Esta tese aborda a circulação no Brasil de versões em espanhol produzidas por estúdios de Hollywood nos primeiros anos do cinema sonoro. Procuramos identificar nestes filmes algumas representações que os produtores norte-americanos vincularam à identidade latina. Temos o Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo como recorte geográfico, a partir da pesquisa histórica de recepção nas revistas Cinearte e A Scena Muda e nos jornais Correio da Manhã e O Estado de São Paulo. Entre 1930 e 1935, esses periódicos mencionaram uma série de produções hollywoodianas em língua espanhola, que nossas revistas consideraram inferiores aos filmes originais em inglês devido à barreira da língua e aos padrões de qualidade cinematográficos estabelecidos. Visamos demonstrar como a recepção das versões pela imprensa carioca e paulistana marcou o distanciamento que alguns grupos de nossa elite cultural projetavam em relação à América Latina, bem como um espelhamento nos Estados Unidos, afirmando uma relação imperialista pela via da cultura. / This dissertation approaches the circulation in Brazil of the Spanish-language versions produced by Hollywood Studios in the early years of sound cinema and aim to identify in these films some representations of Latinidad made by American producers. The cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo constitute the geographic approach. The magazines Cinearte and A Scena Muda, and the newspapers Correio da Manhã and O Estado de São Paulo were the main reference for the historical research. Between 1930 and 1935 these journals mentioned some Hollywood Spanish-language productions, which Brazillian magazines considered worse than the original English-language films because of the language barrier and the established film quality standards. This work aims to demonstrate how the reception of the Spanish-language versions by the Brazilian press marked the distancing that some groups of Brazil´s cultural elite projected towards Latin America, as well as a mirroring in the United States. It marks an imperialist relation through culture.

Célèbres et reconnus mais peu discutés, les films réalisés par Erich von Stroheim, entre 1919 et 1929 à Hollywood, occupent une place problématique dans l’histoire et la théorie du cinéma. Les discours contradictoires ou paradoxaux qu’ils ont inspirés animent cette recherche. Œuvre à la fois mutilée, reconstruite ou ruinée, elle est indissociable d’une expérience du temps. La versatilité des mondes et les métamorphoses de l’intrigue qu’elle propose, malgré un régime narratif évident, invitent à reconsidérer les catégories de l’histoire du cinéma muet américain. Interrogeant la représentation de l’histoire, ces films donnent à penser l’événement de la Première Guerre mondiale comme un point aveugle, et livrent une historicité composite. Au sein des pratiques du cinéma muet hollywoodien, les films de Stroheim se distinguent par l’invention d’un montage en accolade produisant une continuité qui incite à envisager la question de la durée. Ces films s’écartent de ce qu’à la même époque instaure le naturalisme américain par-delà les modèles littéraires. Pour analyser ce cinéma dans sa complexité, sera examiné l’être stroheimien selon les devenirs qui le font changer dans la durée, différemment de son appréhension dans le temps chronologique. De sorte que leurs devenirs se mesurent relativement aux êtres cédant à l’entropie ou au contraire demeurant des invariants. Selon cette configuration générale, Stroheim crée les conditions d’une expérimentation distincte de celle du naturalisme traditionnel. / The films directed by Erich von Stroheim in Hollywood between 1919 and 1929, though little discussed, are famous and renowned, but they still remain an issue in both film history and film theory. Contradictions and paradoxes that characterize the discourses on these films drive this research. The works of Erich von Stroheim were in turns butchered, reconstructed, destroyed. Our aim is to show that it entails strongly an experience of time. Despite their obvious narrative plots, these films suggest a changeability of worlds and a metamorphosis of plot that lead us to review the standard approaches of American silent film history. While they question the representation of history, these films make the event of World War I appear as a blind spot, and reveal heterogeneous modes of historicity. Within the experiences of Hollywood silent films, the works of Erich von Stroheim are characterized by the creation of a bracket montage (montage en accolade), producing a continuity that invites us to consider the issue of duration. Beyond literary models, these films differ from what is established by American naturalism at the time. In order to make way for their complexity, we will study the Stroheim-being according to what it becomes and changes itself in duration, which is not what we could understand of it in chronological time. So what becomes of it is estimated with regard to its yielding to entropy, or, on the contrary, its remaining invariably the same. In accordance with this general configuration, Stroheim creates conditions that experiments a new way for naturalism.

This study investigates the relationship between the fashion and film industries during the classical era between the early 1930s and mid-1940s. It focuses on the three-strip Technicolor process as the binding force upon which these two industries relied in collaborations during that time and looks at technical challenges the new process presented to productions in terms of wardrobe design. Another issue explored is fashion’s role in the actual development of the three-strip process, allowing the Technicolor laboratory to improve the technology through a popular, marketable, and readily available product. Using Technicolor as a point of focus and continuity, this dissertation explores different types of productions filmed in the three-strip process, including shorts and newsreels, industrial and sponsored films, as well as feature-length films.  Drawing from a wide range of archival material and a highly interdisciplinary approach, the study delves into the relationship between the fashion and film industries. While the ties between them have been strong since the advent of cinema, previous research has approached their relationship almost exclusively from a promotional perspective. Technicolor’s multifaceted affiliation with the fashion industry, however, warrants a more thorough investigation and this dissertation takes steps towards expanding that research area through a series of case studies. The first chapter provides an overview of color film methods that preceded three-strip Technicolor and outlines some of the key discourses involving color and realism. Chapter 2 addresses the intertwined relationship between the fashion and film industries through a study of fashion department in the popular fan magazine Photoplay and also examines the use of color in that publication. Chapter 3 investigates the fashion short as a vehicle for demonstrating the commercial potential of the three-strip process. It does this by examining the making and promotion of Vyvyan Donner’s Fashion Forecast series. This chapter also looks at the specific work carried out by Technicolor’s Color Control Department. Chapter 4 explores industrial and sponsored films in three-strip Technicolor for the fashion industry with an emphasis on those made to promote rayon. The second half of this chapter examines the 1930/1940 seasons of the New York World’s Fair, focusing on the presence there of Technicolor and the American rayon industry. Lastly, Chapter 5 looks at three-strip Technicolor in feature-length films by considering its collaborations with the fashion industry that took place in the classical era. This chapter also examines design considerations made regarding wardrobe in those films.  The study concludes that color’s versatility made it incredibly influential on consumer culture and was key to ventures between the fashion and film industries in this era and beyond. It also ultimately demonstrates the ways in which color, fashion, and film intersected and complemented one another in terms of their aesthetic and commercial commonalities.

Based on the premise that only in being accessible can the film reach its potential for history making, the contribution of the film archive to a particular film historical narrative is fragmented: the films that are extant are not necessarily available and the ones that are available are not necessarily publicly accessible. The contention of the thesis is that ‘doing’ film history in the context of the film archive should always be seen in light of an ever increasingly narrowing fragmentation of accessible material that takes place in the film archive. What is new about the contribution of this thesis is not that the film archive can be seen simultaneously as a result of a particular historical narrative as well as contributing to one, but that this debate is put in the context of copyright as a determining factor of why the accessible part of the film archive is only a partial picture. To this end, the thesis proposes a reorganisation of existing categories of analysis in the form of a cross-section of the film archive based on copyright ownership plotted against the material’s ‘availability’. By such practices as using a risk-managed approach to copyright clearance for archival digitisation projects, the film archive can be seen to act as a mediator between copyright and film historiography. On the one hand, the film archive is subjected to copyright law, against the constraints of which it can be seen to resist. On the other hand, the archive makes productive use of copyright in its involvement in the interplay between the ownership of the physical objects and the ability to control the subsequent use and dissemination of those objects. Some of these resistant and productive practices, such as found footage filmmaking as a historiographic intervention and providing access to public domain material, are analysed in the context of some of the digital access practices of EYE Film Institute Netherlands between 2002-2005, in which the film archive can be seen to actively shape access to its film archival holdings as well as a particular potential for film history writing.

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Cette thèse s’inscrit dans la lignée des récents travaux de réévaluation de l’histoire des études cinématographiques. Son objectif est de réviser la conception actuelle de l’historiographie du cinéma en France de 1896 jusqu’au début des années 1950 en remettant en question la vision homogène du courant historique de l’histoire traditionnelle du cinéma telle que l’ont présentée les tenants de la nouvelle histoire du cinéma. Cette thèse se divise en trois parties. J’expose dans la première mon cadre et mon principal outil d’analyse. Je présente l’opération historiographique telle que définie par Michel de Certeau, soit comme le croisement d’un lieu social marqué par des cadres intellectuels dominants, d’un ensemble de procédures dont l’historien se sert pour sélectionner ses sources et construire les faits, et enfin, d’une écriture qui implique l’élaboration d’un système de relations entre les différents faits construits. Je décris ensuite les courants historiques en France des années 1870 jusqu’au début des années 1950. Ce panorama me permet de mieux identifier les échanges, les emprunts et les enrichissements qui se sont opérés entre l’histoire et l’histoire du cinéma durant cette période. Dans la deuxième partie, je « construis » depuis l’intérieur d’un vaste ensemble de discours d’historiens du cinéma, d’historiens de la culture et de théoriciens du cinéma ce qui deviendra la conception dominante de l’historiographie du cinéma. Je montre qu’elle est élaborée par ceux que plusieurs commentateurs nomment les nouveaux historiens du cinéma et qu’elle se réduit à la succession de deux grands courants historiques : l’histoire traditionnelle et la nouvelle histoire du cinéma. J’expose ensuite comment cet acte de périodisation est instrumentalisé par ceux qui l’effectuent. L’objectif des nouveaux historiens n’est pas d’exhumer la pluralité des écritures de l’histoire du cinéma, mais plutôt de mettre en évidence la rupture qu’ils opèrent au sein de l’historiographie du cinéma. L’examen de la place accordée au dispositif cinématographique Hale’s Tours dans les histoires générales parues avant et après le Congrès de Brighton me permet finalement d’atténuer la rupture entre ces deux courants historiques. Dans la troisième partie, j’engage l’examen de plusieurs manières d’approcher l’histoire du cinéma. J’identifie différentes ruptures dans l’historiographie française du cinéma concernant l’objet historique que les historiens se donnent, les outils conceptuels qu’ils convoquent et leurs relations aux sources qu’ils utilisent. Ces études de cas me permettent au final de témoigner de la richesse de l’historiographie française du cinéma avant le début des années 1950. / This thesis is one of several recent works to re-evaluate the history of film studies. Its goal is to revise the present-day conception of film historiography in France from 1896 to the early 1950s by calling into question the view of traditional film history as homogeneous portrayed by the new film historians. This thesis is divided into three sections. In the first, I describe my tools and analytical framework. I discuss the historiographical operation as it defined by Michel de Certeau, as the three-way encounter of a social space marked by dominant intellectual frameworks, a range of procedures used by historians to select their sources and construct events, and, finally, the writing of history, which involves creating a system of relations between the various events so constructed. I then describe historical currents in France from the 1870s to the early 1950s. This survey enables me to better identify the exchanges, borrowings and enrichments that occurred during this period between history and film history. In the second part, I “construct” from within a vast range of discourses – those of film historians, cultural historians and film theorists – the dominant conception of film historiography. I show that it is created by product of those who are known by many commentators as the new film historians and that it is reduced as the succession of two great historical currents: traditional film history and new film history. I then discuss how this periodisation has been instrumentalised by those who created it. The goal of the new historians is not to bring to light the plurality of writings on film history, but rather to show the break that they have brought about in film historiography. Finally, a discussion of the role accorded to the mode of film exhibition known as Hale’s Tours in general film histories published before and after the Brighton Congress enables me to soften the break between these two historical currents. In the third part, I examine several ways of approaching film history. I identify various breaks in film historiography in France with respect to the historical topic historians adopt, the conceptual tools they call upon and the relations between these historians and the sources they employ. These case studies, finally, enable me to document the wealth of film historiography in France before the early 1950s. / Thèse de doctorat effectuée en cotutelle au Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques de la Faculté des arts et des sciences de l'Université de Montréal et à la Section d’histoire et esthétique du cinéma de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Lausanne.

Thèse de doctorat effectuée en cotutelle au Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques de la Faculté des arts et des sciences de l'Université de Montréal et à la Section d’histoire et esthétique du cinéma de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Lausanne. / Cette thèse s’inscrit dans la lignée des récents travaux de réévaluation de l’histoire des études cinématographiques. Son objectif est de réviser la conception actuelle de l’historiographie du cinéma en France de 1896 jusqu’au début des années 1950 en remettant en question la vision homogène du courant historique de l’histoire traditionnelle du cinéma telle que l’ont présentée les tenants de la nouvelle histoire du cinéma. Cette thèse se divise en trois parties. J’expose dans la première mon cadre et mon principal outil d’analyse. Je présente l’opération historiographique telle que définie par Michel de Certeau, soit comme le croisement d’un lieu social marqué par des cadres intellectuels dominants, d’un ensemble de procédures dont l’historien se sert pour sélectionner ses sources et construire les faits, et enfin, d’une écriture qui implique l’élaboration d’un système de relations entre les différents faits construits. Je décris ensuite les courants historiques en France des années 1870 jusqu’au début des années 1950. Ce panorama me permet de mieux identifier les échanges, les emprunts et les enrichissements qui se sont opérés entre l’histoire et l’histoire du cinéma durant cette période. Dans la deuxième partie, je « construis » depuis l’intérieur d’un vaste ensemble de discours d’historiens du cinéma, d’historiens de la culture et de théoriciens du cinéma ce qui deviendra la conception dominante de l’historiographie du cinéma. Je montre qu’elle est élaborée par ceux que plusieurs commentateurs nomment les nouveaux historiens du cinéma et qu’elle se réduit à la succession de deux grands courants historiques : l’histoire traditionnelle et la nouvelle histoire du cinéma. J’expose ensuite comment cet acte de périodisation est instrumentalisé par ceux qui l’effectuent. L’objectif des nouveaux historiens n’est pas d’exhumer la pluralité des écritures de l’histoire du cinéma, mais plutôt de mettre en évidence la rupture qu’ils opèrent au sein de l’historiographie du cinéma. L’examen de la place accordée au dispositif cinématographique Hale’s Tours dans les histoires générales parues avant et après le Congrès de Brighton me permet finalement d’atténuer la rupture entre ces deux courants historiques. Dans la troisième partie, j’engage l’examen de plusieurs manières d’approcher l’histoire du cinéma. J’identifie différentes ruptures dans l’historiographie française du cinéma concernant l’objet historique que les historiens se donnent, les outils conceptuels qu’ils convoquent et leurs relations aux sources qu’ils utilisent. Ces études de cas me permettent au final de témoigner de la richesse de l’historiographie française du cinéma avant le début des années 1950. / This thesis is one of several recent works to re-evaluate the history of film studies. Its goal is to revise the present-day conception of film historiography in France from 1896 to the early 1950s by calling into question the view of traditional film history as homogeneous portrayed by the new film historians. This thesis is divided into three sections. In the first, I describe my tools and analytical framework. I discuss the historiographical operation as it defined by Michel de Certeau, as the three-way encounter of a social space marked by dominant intellectual frameworks, a range of procedures used by historians to select their sources and construct events, and, finally, the writing of history, which involves creating a system of relations between the various events so constructed. I then describe historical currents in France from the 1870s to the early 1950s. This survey enables me to better identify the exchanges, borrowings and enrichments that occurred during this period between history and film history. In the second part, I “construct” from within a vast range of discourses – those of film historians, cultural historians and film theorists – the dominant conception of film historiography. I show that it is created by product of those who are known by many commentators as the new film historians and that it is reduced as the succession of two great historical currents: traditional film history and new film history. I then discuss how this periodisation has been instrumentalised by those who created it. The goal of the new historians is not to bring to light the plurality of writings on film history, but rather to show the break that they have brought about in film historiography. Finally, a discussion of the role accorded to the mode of film exhibition known as Hale’s Tours in general film histories published before and after the Brighton Congress enables me to soften the break between these two historical currents. In the third part, I examine several ways of approaching film history. I identify various breaks in film historiography in France with respect to the historical topic historians adopt, the conceptual tools they call upon and the relations between these historians and the sources they employ. These case studies, finally, enable me to document the wealth of film historiography in France before the early 1950s.

This thesis investigates a corpus of films identifiable as Hollywood political thrillers during the Cold War spanning a period of seventeen years, between 1945 and 1962. It aims to dispel the assertion by critics and scholars that the political thriller originates with the release of The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962). Moreover, it is my intent to engage an interdisciplinary approach given that the relationship between contemporary American cinema, ideology and propaganda has often been overlooked (see Shaw, 2007). Utilizing textual and contextual analysis, I shall argue that The Manchurian Candidate is a transitional film with respect to the political thriller. I shall also offer an explanation for the frequent mislabeling of Hollywood political thrillers as film noir, of which generic hybridity or overlap is a contributing factor. The first part of this thesis shall establish a political and historical context, which includes a discussion of Hollywood’s early entry into the Cold War, U.S. strategies of containment and the threat women posed to U.S. national security vis à vis Ethel Rosenberg. Given that the political thriller emerged as a distinct subgenre during the Cold War, the first part of this thesis shall include a chapter on technology and innovation (e.g. lighting, format, film stock) as a means of supporting prime generic theme of authenticity. Five exemplary mini-case studies shall be presented to demonstrate the way in which the Hollywood political thriller delivered distinct narrative and visual style that both projected and reflected Cold War discourses. Philip Wylie’s “momism” shall be considered within the context of the political thriller and Cold War discourses surrounding gender, U.S. national security and the atomic bomb. I shall expand upon current discussions of momism, approaching it through distinct representations evident within the political thriller. Given the pervasiveness of the nuclear threat during the Cold War, I shall discuss the thematic elements of fear and the unknowability of the atomic bomb in relation to the political thriller. In the second part of this thesis, I identify three distinct cycles of atomic political thrillers, in which issues of vulnerability of the physical locale, the nuclear family and the mind are addressed.

This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. The starting point is two simultaneous and interrelated processes in the late 1800s, to which cinema contributed. One process, colonialism and imperialism, separated people into different classes of people, ruler and ruled, white and non-white, thereby creating and widening a colonial binary. The other process was bringing the world closer, through technology, trade, and migration, and compressing the notions of time and space. The study assesses the development of cinema in a colonial setting and how its development disrupted notions of racial hierarchies. The first decade of cinema in Southeast Asia, particularly in Singapore, is used as a point of reference from where issues such as imperialism, colonial discourse, nation-building, ethnicity, gender, and race is discussed. The development of film exhibition and distribution in Southeast Asia is tracked from travelling film exhibitors and agents to the opening of a regional Pathé Frères office and permanent film venues. By having a transnational perspective the interconnectedness of Southeast Asia is demonstrated, as well as its constructed national borders. Cinematic venues throughout Southeast Asia negotiated segregated, colonial racial politics by creating a common social space where people from different ethnic and social backgrounds gathered. Furthermore, this study analyses what kind of worldview the exhibited pictures had and how audiences reproduced their meanings.