on TV. Some seek to interact with their idol on site; others enjoy the collective action with audience members who share with them the same music preference. Enhancing audience experiences on live events, therefore, gains popularity. Research focus on crowd behaviors and the possibility of how implementing new technologies into this area. However, few studies have investigated have investigated the impact of individual promotion in the crowds by offering them a particular moment enabling them to feel more connected to the event. To deeply understand requirements from different stakeholders, audiences, and performers, a participatory workshop was conducted through which they acted as co-creators in the development process. Additionally, three qualitative evaluations were carried out to collect feedback on how the design system “HeartBeat” could enhance the audience’s experience. The research found that promoting individual impact and collective action are not conflicting with each other. Instead, they complement one another throughout the live session. “HeartBeat” is not only a design prototype that aims to increase audience experience but also a starting point for future design explorations in live music settings.

[pt] Este trabalho se propõe a estudar a mídia televisiva a partir de um mecanismo estratégico utilizado pela Rede Globo de Televisão, que pretende criar uma interação permanente entre a audiência e o conteúdo de suas novelas. A pesquisa estuda as relações que, através desse mecanismo, a emissora de televisão pretende estabelecer com seus telespectadores. Além de estudar as repercussões dessa estratégia massiva e permanente nos ambientes culturais da contemporaneidade, esse trabalho desvenda de que forma a mídia de chamadas de programação de uma telenovela é confeccionada, mostrando os instrumentos usados pela Rede Globo para alcançar seu objetivo de agendamento de seus temas junto à audiência. Investiga também, de que maneira essa mídia de chamada de programação pretende incorporar o conteúdo da telenovela nos discursos interpessoais. / [en] This work intends to study television media starting from a strategic mechanism used by Rede Globo de Televisão (Globo TV Network) that pretends to create a permanent interaction between the viewers and the contents of its soapoperas. The research will study the relations pretended to be established by the network with its audience through this mechanism. Aside of studying the repercussions of this massive and permanent strategy in cultural environment, this work will unmask how the commercial break calls media of a soap-opera is made, showing the instruments used by Globo Network to reach the aims of scheduling its themes next to the audience. It will investigate too by which means this media of commercial break calls intends to incorporate the soapopera s content in interpersonal speech.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:31:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Walter Alberto de Luca Texto-PDF.pdf: 1294802 bytes, checksum: 4d5b2f03e1c9670ad7275ffd85b944f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-17 / This thesis reflects about the decline of the audience of the big broadcast television networks and how producers deal with this global trend. It brings an overview about the matter in the world and focuses particularly the case of Brazil, where the three main television channels have had historically some of the highest rates of audience compared to the major networks of other countries. After analyzing the fragmentation of televiewing audiences in the last two decades and the numbers that show the increasing dispersion of the public attention among the multiples choices of media available nowadays, the study discuss the strategies of programming and content construction based on writers and producers opinions and on the exam of important TV programs. The purpose is to expose the efforts required to attract, sustain and retain televiewers attention. These efforts start with audience measurements and researches about consumers attitudes and interests toward TV, which defines the agenda of themes and the techniques to write, direct and edit programs. The research discusses also how exposure of televiewers occurs in an environment where consumers have multiple choices of screens to choose television programs and other media activities. It considers that exposure is an essential condition to support the study of other approaches of the communication process, such as the influence of the media over culture and society. In a context where media occupies so much time of our personal life, the impact of the mass media might be proportionally direct to the number of people they reach, to the habits of consuming information and entertainment and to the time dedicated to accessing them. / Esta tese aborda o declínio da audiência das grandes redes de TV aberta e os recursos narrativos que os produtores de programas adotaram para enfrentar essa tendência mundial. O estudo traz um panorama da situação da audiência no âmbito internacional e foca, particularmente, o caso do Brasil, onde três grandes emissoras mantém, no conjunto, uma das mais altas concentrações de público do mundo. Depois de analisar a fragmentação das audiências televisivas nas duas últimas décadas e os números que indicam a crescente dispersão dos telespectadores entre múltiplas ofertas de mídia disponíveis nos dias atuais, o trabalho discute as estratégias de programação e de construção de conteúdos. Além de teóricos que pesquisaram a chamada semiótica televisiva , servem de base para a investigação depoimentos de produtores e análises de programas de grande audiência. O objetivo é revelar os procedimentos utilizados para atrair e manter a atenção dos telespectadores, os quais começam com as medições de audiência e os estudos sobre o comportamento dos consumidores em relação à TV. A tese discute também como ocorre a exposição dos telespectadores em um ambiente onde existem várias opções de dispositivos para ver atrações televisivas ou para fazer outras atividades comunicacionais. A escolha deste tema de investigação partiu do princípio de que a exposiçao é condição essencial para sustentar o estudo de outras fases e outros aspectos do processo de comunicação, como a influência dos meios sobre a cultura e a sociedade. Em um contexto onde a mídia ocupa tanto tempo de nosso cotidiano, o impacto dos meios de comunicação de massa pode ser diretamente proporcional ao número de pessoas que eles alcançam e aos nossos hábitos de consumo de informação e entretenimento.

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