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1	Digital Figurations : The Human Figure as Cinematic Concept Fredholm, Tilde January 2016 (has links) Mainstream cinema is to an ever-increasing degree deploying digital imaging technologies to work with the human form; expanding on it, morphing its features, or providing new ways of presenting it. This has prompted theories of simulation and virtualisation to explore the cultural and aesthetic implications, anxieties, and possibilities of a loss of the ‘real’ – in turn often defined in terms of the photographic trace. This thesis wants to provide another perspective. Following instead some recent imperatives in art-theory, this study looks to introduce and expand on the notion of the human figure, as pertaining to processes of figuration rather than (only) representation. The notion of the figure and figuration have an extended history in the fields of hermeneutics, aesthetics, and philosophy, through which they have come to stand for particular theories and methodologies with regards to images and their communication of meaning. This objective of this study is to appropriate these for film-theory, culminating in two case-studies to demonstrate how formal parameters present and organise ideas of the body and the human. The aim is to develop a material approach to contemporary digital practices, where bodies have not ceased to matter but are framed in new ways by new technologies. The human figure figuration digital technology body film-theory figural visuality dispositif anthropocentrism motion-capture materiality Gravity Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2	Returbiljett till apornas planet : En studie om primär och sekundär adaption Kivimäki, Tomi January 2012 (has links) The purpose of this essay is to study two film adaptations of the original Planet of the Apes novel and see what kind of relationship the two adaptations have with each other. The main question is if the secondary film adaptation is restricted by the primary and if the relationships between these two are as two separate adaptations or as a remake of an adaptation. What the results of the study show is that the secondary adaptation can not be seen as a remake even though it gets some of its inspiration from both the original story as well as the primary adaptation. The secondary adaptation is, however, restricted in what it can adapt due to the primary adaptation having the first pick, at least if the secondary adaptation wishes to be a whole new adaptation and not a remake of the primary. The study shows also that the fidelity in the secondary adaptation is not necessarily to either the original or the primary but to the knowledge the audience has about the Planet of the Apes universe which they have gathered from all of the important versions of the story. The essay also states that there is yet much to learn about the relationship between secondary and primary film adaptations which means that the field is still in need of exploration. Planet of the Apes film adaptation remake narratology Brian McFarlane Thomas Leitch David Bordwell Franklin Schaffner Tim Burton Pierre Boulle Apornas planet film adaption nyinspelning narratologi Brian McFarlane Thomas Leitch David Bordwell Franklin Schaffner Tim Burton Pierre Boulle

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Digital Figurations : The Human Figure as Cinematic Concept

Returbiljett till apornas planet : En studie om primär och sekundär adaption