Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Minha dissertação se divide em três partes. A primeira é dedicada à trajetória de Alexander Kluge na televisão, no cinema e em sua incursão por outras formas midiáticas, de modo a verificar o percurso que tornou possível o projeto estético de \"Notícias da Antiguidade Ideológica\" (2008). A segunda é uma contextualização de \"Notícias da Antiguidade Ideológica\" (2008), que parte das anotações de Eisenstein, escritas entre 1927 e 1929, sobre filmar O Capital de Marx segundo a lógica de Ulysses, de James Joyce, e é concluída com uma análise de como Kluge se aproximou de tais ideias do diretor russo. A terceira parte é composta por quatro análises de entrevistas apresentadas em \"Notícias da Antiguidade Ideológica\" (2008) - com Galina Antoschewskaja, Peter Sloterdjik, Oskar Negt e Jean-Luc Godard - que evidenciam como Kluge usa exemplos do processo tradutório para reivindicar uma leitura mais poética de O Capital de Karl Marx. / My dissertation is divided in three parts. The first one is dedicated to the trajectory of Alexander Kluge in television and cinema and his incursion into other media, in order to verify the path that made the aesthetic project \"News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital\" (2008) possible. I devote the second part of my dissertation to contextualizing \"News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital\", that moves from the annotations of Eisenstein about filming Das Kapital according to the logic of Joyces\'s Ulysses, written between 1927 and 1929, concluding with an analysis of how Kluge approached such ideas from the Russian director. The third part is composed of four analyses of interviews belonging to \"News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital\" (2008) - with Galina Antoschewskaja, Peter Sloterdjik, Oskar Negt and Jean-Luc Godard - that show how Kluge uses examples of the translation process to claim a more poetic reading of Das Kapital by Marx

Minha dissertação se divide em três partes. A primeira é dedicada à trajetória de Alexander Kluge na televisão, no cinema e em sua incursão por outras formas midiáticas, de modo a verificar o percurso que tornou possível o projeto estético de \"Notícias da Antiguidade Ideológica\" (2008). A segunda é uma contextualização de \"Notícias da Antiguidade Ideológica\" (2008), que parte das anotações de Eisenstein, escritas entre 1927 e 1929, sobre filmar O Capital de Marx segundo a lógica de Ulysses, de James Joyce, e é concluída com uma análise de como Kluge se aproximou de tais ideias do diretor russo. A terceira parte é composta por quatro análises de entrevistas apresentadas em \"Notícias da Antiguidade Ideológica\" (2008) - com Galina Antoschewskaja, Peter Sloterdjik, Oskar Negt e Jean-Luc Godard - que evidenciam como Kluge usa exemplos do processo tradutório para reivindicar uma leitura mais poética de O Capital de Karl Marx. / My dissertation is divided in three parts. The first one is dedicated to the trajectory of Alexander Kluge in television and cinema and his incursion into other media, in order to verify the path that made the aesthetic project \"News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital\" (2008) possible. I devote the second part of my dissertation to contextualizing \"News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital\", that moves from the annotations of Eisenstein about filming Das Kapital according to the logic of Joyces\'s Ulysses, written between 1927 and 1929, concluding with an analysis of how Kluge approached such ideas from the Russian director. The third part is composed of four analyses of interviews belonging to \"News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital\" (2008) - with Galina Antoschewskaja, Peter Sloterdjik, Oskar Negt and Jean-Luc Godard - that show how Kluge uses examples of the translation process to claim a more poetic reading of Das Kapital by Marx

<p>The digital evolution in the film industry has opened possibilities that was only to blockbusters before the digital age. I am talking about mass-scenes. Huge scenes with hordes of people often in huge battlefields. This was earlier in film history an extremly costly undertaking for the filmindustry and was a major reason why the large studio systems in Hollywood collapsed in the 60s. Now we can enjoy large scale battles created with CGI without costly extras, costumes and props. It’s all made with the computer and with ’blue screen’ technology. Is it possible to track the mass-scene back to some sort of origin or at least to who that defined the mass-scene ? If we look closer at mass-scenes used in contemporary movies then a clear pattern often emerges. These scenes can often be traced back to especially two propaganda films from the late 30s. Triumph des Willens by Leni Riefenstahl and Alexander Nevsky by Sergei M. Eisenstein. Of course there are others, but these two stands out from the others regarding mass-scenes. My opinion is that these two classic propaganda films have defined the mass-scenes as we have come to see and understand them in many comtemporary films from Star Wars to Lord Of The Rings.</p><p>In this thesis I will try to explore the usage of mass-scenes in comtemporary films and hopefully uncover the strong intertextual ties to Triumph des Willens and Alexander Nevsky.</p><p>I will also attempt to define the mass-scene and it’s usage in contemporary film.</p>

The digital evolution in the film industry has opened possibilities that was only to blockbusters before the digital age. I am talking about mass-scenes. Huge scenes with hordes of people often in huge battlefields. This was earlier in film history an extremly costly undertaking for the filmindustry and was a major reason why the large studio systems in Hollywood collapsed in the 60s. Now we can enjoy large scale battles created with CGI without costly extras, costumes and props. It’s all made with the computer and with ’blue screen’ technology. Is it possible to track the mass-scene back to some sort of origin or at least to who that defined the mass-scene ? If we look closer at mass-scenes used in contemporary movies then a clear pattern often emerges. These scenes can often be traced back to especially two propaganda films from the late 30s. Triumph des Willens by Leni Riefenstahl and Alexander Nevsky by Sergei M. Eisenstein. Of course there are others, but these two stands out from the others regarding mass-scenes. My opinion is that these two classic propaganda films have defined the mass-scenes as we have come to see and understand them in many comtemporary films from Star Wars to Lord Of The Rings. In this thesis I will try to explore the usage of mass-scenes in comtemporary films and hopefully uncover the strong intertextual ties to Triumph des Willens and Alexander Nevsky. I will also attempt to define the mass-scene and it’s usage in contemporary film.

Most previous studies of Soviet montage cinema have concentrated on its aesthetic and technical aspects; however, montage cinema was essentially a rhetoric rather than an aesthetic of cinema. This thesis presents a comparative study of the leading montage film-makers – Kuleshov, Pudovkin, Eisenstein and Vertov – comparing and contrasting the differing methods by which they used cinema to exert a rhetorical effect on the spectator for the purposes of political propaganda. The definitions of propaganda in general use in the study of Soviet montage cinema are too narrowly restrictive and a more nuanced definition is clearly needed. Furthermore, the role of the spectator in constituting the rhetorical effectivity of a montage film has been neglected; a psychoanalytic model of the way in which the filmic text can trigger a change in the spectator’s psyche is required. Moreover, the ideology of the Soviet montage films is generally assumed to exist only in their content, whereas in classical cinema ideology also operates at the level of the enunciation of the filmic text itself. The extent to which this is also true for Soviet montage cinema should be investigated. I have analysed the interaction between montage films and their spectators from multiple perspectives, using several distinct but complementary theoretical approaches, including recent theories of propaganda, a psychoanalytic model of rhetoric, Lacanian psychoanalysis and the theory of the system of the suture, and Peircean semiotics. These different theoretical approaches, while having distinct conceptual bases, work together to build a new and consistent picture of montage cinema as a propaganda medium and as a form of political rhetoric. I have been able to classify the films of Kuleshov, Eisenstein and Pudovkin as transactive, vertical agitation propaganda and the films of Vertov as transactive, horizontal agitation propaganda. Furthermore, I show that montage cinema embeds ideology in the enunciation of its filmic text, but differs from classical cinema in trying to subvert the suturing process. I conclude that Vertov at least partly created a non-representational cinematography and that he could be regarded as being at least as much a Suprematist film-maker as a Constructivist one.

This research project explores the creative and critical functions of editing in art, film and writing. The written component analyses the histories and discourses of 'cutting and splicing' to examine their various roles in processes of signification. The artistic practice uses more speculative and open-ended methods to explore the social 'languages' that inform our inter-subjective experiences. This project argues that editing is a creative methodology for making meaning, because it allows existing symbolic systems to be appropriated, revised and rewritten. By emphasising the operations of spacing, questioning and play, it also identifies editing as an essential tool for critically engaging with the potentials of art and theory.

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In his 1987 essay "Canadian Poetry After Auschwitz," Michael Greenstein argues that A.M. Klein's mock-heroic poem, The Hitleriad (1944), ultimately fails to portray the severity and tragedy of the Holocaust because "it lacks the necessary historical distance for coping with the enormity" of the event (1). Greenstein's criticism is interesting because it suggests that in order for a writer to adequately represent the horrors of a traumatic event like the Holocaust it is "necessary" for him to be distanced from the event. While Greenstein specifically addresses historical (or temporal) distance, Canadian authors writing about the Holocaust have also, inevitably, had to negotiate their geographical and cultural distance from the historical event as well. Not surprisingly, their works tend to be immensely self-reflexive in nature, reflecting an awareness of the questions of authority and problems of representation that have shaped critical thinking about Holocaust literature for over half a century. This dissertation examines the role that distance has played in the creation and critical understanding of representative works of Canadian Holocaust literature. It begins with an extensive analysis of the poetry and prose of geographically-distanced poet A.M. Klein, whose work is unique in the Canadian literary canon in that it mirrors the shifting psychological state of members of the Canadian Jewish community as news of the Holocaust slowly trickled into Canada. This is followed by a discussion of the Holocaust texts of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen, both of whom experimented with increasingly graphic Holocaust imagery in their works in response to the increasingly more horrifying information about the concentration camps that entered the Canadian public conscience in the 1960s. The dissertation then turns its attention to the uniquely post-memorial and semi-autobiographical works of two children of Holocaust survivors, Bernice Eisenstein and J.J. Steinfeld, before focusing on the Holocaust works of Timothy Findley and Yann Martel, both of whom produce highly metafictional novels in order to respond to the questions of appropriation and ethical representation that often surround works of Holocaust fiction created by non-Jewish writers. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces—a text that addresses all three types of distance that stand at the center of this dissertation, and that illustrates many of the strategies of representation that Canadian writers have adopted in their attempts to negotiate, highlight, erase, and embrace the distance that separates them from the Holocaust.

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