This study focuses on the organisation and operation of the Australian Government’s Department of Information that operated from 1939 to 1950. Equal weighting is given to the wartime and peacetime halves of the Department’s existence, allowing a balanced assessment of the Department’s role and development from its creation through to its abolition. The central issue that the Department had to address was: what was an appropriate and acceptable role for a government information organisation in Australia’s democratic political system? The issue was not primarily one of formal restrictions on the government’s power but rather of the accepted conception of the role of government. No societal consensus had been established before the Department was thrust into dealing with this issue on a practical basis. While the application of the Department’s censorship function attracted considerable comment, the procedures were clear and accepted. Practices laid down in World War I were revived and followed, while arguments were over degree rather than kind. It was mainly in the context of its expressive functions that the Department had to confront the fundamental issue of its role. This study shows that the development of the Department was driven less by sweeping ministerial pronouncements than through a series of pragmatic incremental responses to circumstances as they arose. This Departmental approach was reinforced by its organisational weakness. The Department’s options in its relations with media organisations and other government agencies were, broadly, competition, compulsion and cooperation. Competition was never widely pursued and the limits of compulsion in regard to its expressive functions were rapidly reached and withdrawn from. Particularly through to 1943 the Department struggled when it sought to assert its position against the claims of other government agencies and commercial organisations. Notwithstanding some high profile conflicts, this study shows that the Department primarily adopted a cooperative stance, seeking to supplement rather than supplant the work of other organisations. Following the 1943 Federal elections the Department was strengthened by stable and focused leadership as well as the development of its own distribution channels and outlets whose audience was primarily overseas. While some elements, such as the film unit, remained reasonably politically neutral, the Department as a whole was increasingly employed to promote the message of the Government of the day. This led to a close identification of the Department with the Labor Party, encouraging the Department’s abolition following the Coalition parties’ victory in the 1949 Federal elections. Nevertheless in developing its role the Department had remained within the mainstream of administrative practice in Australia. While some of its staff assumed a greater public profile than had been the practice for prewar public servants, this was not unusual or exceptional at that time. Partly through the efforts of the Department, the accepted conception of the role of government had expanded sufficiently by 1950 that despite the abolition of the Department most of its functions continued within the Australian public sector.

Contemporary activists in the United States find it increasingly difficult to negotiate socio-political constraints to build a social movement. Those looking for relatively safe and effective venues for participation in and communication of dissent face oppression by the hegemonic power of the political right and, in the case of climate activism, anti-climate-science discourse. I use the case study of the climate action movement to explore how contemporary activists use new communication media technologies (hereafter new media) to establish and strengthen a movement. Even though climate change affects the daily lives of ordinary Americans, no U.S. policy exists to mitigate carbon emissions. New media offer the potential for new, safer venues for participation in and communication about social movements. I used empirical qualitative and critical methods to analyze the communication of climate change activism in Texas, USA. I examined how Step It Up! 2007 (SIU) used new media to facilitate or constrain public participation in climate action. I used critical discourse analysis to examine information provided to citizens on the SIU website, and I attended the SIU event in San Antonio, Texas. I found SIU organizers successfully used new media to increase agitation and to shift power away from the federal government to the local grassroots level. I recommend activists use new media as a unifying tool, to provide a fragmented and apathetic citizenry with a message that can be used to affect change. I conducted a critical rhetorical analysis of Working Film’s 2007 documentary on global warming, Everything’s Cool, as a means to suggest how, and in what ways, activists use new media to build a movement. I also hosted an activist screening. I examined how new media facilitate or constrain communication of movement messages. I found activists used the documentary and open source activism as a rhetorical exercise in agitation to refigure public understanding of climate science and attitudes toward U.S. climate change policy. Everything’s Cool positioned climate activism, and participating in the movement broadly, as accessible and acceptable, helping to rhetorically constitute a new kind of citizen activist, shifting power roles to a grassroots network of local leaders.

Este é um estudo sobre os escritos do cineasta Dziga Viértov e sobre a publicação desses documentos na União Soviética e, posteriormente, na Rússia. Na primeira parte deste trabalho, é analisado o primeiro momento de resgate da obra de Viértov na então URSS pouco após o falecimento do cineasta, em 1954. Relacionando esse processo ao contexto mais amplo do chamado Degelo e analisando o período que vai de 1957 a 1967, vemos como o redescobrimento dos filmes de Viértov correu em paralelo com o redescobrimento de sua obra escrita, através da publicação de seus artigos, diários e roteiros inéditos inicialmente em revistas e jornais, depois na primeira coletânea desses escritos a ser publicada na URSS, Statí. Dnevnikí. Zámisli (Artigos. Diários. Projetos), organizada por Serguei Drobachenko. Lançada em 1966 e fonte comum de todas as principais traduções de textos de Viértov hoje disponíveis em diversos idiomas, esta coletânea é aqui analisada criticamente: partindo de comentários de pesquisadores como Liév Rochál, Aleksandr Deriábin, John MacKay e Dária Krujkôva a respeito de imprecisões na reprodução dos textos no volume, sobretudo em relação a cortes realizados por motivos políticos, foi realizado para este trabalho um cotejo de todos os documentos incluídos em Statí. Dnevnikí. Zámisli com as versões desses mesmos materiais na recente edição Iz Nasliêdia da obra escrita de Viértov, publicada na Rússia em dois volumes (2004, 2008). A íntegra desse cotejo é apresentada como a Parte IV deste trabalho; na Parte I, a partir de exemplos concretos de artigos que foram modificados, são propostas e analisadas as características gerais dos cortes e reescrituras deliberadas realizadas pelo editor do volume, sendo ressaltados os limites - estéticos e políticos - deste primeiro momento de recuperação da obra do cineasta na então URSS. Na Parte II, partimos de diversos materiais incluídos na recente edição Iz Nasliêdia (em grande parte, até então inéditos) e também de documentos preservados no fundo de Viértov no RGALI, em Moscou, e no Österreichiche Filmmusem, em Viena, para estudar a \"última fase\" da carreira de Viértov, de 1938 a 1954, anos durante os quais o cineasta realiza poucos filmes, mas desenvolve mais de trinta projetos que acabaram não sendo realizados. Destacamos suas tentativas de realizar filmes infanto-juvenis, suas experiências durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, seus projetos de retratos de pessoas comuns, seus textos autoreflexivos da década de 1940 e os últimos artigos que escreve a partir de sua experiência no cinejornal Nôvosti Dniá, onde trabalhou de 1944 até sua morte em 1954. Na Parte III desta dissertação, são apresentadas traduções feitas a partir dos originais em russo (publicados em Iz Nasliêdia e preservados no RGALI e no Österreichiche Filmmusem) de catorze textos do cineasta comentados ao longo das partes I e II. / This is a work about the writings of Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov and their publication in Soviet Union and, more recently, in Russia. In its first part, we analyze the first wave of Vertov\'s posthumous recognition in the USSR after his death in 1954. Relating this process to the broader context of the so-called period of the Thaw and focusing on the time frame of 1957 to 1967, we discuss how the rediscovery of Vertov\'s films was accompanied by a rediscovery of his writings, through the publication of many previously unpublished articles, diaries and scripts initially in various film journals and newspapers and, in 1966, in the first collected edition of these materials to be published in the Soviet Union: Stat\'i. Dnevniki. Zamysly, organized by Sergei Drobashenko. As the main source for all of the most important translations of Vertov\'s writings to languages such as German, French and English, this edition is critically analyzed here: departing from commentaries by researchers such as Lev Roshal\', Aleksandr Deryabin, John MacKay and Daria Kruzhkova about the many imprecisions existent in the reproduction of Vertov\'s texts in this 1966 edition - such as the omission of certain paragraphs and sentences due to their political content -, a thorough comparative analysis was made for this work between all the texts included in Stat\'i. Dnevniki. Zamysly and the reproduction of these same materials in the recent Russian two-volume edition of Vertov\'s writings, Iz Nasledya (2004, 2008). The full text of this comparison is presented as Part IV of this work; in Part I, the general characteristics of these cuts and deliberate rewritings of certain passages within the texts, made by the volume\'s editor, are discussed on the basis of some concrete examples of documents that were considerably altered. By means of this analysis, we also discuss the aesthetical and political limits of this first wave of posthumous interest in Vertov in the USSR. In Part II, we depart from various materials included in the recent Iz Nasledya edition (many of which were previously unpublished) and also from documents preserved in Vertov\'s fund in the RGALI, in Moscow, and in the Dziga Vertov Collection of the Österreichische FIlmmuseum, in Vienna, to study the \"later period\" of Vertov\'s career, from 1938 to 1954, years during which he was able to make only a few films, but developed over 30 projects that remained unrealized. We discuss his unrealized projects for children\'s films, his experiences during the Second World War, his projects for portraits of ordinary people, his reflexive autobiographical texts of the 1940s and the last articles he wrote on the basis of his experience in the Novosti Dnia newsreel, which occupied Vertov from 1944 until his death in 1954. In Part III, we present translations to Portuguese from the Russian originals (published in the Iz Nasledya edition and preserved in the RGALI and in the Österreichische Filmmuseum) of fourteen of the filmmaker\'s texts commented in parts I and II of this work.

Este trabalho analisa os usos do material de arquivo, as construções discursivas e a visão historiográfica deles decorrentes em dois filmes dedicados a personagens da música popular brasileira, em particular do samba: o curta-metragem A voz e o vazio: A vez de Vassourinha (1998), de Carlos Adriano, e o longa-metragem Cartola, música para os olhos (2006), de Lírio Ferreira e Hilton Lacerda. Os dois filmes estão construídos a partir de uma perspectiva da estética found footage, com o material de arquivo operando como base indicial para novos arranjos de sentido na interpretação da história. A análise busca identificar os nexos criados pelas duas obras e a variada gama de diálogos culturais que podem ser inferidos de sua leitura. Em destaque, o lugar que a música popular ocupa na cultura urbana brasileira. Ao fazê-lo, o trabalho identifica matrizes estéticas comuns, como o cinema de invenção de Julio Bressane, mas que resultam em diferentes abordagens historiográficas: uma, signatária de uma visão pós-moderna; a outra, mais próxima a uma atualização da crônica histórica. / This dissertation analyses the use of archive material, the discursive constructions and the resulting historiographic vision in two films dedicated to personalities from Brazilian Popular Music, particularly from samba: the short film The voice and the void: Vassourinhas turn (1998), by Carlos Adriano, and the feature film Cartola, music for the eyes (2006), by Lírio Ferreira and Hilton Lacerda. Both films were assembled from the perspective of found footage aesthetic, in which the archive material indicates new arrangements of meaning for the interpretation of the story.The analysis aims to identify the nexuses created by the two works and the varied range of cultural dialogues that may be inferred from their interpretation. Special attention is given to the place of popular music in Brazilian urban culture. As a result, common aesthetic matrixes are identified, such as Julio Bressanes cinema of invention, resulting, however, in different historiographic approaches: one, signatory of a post-modern vision; the other, more similar to an update of historic chronicles.

Orientador: Francisco Elinaldo Teixeira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T12:59:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Borges_RafaeldeAlmeidaTavares_D.pdf: 2009389 bytes, checksum: eda91704dd3d7352465ae0473264dbbc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Pesquisa sobre a obra do artista plástico e cineasta Cao Guimarães, considerando, em especial, os aspectos estéticos de seus trabalhos e as implicações políticas latentes provenientes da forma ensaística assumida por suas obras. O artista contemporâneo parte da escuridão de seu tempo e percebe as potências de linguagem camufladas nos detalhes mais ínfimos, materiais com os quais irá trabalhar para abri-los a um novo possível uso, a novos modos de perceber e sentir, a serem partilhados com aqueles que entram em contato com suas obras. A filmografia analisada se constituiu das seguintes obras em curtametragem: Otto - eu sou um outro (1998); The eye land (1999); Between - inventário de pequenas mortes (2000); Sopro (2000); Hypnosis (2001); Word/World (2001); Coletivo (2002); Volta ao mundo em algumas páginas (2002); Aula de anatomia (2003); Nanofonia (2003); Concerto para clorofila (2004); Da janela do meu quarto (2004); Atrás dos olhos de Oaxaca (2006); Quarta-feira de cinzas (2006); Peiote (2007); Sin peso (2007); El pintor tira el cine a la basura (2008); Mestres da Gambiarra (2008); Memória (2008); O sonho da casa própria (2008); O inquilino (2010). Já em longa-metragem, temos: O fim do sem fim (2001); Rua de mão dupla (2002); A alma do osso (2004); Acidente (2006); Andarilho (2006) e Ex isto (2010). Uma espécie de cartografia de suas poéticas - aqui denominadas poéticas do lago e sua superfície - é o que buscamos realizar no âmbito dessa pesquisa, por meio da construção de um percurso analítico junto às obras de Cao Guimarães / Abstract: Research on the work of the artist and filmmaker Cao Guimarães, considering, in particular, the aesthetic aspects and the latent political implications from the essayistic form assumed by his works. The contemporary artist parts from the obscurity of his period and realizes the language potential camouflaged in the finest details, materials in which he will work to open them to a possible new use, to new ways of perceiving and feeling, which will be shared with those who have contact with his works. The analyzed filmography consisted on the following short films: Otto - I am another (1998); The eye land (1999); Between (2000); Blow (2000); Hypnosis (2001); Word/World (2001); Bus (2002); Around the world in a few pages (2002); Anatomy class (2003); Nanophany (2003); Concert for clorophyll (2004); From the window of my room (2004); Behind Oaxaca's eyes (2006); Epilogue (2006); Peiote (2007); Weightless (2007); El pintor tira el cine a la basura (2008); Masters and Gambiarras (2008); Memory (2008); Veiled dream (2008); The tenant (2010). Already in feature film, we have: The end of the endless (2001); Two way street (2002); The soul of the bone (2004); Accident (2006); Drifter (2006) and Ex it (2010). A type of mapping of his poetics - here denominated as lake poetics and its surface - is what we intend to accomplish in this research, through the construction of an analytical course along the works of Cao Guimarães / Doutorado / Multimeios / Doutor em Multimeios

Though the remnants of a stereotype created over two millennia ago still thrive in American popular culture today, redheaded women are enjoying a more positive role in society than they have ever seen before. Women in Red explores the experience of the redheaded woman in America today by examining how the stereotypes have affected a small group of them, how these women relate to the stereotypes, and why, given the verisimilitude of the stereotype, a non-redheaded woman would embrace such an identity with the simple act of dying her hair red. This is the story behind the experience that is Women in Red.

My Brother’s Keeper is a Documentary Film developed to explore the life of John Dillinger. It examines the legendary criminal through the memories of Frances Dillinger Thompson, his last remaining sibling. The film attempts to understand John Dillinger by exposing his intimate childhood relationship with his sister, and the burdens his actions left on her.

O indivíduo contemporâneo é fragmentado e possui múltiplas identidades. Quantas referências culturais uma pessoa pode ter? Como essas diferentes identidades convivem entre si? Esta pesquisa acadêmica teve por objetivo utilizar o documentário como meio constituinte e significante para a reflexão sobre a construção das identidades culturais de imigrantes espanhóis na cidade de São Paulo. Para tanto, produzimos um exercício prático em formato de documentário, acompanhado de uma análise que contempla a reflexão sobre o método de produção construído durante a realização do exercício. A reflexão foi feita a partir de aproximações de métodos de produção do antropólogo David MacDougall e dos realizadores Eduardo Coutinho e Trinh T.Minh-há. Do mesmo modo, servimo-nos de alguns postulados de coleta de depoimentos da História Oral, propostos por José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy, e dos acercamentos às memórias pessoais estudados por Ecléa Bosi. Levou-se em consideração, ainda, a hipótese elaborada no contexto do laboratório Aruanda lab.doc. Esse grupo de pesquisas, que reflete sobre as diferentes formas de produção de audiovisuais de não-ficção, postula como hipótese que não há uma metodologia única ou unificadora para o documentário, na medida em que ele tem como princípio fundante o compromisso com o real. Isso obriga ao realizador que haja adaptações dos métodos planejados às condições de realização impostas pelo mundo histórico. / The contemporary man is a fragmented being with multiple identities. How many cultural references can a person have? How those different identities interact? In this academic research, documentary film was used as means of constituency and significance of the construct of the cultural identities of Spanish immigrants in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. In order to achieve that, a practical exercise in a documentary film format was conducted, and a written discussion of the method of production elected for the practice was elaborated. The reflection is based on parallels with production methods from the anthropologist David MacDougall and the filmmakers Eduardo Coutinho and Trinh Minh-ha. The analysis also profits from the Oral History collection by José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy and from Ecléa Bosis approach to personal memories. Another source for this research was the set of hypothesis bring about in Aruanda lab.doc meetings. Aruanda is a research group, concerned with reflecting on the various forms of audiovisual production of non-fiction and documentary films. We share Aruandas main research hypothesis is that no single or unifying methodology can account for a documentary film, due to the fact that the foundating principle of documentaries is the compromise with the worlds concrete realities, which requires adaptations of the planned methods to the conditions imposed by the historic world.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Estela Maiello Modena.pdf: 1507004 bytes, checksum: e0cbb7296496450eeb120a95457400c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-13 / This study aims to identify and analyze problems related to the preservation and the threat of faces on interviews made for film documentary. For the development of the research, we selected a corpus composed of fifteen interviews which can be found within the documentary film Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) and we sought to ascertain how the participants of the film selected defend and/or threat their faces, taking into consideration the singularity of the interaction s situation involved: the presence of cameras, future projection on a large scale, interlocutors interacting as "actors" of a film etc. Based on a socio-interactionist approach, the analysis started from a theoretical framework based mainly on the theories of Conversation Analysis and Pragmatics Linguistics. From these theories some of the needed subsidies were withdrawn, respectively, for the analysis of the characteristics that specify interview genus and, in particular, the documentary film interviews, and also for understanding the concept of face and other concepts derived from it. The analysis of the research s material has shown that for the construction, preservation and threat of their faces, the interviewees from the Edifício Master faced a dilemma in which their self-image, possibly valued in the social group they are part of, get into a conflict with the image they built to give strength to the character they represent in the film. The interactions made by the participants of the documentary will, therefore, seek for a balance between the roles they play in society and the roles they play in the film. The specificities of the selected corpus brought to light some elements that were not listed in most daily interactions, showing potential for further investigation and thus justifying the study / Este trabalho tem por objetivo identificar e analisar os problemas que envolvem a preservação e a ameaça de faces em entrevistas de cinema documentário. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, selecionou-se um corpus composto de quinze entrevistas pertencentes ao documentário cinematográfico Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) e buscou-se averiguar de que modo os participantes do filme selecionado defendem e/ou ameaçam suas faces, tendo em vista a singularidade da situação de interação em que estão engajados: presença de câmeras, futura projeção em grande escala, interlocutores interagindo como atores de um filme etc. Valendo-se de uma abordagem sócio-interacionista da linguagem, partiu-se de um referencial teórico embasado, sobretudo, em teorias da Análise da Conversação e da Pragmática Lingüística. Dessas teorias, retiraram-se os subsídios necessários, respectivamente, ao exame das características que particularizam o gênero entrevista e, em especial, as entrevistas de cinema documentário, e à compreensão do conceito de face e de outros conceitos dele derivados. A análise do material de pesquisa revelou que, relativamente à construção, preservação e ameaça de suas faces, os entrevistados-personagens do Edifício Master são colocados diante um dilema em que a imagem de si construída e, possivelmente, valorizada no grupo social do qual fazem parte entra em conflito com a imagem cinematográfica por eles construída para dar força à personagem que representam no filme. Os movimentos interacionais realizados pelos participantes do documentário vão, portanto, no sentido de uma busca de conciliação entre os papéis que desempenham na sociedade e os papéis que desempenham no filme. As especificidades do corpus selecionado trouxeram à luz elementos que não figuram na maioria das interações cotidianas, revelando possibilidades de estudos ainda pouco investigadas e justificando, assim, o estudo realizado

DALMEIDA, Alfredo Dias. A construção do outro nos documentários de Geraldo Sarno e Jorge Prelorán. 2008. 257 f. Tese (Doutorado) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Integração da América Latina, Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. Por meio de um estudo comparado entre os filmes sobre a cultura popular realizados por Geraldo Sarno e Jorge Prelorán na segunda metade da década de 60, busca-se identificar como é construído o outro no documentário. O estudo também dá pistas sobre a postura da esquerda e dos intelectuais à época e sobre que imagens da cultura popular emanam do outro nessas obras. Defende-se que a construção do outro se efetiva a partir da estratégia fílmica, do olhar do realizador e da interação entre o realizador e o outro. Esses elementos são conformados pelos contextos social e histórico, de um lado, e pelas opções formais e estéticas de cunho pessoal, de outro. Discute-se a história do documentário e as estratégias fílmicas que influenciaram o chamado de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, movimento cinematográfico no qual Sarno e Prelorán estão inseridos. Decompõem-se unidades narrativas, visuais e sonoras de um conjunto de documentários, para apreender como os significados ganham inteligibilidade e que concepção do outro é construída. Conclui-se que o outro é construído como personagem no seu encontro com o cineasta, por uma troca de saberes negociada. Como personagem, o outro será reconstruído novamente na montagem, pelo olhar do realizador. Hermógens Cayo é apontado como um exemplo de atitude ética por parte do documentarista. / DALMEIDA, Alfredo Dias. The construction of the other in the documentaries of Sarno and Prelorán. 2008. Thesis (Doctoral) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Integração da América Latina, Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. This thesis analyzes the work of Geraldo Sarno (Brazil) and Jorge Prelorán (Argentina) in the sixties, aiming to identify how the other is built in documentaries. Their work give voice to country people deprived of modern means of production. Their movies provide material to discuss the position of the local intellectual elite regarding popular culture and cultural colonialism. After describing the image of Latin America popular culture forged by those moviemakers, we claim that the other is a persona produced by the filmic strategy, due to two factors: (1) the nature of the interaction between interviewer and her subject; and (2) the point of view of the moviemaker. The latter tailors the other during the film edition. Dismounting units of meaning, in terms of story, visual sequence and sound track, we get insights about how the ethical and aesthetic options of a moviemaker, on one hand, and the social and history moment of creation, on the other hand, contribute to the specific quality of a particular movie. We also identify Nuevo Cine Latinoamericanos main inspirers.