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Inom både film och filmskapande är tiden ett grundelement för dess existens. Trots detta finns det ett stort behov av ytterligare forskning kring ämnet. Syftet med denna uppsats är att tillföra forskning genom att undersöka hur Linklater gestaltar tid i filmen Boyhood. För att uppnå detta har uppsatsen framförallt lutat sig mot litteratur av Andrej Tarkovskij såväl som David Bordwell och deras respektive böcker Sculpting in Time samt Narration in the Fiction Film. Denna studie visar genom begrepp formade av Tarkovskij och Bordwell olika metoder som Linklater använder för att gestalta tid. Dessa metoder innehåller både teoretiska perspektiv såväl som filosofiska. Utöver dessa gestaltningsmetoder tillför denna studie även ett alternativ för att tolka filmen Boyhood och dess budskap.

Com esse trabalho, investiga-se a noção de técnica em relação à função artística do ator, visando à ampliação do conhecimento sobre processos de ensino/aprendizagem da voz no teatro, principalmente, por meio do estudo da obra Freeing the Natural Voice, de Kristin Linklater comparando-a com as publicações de Jerzy Grotowski, referentes ao período de seu trabalho de 1965 a 1969. Entende-se \"o ator\" como um \"corpo que age em cena\". Por meio da elaboração da noção de \"corpo\" e \"voz\", em relação com o ambiente sociocultural, a técnica do ator é concebida como uma \"técnica corporal de transmissão\". Essa concepção ilumina a investigação e a comparação entre o pensamento de Linklater e Grotowski, inclusive as ideias-chave como a \"voz natural\", a \"organicidade\" e a \"via negativa\". O estudo possibilita a exposição da obra de Linklater, ainda pouca conhecida no Brasil, bem como a criação de novos processos para o ensino-aprendizagem da técnica vocal no teatro. / This work investigates the notion of technique in relation to the artistic function of the actor with a view to broaden knowledge about processes for teaching/learning voice for the theatre, principally through a study of the book Freeing the Natural Voice, by Kristin Linklater, in comparison with the publications of Jerzy Grotowski, that refer to the period of his work between 1965 e 1969. \"The actor\" is understood as \"a body that acts in a scenic space\" and, through the elaboration of the notion of \"body\" and \"voice\" in relation to the sociocultural environment, the \"actor\'s technique\" is conceived as \"a body transmission technique\". This conception illuminates the comparison of Linklater and Grotowski, including key ideas such as \"the natural voice\", \"organicity\" and the \"via negativa\". The study makes possible the exposition of Linklater\'s work in Brasil, where she is still little known, as well as the creation of new processes for the teaching/learning of vocal technique for the theatre.

Com esse trabalho, investiga-se a noção de técnica em relação à função artística do ator, visando à ampliação do conhecimento sobre processos de ensino/aprendizagem da voz no teatro, principalmente, por meio do estudo da obra Freeing the Natural Voice, de Kristin Linklater comparando-a com as publicações de Jerzy Grotowski, referentes ao período de seu trabalho de 1965 a 1969. Entende-se \"o ator\" como um \"corpo que age em cena\". Por meio da elaboração da noção de \"corpo\" e \"voz\", em relação com o ambiente sociocultural, a técnica do ator é concebida como uma \"técnica corporal de transmissão\". Essa concepção ilumina a investigação e a comparação entre o pensamento de Linklater e Grotowski, inclusive as ideias-chave como a \"voz natural\", a \"organicidade\" e a \"via negativa\". O estudo possibilita a exposição da obra de Linklater, ainda pouca conhecida no Brasil, bem como a criação de novos processos para o ensino-aprendizagem da técnica vocal no teatro. / This work investigates the notion of technique in relation to the artistic function of the actor with a view to broaden knowledge about processes for teaching/learning voice for the theatre, principally through a study of the book Freeing the Natural Voice, by Kristin Linklater, in comparison with the publications of Jerzy Grotowski, that refer to the period of his work between 1965 e 1969. \"The actor\" is understood as \"a body that acts in a scenic space\" and, through the elaboration of the notion of \"body\" and \"voice\" in relation to the sociocultural environment, the \"actor\'s technique\" is conceived as \"a body transmission technique\". This conception illuminates the comparison of Linklater and Grotowski, including key ideas such as \"the natural voice\", \"organicity\" and the \"via negativa\". The study makes possible the exposition of Linklater\'s work in Brasil, where she is still little known, as well as the creation of new processes for the teaching/learning of vocal technique for the theatre.

An analysis of American independent cinema from 1990 until 2007, with an emphasis on these films? relationship to the Remarriage Comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. There is a uniquely American tendency to use cinema to reevaluate marriage that was most clearly evident in the Remarriage Comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, this thesis contends that this tendency has emphatically reemerged in American independent cinema since 1990. Using detailed analyses of films that most clearly evidence the persistence of this theme, this thesis explores, in-depth, four films: Hal Hartley?s Trust (1990), Richard Linklater?s Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), and Aaron Katz?s Quiet City (2007). These four films combine to form a coherent vision of a new perspective on romantic coupling, uniting to together show what they are rebelling against, what their new relationships should be built upon, and, finally, what the new kind of relationship that they present can look like. The definitively American theme that is delineated in these four films not only forms a clear connection to the history of American cinema, but also shows how new generations approach the essential questions implicit in coupling and marriage.

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Thesis (MDram)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / In a study of Kristin Linklater’s approach to voice training the concept of the natural voice and the freeing of it stands central. The natural voice according to Linklater is that voice which is naturally produced by the voice-organs without any restrictions that can inhibit it and thus have a maximum potential for the use during speech/work. The opposite to the natural voice is the unnatural voice, which can be described as the production of speech in such a manner that it is restricted or inhibited by conscious or unconscious means. Linklater’s approach focuses on the recognition of the natural voice and the freeing it from negative habits. Her freeing theory with regards to the natural voice consists of the junction of the acknowledgment of physical and psychological habits in the body with the aim of strengthening the natural voice and not only to teach new vocal techniques and habits. The process of freeing the natural voice consists of recognizing and eliminating negative speech and voice related habits. Linklater’s approach to voice training is not unique. The approaches of the other voice theoreticians such as Berry, Rodenburg, Houseman and Lessac have the same kind of approach to voice training (wich includes the concept of the natural voice). Al though some differences occur in connection to their approaches to the roots of habits and the conditioning of voice habits and the eventual freeing of the natural voice through unlearning of the habits that suppress the natural voice.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera filmen Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001) utifrån David Bordwells narratologiska perceptionsteorier för att tydliggöra filmens narrativa konstruktion på ett kognitivt plan. På senare år har det kommit allt fler filmer som utmanar åskådaren med ett experimentellt berättelseformat. Waking Life tillhör den gruppen men lämnar också extra rum för åskådarens egna tolkningar. Genom ett fokus på filmens protagonist och dennes öde så riktar uppsatsens näranalys in sig på filmens underliggande berättelse, som i filmen döljer sig och samtidigt blandas med filmens filosofiskt inriktade innehåll. Näranalysen anknyter ständigt till Bordwells teorier som också visar sig vara väl användbara för en grundläggande linjär analys, men uppmärksammar samtidigt vissa av teorins brister. Sammanfattningsvis förtydligar uppsatsen detta genom att peka på vikten av åskådarens medvetenhet om vem eller vilka det är som egentligen berättar en film. Här är Waking Life med sitt experimentella narrativa upplägg och känslan av ett högst personligt berättande ett passande exempel.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur filmen Before Sunset (2004) skapar dramaturgi med dialog. Genom att analysera filmens dialog utifrån dramaturgiska begrepp i den klassiska berättarstrukturen ska studien se om begreppen kan likställas i verbal handling. Episk/lyrisk dramaturgi kontrasterar analysen för fördjupad förståelse och belyser andra förhållningssätt till berättarstruktur. Undersökningen finner att det går att likställa den klassiska berättarstrukturens dramaturgiska begrepp i filmens dialog. Den episk/lyriska dramaturgin går att identifiera i filmens berättande genom temat – tid och minnen som filmens dialog är strukturerad av. Analysen framför att klassisk berättarstruktur saknar verbal handling som ett definierat dramaturgiskt begrepp som går att dramatisera utifrån.

This thesis is an original contribution to critical international relations theory. Responding to Hartmut Behr's call for the development of more universalistic trajectories of ontological inquiry for contemporary (global) politics and ethics, our original contribution is to establish a 'critical' approach to international theory on a more universalistic meta-theoretical foundation. Proceeding from a philosophical analysis of 'ontological' foundations in influential normative, meta-theoretical, and critical approaches to international theory, we argue for a shift from international theory’s reliance on a shallow ontology of 'things that exist' to a fuller ontology of being, and of human being in particular. After identifying with the left-Hegelian tradition of thought, and establishing that the most compelling and promising advocate of a 'critical' approach to international theory, that of Andrew Linklater, rests on a limited conception of human existence and a thin understanding of human freedom, we explore the implications of conceptions of human being and freedom in the work of Martin Heidegger and Georg W. F. Hegel for critical international theory. Offering an epistemological defence of our universalism through Hegel's phenomenological constructivist approach to knowledge, then demonstrating how this allows us to transcend the schism between foundationalist and anti-foundationalist approaches to normative theory, we premise our own emancipatory cosmopolitanism on a commitment to the human being conceived as 'singularity' rather than subject. Proceeding from a discussion of 'what it means to be' a free human being according to Heidegger and Hegel, we then foreground two aspects of human freedom that have hitherto been obscured in critical international theory and develop a praxeological emancipatory cosmopolitanism on this basis. Rather than rejecting Linklater's emancipatory cosmopolitanism, we call for its 'overcoming,' and demonstrate ways that our meta-theoretical argument can effect international practice by offering 'love' as a guide for ethical and emancipatory praxis and an evaluative tool for critical social theory.