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The writer, who, as an art student, has a special interest in the visual qualities of motion picture art, has undertaken to investigate the extent to which the visual aspect of art was outstanding in motion pictures receiving awards during the years 1951 through 1954. As a result of this investigation he hopes to reach some valid conclusions concerning the chronological and geographical distribution of visually excellent pictures during the period and to consider the consequences of those trends which can be identified.

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This thesis explores the historical, theoretical and philosophical development of cinematic media as a collective form of technological perception and consciousness. Central to my inquiry is the philosophical notion that with the invention of cinema emerges a cyborg vision, a new modern mechanics of thinking that extends the phenomenological and epistemological experience of human perception and knowledge into hitherto unknown realms of thinking, sensation and being. Drawing on some of the key cultural thinkers and philosophers of the twentieth century, including Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, as well as contemporary philosophers of media such as Jonathan Beller, Sean Cubitt, D.N. Rodowick and Mark B. Hansen, my research into the philosophy of cinema and digital media articulates a branch of media theory that reads the political economy of the moving image through an amalgam of continental philosophy, marxist theory and film studies. Coterminous with the investigation into the philosophical object of cinematic or media consciousness, the thesis also endeavors to map the historical genealogy of the moving image as it evolves from the industrial mechanics of cinematic technologies to the virtual informatics of digital culture. Central to this inquiry is the idea that the history of cinematic and visual media is inextricably connected with the rise, towards the end of the twentieth century, of postmodern consumer culture and the global information society. The transition from a modern industrial economy to a postmodern information economy that reorganises the logic of production according to the 'variables' of scientific knowledge, communication and informational technologies, parallels a metamorphosis in our media consciousness as the representational ontology of cinematic moving image is transformed by the virtual ontology of the digital image. The first part of my thesis looks at the period of industrial cinema, focusing on Soviet constructivism and the films of Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein. In this section I trace the origins of cinema as a mode of communication for the commodity, examining how the modern cinematic imaginary opens up new economies of vision and sensation for capital. Following this investigation into what Jonathan Beller calls the cinematic mode of production, the second part of my thesis proceeds to investigate how cinematic consciousness is transformed from the industrial to the post-industrial era. Taking Deleuze's historiographical demarcation of cinema into the two regimes of the 'movement-image' and the 'time-image' as a philosophical frame, the second section of my thesis investigates how in the post-war films of the Italian neorealists and Michelengelo Antonioni our cinematic consciousness develops a new way of thinking the ontology of time and space. This analysis leads into my discussion of how in the age of digital special effects and the Hollywood blockbuster, cinematic consciousness is further expanded with the time-consciousness of the 'virtual' as our bodies attempt to accommodate the heightened flows of information that bombard our senses in the interfaces of digital culture.

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Cinema, as a complex social and cultural phenomenon, has been recently challenged by digital media cultures and aesthetics since the 1990s. In this study, Hong Kong cinematic productions, blending the West and the East, and flexibly manoeuvring production and post-production with limited resources, are used to demonstrate the advent of new digital cinematic aesthetics and productions in the era of globalization and digitalization. The production culture and aesthetics of local cinema has been, to a great extent, internally modified by the impacts of digital media cultures and technologies, especially digital effects and computer animation of unprecedented imaginary spaces and perspectives for creative productions. The increasing complexity of digital cinematic productions and the rapidly changing cultural production systems bring in newcomers of alternative modes/choices of thoughts and interpretations, thus facilitating production/product differentiation and de-differentiation to cater for the increasing and changing demands of active audiences. The vigorous struggle for cultural representations in digital cinematic aesthetics by producers and consumers of disparate repertoires is the focus of analysis in this research. Empirical evidences suggest a new paradigmatic model to study cultural representations of digital cinematic aesthetics within contemporary creative systems of production and consumption. / The findings generally support the advent of the ten new aesthetics of digital cinema as a global trend as well as a new glocalism in the Hong Kong cases. While most interviewed producers and audiences articulate the new characteristics of digital cinematic aesthetics, many audiences show disjunctive judgments toward those local filmmakers' treatments to cross-fertilize video game with their cinematic productions. This reveals the inevitability of internal modifications of organization cultures and representational practices to create new digital cinematic aesthetics and productions within new dynamics of digital media cultures and technologies in the fast changing media ecology. Hong Kong filmmakers and computer animators show their strength and flexibility to glocalize digital cinematic aesthetics and productions by integrating digital visual effects with local film and production cultures, especially in comedic and martial arts cinematic productions. However, it seems that there are larger discrepancies concerning the tastes and aesthetic judgments toward cultural representations in digital cinematic aesthetics by cross-fertilization with video game between general audiences and professionals. This study reflects that the rigid, director-oriented Hong Kong film production system is too demanding on the film director's independent ability of coordination and greatly influences the development of cultural representations in digital cinema by collective imaginative inputs of increasing complexity and flexibility. Producers and consumers of disparate repertoires of cultural practices contribute to the meaning construction of multiple layers of digital effects and computer animation by systematic coordination and collaboration. In other words, the "spectrum of cultural representations", as a framework, helps us understand the complexity and creativity of the new digital cinematic aesthetics from production to consumption practices. / This study is a multidimensional investigation of the moments of creativity and struggles over organization cultures and representational practices by both cultural producers and audiences. There are case studies of the general trend of digital cinematic productions in Hollywood and the specific development of digital cinema in Hong Kong, as well as in China. From these empirical analyses, ten new characteristics of digital cinematic aesthetics are generalized. They include (l) amplification, (2) free referencing, (3) seamlessness and believability, (4) multiple-layered composition, (5) patterning, (6) imaginary perspectives, (7) collective imaginative inputs, (8) cross-fertilization with comic, (9) cross-fertilization with video game, and (10) cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-genre production. Such inductive findings are also deployed to study the social functions of both producers and audiences in the meaning construction of digital cinematic aesthetics and productions within the dynamics of digitalization and globalization. Eighteen in-depth interviews of production insiders, five focus groups of disparate generations of movie audiences and amateurs, and eleven case studies of Hong Kong digital cinematic productions have been examined. The empirical validity about the ten new forms of digital cinematic aesthetics and their production and consumption is investigated, and also achieved by intensive and interactive case studies, production studies and audience studies, combining textual and discourse analyses and production and reception analyses. / Lam, Sui Kwong Sunny. / Advisers: Anthony Y. H. Fung; Eric K. W. Ma. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-06, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 536-562). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Orientador: Fabio Akcelrud Durão / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T12:16:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felix_JoseCarlos_D.pdf: 4164030 bytes, checksum: 109f30ea5add2340905cadbf1e7bbc39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Expressão mais sintomática do sistema capitalista, a indústria cultural opera em uma lógica que incorpora e harmoniza expressões estéticas antagônicas, emulando uma tensão dialética análoga às obras de arte. O cinema, dada sua natureza industrial, desponta como uma das esferas da indústria cultural a atingir o mais alto grau de sofisticação e controle técnico, firmando padrões estético-narrativos rígidos seguidos não apenas por filmes convencionalmente chamados de comerciais, mas também por aqueles circunscritos ao circuito alternativo e independente. Assim, considerando o argumento de que filmes produzidos fora do esfera comercial estariam mais propensos a romper e subverter a hegemonia do idioma tecnicamente controlado do cinema padrão, a proposta deste trabalho é examinar os filmes Mistérios e paixões [Naked lunch, David Cronenberg, Canadá, 1991] e Cidade de Deus [Fernando Meirelles, Brasil, 2002], a fim de verificar como se estabelece a tensão entre as convenções do idioma tecnicamente controlado do cinema padrão e os gestos que visam a sua desestabilização. A primeira parte está dividida em dois capítulos correlatos, cujo objetivo é discutir como as convenções estético-narrativas do cinema mainstream de Hollywood sintetizam de maneira sui generis o idioma tecnicamente controlado da indústria cultural. O primeiro capítulo investiga os procedimentos a partir dos quais o conjunto de protocolos visuais do cinema norte-americano (composição de quadro, montagem, sonorização, etc.) estabeleceu um modelo diegético prescritivo de bases rígidas, convertendo-se na norma-padrão para a cultura cinematográfica ao redor do planeta. O segundo capítulo discute a maneira pela qual esse mesmo modelo de cinema, movido por tendências do mercado e objetivando alcançar um status de obra de arte, absorve inovações estéticas advindas justamente de movimentos cinematográficos contrários à sua norma estética sem, contudo, alterar suas bases. A segunda parte está dividida em dois capítulos voltados às interpretações dos filmes. O terceiro capítulo aborda o caráter autoral e transgressor na filmografia de Cronenberg em relação ao cinema padrão a partir da problemática do embate entre controle técnico e espontaneidade na criação artística. A hipótese interpretativa centra-se no argumento de que Mistérios e paixões apropria-se da defesa de Burroughs acerca da intoxicação como um mecanismo de subversão de convenções artísticas para forjar uma estrutura de narrativa fílmica que inverte a oposição entre as categorias de alucinação e sobriedade. Como resultado, a inversão dessas valências converte a alucinação em procedimento narrativo modulado justamente por fórmulas e convenções do cinema padrão de Hollywood. O quarto capítulo investiga como a tensão entre controle técnico e liberdade criativa engendra em Cidade de Deus uma nova forma de realismo fílmico contemporâneo em que estéticas e procedimentos cinematográficos historicamente revolucionários são absorvidos pela maquinaria do cinema dominante. Essa tese é discutida a partir de uma leitura cerrada de algumas cenas do filme que evidenciam a fabricação de uma espontaneidade programada, na qual a cinematografia clássica é utilizada para recompor um imaginário da favela com ecos do sertão do Cinema Novo. A discussão assinala ainda como, em sua estruturação narrativa e estilística, Cidade de Deus acomoda uma representação vanguardista da criminalidade e violência juntamente com uma estética padrão de cinema e televisão, apagando qualquer traço de tensão histórica entre ambas. O resultado das interpretações aponta para o fato de que, nos dois filmes, a força do ímpeto criativo, expresso por meio do acaso, aleatoriedade e improviso, é incorporada pelo idioma tecnicamente controlado do cinema, não apenas perdendo seu poder desestabilizador, mas também reduzindo esse ímpeto a mero dispositivo com função estilística / Abstract: The culture industry, a central expression of the capitalistic system, operates through a logic that incorporates and conciliates antagonistic aesthetic expressions by emulating a dialectic tension akin to artworks. Cinema, given its industrial nature, stands out as one of the domains of culture industry to achieve the highest level of sophistication and technical control, establishing stable aesthetic-narrative patterns followed by not only the so-called mainstream films (produced by Hollywood film industry) but also by those labelled as independent. Thus taking into account the argument that films produced out of the mainstream production system are more likely to break with and subvert the hegemony of the technical controlled language of mainstream cinema, the objective of this dissertation is scrutinize the films Naked lunch [David Cronenberg, Canadá, 1991] e City of God [Cidade de Deus, Fernando Meirelles, Brasil, 2002], in order to verify how the tension between the cinematic protocols of mainstream cinema and the artistic expressions that operate against it is established. The first part of this work is divided into two correlated chapters which aim at discussing how the aesthetic-narrative conventions of mainstream Hollywood cinema particularly epitomize the technical controlled language of culture industry in general. Chapter one investigates the procedures upon which the bulk of the mainstream cinema visual protocols (frame composition, montage, sound-system, etc.) set up a stable prescriptive diegetic framework which ends up being the parameter for cinematic culture worldwide. Chapter two discusses the way in which the very type of cinema, triggered by marketing tendencies and aiming to reach the same status of artwork, absorbs aesthetic innovations engendered by cinematic movements contrarious to its aesthetic norms without altering its rigid aesthetic principals. The second part is divided into two chapters devoted to the interpretations of both films. The third chapter focuses on Cronenberg's status as an auteur filmmaker as well as his transgressions with regards to mainstream cinema taking into account the tension established between technical control and spontaneity in the artistic process. The interpretative hypothesis states that Naked Lunch incorporates Burroughs' well-known claim about the intoxication as a means to subvert artistic conventions in order to create a narrative film structure that inverts the opposition between the categories of hallucination and sobriety. The outcome of such inversion transforms the hallucinating experience into a narrative procedure shaped by mainstream cinematic conventions. Chapter four investigates how, in City of God, the tension between technical control and creative freedom results in a new type of film realism in which both aesthetic and cinematic protocols historically revolutionary is absorbed by the mainstream cinematic language. Such argument is discussed through a series of close readings of the film's scenes which evince the forging of a controlled spontaneity in which the classic cinematic conventions are employed to recreate an imagery of the favela that echoes the Cinema Novo portrait of wilderness. The discussion also points out how the narrative and stylistic structure of City of God adjust an avant-gardist depiction of criminality and violence alongside with both cinematic mainstream and television aesthetics, effacing any trace of historical tension between them. In a nutshell, these film interpretations conclude that the power of creative impulse, materialized in elements such as chance and improvisation, is incorporated by cinematic technical controlled language in a way that it does not only wanes their disruptive powers but converts them into sheer stylistic devices / Doutorado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Suzy Maria Lagazzi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T05:11:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MartinsdeSouza_LuizCarlos_D.pdf: 3983729 bytes, checksum: 646abf82afc9908b41ae8e482668e965 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Prezado viajante, Este bilhete lhe dá direito a uma viagem pela estrada metodológica da Análise de Discurso Materialista para que você contemple o filme em DVD ?Central do Brasil?, de Walter Salles Jr. Você passará por três estações a partir da ausência do pai como principal metáfora articuladora dos trilhos narrativos, para que você veja o entrecruzamento entre dois caminhos: o discurso religioso e o discurso psicanalítico, na estruturação do funcionamento da falta metaforizada nessa ausência, movimentando o político no social. Inicialmente você verá os mapas da viagem, circunscritos na perspectiva materialista de Análise de Discurso: a apresentação do corpus, e a indicação dos principais conceitos nele operacionalizados. Em seguida a viagem se dará em três ?estações? através do batimento sinuoso entre descrição e interpretação: na primeira estação se dá a descrição da estrutura organizacional da superfície linguageira em suas condições de produção e circulação, e a formulação narrativa da falta, lhe direcionando para o deslocamento desta em objetos discursivos. Na estação seguinte você se deterá na observação dessa falta nos dois significantes representados como sujeitos: Dora e Josué. Vendo isso, você estará apto para a próxima estação: a inscrição da falta em metáforas e metonímias discursivas: nas imagens de Santa Maria e de Jesus Cristo, em relação a Dora e a Josué, no pai e nas cartas, e noutros objetos cênicos, como um pião e um lenço, objetos discursivos visibilizados nos planos como unidades de significação pela fragmentação da montagem do filme. Esperamos que você perceba que o Cristianismo intervém na superfície textual e discursiva, como também a Psicanálise, no tratamento dado às constelações familiares, à Metáfora Paterna, à lettre lacaniana (carta, letra, significante) e às projeções entre Dora e Josué. Não se assuste: há um embate do sujeito com o Real, em derivas e deslocamentos em torno de posições de sujeito. Entenda conosco quais processos discursivos estão em jogo nessa viagem, tomando a falta como um gesto estruturante do político nas relações sociais. Na chegada possível, você verá que os sentidos são possíveis pela relação e determinação entre o Real da história, o Real da linguagem e o Real do inconsciente, de forma que as condições sócio-históricas são constitutivas das significações do texto. Agradecemos sua preferência. Boa viagem / Abstract: This work assumes the Materialist Discourse Analysis methodology to analyze the DVD movie "Central Station", by Walter Salles Jr. Taking into consideration that the father's absence is the main metaphor that articulates the narrative surface, the intention was to understand this absence in the intersection between religious discourse and psychoanalytic discourse, asking about the politics in social relations. The introduction circumscribes the materialist perspective of Discourse Analysis, and presents the corpus, and the main concepts employed into it. The following chapters are formulated as "stations" around the stages of analysis: on the first step the language's organizational structure surface is described under certain conditions of production and circulation, the narrative design of the ?lack? and its displacement as discoursive objects. Observing the treatments in the screenplay, it was noticed the inscription of the sense effects on the names of biblical characters (Joshua, Jesus, Moses, Isaiah, Hannah, Pedrão - Big Peter), references to images of St. Mary and Jesus Christ - stage props noticed as units of meaning in the fragmentation of the shots of film edition. Psychoanalysis derives from the treatment given to family constellations, to the Paternal Metaphor, to the lacanian letter and to the projections between Dora and Joshua. From the crossing between description and interpretation, it was intended to give evidence to the clash between the subject and the Real, drifts and shifts in the subject positions. The last step of the analysis examines the discursive processes, which make the ?lack? a structuring gesture of the politics in social relations. The audiovisual, object of aesthetic completion and an important commodity in the contemporary world, acts as a massive investment in the subject, determining, renewing and contradicting the circulation of capital, and the effects of the spectacle's ideology, imposed by the logic of the market. The [meanings] senses are possible through the relation and the determination between the Real from the History, the Real from the language and the Real from the unconscious, so that the socio-historical conditions constitutes the meanings of the text / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística