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1	From camera to code : Godard, Resnais and the problem of representation in film theory Vaughan, Michael Hunter January 2008 (has links) This thesis presents a theory of film representation as a process of organizing relations in order to connote the image's status as a type of representation. It is, thus, a study of film form, the form of its representations. Building from such theoretical sources as Merleau- Ponty and Deleuze, I hope here to use a phenomenological base to build a theory of film semiotics that focuses on the immanent field of film representation, which I will postulate as a structuring of the inter-dependent relationship between the content of representation and the signified source of representation. This relationship is infused through a film text according to various modes of differentiation: between the viewer and viewed, speaker and spoken or what, using principles of phenomenology, I call the problem of subject-object relations. In this study I use this framework of subject-object relations in order to re-conceptualize the problem of film representation and to systematize the fundamental debates in film theory. I will argue that even oppositional theories of film representation can be reconciled through their attempt to understand this immanent field as being organized so as to structure a relationship between the representation and an origin of meaning, or subject-function. This relationship is what I call a system of reference. The filmic subject-function is traditionally located within the camera itself or hi the diegetic subjectivity of a character; I will call these two systems of reference, respectively, objective and subjective representation. And, through a reconstruction of Deleuze's Cinéma project, I will argue that the immanent field of film representation is a constant fluctuation between these two poles, a dialogic circulation of interacting agencies and discourses. This thesis illustrates this fluctuation through a comparative analysis of two French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard. I will argue that, illustrating similar goals as one finds in the works of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, these two filmmakers radically deconstruct film codes in order to destroy the conventional division between interior and exterior that is imposed by classical notions of subjectivity. 791.43
2	Hasse Ekman : a question of authorship in a national context Gustafsson, Fredrik January 2013 (has links) This thesis takes a historical approach to its subject and focuses on Swedish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The thesis argues that Swedish cinema experienced a renaissance in the 1940s, lasting approximately from 1940 to 1953. It further suggests that one of the most important filmmakers in this renaissance was Hasse Ekman. By focussing upon Ekman and this renaissance, a much-needed contextualisation of Ingmar Bergman will be achieved. Ingmar Bergman is one of the most well-known and well-researched filmmakers of all time, but there are still gaps in the material surrounding him, and one such gap concerns his cinematic origins. Bergman was a part of the 1940s renaissance, during which Bergman worked with, and was influenced by, other filmmakers and in particular Ekman. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part introduces the relevant literature and discusses ideas of authorship and national cinema. It also provides a historic overview of Swedish society and cinema during the 1940s and 1950s, providing the context needed to better understand the films of Ekman, and Bergman too. This part also looks at the 1930s to illustrate what came before this renaissance, and how the films of the 1940s differed from what had gone before. The second part is a chronological overview of Ekman's career from the late-1930s to his move to Spain in 1964. The last part is a discussion of Ekman's relation to Swedish society and his view of the world, based on close textual readings of his films. The aim of the thesis is to present, for the first time, a coherent and extensive overview of Ekman's career and body of work, while also situating it in the specific context in which it emerged, thereby shedding new light on an important, though neglected, episode in cinema history. 791.43
3	The battle of changing times : picaresque parodies from Bruegel to Grosz Cornew, Clive 11 1900 (has links) This study focuses on Bruegel's parodic legacy in the picaresque tradition. It is based, on the one hand, on visual rhetoric, visual parody, and the poetics of epideictic rhetoric; and, on the other, on the interaction between epideictic rhetoric's salient features and the Bruegelian themes of camivalisation, the satirising of human folly, and the ontic order of the World Upside Down topos as organising principles. The relationships between the above themes are chronologically traced in various disguises in pictures by representative picaresque artists from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries: i.e., in Bruegel, Steen, Hogarth, Daumier, and Grosz. Each of these picaresque artists battled with their own times, parodying the paradigmatic targets of the high mode, in both social and genre hierarchy, and in doing so revealed the complexities of the above themes at work within an ever changing context-bound rhetoricity. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / Thesis (D.Litt. et Phil.) Ancient and modem debate Bruegel (Pieter the Elder) Camivalisation Daumier (Honore) Didactic pedagogics (moral instruction) Eighteenth century Emblematics Epideictic rhetoric Folly Genre hierarchy Grosz (George) Grotesque Heteroglossia Hogarth (William) Interpretation of pictures Irony Laughter Litotes Meiosis Modes (low mode and high mode) New Rhetoric Nineteenth century Paradox Parody (visual parody) Parodic trope structure Perchronics Picaresque world view Picaresque battle Perception Play Rhetoricity Satire Satura Scatology Seventeenth century Sixteenth century Social hierarchy Steen (Jan) Twentieth century Visual rhetoric World Upside Down topos 759.9493 Satire Rhetoric Grosz, George, 1893-1959 Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 Steen, Jan, 1626-1679 Parody in art Caricature
4	The battle of changing times : picaresque parodies from Bruegel to Grosz Cornew, Clive 11 1900 (has links) This study focuses on Bruegel's parodic legacy in the picaresque tradition. It is based, on the one hand, on visual rhetoric, visual parody, and the poetics of epideictic rhetoric; and, on the other, on the interaction between epideictic rhetoric's salient features and the Bruegelian themes of camivalisation, the satirising of human folly, and the ontic order of the World Upside Down topos as organising principles. The relationships between the above themes are chronologically traced in various disguises in pictures by representative picaresque artists from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries: i.e., in Bruegel, Steen, Hogarth, Daumier, and Grosz. Each of these picaresque artists battled with their own times, parodying the paradigmatic targets of the high mode, in both social and genre hierarchy, and in doing so revealed the complexities of the above themes at work within an ever changing context-bound rhetoricity. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / Thesis (D.Litt. et Phil.) Ancient and modem debate Bruegel (Pieter the Elder) Camivalisation Daumier (Honore) Didactic pedagogics (moral instruction) Eighteenth century Emblematics Epideictic rhetoric Folly Genre hierarchy Grosz (George) Grotesque Heteroglossia Hogarth (William) Interpretation of pictures Irony Laughter Litotes Meiosis Modes (low mode and high mode) New Rhetoric Nineteenth century Paradox Parody (visual parody) Parodic trope structure Perchronics Picaresque world view Picaresque battle Perception Play Rhetoricity Satire Satura Scatology Seventeenth century Sixteenth century Social hierarchy Steen (Jan) Twentieth century Visual rhetoric World Upside Down topos 759.9493 Satire Rhetoric Grosz, George, 1893-1959 Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 Steen, Jan, 1626-1679 Parody in art Caricature

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