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21	Being-towards-death : Heideggerian ontology in selected films of Michael Haneke Gouws, Anjo-Mari 09 October 2012 (has links) This study investigates certain existential themes found in the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke. As such the focus is on the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger, specifcally Heidegger’s notion of Being as always being-towards-death. There are six flms under discussion – the three flms comprising his Vergletscherung-trilogie (Der Siebente Kontinent, Benny’s Video and 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls), and his later flms Funny Games, La Pianiste, and Caché. Michael Haneke has been lauded as “Austria’s most esteemed and most controversial active flmmaker” (Frey 2003:1), a director whose work transgresses the boundaries of mainstream flm in terms of both its form and content. In fact, the director argues, he is responsible for “rap[ing] the spectator to independence”. Haneke’s work features a solid measure of existential themes, examining the alienation and isolation of the individual, the despair brought on by the monotony of modern society, and the seeming meaninglessness of man’s existence. This study aims to show that much of Haneke’s existential thought can be drawn back to Heidegger’s concept of Being, and the various ways in which Being is constituted. Focusing particularly on the notion of Being as being-towards-death, two other constitutive elements are also included – Being as always being-in-the-world and Being as always being-with-others. Being-in-the-world is examined on two fronts, looking at Haneke’s treatment of the public space, and of the domestic setting of the home. Beingwith- others is likewise elucidated in terms of the perspective Haneke offers on society as Heidegger’s Das Man, and the more intimate relationships within the family unit. By coupling these elements with Heidegger’s notions of thrownness, anxiety and the nothing, this study thus investigates how Haneke’s rendition of being-in-the-world and being-withothers inevitably, and fundamentally, means being-towards-death. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Visual Arts / unrestricted Benny’s video Being-with-others Existentialism The nothing Being-in-the-world Thrownness Being Ontology Being-towards-death Martin heidegger Michael haneke Der siebente kontinent Anxiety Vergletscherung-trilogie Caché La pianiste Funny games UCTD
22	A World Into Which They Couldn't Follow Me: Arjie's Un-shameful Queer Awakening in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy Edwards, Darryn January 2018 (has links) No description available. Asian Literature Canadian Literature Gender Literature South Asian Studies Asian Studies Gender Studies Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick postcolonial queer Sri Lanka shame culture counter bildungsroman bildungsroman spatial analysis gender
23	Adrian Waggoner: For Sale, Sold! Waggoner, Adrian Thomas 09 August 2016 (has links) No description available. Aesthetics Art Criticism Fine Arts art performance artwork James Dean-looking motherfucker motorcycles myth storytelling pallets paintings merch table funny dead serious sculpture adrian waggoner denim masculine badassery futilitarian aesthetics
24	Funny games Pühler, Simon 22 October 2014 (has links) "FUNNY GAMES. Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien" ist der Versuch, eine Geschichte medialer Schmerzlust zu rekonstruieren – in etwa von 1789 bis heute. Neben klassischer SM-Literatur sind es Spielfilme wie VIDEODROME (1983), FALSCHER BEKENNER (2005), THE HURT LOCKER (2008) oder SHORTBUS (2006), in denen modernes Schmerzlust-Empfinden und -Begehren offenbar wird. Die Untersuchung richtet sich dabei auf Konzepte technoimaginärer Wunsch- und Höllenmaschinen, dynamisierte Ich-Apparate, wie sie Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, Leopold und Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, Ernst Kapp, Sigmund Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari, David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke, Kathryn Bigelow u.v.a. im Medienumfeld ihrer Zeit individuell erleben und auf ihre je eigene Art – meist sehr fantasiereich – bearbeiten. Der vorliegende Entwurf, medienarchäologische Spurensicherung und gleichsam Test-Spiel, ist vor allem eine Einladung zum Mitmachen: Beim obsessiven Durchschreiten virtueller (Alptraum-)Welten und realer Körper negative und positive Lust zu erfahren, sich neuen Sinnesreizqualitäten zu öffnen, um schließlich Mehr-Lust und -Wissen zu erwerben. Anti-Ödipus als interaktives Video(bei)spiel. Als Analysetools haben sich Erkenntnisse aus der (strukturalen) Psychoanalyse, der (technischen) Medienwissenschaft, (Film-)Philosophie, der Gender-, Gewalt-, Fetisch- und (kulturwissenschaftlichen) Spieltheorie als hilfreich erwiesen, um dem Geheimnis und Rätsel sadomasochistischer Schmerzlust – und ihrer crash-Medien – ein wenig näher zu kommen. / "FUNNY GAMES. Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien" aims to reconstruct a history of pleasure and gratification through pain in the media since the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to classical sado-masochistic literature, the thesis focuses on movies in which modern forms of experiencing and desiring pain such as VIDEODROME (1983), I AM GUILTY (2005), THE HURT LOCKER (2008) and SHORTBUS (2006) manifest themselves. Central to the study are concepts of techno-imaginary wish machines and infernal devices, dynamised ego-apparatuses, that are experienced and expressed through the media of their time by writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and film directors such as Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, Leopold and Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, Ernst Kapp, Sigmund Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke and Kathryn Bigelow. The present study, an attempt to secure the medial evidence and try it out at the same time, is meant most of all as an invitation to participate: to experience positive desire and lust while obsessively progressing through virtual worlds of dreams and nightmares and the real world of the human body, to open oneself to new experiences in order to gain both new knowledge and new desires. Anti-Oedipus as a textual videogame. The analytical tools employed in this study include findings from (structural) psychoanalysis, media sciences, (movie) philosophy, gender theory, the theory of violence, fetish theory and game theory as applied in cultural studies. They have proven to be very helpful in illuminating at least some aspects of the mystery that is the sado-masochist desire for pain. Sigmund Freud Medien Schmerz Sadomasochismus SM Spiel Raum Lust Funny Games Videodrome Falscher Bekenner Shortbus Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Ernst Kapp Daniel Paul Schreber Jacques Lacan Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari David Cronenberg Michael Haneke Kinji Fukasaku Kathryn Bigelow Christoph Hochhäusler John Cameron Mitchell media Sadomasochism SM pleasure pain Funny Games Videodrome Shortbus Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Ernst Kapp Sigmund Freud Daniel Paul Schreber Jacques Lacan Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari David Cronenberg Michael Haneke Kinji Fukasaku Kathryn Bigelow Christoph Hochhäusler John Cameron Mitchell 49 Theater, Tanz, Film AP 53950 AP 50300 S12 ddc:791
25	"Play up, play up, and play the game" : public schools and imperialism in British and South Asian diasporic literature Murtuza, Miriam Rafia 20 October 2010 (has links) This dissertation examines literary representations of the intersection between British imperialism and British and British-modeled public schools. I categorize British writers who have addressed this nexus in their literary works into two groups, idealists and realists, based on their views of British public schools, imperialism, and the effectiveness of the former in sustaining the latter. I present two examples of idealists, Henry Newbolt and the contributors to The Boy's Own Paper, followed by two examples of realists, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, who have often been viewed as opposites. I then provide an example of a South-Asian diasporic realist, Selvaduari, who builds upon the critiques of British realists by revealing the contemporary offspring of the marriage between British public schools and imperialism. By analyzing works by idealist and realist authors, I demonstrate the importance of public schools and school literature in promoting and sustaining as well as critiquing and condemning imperialism. / text British public schools School stories British imperialism South Asian diasporic literature Henry Newbolt Religious Tract Society Boy's Own Paper Rudyard Kipling E. M. Forster Shyam Selvadurai G. A. Henty Vitai Lampada Clifton Chapel Essay on Criticism Kim Brushwood Boy Stalky and Co. Maurice Longest journey Passage to India Funny Boy
26	Kronika o Štilfrídovi a Kronika o Bruncvíkovi - srovnání rytířské povídky a knížky lidového čtení / Kronika o Štylfrýdovi" and "Kronika o Bruncvíkovi" - Comparing knightly story and the book of native reading TRUHLÁŘOVÁ, Veronika January 2017 (has links) This diploma thesis is going to focus on a comparison of a traditional knight´s short story and an early modern folk reading of the Chronicles of "Štifríd" and "Bruncvík"; the focus will be primarily on differences of the two texts. Narratives in Czech literature were repeatedly used in different time periods and in texts of various genres: from the allegorical knight's short story in the end of the 14th century to the early modern funny book of folk reading or even e.g. a folclore fairytale in the 19th century. The starting point for the work will be, therefore, an introduction of the interpretation attempts aimed at the filliation of handwritten and printed editions of the two narratives (Jaroslav Kolár's study), then an actual composition of the work (Hana Mirvaldová - Šmahelová's study) and also an allegorical presentation (Jaroslav Kolár's story). The main part of the thesis is an analysis of the handwritten releases from the turn of the 14th and 15th century and the printed edition from the 18th century, and their mutual comparison.
27	Seeing it Straight Harvey, Heather 01 January 2007 (has links) This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. This has nothing to do with mysticism, science fiction, or anything else unmoored from established fact. Section also touches on the particular vantage of a female artist with working class roots.THE WORK: Selection of work made during graduate school, and the the guiding thoughts behind each.EMPTINESS, STILLNESS, ABSENCE, GHOSTS, DOUBT: A discussion of influential artists and ideas. sacred faith disbelief doubt funny transformation strange humor secret comical silly nontheism skepticism playful catholic secular working class philosophy ethics aesthetic myth painting sculpture installation site specific emptiness absence ghosts chaos erotic violent gross mortal corporeal mourning doubt indeterminate mystery ambiguity uncertainty sensual strange infrastructure architecture abeyance transient fleeting liminal intangible unseen gothic ostranenie uncanny undecided quiet ineffable atheism mold holes decay loss damage Art and Design Arts and Humanities

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