Filmmusic is often composed specially for a film. When analyzing film-music it seems very common to study the function of the music in a narrative context in order to see how it cooperates or relates to this narration. In the present thesis I am investigating the interaction between film and music as two ingredients on an equal level. In short: what happens when a filmmaker chooses music that has already been composed for another occasion, even in another time and a different cultural context? My aim is twofold: first to examine current film analytic strategies, secondly to find new ways of comprehend pre-composed music in relation to its new setting in a film. My interest, thus, is to seek meaning of music in film rather than function. The study calls for an inter-disciplinary approach using theories and discussions from a wide range of subjects: psychology, music therapy, anthropology, musicology in general and semantics. I am examining two films that are similar in their respect to use music that has been composed and used elsewhere. However, in “2001-a Space Odyssey” Stanley Kubrick uses music from the European art music tradition whereas Woody Allen in “Manhattan” uses music from the popular American music repertoire of the 20s and 30s (The American Songbook). The music, by various composers and in various idioms, in Kubrick´s films, works on a fairly abstract level in a sort of counterpoint to the mythological and visionary contents of the film plot. The meaning of the music on the one hand, and film music on the other operates on a deeper level as a result of this confrontation. In Woody Allen´s film the pieces of music represent a culturally and tecknically much more homogenous group. The implicit texts of the songs ( they are never sung) can be comprehended as a commentary on a deeper level by those familiar with this repertoire. Allen´s choice of subject and enacted dramaturgy for his film is very different from Kubrick´s. The chosen music contributes in an independent way to a reciprocal understanding of film and music as two separate but still independent art entities.

Subtext är en sanning gömd under ytan, som avslöjar en handling eller ords sanna mening. Hur kan en adaptionsprocess påverka subtexten då en bok tolkas om till film? Syftet med denna uppsats är att applicera en komparativ adaptionsanalys för att svara på frågan kring hur subtexten i en bok påverkas av att adapteras till film. Två kapitel och dess respektive filmscener analyseras därmed för att därefter peka ut dess subtext, detta från boken Dream Story och dess filmatisering Eyes Wide Shut. Skillnaderna i hur subtexten förmedlats pekas sedan ut i resultatet, där slutsatser kring adaptionsprocessen av subtext görs. Subtexten analyseras med hjälp av Linda Segers bok Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath, vilket understöds med Thomas Denks teorier kring komparativa analyser i Komparativ metod – förståelse genom jämförelse. Resultatet har då pekat på att subtexten påverkats av att gå från en litterär till visuell tolkning, där mediespecifika detaljer påverkat berättandet. Dock har samma subtext i stor grad framförts i filmen, det har endast handlat om mediespecifika tolkningar.

Much linguistic research has been done on the fictional argot of A Clockwork Orange, known as Nadsat, but few efforts have been made to expand beyond the classification and analysis of Nadsat. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper looks at the overarching discourse of A Clockwork Orange and aims to answer three questions: What exigencies and discourses inform the creation of these works? What techniques and power structures are employed in the construction of these works? How do these works shape or attempt to shape the discourse? To answer these questions, I look at three instances of the discourse: Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and Krege’s translation, Clockwork Orange. These instances are varied over time of publication (1962, 1971, 1997), language (English, German), medium (novel, film), and culture (British, American, German), allowing enough variance to examine how the discourse changes to meet the needs of its participants.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maira Cinthya Nascimento Ezequiel.pdf: 683377 bytes, checksum: f0d27e8c791fe6f4cea2b427509e9bf5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-02 / This investigation searches for the effects of meaning resultants from the use of plasticity as a method for creating the visuality in the movie Barry Lyndon, by Stanley Kubrick (1975), and, at the same time, the intersemioticity that emerges from the blending of the aesthetic languages of cinema, painting and literature here involved. Concerning the methodology, it is based on a group of aesthetic and semiotic theories which include, especially, the model for analysis of meaning in visual arts proposed by Erwin Panofsky, the bonds between cinema and painting noted by Jacques Aumont, the concept of effect of realism such as formulated by Roland Barthes and of intersemiotic translation introduced by Roman Jakobson (and later redeveloped by Julio Plaza). The aim of this research is to follow the process of production of a realistic effect on the passages between one language and another. The hipothesis risen is that the strong sense of verosimilitude that results from the final product borrows its mode of installation from some of the eighteenth century realistic French painting. The choice of the movie is due to its stated visual exuberance as a result of a sophisticated dialogue established between the careful light capture and the rigorous use of pictorial references in correspondence with the historical time of the action, precisely the works Constable, Courbet, Corot and the so-called Barbizon Painters. Finally, Por fim, it drafts na approach between Kubrick s work and the idea of Modernity as thought by Baudelaire / O trabalho investiga os efeitos de sentido decorrentes do uso da plasticidade como método de construção da visualidade no filme Barry Lyndon, de Stanley Kubrick (1975), e, em paralelo, a intersemioticidade resultante do entrecruzamento das linguagens do cinema, da pintura e da literatura aí em jogo. Metodologicamente, ampara-se num conjunto de teorias estéticas e semióticas que envolvem, principalmente, o modelo de análise do significado nas artes visuais proposto por Erwin Panofsky, as aproximações entre o cinema e a pintura feitas por Jacques Aumont, o conceito de efeito de real tal como formulado por Roland Barthes e o de tradução intersemiótica introduzido por Roman Jakobson (e depois retomado por Julio Plaza). O objetivo da pesquisa é acompanhar o processo de produção de um efeito de real nas passagens entre uma e outra linguagem. A hipótese é que o forte efeito de verossimilhança que resulta deste filme toma emprestado da pintura realista francesa do século XVIII seu modo de se instalar. A escolha do filme deve-se à constatação de sua exuberância visual como resultado de um sofisticado diálogo estabelecido entre a minuciosa captação da luz e o rigor na utilização de referenciais pictóricos encontrados na pintura correspondente ao tempo da ação, mais precisamente nas obras de Constable, Courbet, Corot e dos Pintores de Barbizon. Por fim, esboça-se uma aproximação entre o trabalho de Kubrick e o que Baudelaire chamou de Modernidade

Begreppet ”fan edits” betecknar filmer som klipps om av fans, vilka är missnöjda med hur en adaption för vita duken som gjorts. I min uppsats vill jag påvisa dels hur samspelet mellan fans och filmmakare/filmbolag sett och ser ut, dels försöka klargöra varför copyright/fair use är så knepigt att applicera på området.

This thesis focuses on practical application of intermedia perspective while comparing cinematographic work and literary work in the form of film screenplay.

Die Dissertation untersucht die Entwicklung des Gesamtkunstwerk-Konzeptes und seine Aktualität, Möglichkeit und Notwendigkeit in Bezug auf ein modernes filmisches Gesamtkunstwerk. Ausgegangen wird von der ästhetischen Theorie und Praxis der deutschen Frühromantik, in der das Konzept wurzelt. In einer umfassenden Betrachtung und Analyse der ästhetischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Dimension des Konzeptes in den Schriften und dem Werk Richard Wagners sollen wesentliche Strukturmerkmale erkundet und soll ein Maßstab für ein ‚positives‘ zeit-genössisches Gesamtkunstwerk gebildet werden, das sich von seinem ideologischen Missbrauch befreit. Erforscht wird, inwiefern der Farb- und Tonspielfilm ein geeignetes Kunstmedium für die Anwendung des Konzeptes darstellt und wie sich die Frage seiner gesellschaftspolitischen Dimension in der globalen Epoche übersetzen lässt. / The dissertation explores the evolution of the concept of the Total Work of Art (ʹGesamtkunstwerkʹ) as well as its actuality, feasibility and necessity in the form of a modern cinematic Gesamtkunstwerk. Starting point is the aesthetic theory and praxis of the Early German Romanticism, in which the concept is rooted. An extensive consideration and analysis of the concept in both its aesthetic and socio-political dimension as developed in the writings and works of Richard Wagner aims to define its essential structural features and to set the standard for a ʹpositiveʹ contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk beyond its ideological abuse. Key is the examination of how and to what extend the sound and colour feature film constitutes a legit artistic medium for the application of the concept as well as how its sociopolitical facet translates within the global era.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-06-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T21:00:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 paula_rm_me_sjrp.pdf: 2561833 bytes, checksum: 5e51329f8a6e197890cb17efd957b900 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este projeto examina as maneiras pelas quais a obra The Short-Timers (1979), de Gustav Hasford, e o filme Full Metal Jacket (1987), de Stanley Kubrick, revisitam a Guerra do Vietnã, dessacralizando a História oficial. Em seu romance The Short Timers (1979), o veterano Gustav Hasford narra a trajetória de um soldado e de seus companheiros durante o treinamento militar e o posterior combate no Vietnã. Tomando a perspectiva desse soldado, o narrador focaliza esse episódio da história dos Estados Unidos de forma diversa da tradicional; isto é, denunciando as angústias e dores vividas pelas tropas no treinamento básico e na batalha. Stanley Kubrick dirigiu a adaptação dessa narrativa para o cinema que recebeu o título de Full Metal Jacket (1987). Nela podemos notar como a guerra é revisitada de modo crítico. O cineasta apresenta as narrativas pessoais da personagem principal. Para analisar as obras literária e cinematográfica, serão utilizados textos teóricos acerca da relação entre Literatura e História (Hutcheon, 1989, 1993; White, 1985; Benjamin, 1985) e sobre Pós-Modernismo (Jameson, 1997; Hutcheon, 1989). Com base nestas teorias, propomos verificar como a Literatura e o Cinema representam a Guerra do Vietnã na contemporaneidade, mostrando diferentes pontos de vista sobre o conflito / This project investigates the ways in which Gustav Hasford’s The Short-Timers (1979) and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) revisit the Vietnam War rethinking official History. In his novel, The Short-Timers, the Vietnam veteran Gustav Hasford narrates the path of a soldier and his mates during military training and later combat in Vietnam. Taking this soldier’s perspective, the narrator focuses on this episode in American history differently than usual; that is, calling attention to the anguish and pains that the troops go through on training and in battle. Stanley Kubrick directed the adaptation of this work into the film Full Metal Jacket, in which can be noticed how war can be critically reevaluated. The filmmaker presents personal accounts by the main character. For the analyses, theories about the relationship between Literature and History (Hutcheon, 1989, 1993; White, 1985; Benjamin, 1985) and Post-Modernism (Jameson, 1997; Hutcheon, 1989) will be used. Based on those theories, we propose to investigate how Literature and Cinema represent the Vietnam War showing other points of view about this conflict

Zugl.: Salzburg, University, Diss., 2008.

Zugl.: Salzburg, University, Diss., 2008.