Samuel Beckett's Film has been the focus of several articles in the past decade. While current investigations of Beckett's film are diverse, what most of them share is their dependence on biographical data to support their readings. Many scholars who have written on Beckett's failed cinematic excursion, for example, point to Beckett's letter of 1936 to Sergei Eisenstein. However, the link between Beckett's interest in film and his admiration for James Joyce has sadly been overlooked. Both Irish writers saw the artistic possibilities in film and both admired the Russian silent film legend, Sergei Eisenstein. Although there is no record of Joyce and Beckett discussing cinema or of Beckett knowing about Joyce's meeting with Eisenstein in 1929, it seems unlikely that Beckett would not have known something about these meetings or Joyce's much earlier film enterprise, the Volta. By re-examining Film and speculating on the possible three way connections between Eisenstein, Joyce and Beckett, I wish to add a footnote to Beckett studies which hopefully will lead others to wander on the Beckett-Joyce-Eisenstein trail and which will open up further discussions of Film. Beckett's film is haunted by the memory of his friendship with James Joyce and his admiration for Eisenstein's talent, both of which are visible in the screen images and theme of Film.

The goal of this thesis is two-fold. First, it gives an efficient method for calculating the action of Hecke operators in terms of "Manin" symbols, otherwise known as "M-symbols," in the first homology group of Bianchi spaces. Second, it presents data that may be used to understand and better state an unpublished conjecture of Fukaya, Kato, and Sharifi concerning the structure of Bianchi Spaces modulo Eisenstein ideals [5]. Swan, Cremona, and others have studied the homology of Bianchi spaces characterized as certain quotients of hyperbolic 3-space [3], [13]. The first homology groups are generated both by modular symbols and a certain subset of them: the Manin symbols. This is completely analogous to the study of the homology of modular curves. For modular curves, Merel developed a technique for calculating the action of Hecke operators completely in terms of "Manin" symbols [10]. For Bianchi spaces, Bygott and Lingham outlined methods for calculating the action of Hecke operators in terms of modular symbols [2], [9]. This thesis generalizes the work of Merel to Bianchi spaces. The relevant Bianchi spaces are characterized by imaginary quadratic fields K. The methods described in this thesis deal primarily with the case that the ring of integers of K is a PID. Let p be an odd prime that is split in K. The calculations give the F_p-dimension of the homology modulo both p and an Eisenstein ideal. Data is given for primes less than 50 and the five Euclidean imaginary quadratic fields Q(√-1), Q(√-2), Q(√-3), Q(√-7), and Q(√-11). All of the data presented in this thesis comes from computations done using the computer algebra package Magma.

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<p>Plastic Recognition traces a critical genealogy of the human face in cinema and its afterlives. By rethinking the history of film theory through its various investments in the face, it seeks to intervene not only in the discipline of film studies but more broadly within contemporary political and scientific discourse. This dissertation contends that the face is a privileged site for thinking through the question of recognition, a concept that cuts across a range of aesthetic, political, philosophical, and scientific thought. Plastic Recognition examines this intimate link between the face and recognition through a return to "classical" film theory, and specifically to the first generation of European and Soviet film theorists' preoccupation with the face in silent cinema. In the process, it recasts the canonical debate over cinematic specificity between Béla Balázs and Sergei Eisenstein as an antagonism between two opposing conceptions of the face in film: transparent universalism versus plastic typicality. Of these two conceptions, this project contends that the "Balázsian" idea of a transparently expressive face assumes cultural dominance in the latter half of the 20th century by virtue of its essential commensurability with the political and social ideal of mutual recognition that has come to prevail in the United States and Western Europe in the context of neoliberalism. Alongside and against this dominant tendency, the "Eisensteinian" insistence upon the plasticity of aesthetic form provides a radical alternative to the idealist metaphysics of immediacy underlying both the "Balázsian" notion of the cinematic face and the ideal of mutual recognition it exemplifies. That insistence forces into view the ways that recognition itself is always contingent upon aesthetic and technological practices, even (or especially) when it is brokered by that seemingly most immediate of images--the human face. By adopting this approach as its basic critical orientation, this dissertation attempts to restage the problem of recognition as fundamentally about the historicity of plastic form. The project concludes by turning to a scientific scene of recognition in which the "Balázsian" conception of the face makes an uncanny reappearance. The final chapter examines several studies in contemporary neuroscience that use representations of the human face as experimental stimuli in an effort to establish a neurophysiological basis for the mutual recognition of empathy.</p> / Dissertation

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Comunicação Social, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, 2013. / Submitted by Alaíde Gonçalves dos Santos (alaide@unb.br) on 2013-06-10T12:39:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_MarcelaTammRabello.pdf: 1013138 bytes, checksum: ec5fc229cf49184d3f40df140e64a82b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2013-06-10T13:07:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_MarcelaTammRabello.pdf: 1013138 bytes, checksum: ec5fc229cf49184d3f40df140e64a82b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-10T13:07:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_MarcelaTammRabello.pdf: 1013138 bytes, checksum: ec5fc229cf49184d3f40df140e64a82b (MD5) / Esta dissertação trata da teoria do monólogo interior de Serguei M. Eisenstein, cineasta e teórico russo. A fim de acompanharmos as reflexões de Eisenstein acerca do monólogo interior no cinema relacionamos tanto o recurso quanto a obra do cineasta e teórico russo ao contexto das vanguardas artísticas do início do século XX, principalmente o construtivismo russo. Ao considerar as reverberações do monólogo interior em outras linguagens artísticas, constatamos como o cinema e a teoria de Eisenstein estão inseridas em um movimento muito maior que abarca transformações em variadas formas de expressão que seguem se intensificando até os dias de hoje. _______________________________________________________________________________________ RÉSUMÉ / Cette dissertation a pour sujet la théorie du monologue intérieur de Serguei M. Eisenstein, cinéaste e théoricien russe. Pour accompagner les reflexions d’Eisenstein sur le monologue intérieur dans le cinéma, nous mettons en rapport aussi bien cette forme d’expression que l’oeuvre du cineaste et theoricien russe avec le contexte des avantgardes artistiques du début du XX ème siècle, notamment le Constructivisme Russe. En considerant les maniféstations du monologue intérieur dans des autres langages artistiques, nous constatons que le cinéma et la théorie d’Eisenstein s’insèrent dans un mouvement beaucoup plus grand qui concerne des transformations dans multiples formes d’expressions qui s’intensifient jusqu’aux jours actuels.

Orientador: Lucia Nagib / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-28T16:54:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viana_SoraiaConceicao_M.pdf: 3753236 bytes, checksum: 8b8b6727d13ed8a9a0343815efa221fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Elementos da cultura japonesa e chinesa contribuíram para as formulações da proposta de cinema de Sergei Eisenstein. O percurso da análise focaliza: o teatro japonês Kabuki, destacando sua proximidade com a proposta de cinema sonoro de Eisenstein; as gravuras ukiyo-e de Sharaku, associadas ao modo como Eisenstein explora os fragmentos de imagens para obter determinados efeitos; o teatro chinês de Mei Lan-fang, com sua proposta de um espetáculo que unifica os elementos cênicos, estimulando os diversos sentidos do espectador; e, finalmente, a analogia que Eisenstein faz da sua proposta de montagem no cinema com a milenar linguagem ideogramática chinesa. Há evidências dos diálogos de Eisenstein com esses elementos da cultura oriental em várias seqüências de seus filmes. A localização deles no filme Outubro (1928) facilita a compreensão do modo como Eisenstein estruturou sua proposta singular e revolucionária no campo das elaborações cinematográficas / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Multimeios

This submission falls into two sections: a thesis and a screenplay. My thesis presents an original approach to screenwriting using storytelling dynamics found in film editing; I call this “writing-for-the-cut”. This section also contains my software experiments that hold the promise of innovative digital tools for screenwriters. In the second section I apply both my editing strategy and my software experiments in the production of an original screenplay called Rush the Sky. In the history of the screenplay, the advent of the master scene format, which gained fairly wide circulation from the early 1950s (Price 11), marked a moment of separation of the screenwriter from the film production process. Up to this point most screenwriters worked closely with studios and were steeped in the contiguous crafts of filming and editing. But the master scene format freed the script from all references to the ‘factory’ and in so doing fundamentally transformed film writing culture; now a new generation of largely non-specialists were writing for the big screen. To fill the ‘film school’ void occasioned by the loss of studio apprenticeships and mentoring, a lively market in guru screenwriting manuals emerged, particularly from around the 1970s. Taking their cue from the ‘no camera angles’ injunction on screenplays, the manual-writers tended to delineate the territory of screenwriting as a craft detached from production; in this way manual-readers have been discouraged from any serious consideration of the follow-on crafts (filming and editing) as potential modifiers of the screenplay. The perhaps unintended consequence has been that ‘manual culture’ has come to foster a view of film as a finished, projected product: we are ‘writing for cinema’. I propose an alternative strategy: the edit suite, not the cinema, is the real destination for our screenplay. This is a view of film as a constructed product: we are ‘writing for the cut’. This idea finds its roots in the lively theories and debates advanced by the early Soviet filmmakers such as Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein in the 1910s and 1920s. For them, as Pudovkin declared “The foundation of film art is editing” (Pudovkin xiii). They viewed editing as a juxtapositional dynamic, one that engaged the inductive capacities of the audience to ‘discover’ the story. From this Hegelian notion of juxtaposition to its more nuanced application today, I identify three kinds of editorial juxtaposition that are essential to cinematic storytelling: poetry, puzzle, and kinesis. I suggest that these juxtapositions are interrelated and on axes of intensity: Poetry to Prose, Puzzle to Exposition, and Kinesis to Stasis. Finally, I identify how each of these editing terms can be adapted for use by screenwriters. In the second part of this submission, Rush the Sky is a demonstration of how the techniques of writing-for-the-cut can be applied in practice. This is a fast moving thriller in the style of British Indie films such as Trainspotting (wr: John Hodge dir: Danny Boyle1996), Sexy Beast (wrs: Louis Mellis, David Scinto dir: Johanthan Glazer 2000), and Dead Man’s Shoes (wrs: Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows dir: Shane Meadows 2004). Rush the Sky tells the story of two adrenaline-addicted lovers: Ella and Luke. Luke is a young base-jumper who has witnessed a gangland murder. Desperate to escape the mob and the police, he climbs a high mast and base-jumps into a storm cloud. Struck by lightning, he falls to earth in a coma. Ella joins forces with Luke’s feral brother Jared and together they ‘rescue’ Luke from hospital and attempt to wake him up. Rush the Sky is a non-linear story that interweaves a present-day road movie with a darkly euphoric backstory. Some of the specific editing figures I employ include parallel action, ‘split-edit’, non-linear shuffle, scene-scripted montage, and ellipsis. In the development of the treatment, I devised a hybrid writing-editing interface that allowed me to ‘mount’ and sequence the beats of my story. This is a kinetic environment where the beats are displayed as text, proxy images and film clips. In this way the familiar write/read/revise process of screenwriting moved closer to the play/watch/edit process of the cutting room. I strongly believe this approach could herald a fresh way of both composing a screenplay and ‘proving’ the cinema-worthiness of the story before filming commences.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22231号 / 理博第4545号 / 新制||理||1653(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科数学・数理解析専攻 / (主査)教授 池田 保, 教授 雪江 明彦, 教授 並河 良典 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

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In this visual essay and accompanying text, Henry Moore Selder delves into his research and work in fiction film, examining it through the lens of Sergei Eisenstein's concept of Expressive Movement. Selder's exploration aim to break free from the prevailing realism in contemporary cinema, seeking to expand the boundaries of actorly expression. The essay was made in 2023 as a part of Selders MA studies in fiction film directing at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH). / <p>Includes Visual Essay and accompanying text.</p>