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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Photo, Memory and Guilt in The Dark Room

He, Terri 13 June 2005 (has links)
Focusing on Rachel Seiffert¡¦s The Dark Room, this thesis discusses three German protagonists¡¦ fictional representations in three different times and space, all coming from different family backgrounds and with different social understandings in relation to the Holocaust in the World War II. In my discussions on this trilogy, moreover, The Dark Room is believed to have demonstrated the notion of ¡§humanity¡¨ in the sense that vulnerability, perseverance, egoism, ignorance, guilt, sorrow, goodwill, evilness, light and darkness are all intertwined and coexisting as some kind of symbiosis, one blended into another. Meanwhile, The Dark Room offers a significant debate over guilt and punishment, especially with the incredibly heavy historical inheritance on those who are descendents of the perpetrators in World War II living in the contemporary times. What is at stake thus is an interpretation and reading of the Holocaust that allows more of a new and multi-dimensional perspective on this traumatic event in the 20th century. This call for fresh ideas and contemporary understandings of the Holocaust can be seen as answered in The Dark Room as this book has successfully provided a glimpse of an atypical account from the perpetrator side of the story. This fact validates The Dark Room as one of the important literary works in the contemporary times.
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Le noir comme invention du cinéma : matière, forme, dispositif / Black as Cinema's Invention : material, form, device

Kuo, Li-Chen 21 November 2018 (has links)
Antipode de la lumière, le noir est pourtant indissociable du cinéma. Qu'est-ce que le noir du cinéma ? Figure de l'ombre ou de l'obscurité à l'image, il y est aussi présent en tant que tel, un noir sans représentation et avec sa réalité physique singulière. Ce noir-là est avant tout une condition technique, que l'on cache, mais qui joue un rôle décisif dans la production des illusions d'optique et la création de la fiction. Il est également omniprésent dans tout le processus de fabrication de l'image cinématographique. Le noir joue avec la lumière, conditionne la visibilité et l'invisibilité et, en ce sens, invente le cinéma. Le noir propose une autre manière de comprendre ce qu'est le cinéma ainsi que son fonctionnement. Cette étude traitera d'abord l'aspect matériel de l'image argentique : le noircissement photochimique et les idées qu'il suggère en tant que processus de la formation et de la dissolution de l'image. On évoquera ensuite, au travers du noir formel, outil rhétorique et mécanique, les effets produits par le noir, lorsqu'il intervient en tant que forme dans l'image, de l'image, et entre les images. Enfin, en tant que dispositif envahisseur de l'écran et de l'espace de projection, le noir révèlera son rôle dans le dispositif du spectacle visuel : la construction d'un accès à l'illusion et à la révélation. Chaque partie se déploiera dans un parcours à la fois historique, technique, et esthétique. On verra notamment dans des tentatives artistiques et expérimentales que la mise en avant du noir permet de révéler les caractéristiques du médium cinématographique, voire de ré-inventer le cinéma. Cette quête du noir se révèle comme une quête sur la nature du cinéma, nature que l'industrie du cinéma tente d'effacer. Le noir fait voir, et il fait voir autrement. / Even though black is the antipode of light it is nevertheless inseparable from the world of cinema. What is black in cinema? A figure of shadow or darkness in the image that is also present as such. Black without representation and with its singular physical reality. This blackness is above all a technical condition which is hidden but which plays a decisive role in the production of optical illusions and the creation of fiction. It is also omnipresent in the entire process of making the cinematographic image. Black plays with light and conditions visibility and invisibility. In this sense it invents cinema. Black also offers another way of understanding what cinema is and how it works. This study will first deal with the material aspect of photography: photochemical blackening and the ideas it suggests as a process of image formation and dissolution. I will then portray the different effects produced by black- the black shape a rhetorical and mechanical tool. When it intervenes as a form in the image, of the image, and between the image. Finally, I will discuss how black can be an invading device of the screen and the projection space and reveal its role as a visual spectacle apparatus: the construction of an access to illusion and revelation. Each part of this outline will be dealt with in a historical, technical and aesthetic way. We will see in particular in artistic and experimental attempts that the emphasis on black makes it possible to reveal the characteristics of the cinematographic medium or even to re-invent cinema. This quest for blackness is revealed as a quest for the nature of cinema. A nature that the film industry is trying to erase. Black makes you see but it makes you see differently.

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