Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies. / Typescript. Title of accompanying DVD: Conversations with Maya Deren. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-158). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11796

Hannover, Universiẗat, Diss., 1999.

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Essa é uma investigação do corpo do ator que visa explorar o mito e o ritual dentro das artes cênicas. Mito poéticas do corpo é uma busca da potencialização de um corpo múltiplo e despersonalizado. O objetivo é descobrir a poesia corpórea de cada ator criador. A terminologia despersonalização é um conceito aplicado pela cineasta de vanguarda Maya Deren, uma inspiração fundamental para minha investigação teórica e prática. O treinamento físico e vocal constou com uma série de abordagens corporais que transitam entrem princípios dança e do teatro. O foco primordial é trabalhar com os estados. Para isso, a observação dos orixás do candomblé em suas festas cerimoniais foram subsídios que vieram a contribuir determinantemente na investigação de algumas corporeidades. Esse processo de investigação exigiu um esvaziamento de energias pessoais uma despersonalização - para experienciar uma multiplicidade de estados gerados por motes arquetípicos e simbólicos. / This is an investigation of the actor\'s body which aims to explore the myth and ritual within the performing arts. Poetic myth of the body is a search for potentiation of a multiple body and despersonalized. The idea is to find the poetry body of each actor creator. The terminology depersonalization is a concept applied by the avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, a key inspiration for my theoretical and practical research. The vocal and physical training consisted of a series of approaches body, passing entering principles of dance and theater. The primary focus is to work with \"states\". For this reason, the observation of the deities of Candomblé in their ceremonial festivities were subsidies that came to contribute decisively in the investigation of certain corporeities. This process of investigation required a \"emptying\" of personal energy - a depersonalization - to experience a multitude of states generated by arquetypal headings and symbolic.

Essa é uma investigação do corpo do ator que visa explorar o mito e o ritual dentro das artes cênicas. Mito poéticas do corpo é uma busca da potencialização de um corpo múltiplo e despersonalizado. O objetivo é descobrir a poesia corpórea de cada ator criador. A terminologia despersonalização é um conceito aplicado pela cineasta de vanguarda Maya Deren, uma inspiração fundamental para minha investigação teórica e prática. O treinamento físico e vocal constou com uma série de abordagens corporais que transitam entrem princípios dança e do teatro. O foco primordial é trabalhar com os estados. Para isso, a observação dos orixás do candomblé em suas festas cerimoniais foram subsídios que vieram a contribuir determinantemente na investigação de algumas corporeidades. Esse processo de investigação exigiu um esvaziamento de energias pessoais uma despersonalização - para experienciar uma multiplicidade de estados gerados por motes arquetípicos e simbólicos. / This is an investigation of the actor\'s body which aims to explore the myth and ritual within the performing arts. Poetic myth of the body is a search for potentiation of a multiple body and despersonalized. The idea is to find the poetry body of each actor creator. The terminology depersonalization is a concept applied by the avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, a key inspiration for my theoretical and practical research. The vocal and physical training consisted of a series of approaches body, passing entering principles of dance and theater. The primary focus is to work with \"states\". For this reason, the observation of the deities of Candomblé in their ceremonial festivities were subsidies that came to contribute decisively in the investigation of certain corporeities. This process of investigation required a \"emptying\" of personal energy - a depersonalization - to experience a multitude of states generated by arquetypal headings and symbolic.

The work of Maya Deren, Marguerite Duras and Margarethe von Trotta, three filmmakers who are also authors, inhabits a space between patriarchy and polemic feminism. The result, a refocusing and re-arrangement of traditional literary and cinematic discourse, may be termed a feminine authorship. The principles of this authorship mainly derive from Laura Mulvey’s controversial but influential application of psychoanalytical theory to feminine cinema in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (Screen, 1975), an investigation of the “male gaze” in film. Her propositions have been further developed by critics such as Teresa de Lauretis (1980), Mary Anne Doane (1987) and Judith Mayne (1990) as well as Mulvey herself (1981). Mulvey’s approach shares with classical psychoanalysis an emphasis on the unconscious and its visual manifestations in dream and memory. Deren, Duras and von Trotta encode the latter in spatial imagery expressive of both women’s repression and their hidden resourcefulness, most frequently drawing on the gothic novel and the exotic tale. In order to accomplish their vision, the three filmmakers variously offer original interpretations of well-established modes and genres such as surrealism (Deren), the nouveau roman (Duras), and the documentary (von Trotta), but none could have done so without conceding to a number of compromises with patriarchal discourse, partly for economic, partly for ideological reasons. This thesis asserts (in contrast to Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Peggy Kamuf) that these compromises need not be read as a flaw, but contribute to a discourse in its own right. By analyzing authors from diverse cultural, social and linguistic backgrounds who, moreover, cannot be clearly categorized within the alleged dichotomy of patriarchy and feminism, this study seeks to expand the definition of feminism across national and ideological boundaries. In so doing, it may contribute to the study of other women authors and filmmakers whose views and methods have been similarly unorthodox.

The work of Maya Deren, Marguerite Duras and Margarethe von Trotta, three filmmakers who are also authors, inhabits a space between patriarchy and polemic feminism. The result, a refocusing and re-arrangement of traditional literary and cinematic discourse, may be termed a feminine authorship. The principles of this authorship mainly derive from Laura Mulvey’s controversial but influential application of psychoanalytical theory to feminine cinema in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (Screen, 1975), an investigation of the “male gaze” in film. Her propositions have been further developed by critics such as Teresa de Lauretis (1980), Mary Anne Doane (1987) and Judith Mayne (1990) as well as Mulvey herself (1981). Mulvey’s approach shares with classical psychoanalysis an emphasis on the unconscious and its visual manifestations in dream and memory. Deren, Duras and von Trotta encode the latter in spatial imagery expressive of both women’s repression and their hidden resourcefulness, most frequently drawing on the gothic novel and the exotic tale. In order to accomplish their vision, the three filmmakers variously offer original interpretations of well-established modes and genres such as surrealism (Deren), the nouveau roman (Duras), and the documentary (von Trotta), but none could have done so without conceding to a number of compromises with patriarchal discourse, partly for economic, partly for ideological reasons. This thesis asserts (in contrast to Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Peggy Kamuf) that these compromises need not be read as a flaw, but contribute to a discourse in its own right. By analyzing authors from diverse cultural, social and linguistic backgrounds who, moreover, cannot be clearly categorized within the alleged dichotomy of patriarchy and feminism, this study seeks to expand the definition of feminism across national and ideological boundaries. In so doing, it may contribute to the study of other women authors and filmmakers whose views and methods have been similarly unorthodox. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Tasmania, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 25, 2005). Electronic version of thesis lacks ill. found in printed version. Includes filmography (p. 116-119) and bibliographical references (p. 120-127).

This PhD “Film by Practice” sets out to question and explore the nature of film poetry. The poetry of the cinematic image is described by the filmmaker Jean Epstein as the “unveiling of the magic inherent in the visual object beyond the capacity of words to define” (Epstein, cited in Sitney, 1978: xxiii). This is a daunting task that the study interprets through the moving image with particular reference to the magical temporal art of trance possession, which is processed within the genre of experimental ethnographic documentary and intercultural film. This thesis is an experiment in form, taking the filmmaker Maya Deren’s notion of film as comprising of “narrative horizontals” and “poetic verticals” (Deren and Sitney, 1971: 178) explored through a practical investigation of movement and time in space both beyond and within the film frame, studied through the art installations Divine Horsemen (2005) and People Inbetween (2007). It is focused through a reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonian philosophies of cinema as “movement-images” and “time-images” (Deleuze, 1989: xvi, xvii), exhibited as multi-screened video art installations that evolve within the space and hence exist in a perpetual state of “becoming”. Whether this is the sounds and images that change depending on where they are viewed, or the narrative theme of the works as “becoming other”. The themes of “in-betweenness” and the “mix” are investigated through these two video documentary artworks; first, by a third party restaging/remixing of the experimental ethnographic footage of Haitian Voodoo trance possession shot by Maya Deren, unfinished and posthumously released as Divine Horsemen the Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1985); and second, diaspora and the intercultural are explored through the first person personal. Intercultural documentary and experimental ethnography filtered through me with specific reference to my own triangular ethnicity, being British, Sri Lankan, though classified as Dutch Burgher, a “lost white tribe” (Orizio, 2000: 2): a journey into racial “becoming” as an “in-between” belonging to a diasporic community.

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