Yong Wai Ting. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-103). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 論文摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Literary Language Versus Film Language --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Cinematic Novels Versus Novelistic Cinema --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Film Adaptation: Transfer Versus Cinematic Reshaping --- p.73 / Work Cited --- p.100

This thesis aims to examine students and teachers’ attitudes towards the use of fiction film in religious studies in upper secondary schools in the province of Scania in Sweden. The thesis has a particular focus on the use of film in order to facilitate understanding of different religions and views of life and what students report gaining from viewing film in the classroom. For this purpose, two research questions were formulated: “How do teachers of religious studies in upper secondary school view the use of fiction film as a teaching resource for the purpose of facilitating understanding of different views of life and religions?” and “How do students view the use of fiction film as a learning resource in religious studies and what do they gain from watching fiction film during religious education?” In order to answer these research questions, ethnographic empirical material was collected from surveys of students as well as a survey of religious education teachers in upper secondary schools in Scania. These surveys were combined with three interviews with upper secondary religious education teachers from two different schools in Scania. This material was later analysed from a hermeneutical perspective with a grounding in previous research in the use of film as a teaching resource. The research found that teachers in upper secondary schools who responded to the survey and were interviewed had a generally positive view on the use of fiction film in religious studies and were positive towards the use of film to facilitate understanding of different views of life and religions. However, teachers showed a bit more trepidation towards the use of fiction films to show how people live their religions. Teachers also expressed that lack of time was a main factor in avoiding the use of fiction film in their teaching. Students were mostly favourable towards the use of film as an educational tool in religious education, however not as big of a majority as the teachers. They also showed a propensity towards wanting to watch fiction films in combination with discussions and group work.

My thesis focuses on the reception of Slovak fiction film in the Czech press from 1948, the year when Slovakia started to produce their own fiction films regularly, until 1969, when the social changes after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops ended the whole period. There was a notion in the Czech society that Czechoslovak film is a Czech film and the thesis focuses on this notion as it was understood by the Czech film critics. My goal is to find and explain, when and how the Czech film journalism started to recognize the differences inside the Czechoslovak film and pointed out the unique identity of the Slovak film in the Czech press. Furthermore, I examine how the Slovak film was rated by Czech film critics in the Czech film scholar press, film magazines and newspapers. The first part of the thesis examines the Czech-Slovak relations in the light of newly established Slovak fiction film. The second part focuses on the complex approach of the Czech film critical journals towards Slovak film, influenced by the state power between the years 1948 - 1960. The third part reflects the appearance of the topics concerning SNP and the so called Slovak New Wave, which lasted during two separate periods between the years 1960 - 1969. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Methods aimed thesis deals with theme of attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices and possibilities of its influencing by films and fiction. It presents four lessons which process on their basis issues of exclusivity in children group, disability, racism and religious tolerance. The goal of these lesson is to support pupil's values of plurality, diversity and tolerance. These lessons take advantages of activation educational methods and methods of Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking programme. Lessons were applied in primary school classes. Their effectivity was find out using questionnaires filled in before and after the lessons. Thesis also processes written experiences with lessons, which were given by pupils and teachers. Recommendations for the next using of suggested lessons are thus outcomes of this thesis.

El trabajo de investigación expuesto en este documento es analizar la representación en el cine de ficción peruano de la migración del campo a la ciudad desde la perspectiva de directores de cine y especialistas en la materia. La migración es un importante fenómeno en nuestra cultura peruana y es nuestro deber comprender la realidad de una comunidad tan extensa como lo son los migrantes del campo a la ciudad. Sin embargo, no existe una cifra relevante de evidencias cinematográficas que profundicen este tema sin recurrir a los mismos estereotipos normalizados en nuestro entorno, disminuyendo la historia de estos mismos. Es en este estudio donde se pretende analizar las películas que han expuesto el universo de la migración y como han ejemplificado la construcción del espacio y el personaje migrante. Estas mismas serán tema de debate por los directores de cine peruano contemporáneos que emitirán una opinión basado en sus películas y experiencias. Además, los especialistas en la materia, explicarán el porqué este poco o nulo interés sobre el tema de la migración en el cine peruano de ficción desde su investigación. El corpus de este conjunto de films simbolizará una evidencia de la importancia de incluir este tema en nuestro cine y la poca representación del personaje migrante en nuestro país. / The research study presented in this document is to analyze the representation of the migration from the countryside to the city in peruvian fiction cinema y from the perspective of film directors and specialists in the field. Migration is a important phenomenon in our peruvian culture and it´s our duty to understand the reality of migrants from the countryside to the city. However, there isn´t a relevant number of cinematographic evidence that deepens this topic without resorting to the same standardized stereotypes in our environment, diminishing their history. In this study, I will analyze the films that have exposed the universe of migration and how they have exemplified the construction of space and the migrant character. These will be the subject of debate by contemporary Peruvian film directors who will generate an opinion based on their own films and experiences. In addition, specialists in the field will explain why they´re isn´t interest on the subject of migration in peruvian fiction cinema based on their own research. The corpus of this set of films will symbolize evidence of the importance of including this subject in our cinema and the poor representation of the migrant character in our country. / Trabajo de investigación

This diploma thesis deals with the attitude of the Z generation to Czech documentary films and series. The aim of the work is to describe the common tendencies of the whole generation Z or its subgroups within their attitude to Czech documentary production. The research method for determining the attitude of this generational cohort is a questionnaire survey. In the beginning the Z generation is characterized, its formants and basic characteristics are analyzed. One of the subchapters also focuses especially on the Czech generation Z. In the theoretical part space is also devoted to documentary production, specifically its characteristics, typology and history of documents. The genre of the document is presented both in the global context and also in the Czech environment in the work. The practical part describes the research which has the form of a questionnaire survey. The results are presented for each evaluated question separately while at the end there is a collective summary with the most important and interesting findings from the research.

Cette étude a pour principal objectif d’examiner l’usage de la caméra à l’épaule dans les films de fiction Faces de John Cassavetes et La Vie nouvelle de Philippe Grandrieux. Loin d’associer la caméra portée à la vision subjective d’un personnage, ces cinéastes semblent plutôt inscrire la caméra et son tremblé comme un tiers autonome qui entre néanmoins dans la zone fictionnelle. Par la position similaire qu’ils attribuent à la caméra et par l’importance qu’ils accordent à l’improvisation au tournage, ces deux cinéastes créent une proximité entre le personnage et la caméra, qui a un impact sur l’esthétique visuelle de leurs films. De par cette esthétique affectée, l’expérience vécue par le spectateur devant le film est intensifiée. En interrogeant le processus de création, l’esthétique de la caméra à l’épaule ainsi que la réception spectatorielle, nous verrons comment un tel transfert d’affect est rendu possible par cette tripartition. Pour faire l’analyse de ce transfert affectif, phénomène causé par ce que nous pourrons appeler la caméra catalytique, nous nous appuierons sur quelques philosophies choisies. / This study has as its main goal the examination of the use of the handheld camera in the films Faces by John Cassavetes and La vie nouvelle by Philippe Grandrieux. Far from associating the handheld camera to a character’s point of view these filmmakers seem to inscribe the camera and its shake as an autonomous third person which is part of the fictional space. By the similar position these filmmakers give to the camera and by the importance they attribute to improvisation during the shoot they create a proximity between the character and the camera which has an impact on the visual aesthetic of their films; this affected aesthetic intensifies the experience felt by the audience. By examining the process of making the film, the handheld aesthetic as well as the audience response, we will see how this transfer of affect is made possible. To analyse this affective transfer, caused by what one would call the catalytic camera, we will rely on a selection of chosen philosophies.

This thesis attempts to take seriously the claims made by many postapocalyptic zombie narratives to represent the world as it truly is, analyzing and then assessing the theological value of their depictions of the human predicament. The approach is both formal and what Gary Wolfe calls transmedial, examining the recurring narrative structures and themes of texts across several media and eras as part of 'a popular aesthetic movement and not just a body of works of fiction on similar themes', with special attention given to the films and television of the new millennium. The aim is twofold: to extend the relevance of postapocalyptic zombie fictions beyond the relatively narrow vogue of a cultural moment, and to prompt a richer appreciation of the significance of the Christian faith within contemporary society. To this end, Chapter One contextualizes the complexity of these texts' relationship to Christianity by examining first the most prominent obstacles and then the implicit promise of these texts for theological reflection. It places special emphasis on the interior tension in many of these fictions between, on the one hand, aggressively emphasizing the apparent absence of the supernatural, while on the other, frequently claiming to disclose a dimension of human experience in excess of what can be ordinarily perceived by the senses. Chapters Two and Three extend this analysis to the complex content of what these stories depict. Chapter Two considers the multilayered symbolism of decline in their conspicuous spectacles of disaster, disintegration, and death. Chapter Three examines the countervailing symbolic motifs of residual integrity and regeneration that are exhibited most prominently by characters who attempt to live genuinely human lives in spite of these circumstances. The first half of the thesis concludes by proposing a composite postapocalyptic view of the human predicament, which represents the world as ambiguous, dramatic and quite possibly, although not certainly, absurd. Chapter Four begins the theological reflection upon this kind of postapocalyptic perspective, proposing how such depictions might be illuminated by Christian theological descriptions, particularly the absurd existential circumstances brought about by the original sin. Chapter Five, reciprocally, suggests some of the ways the dramatic images of these texts might enrich theological reflection by eliciting fresh insights into the significance of the central mysteries of Christianity, especially the paradoxical already-and-not-yet of eschatological expectation. The thesis concludes by offering a final evaluation of whether, all told, the world can be truly considered postapocalyptic from a Christian perspective, arguing that although there are significant differences, postapocalyptic fictions and Christianity put forward strikingly similar pictures of the deeply self-conflicted circumstances of the common human predicament.

Данная научная работа выполнена в рамках транслятологического анализа документальных, или неигровых кинофильмов и их заголовков с английского языка на русский и с русского языка на английский. Цель исследования заключается в определении и изучении основных переводческих стратегий и приёмов при пеpеводе документального кинo. Основной метод, используемый в работе, -- сопоставительный, на базе которого подготовлена практическая часть магистерской диссертации. В научном исследовании уделяется внимание переводу при помощи субтитров как одному из самых востребованных способов перевода. Также в работе освещается вопрос о прагматической адаптации перевода кинофильмов и выборе правильных переводческих стратегий: эквивалентный перевод, различные виды переводческих трансформаций. Поскольку основу практической части магистерской диссертации составляет подборка неигровых научно-популярных фильмов с содержанием узко специализированной терминологии, необходимо знание, понимание и владение терминами по соответствующей теме. В настоящей работе изучены и подготовлен перевод документальных фильмов, относящихся к военной тематике («The Hero»), к социально- политической («Один день») и к естественно-научной («ALMA – A Window into the Mysteries of the Universe»). Так, основная сложность выявлена в переводе на лексическом уровне, неразрывно связанным со стилистикой текста, а также и на уровне грамматики в силу различного строения русского и английского языков. / The master’s thesis is aimed at analyzing the specific features and characteristics of the translation of documentaries along with their titles from English into Russian and vice versa. The primary purpose of this study is to determine the main translation strategies which are used in the translation of non-fiction films. Data for this research were obtained from the real present-day film projects: «The Hero», (2013); «Один день», (2012); and «ALMA – A Window into the Mysteries of the Universe», (2014). The research consists of three theoretical chapters and three practical ones. The comparative and contrastive methods are the key approaches in the thesis, and the practical part of the study is prepared in accordance with them. Moreover, the research focuses on the subtitling translation as one of the most popular techniques. The thesis accent falls on the pragmatic adaptation as well. The results show that for popular science films that are devoted in this case to various themes ranging from the military service and soldiering to natural and scientific projects contain plenty of terms. Consequently, these documentaries demand from a translator special knowledge and deep comprehension. Thus, the most obvious conclusions of the research are the difficulty in the documentary translation on the lexical level that is closely connected with the stylistics of the film text and also on the level of the grammar that is attributed to the differences between the Russian and English languages.