Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2000. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2000. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

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The Screen Test (Americana/Australiana) project is a collection of works that re-makes selected fragments of film spanning cinema history. Through a process of selectively slowing and stilling this form, of what Laura Mulvey calls Delayed Cinema, opens up new possibilities for interpreting and understanding cinema and the photographic. The aesthetic qualities and repetition of the scene or shot are re-created and re-performed, allowing an alternate form of cinema to take place. This alternate cinema takes on the characteristic of the Hollywood screen test and thus we can see each piece as the artist performing the screen test for each film. However, over time the screen test becomes the site for shifting the aesthetic elements within the film and shaping the narrative as a form of aesthetic building block. The viewing of each fragment allows for a new reading of film that suspends or subverts the temporal narrative and allows the contained segment to exist outside of the film opening up the possibility of constructing and emphasizing new iconic images and meanings. Each video piece is supplemented with a photographic still in tableaux form that further explores the aesthetic material of the film or shot raising the aesthetic components of the film ( props, locations etc) to the level of fetishism that may have been missed in the original version. This photographic rendering of the film fragment rethinks the possibilities of photographic tableaux and its relation to the iconic and indexical of photomedia art practice. Similarly, each photographic work is informed by theories of film analysis and psychology that has examined the primacy of the film still with Freudian notions of the primal scene and the uncanny. We are after all bringing to life the graveyard of cinema history. These photographic qualities of the mis en scene and the indexical of metonymy allow a heightened aesthetic experience, which transforms itself into an aberration of the director’s intended meaning, thereby reconstructing this meaning within the context of camp humour and irony. The work also acts as a playful and absurd interpretation of the cult of celebrity within cinema and the art world, which frees up of the interpretation of the film’s meaning and becomes the site for contemporary re-readings of film culture. The juxtaposition of the American Hollywood film and its emphasis on studio lighting, props, character and dialogue against the outdoor location of the Australian films conflates the two cultural imperatives, allowing for the examination of cultural myth through cinema. American cinema is revealed as the dominant culture whose imperialism dogs Australian film and fosters a culture of low self-esteem. Further, the Americana works become the site for cultural examinations of gender, narcissism and war - both real and imagined – and Hollywood is explored in terms of its social imaginings and how they play into real life events. The Australiana component explores the mythology of the Australian landscape with an emphasis on the culture of masculinity and self-destructive violence. However, each work is the result of a conflation of both cultures and other films, or parts of the same film, shifted within the fragment. The production of each photographic and video piece requires the taking on of the role of director, cinematographer, actor and producer. Through the use of interactive technologies such as DVD and the Internet not only am I able to experience a new subjective relationship with the intricacies of cinema but also by recreating these cinematic fragments I am able to bring into being and transform the spectre of cinema into the realm of contemporary art practice.

Thesis (D.C.A.)--University of Wollongong, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 153-170.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. / "While some of the characters from this screenplay are based upon the life and times of Charles G. Finney; this is a fictional story." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [111-119]).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Constance Thalken, committee chair; Joseph Peragine, Niklas Vollmer, committee members. Description based on contents viewed July 24, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-35). Screenplay: p. 36-44.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. / "While some of the characters from this screenplay are based upon the life and times of Charles G. Finney; this is a fictional story." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [111-119]).

Over the past decade, cinema studies scholars have begun to recognize the value of mythographical methodologies for motion picture analysis; however, most of the scholarly research in this field has focused either on mythic archetypal images or on monomythic narrative structure, rather than combining the two approaches into a unified theory. This essay addresses the problem by proposing a mythographical methodology of motion picture analysis based on Carl Jung's theory of archetypal images and Joseph Campbell's theories concerning the monomythic structure of heroic narratives. Combining the two approaches of myth interpretation results in a more comprehensive methodology for interpreting the mythic elements of motion pictures. This essay illustrates the application of this methodology through a detailed analysis of Terry Gilliam's film, The Fisher King.

CAPES / Esta pesquisa propõe uma reflexão sobre como a dimensão tecnológica na prática dos Microrroteiros da Cidade se constitui como fator fundamental de seus processos de co-construção e mediação de circulações, dinâmicas e possibilidades de desdobramento. Criado em 2009 pela artista e roteirista paulistana Laura Guimarães, o projeto consiste em pequenas intenções de roteiro que convidam à visualização de histórias e situações vivenciadas por pessoas que transitam e/ou habitam a cidade de São Paulo. A linguagem utilizada nos textos dos microrroteiros é, ao mesmo tempo, uma relativização do roteiro de cinema e do código técnico de escritura do Twitter – uma plataforma de microblogging que prioriza o compartilhamento por meio de mensagens curtas de até 140 caracteres. Por meio de levantamento fotográfico, entrevista e coleta de dados, realizamos um mapeamento dos trânsitos dessas dinâmicas e, posteriormente, desenvolvemos uma análise das opções tipográficas, dos variados suportes, composições e das conexões entre diferentes espaços geográficos identificados. A fundamentação da pesquisa é realizada a partir da Teoria Crítica da Tecnologia de Andrew Feenberg e da leitura do autor sobre as considerações de Herbert Marcuse em relação à tecnologia e a arte. Refletimos também a respeito de deslocamentos de processos artísticos e comunicacionais desencadeados a partir da década de 1960 por um viés teórico latino-americano, sustentado por Néstor García-Canclini e Jesús Martín-Barbero, no intuito de analisarmos como a prática dos Microrroteiros da Cidade e suas dimensões técnico-estéticas se constituem nas dinâmicas das redes sociais e dos códigos urbanos em que se localiza. Desse modo, compreendemos as hibridações de linguagens expressas nessa prática artística como deslocamentos que ocorrem não de modo linear, mas de maneira cruzada e simultânea, borrando fronteiras de autoria e de fruição passiva, possibilitando outras construções de visualidades, coletivos e randômicos, mediando processos de ressignificação e reapropriação da cidade. / This research proposes a reflection about how the technological dimension in the practice of Microrroteiros da Cidade constitutes a fundamental factor of its co-construction and mediation processes of circulation, dynamics and deployment possibilities. Microrroteiros’s project was created in 2009 by the artist and screenwriter Laura Guimarães. Its approach involves small script intentions that invites São Paulo’s population to imagine and visualize scenes that happen in the city. The language used in microrroteiros texts is, at the same time, a relativization of screenplay and Twitter’s technical code – a microblogging plataform that priorizes the share of 140 character messages. Through photographic survey, interview and collection of data, we made a transit mapping of this dynamics and, after that, we developed an analysis of the typographic options, the various media, compositions and connections between different geographic areas identified. The theoretical foundation of this research is based on Andrew Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology, and on considerations that this author does about Herbert Marcuse’s theorical position on technology and art. Supported by Néstor García-Canclini and Jesús Martín-Barbero, we observe some shifts of artistic and communication processes triggered from the 1960s by a Latin American theoretical bias, in order to analyze how the practice of Microrroteiros da Cidade and their technical and aesthetic dimensions are constitutive in the dynamics of social media and urban codes in which it is located. Thus, we understand the hybridizations of this artistic practice as displacements that occur in a nonlinear way, but crossed and simultaneous, blurring boundaries of autorship and enabling other visual, collective and random constructions, mediating processes of reinterpretation and reappropriation of the city.