This study is concerned with the artistic rewriting, in French and by writers and filmmakers of West African origins, of the massacre of Thiaroye (Senegal), the 1944 mutiny of African soldiers severely repressed by the French army. The corpus is formed by the following works: a poem, “Tyaroye” (1944), by Senegalese poet and president Léopold Sédar Senghor, another poem by Guinean artist Fodeba Keita, “Aube africaine” (1949), a play, Thiaroye terre rouge (1981), by Senegalese writer and journalist Boubacar Boris Diop, a novel, Morts pour la France (1983), by Malian author Doumbi-Fakoly, a movie, Camp de Thiaroye (1987), by Senegalese director Sembene Ousmane, a short animated movie, L’Ami y’a bon (2004) by French filmmaker of Algerian origins Rachid Bouchareb, and a play by professor and writer Cheikh Faty Faye, Aube de sang (2005). The main purpose of this study is to constitute and characterize a history of these artistic representations. I argue that these works, produced either before the accession of African countries to independence in the 1940s, or twenty to twenty-five years afterwards in the 1980s, or quite recently, in the so-called era of “globalization," belong to three main trends or stages, according to the socio-political role they assume: insertion of Thiaroye in the collective memories of France and West Africa, for Senghor and Keita, use of the events to criticize and resist (neo-)colonialism, for Diop, Doumbi-Fakoly and Sembene Ousmane, and rereading of the past in the hope of building a society based on forgiveness and better understanding among peoples, for Bouchareb and Faye. The socio-political function endorsed by each work is put forward thanks to the close examination of its artistic techniques and the reconstitution of its specific context of production. / text

This thesis report traces in detail all the phases of the short film Bye-Bye Blackbird, from its concept idea to its final completion. This report, along with the finished film, fulfills the Thesis requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. / text

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004. / Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 415-429). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

abstract: This dissertation is a comparative study of three contemporary women filmmakers: Puerto Rican Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Chicana director Lourdes Portillo, and Brazilian director Helena Solberg. Informed by transnational theory, politics of location, feminism on the border, and approaches to documentary filmmaking, the study examines three filmic texts: Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994), The Devil Never Sleeps/El diablo nunca duerme (1994), and Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1994). Each film is narrated by a female voice who juxtaposes her personal and transnational identity with history to tell her migration story before and after returning to her country of origin. An objective of the study is to demonstrate how the film directors vis-á-vis their female protagonists, configure a United States Latina transnational imaginary to position their female protagonists and themselves as female directors and as active social agents. Further, the dissertation explores how the filmmakers construct, utilizing the cinematographic apparatus, specific forms of resistance to confront certain oppressive forms. The theoretical framework proposes that transnational documentary filmmaking offers specific contestatory representations and makes possible the opening of parallel spaces in order to allow for a transformation from multiple perspectives. Through the utilization of specific techniques such as archival footage, the three directors focus on historical biographies. Further, they make use of experimental filmmaking and, in particular, the transnational documentary to deconstruct hegemonic discourses. Lastly, transnational cinema is valued as a field for cultural renegotiating and as a result, the documentary filmmakers in this study are able to reconfigure a transnational imaginary and propose an alternative discourse about history, sexuality, family structures, and gender relations. In sum, my dissertation contributes to Chicana/o and U.S. Latina/o, American Literature, and other Ethnic Literatures by focusing on migration, acculturation, and multicultural dialogue. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Spanish 2011

This study is an examination of Lino Brocka's development as a filmmaker of the New Cinema of the Philippines. It provides a close textual analysis of two recent Brocka films, Macho Dancer (1988) and Fight for Us (1989) using a sociocultural approach to the study of the representation of aspects of social reality and their relationship to contemporary Philippine society. The study is divided into six chapters: Chapter I contains the introduction to the study, Chapter II traces the development of Philippine cinema in relation to Philippine socio-political history, Chapter III describes the New Cinema film movement in the Philippines, Chapter IV provides a biographical sketch of Lino Brocka in which the development of his critical attitude, notions of social reality, and significant works are discussed, Chapter V contains the film analyses, and Chapter VI contains the conclusions to the study.

Pursuant the comparison of novel Farewell, my concubine written by a Hong Kong novelist Li Bihua with its film adaptation, this master's thesis is analyzing the way of transition from literary text to audio-visual media and observes the differences, which are not only the result of this transformation, but also an example of different cultural environment of Hong Kong and the PRC.

Com o objetivo de contribuir com as reflexões acerca do Ensino de História de Temática Indígena, este trabalho investigou o uso do cinema como fonte para a História, com a intenção de entendê-lo como material didático para o ensino. Deste modo, traça um panorama histórico das relações entre Cinema, História e Ensino, identificando os contextos e as alterações na incorporação dos filmes na sala de aula. A proposta central foi a de refletir sobre as possibilidades do uso do cinema de temática indígena na sala de aula. E, para tanto, aprofundou-se nas análises das produções cinematográficas que tratam das representações das populações indígenas do Brasil e de filmes realizados por cineastas indígenas. Como metodologia, foram elaboradas sinopses didáticas e aplicadas sequências de ensino, a partir da escolha e análise de filmes nacionais que tratam da figura do índio, a partir da década de 1970. / Aiming to contribute with the reflections about the Teaching of the Indigenous Thematics History, this assignment investigated the use of Cinema as a source to the History, with the purpose of understand it as a didactic material for teaching. Thus, it provides an historic overview of the relations between Cinema, History, and Teaching, identifying contexts and changes in the incorporation of movies in the classroom. The central proposal was to reflect about the possibilities on the use of the Indigenous Thematics Cinema in the classroom. Furthermore, for both, it deepened on the analysis of cinematographic productions that treats representations about the indigenous population of Brazil and movies made by indigenous filmmakers. As a methodology were prepared didactic synopsis and applied teaching sequences, from the choice and analysis of national films that treats de Indians figure, from the 1970s.

Depictions of college professors in American films are common, and while a number of studies have investigated various aspects of college life in motion pictures, few have focused exclusively on the cinematic professoriate. In addition to being an indelible part of history, cinematic depictions of college professors are part of the national discourse on the role and function of the faculty and university. An investigation of how college professors have been represented in American films, and how these representations are read and created by real-life college professors and filmmakers may provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between popular culture images and academia. This project consists of three sections. The first focuses on the trajectories of negative representations of college professors in popular American films from 1970-2016. The second examines interview responses of film professors to on-screen depictions of college faculty. The third presents a case study of professorial depictions by a group of filmmakers who created a feature length film about a college professor. As various public stakeholders are increasingly questioning the role of the college professor and the institution of higher education, this project seeks to examine the influence of popular professor images and cultural influences on the conceptions of two interpretive communities – one that embodies the professoriate and one that creates images surrounding it. Moreover, this project considers these depictions within film marketplace and popular culture contexts.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:23:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 822393 bytes, checksum: c1ea7b033af1f536661f3de64a5c9c14 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation is related to the history of the cinema from Paraíba, having as a specific object the Film Documentation Center of the Federal University of Paraíba (NUDOCUFPB), established in 1979, which is a major locus of reflection and film production in the 1980s. Thus, we aimed to discuss its foundation, placed in the context of "modernization", as a result of the development of expansion policies of the Federal University of Paraíba in that time, when it stimulated the growth of the place of research and production, connected to the perspective of reflection and interference in local reality. NUDOC boosted film production and became an important place of intellectual and technical preparation for several filmmakers that still remain in this activity. In addition, we intended, in our analysis, to specify the paths of this film production, observing also the critics made for the ideological and aesthetic options adopted. Besides, we examined some of the films produced by the Center, linking this production with the concept of historical culture, understanding that the film institutions participate of the structure of historical cultures, either confirming or rejecting hegemonic perspectives. / A presente dissertação vincula-se à história do cinema paraibano, tendo como objeto específico o Núcleo de Documentação Cinematográfica da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (NUDOC-UFPB), criado em 1979, importante lócus de reflexão e produção cinematográfica nos anos 1980. Nesse sentido, buscamos discutir a sua fundação inserida no contexto de modernização , decorrente da ampliação das políticas de expansão da Universidade Federal da Paraíba no período, quando fomentou a ampliação de lócus de pesquisa e produção, vinculados à perspectiva de reflexão e intervenção na realidade regional. O NUDOC impulsionou a produção cinematográfica, e se constituiu em importante lócus de formação intelectual e técnica para muitos dos cineastas que até o presente se mantêm na atividade. Em nossa análise buscamos, ainda, indicar os caminhos dessa produção cinematográfica, observando também as críticas que ensejaram em relação às opções ideológicas e estéticas adotadas. Buscamos, também, analisar alguns dos filmes produzidos pelo Núcleo, relacionando essa produção com o conceito de cultura histórica e a partir da compreensão de que a instituição cinematográfica participa da constituição das culturas históricas, reafirmando ou rejeitando perspectivas hegemônicas.