A dissertação investiga o concurso de beleza fotogênica realizado pela Fox Film no Brasil em 1926-1927, com o fim de levar um casal de atores para Hollywood. A pesquisa tem como fonte jornais e revistas de grande circulação à época e documentos do Acervo Pedro Lima. Consideramos o contexto histórico-social, relações étnicas e de gênero, a incorporação de padrões de beleza ligados à modernidade e a constância de concursos femininos, bem como o estrelismo. Ponderamos a negociação entre nossa imprensa e o star system durante o concurso. / This dissertation investigates the photogenic beauty contest held by Fox Film in Brazil in 1926-1927, in order to choose a couple to integrate the studio\'s casting in Hollywood. The research has as a source mass circulation newspapers and magazines at the time and Pedro Lima Collection documents. We consider the historical and social context, ethnic and gender relations, the incorporation of beauty standards linked to modernity and the constancy of women\'s beauty contests, as well as the stardom. We take into account the negotiation between Brazilian press and the star system during the contest

O objetivo desta tese é estudar os códigos do melodrama a partir das análises de quatro filmes históricos do cineasta Steven Spielberg: Amistad (1997), Lincoln (2012), A Lista de Schindler (1993) e O Resgate do Soldado Ryan (1998). Os títulos selecionados são reconstruções cinematográficas de acontecimentos históricos que abordam momentos emblemáticos da história americana: a escravidão e a figura de Lincoln, a participação na Segunda Guerra Mundial e o extermínio dos judeus pelos nazistas. Nossa preocupação foi a de apontar como o melodrama funde-se e se impõe sobre outros gêneros, como o drama histórico, o biopic, o Holocaust Film e o war film. As polarizações entre virtude e vilania, as surpresas e obstáculos no enredo, o jogo com as emoções dos personagens e do público e as resoluções sentimentais, próprias do melodrama, em suas distintas concepções teóricas, manifestam-se cinematograficamente e de forma autoral na construção dos planos, enquadramentos, movimentos de câmera e sobretudo na referência ao olhar e às imagens. Paralelamente à análise, trazemos contribuições de historiadores e críticos que se posicionam sobre os filmes, o que resulta em um confronto instigante entre história e liberdades ficcionais próprias ao cinema de consumo massivo. / The aim of this thesis is to study the codes of the melodrama from the analyzes of four historical films of filmmaker Steven Spielberg: Amistad (1997), Lincoln (2012), Schindler\'s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). The titles selected are cinematic reconstructions of historical events that touch on emblematic moments in American history: slavery and the figure of Lincoln, participation in World War II, and extermination of Jews by the Nazis. Our concern was to point out how the melodrama merges and imposes itself on other genres, such as historical drama, biopic, Holocaust Film and war film. The polarizations between virtue and villainy, the surprises and obstacles in the plot, the play with the emotions of the characters and the public and the sentimental resolutions, proper to the melodrama, in their different theoretical conceptions, are manifested cinematographically and in an authorial way in the construction of the plans, frames, camera movements and above all in reference to the look and the images. Parallel to the analysis, we bring contributions from historians and critics who stand on the films, which results in an instigating confrontation between history and fictional freedoms proper to the mass consumer cinema

Orientador: Marcius César Soares Freire / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T21:37:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paiva_CarlaConceicaodaSilva_D.pdf: 6331933 bytes, checksum: 902a9b81bc9c2cc5135338065a5e8c63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Nosso trabalho se apresenta como uma reflexão sobre as representações das mulheres nordestinas presentes no cinema brasileiro da década de oitenta, buscando, especificamente, distinguir de que forma essas mulheres são caracterizadas e qual a relação dessas encenações com o movimento feminista da época. Considerando que um filme apresenta muito da sua realidade social, partimos das relações existentes entre cinema e história e a análise do discurso para decompor as imagens de Gabriela (1983); Parahyba, mulher-macho (1983); A Hora da estrela (1985) e Luzia-Homem (1987). Ao contrário do que consideravam a maior parte dos críticos de cinema da década de oitenta, no Brasil, percebemos que nossas quatro protagonistas não eram totalmente alienadas e que suas ações não eram inócuas em termos de rompimento com as regras sociais. Não podemos assinalar os filmes corpus desta pesquisa como "sexistas", mas também não rotulamos como "cinema de mulheres". À margem desses dualismos, procuramos caracterizá-los como narrativas audiovisuais com extrema identificação com o universo feminino e com as lutas empreendidas pelas mulheres na sociedade brasileira da década de oitenta. Buscamos perceber o grau de adesão desses cineastas aos diversos tipos de "feminismos" / Abstract: This work presents a thinking on the representation of northeastern women at the Brazilian cinema in the eighties, aiming to distinguish specifically how these women are characterized in the films and what is the relationship between the films' scenarios and the feminist movement of that time. Considering that a film reflects the society and its values, among other things, we pretend to set the relationship between film and history as well as the discourse analysis to deconstruct the representation of Gabriela (1983); Parahyba, mulher-macho (1983); A hora da estrela (1985) and Luzia homem (1987). Unlike of what many film critics from the 80s in Brazil have stated, we consider that our four protagonists were not totally alienated and that their actions were not innocuous in terms of disruption to social rules. We cannot describe the films of this research as "sexists", nor label them as "women's cinema". On the fringe of this dualism we seek to characterize them as audiovisual narratives with extreme identification with the feminine universe and with the struggles waged by women in Brazilian society of the eighties. We seek to understand the level of adherence of these filmmakers to various types of "feminisms" / Doutorado / Multimeios / Doutora em Multimeios

Orientador: Marcius Cesar Soares Freire / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T22:15:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thompson_SabrinaRochaStanford_M.pdf: 2552373 bytes, checksum: 330c27377da01acb96852e237a4f9ee6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação empreendemos um estudo sobre as funções do acaso na constituição das narrativas de duas realizações audiovisuais com temática religiosa afrobrasileira do candomblé de origem iorubá no cerne de sua narrativa: A cidade das Mulheres (2005) de Lázaro Faria e Pierre Fatumbi Verger: mensageiro entre dois mundos (1999) de Lula Buarque de Holanda. A partir da análise fílmica e de entrevistas realizadas com os diretores de ambos os filmes, o trabalho busca identificar as situações contingenciais que percorreram o processo de realização dos documentários, verificando de que forma situações relacionadas ao acaso foram constituintes e decisivas durante todo o processo de feitura dos filmes e estiveram presentes em sua estrutura final. A partir dessas análises buscamos também trazer uma reflexão acadêmica sobre os documentários de cultura religiosa afrodescendente, fazendo um levantamento histórico-metodológico sobre algumas realizações audiovisuais no formato longas metragem produzidos no Brasil com a mesma temática / Abstract: In this thesis we undertook a study on the roles of chance in the constitution of the narratives of two religious-themed audiovisual African- Brazilian movies. These movies have the Candomblé at the center of their narratives: A Cidade das Mulheres (2005) and Pierre Fatumbi Verger: mensageiro entre dois mundos (1999). From the film analysis and interviews with the directors of the both films, the work seeks to identify contingencies situations were related to chance that were decisive throughout the process of making these films. From these analyzes we also seek to bring an academic reflection on the documentaries about religions culture of Africa descent in Brazil / Mestrado / Multimeios / Mestre em Multimeios

This thesis examines the depiction of warfare in post-9/11 ancient world epics and assesses the extent to which these films engage with contemporary events by means of allegory and analogy. Inspired by scholarship on allegorical and analogous interpretations of 1950s-60s ancient world epics, I explore how the current cycle engages with the American socio-political landscape in the wake of 9/11, with particular emphasis on the War on Terror and ensuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I chart the genre’s evolution in relation to the combat film, and examine how the current cycle of ancient world epics integrates the tropes of other genres into its portrayal of warfare, invasion, occupation and imperialism. Within this context, I explore the recurrent motif of the father-son dynamic, and assess how its use in combat films corresponds to that in ancient world epics. I also discuss how this motif was employed in 1980s Vietnam War films, and what its use in these modern epics suggests about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Furthermore, I discuss the use of the unreliable narrator to engage with wider debates on the value of historical films compared to written history. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that the ancient world epic is a malleable construct with which filmmakers can engage with the present while depicting the past. I build on existing studies of the ancient world in cinema, contributing new understanding of the current cycle’s relationship to its predecessors, to other genres, and to post-9/11 American society. In so doing this thesis contributes to notions of film as art, as industry, and as history, and how they intersect in cinematic depictions of the ancient world.

After the "Cultural Revolution" in 1976, the Chinese film industry returned to normal. Between 1976 and 1979, most filmmakers returned to their film studios and began to reorganize the production system. After 1980, the Chinese film industry began to develop multi-dimensionally. The highlight of this development was the rising of a large number of young directors and their works, which became hits and attracted attention both at home and abroad. More and more Chinese films were seen at international film festivals, often winning the awards. This study focuses on the important period between 1976 and 1988 in the Chinese film history and its influence on the development of the Chinese film industry; it concludes with the discussion of the direction the Chinese film industry is heading in the future.

Swedish children's film has established an outstanding reputation all around the world, especially since the 1940s when many quality films for young audiences came into production. In this context, Swedish children's film scholars often set its beginning in the mid-1940s. However, some films were already referred to as such in the 1920s and even before that. Nevertheless, little research on the very first Swedish children's films has conducted yet. This project, built primarily on archival research, aims to reveal how the contemporaries conceptualised the generic identity of children’s film from 1914 to 1923 – that is, from the recurring appearance of the term in daily papers to the first children’s film cluster – and thereby to offer a new perspective to Swedish children’s film history.

Diploma thesis The relation between Media Depiction and Historical Truth on the example of Historical Motion Picture and Television Series deals with the relationship between official historiography and contemporary historical film or TV series. The work is based on a theoretical framework, which postulates Robert A. Rosenstone in several publications, especially in the book History on Film/Film on History. The American historian and film theorist is one of the most prominent supporters of the view that historical film must be seriously perceived not only as a historical artifact but also as a medium conveying the depiction of the past. Qualitative analysis was performed in the work of movies Masaryk, Lidice and the miniseries Hořící keř. In the first part of the work, they were compared with an institutionally recognized version of the past - specifically with secondary school textbooks with the approval clause of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. In the following part, the film inventions were examined according to the theory of Rosenstone and finally according to the theory of fictional worlds according to the linguist Lubomír Doležel. The thesis aims to answer the hypotheses that state that the Czech historical film in historical key events coincides with the...

THE SCREEN OF LAUGHTER AND REMEMBERING Collective Memory and Representations of State Socialism in Czech Cinematography This dissertation has very little to say about state socialism. Rather, it is a work about the memory of state socialism in the post-socialist Czech Republic, about the ways in which state socialism can be remembered in the present. From the perspective of collective memory, "it is not only the ancien regime that produced revolution, but in some respect the revolution produced the ancient regime, giving it a shape, a sense of closure" (Boym 2001, xvi). And there are indeed many, often conflicted modes of remembering this particular past. Françoise Mayer, for example, has identified several distinct types of remembering the "communism" in Czech society (Mayer, 2009). And her list is by no means exhaustive. At the centre of this treatise is the Czech post-socialist cinema. My dissertation thesis was prompted by the question of how cinematic representations bear on the collective memory of state socialism in the Czech Republic. . In the first chapter, I explore how cinema represents the past in comparison to historiography. In my work, it is evident that Czech cinema does not follow the epistemological criterion of referentiality that binds historians. A more important observation - and one...

The Godzilla media franchise is one of the longest running media franchises, which means the character himself has gone through many changes throughout the years. However, in American pop culture, the characters of Godzilla is perceived as a hero, a friend of humanity and defender of Earth. This reputation comes from the Showa Era, where Godzilla often fought on the side of humanity, rather than trying to destroy them as depicted in the original Gojira. In recent years, Toho, Godzilla's corporate owners, have been steering the King of the Monsters back into the villain role. Despite this tone shift by Godzilla's owners, American Godzilla paratexts still generally depict Godzilla as a hero. These depictions of Godzilla are used to maintain his status as a family friendly heritage brand and keep a door open for parents to introduce their children to the brand. Such a strategy allows Godzilla to survive into the modern day as an international powerhouse franchise.