O objetivo desta dissertação é compreender a configuração do sujeito contemporâneo no filme Match Point (2005), de Woody Allen. Na carreira de Allen, este filme representa o momento de uma espécie de exílio. Por problemas de financiamento nos Estados Unidos, o diretor nova-iorquino vai para a Europa. No centro do capitalismo financeiro, simbolizado pelo prédio de negócios, um irlandês alia-se à elite britânica. O protagonista reúne os valores sociais do empreendedor em um momento histórico anterior à derrocada financeira em 2008. / The aim of this dissertation is to understand the role of the contemporary subject in the film Match Point (2005), by Woody Allen. In Allens career, this film represents the moment of a sort of exile. Due to funding problems in the United States, the New-Yorker director goes to Europe. In the center of financial capitalism, an Irishman joins the British elite. The protagonist combines the social values of entrepreneurship in a historical moment that precedes the global financial crisis in 2008.

The film "Brokeback Mountain" was released in December of 2005 into mainstream theaters and to general audiences. Director Ang Lee, screenwriters Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, and actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal made this film in which the storyline revolves around two men falling in love and how this forbidden love would affect the rest of their lives. The shock of having a film with two men kissing and having sex in the theaters seemed to have struck a nerve with many viewers. Some were very positive, hailing the film as a new step in mainstream films to show a queer relationship, others were negative, criticizing the film even at times condemning what was shown on the screen. The impact of the film made debate and conversations about queer content available to a public forum, in this case newspapers from around the country.

In the early years of the twentieth century, the unique new medium of motion pictures was the focus of significant theorization and experimentation at the fringes of the American advertising industry. Alongside the growth of the nickelodeon, and the multiple shifts in the American cinema's business model in the 'transitional era,' various individuals at the margins of the advertising industry attempted, and most often failed, to integrate direct consumer-goods advertising regularly into motion picture theaters. Via techniques as diverse as the glass slide, the commercial trailer, and the advertising wall-clock, cinema patrons of the 1910s witnessed various attempts by merchants and manufacturers to intrude upon their attention in the cinema space. Through research in the trade presses of the cinema, advertising, and various consumer-goods industries, along with archival ephemera from the advertising companies themselves, this dissertation explores these various on and off-screen tactics for direct advertising attempted in silent cinemas, and their eventual minimization in the American cinema experience. Despite the appeal of the new, popular visual medium of cinema to advertisers, concerns over ticket prices, advertising circulation, audience irritation, and the potential for theatrical 'suicide-by-advertising,' resulted, over a mere fifteen years, in the near abandonment of the cinema as an advertising medium. As a transitional medium between the 19th century forms of print and billboarding, and 20th century broadcasting, the silent cinema was an important element in the development of modern advertising theories.

The local language production strategy (LLP) emerged in the early 1990s and developed into a key practice for major media corporations operating in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. This dissertation analyzes where Sony’s international production strategies intersect transformations in the Brazilian and Spanish film industries during the mid-1990s to 2010. The LLP strategy, widely perceived as a corporate product of globalization and market power of Sony, is simultaneously viewed as a culturally specific media product intended for local Portuguese or Spanish-language audiences using national tax incentive policies and talent. This project provides a multi-layered history of Sony’s trans/national practices, Latin American and European regional industries, Brazilian and Spanish national policies and conditions, and the creative agency and power of local film production companies. Adapted from Timothy Havens, Amanda D. Lotz, and Serra Tinic’s critical media industry studies approach and Paul du Gay’s “circuit of culture,” I conducted archival research and on-site field interviews in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Madrid, and Brussels with local producers, distributors, policymakers, lobbyists, and Sony executives. The study is grounded equally in box office data, co-production financing specifics, and cultural policy as well as first-hand accounts and industry discourse. Instead of labeling the LLP another all-powerful strategy of Global Hollywood, I explore the everyday practices, power relations, and complex negotiations involved in local and national agents working alongside large transnational media company to produce commercial films like Chico Xavier (2010) or Salir Pitando (2007). Sony’s local operations have to balance the global corporate strategy and logic with changing local conditions, policies, practices, technologies, and partnerships. Each location study illustrates a unique strategy and situation ranging from the quasi-autonomous operation in São Paulo to the short-lived, highly micro-managed Sony European operation in based in Madrid. I challenge traditional theoretical and industrial understandings of national cinema, media imperialism, media convergence, and the classification of Sony Pictures Entertainment as solely an American or Japanese company. What results is a close institutional analysis exploring issues such as what defines “local” media industries, the flexibility of the nation, and the position of transnational media companies outside the U.S. / text

In the early years of the twentieth century, the unique new medium of motion pictures was the focus of significant theorization and experimentation at the fringes of the American advertising industry. Alongside the growth of the nickelodeon, and the multiple shifts in the American cinema's business model in the 'transitional era,' various individuals at the margins of the advertising industry attempted, and most often failed, to integrate direct consumer-goods advertising regularly into motion picture theaters. Via techniques as diverse as the glass slide, the commercial trailer, and the advertising wall-clock, cinema patrons of the 1910s witnessed various attempts by merchants and manufacturers to intrude upon their attention in the cinema space. Through research in the trade presses of the cinema, advertising, and various consumer-goods industries, along with archival ephemera from the advertising companies themselves, this dissertation explores these various on and off-screen tactics for direct advertising attempted in silent cinemas, and their eventual minimization in the American cinema experience. Despite the appeal of the new, popular visual medium of cinema to advertisers, concerns over ticket prices, advertising circulation, audience irritation, and the potential for theatrical 'suicide-by-advertising,' resulted, over a mere fifteen years, in the near abandonment of the cinema as an advertising medium. As a transitional medium between the 19th century forms of print and billboarding, and 20th century broadcasting, the silent cinema was an important element in the development of modern advertising theories.

KINO TEATRO LANKOMUMO SVYRAVIMAI EUROPOS SĄJUNGOJE 1990 - 2007 m. Santrauka Nuo 1990 metų prasidėjo kino teatro lankomumo atgimimas, užbaigęs ankstesnį tris dešimtmečius trukusį kino teatro lankomumo mažėjimą. Naujieji amerikietiško tipo kino teatrai – multipleksai – turintys 8 ir daugiau kino sales bei rodantys įspūdingus, finansiniu požiūriu itin sėkmingus filmus, sugrąžino auditoriją į kino teatrus. Bet jau 2001 metais pagal kino teatrų skaičių Europos Sąjungos 15 šalių kino rinka, charakterizuojama kaip galutinai įsotinta ir kurios neįmanoma plėsti vien tik plečiant kino teatrų tinklą. Didžiausias kino teatro lankomumo augimo potencialas stebimas Europos Sąjungos naujosiose šalyse, kur į kino rinkas iki šiol investuota santykinai mažai. Čia palyginus mažas kino ekranų skaičius, tenkantis šalies gyventojams bei mažas kasmetinis apsilankymų skaičius, tenkantis vienam gyventojui. Darbe nustatomos priežastys, sukėlusios kino teatro lankomumo svyravimus, iš kurių pagrindine laikoma – multipleksų plėtra. Darbe teigiama, kad šalyse, kuriose mažiausiai išvystyti multipleksai, yra mažiausias kino teatrų lankomumas. Šis darbas, vertinant jo praktinę reikšmę, turėtų būti aktualus vystantiems kino verslą ir visiems besidomintiems kinu, kino istorija, kino teatrų auditorijos pasikeitimu, multipleksų atsiradimu ir jų įtaka formuojant vartojimo įpročius. / FLUCTUATIONS IN CINEMA ATTENDANCE (EU, 1990 – 2007) Summary Since 1990 cinema attendance began to revive after having declined over a 30-year period. The arrival of American-style multiplexes – new cinemas with eight or more screens demonstrating blockbuster films – had successfully attracted audiences back to the cinema. Since 2001 in terms of the number of cinemas, EU 15 countries cinema market was already described as fundamentally saturated and can no longer be expanded by building new cinemas. The greatest potential lies with new EU countries that untill now have seen less intensive investment. Here cinema markets have low screen densities, which are currently accompanied by low admission – per capita ratios. This paper examines the reasons of fluctuations in cinema attendance and considers the impact of the multiplex development. In terms of practical meaning, this paper should be relevant to cinema business developers and all others being intersted in cinema, cinema history, changes in cinema audiences, rise of multiplex and its impact on consumer habbits.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-13T14:50:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-08-02Bitstream added on 2014-08-13T18:01:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000746275_20170808.pdf: 287863 bytes, checksum: 71d3478d87be20df0fae4035f6723e27 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2017-08-11T12:08:17Z: 000746275_20170808.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-08-11T12:09:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000746275.pdf: 2037906 bytes, checksum: 8f9b3c46d57788482279240b4d892dc1 (MD5) / A presente dissertação investiga a atividade intelectual e política do crítico de cinema Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes na década de 1950. Analisando o projeto político-pedagógico da Cinemateca Brasileira, compreendemos que Paulo Emilio pautou-se no conceito de cultura cinematográfica para embasar a atividade da instituição no intuito de formar no Brasil um público crítico, capaz de compreender diferentes obras da cinematografia mundial em sua totalidade expressiva. Pensando o cinema enquanto linguagem, estética e expressão social, Paulo Emilio inaugura um método crítico inovador, que procuramos entender a partir da aproximação com teóricos do cinema como André Bazin, Erwin Panofski, Gilbert Cohen-Séat e alguns intelectuais da Revue de Filmologie. Em perspectiva, a atividade de Paulo Emilio entre 1954 e 1958 foi-lhe campo de sua práxis, que toma forma definitiva na Semana de Cultura Cinematográfica. No evento, foram exibidos filmes produzidos da República de Weimar, influenciados em sua maioria pela vanguarda expressionista. Para complementar a mostra, Paulo Emilio publicou uma série de onze ensaios, que analisamos e preenchemos suas lacunas a partir da comparação com as obras que lhe foram referência. Sobre os ensaios publicados em princípio de 1959, no Suplemento Literário do jornal O Estado de São Paulo, analisamos as referências de Paulo Emilio prestadas aos trabalhos de Henri Langlois, Siegfried Kracauer, Lotte H. Eisner, como modo de entender o percurso analítico adotado tanto na concepção da mostra, quanto da crítica aos filmes alemães / This dissertation investigates the intellectual activity and political film critic Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes in the 1950s. Analyzing the political-pedagogical project of Brazilian Cinema, Emilio understand that Paul was based on the concept of film culture to support the activity of the institution in order to form an audience in Brazil critic, able to understand different works of world cinema in its entirety expressive. Thinking cinema as language, aesthetics and social expression, Paulo Emilio innovative inaugurates a critical method, we seek to understand from the approach to film theorists such as André Bazin, Erwin Panofski, Gilbert Cohen-Seat and some intellectuals Revue Filmologie. In perspective, the activity of Emilio Paulo between 1954 and 1958 was her field of professional practice, taking definite shape in Film Culture Week. At the event were shown films produced in the Weimar Republic, mostly influenced by avant-garde expressionist. To complement the exhibition, Paulo Emilio ran a series of eleven essays that analyze and fill the gaps from the comparison with the works that have been reference. About the essays published in early 1959 in the literary supplement of the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, analyze references Paulo Emilio provided the work of Henri Langlois, Siegfried Kracauer, Lotte H. Eisner, as a way to understand the analytical path adopted in the conception of the show, as the criticism of German films

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:29Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 teixeira_ra_me_mar.pdf: 1191206 bytes, checksum: 28aa0a7599d3fa99a777f367ecf67479 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Analisamos nesta pesquisa cinco obras da produção cinematográfica nacional: Rio, Quarenta Graus (1955), Rio, Zona Norte (1957), O assalto ao trem pagador (1962), Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (2005) e Tropa de Elite (2007). Todos esses filmes trazem, cada qual a sua maneira, as representações da periferia no cinema brasileiro. Alguns com claras preocupações políticas, outros mais engajados com o mercado cinematográfico. Tomamos tais narrativas como porta de entrada para análise do pensamento social que lhes dá origem e que permeia suas estéticas. Selecionamos essas obras como representativas de parte do pensamento social que nelas se encontra sob a forma de discursos variados sobre a questão “periferia”. A pesquisa divide-se em duas partes principais: a Parte I tem o objetivo de analisar as representações cinematográficas dos anos de 1950/60; a Parte II cumpre o mesmo percurso de análise sobre a produção dos anos 2000. Ao final, buscamos comparar os dois períodos históricos com o intuito de observar quais as mudanças ocorridas nas representações da periferia no cinema brasileiro em dois importantes momentos da história do país / We analyzed in this research five works of the national film production, Rio, Quarenta Graus (1955), Rio, Zona Norte (1957), O assalto ao trem pagador (1962), Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (2005) and Tropa de Elite (2007). All of these films, each in its own way, present representations of the periphery in Brazilian films’ industry. Some of them, present clear political concerns, while others, are more engaged with the film market. We take these narratives as a gateway for analysis of the social thought that originates these films and permeates their aesthetic. We selected these works as representative of part of the social thought, which, in these cases, is present in the form of various discourses over the matter periphery. This research is divided in two main parts: Part I aims to analyze the cinematic representations of the years 1950/1960, Part II fulfills the same path analysis on the production of the 2000s. At the end, we compare the two historical periods in order to observe the changes on the peripheral representations in Brazilian film production in two important moments of the country’s history

This thesis explores representations of landscape in Chilean fiction cinema from 2008 to 2014, through a corpus drawn from the so-called novisimo cine chileno, a generation of young filmmakers who have attracted significant critical attention both within Chile and on international festival and arthouse circuits. The thesis is built on close readings of the selected films within a conceptual framework informed by interdisciplinary perspectives from the developing field of landscape studies. It aims to show how these cinematic landscapes function beyond the limitations of narrative setting or symbolic imagery and are instead represented in ways which capture landscape's processual, experiential and polysemic nature, which in turn throws light on landscape as an approach to a wide range of thematic concerns within these films. It begins by placing the selected corpus within a broader cultural history of the Chilean landscape and maps out the conceptual framework which will be applied and developed through the thesis, considering landscape as experience and process, as well as image. The thesis then sets out the foundations for the thesis' close readings by demonstrating how such a conceptual approach can reveal the inherent tensions of film landscapes - between being inside and outside, contemplation and immersion, proximity and distance - and can also uncover the multisensory and embodied aspects of landscapes on screen, with particular attention to the roles of sound and haptic imagery. In the remainder of the thesis, this approach to landscape is developed through further close analysis of selected films in order to demonstrate how landscape functions in relation to certain thematic concerns - what contact between body and landscape reveals about materiality and mortality, how the cinematic landscape both invites and resists its framing as territory, and how film as a medium has a particular capacity to evoke the multiple temporalities at work within landscape. As a whole, the thesis works to illuminate the aesthetic, formal, narrative and thematic functions of landscape in the chosen films and argues for the usefulness of interdisciplinary conceptual approaches in the study of cinematic landscapes in order to reach a more nuanced understanding of film's representation of the relation of people and place.

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis. 2009 / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-24T22:16:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 267261.pdf: 1070666 bytes, checksum: ab75cf01e866eb24c0c8db8d0b942da8 (MD5) / Os conceitos de arqueologia e de genealogia desenvolvidos por Michel Foucault são referenciais e elementos dinamizadores da análise em questão, voltada às possíveis articulações entre o cinema de Pedro Almodóvar e as suas textualidades fundadoras # o melodrama cinematográfico, o cinema clássico hollywoodiano, a filmografia de Luís Buñuel, a trilogia materna de Garcia Lorca #, ligações permeadas pela subversão e pela perversidade. Na filmografia do diretor/autor, o caráter transgressivo vai além da inversão e do deslocamento, fazendo-se presente também através de ausências inquietantes. O silenciamento das vozes que representam o poder patriarcal, em Almodóvar, revela uma perturbadora ausência. No entanto, sob a superfície de suas conhecidas #cores#, sob a efusividade de suas personagens, sob o complexo emaranhado de suas tramas, podemos entrever os #fantasmas#, as #sombras# que permeiam a história e a cultura espanholas. A ênfase na temática do desejo, do hedonismo, da maternidade; a insistente representação dos laços de solidariedade estabelecidos entre mulheres, entre mães e filhos/as, podem ser vistas como estratégias discursivas que abafam as vozes pretéritas opressoras e as suas ruínas.