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Indian cinema has produced a series of locally developed film genres, most notably the ‘mythological’ and the ‘curry western’. In this paper, I examined films that fall under the sub-genre of the dacoit film, in an effort to fill in a gap in the Indian film history genre development and provide professionals in the field with the necessary information to not only recognize but also make use of recurrent tropes that appear in these films. To do that I selected 11 (eleven) representative dacoit films that cover several decades of Indian film production.  In addition, I conducted a literature review of film genre in Indian film to understand how film genre develops in the Indian film industry and what are the differences in relation to genre theory as developed for the Hollywood film industry. The theoretical framework I used for this study is based upon the work of two film genre analysts, Grant and Altman in addition to various Indian film scholars. In order to understand how genre development takes place for each genre element I applied the thematic analysis methodology to the 11 (eleven) dacoit feature films. My results showed that there are 5 (five) major themes that characterize dacoit films. In addition, overall dacoit films exhibit strong consistency in all the genre elements of the theoretical framework, and they do follow Indian film conventions as well.

This thesis seeks to better understand the relationship of film genre to globalization through an examination of the use of the British romantic comedy and other related genres by the production company Working Title Films (WTF) from the 1900s through the 2000s. Because of the sudden and unexpected global success of British romantic comedies by Working Title Films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, the 1990s is a significant period for the study of the genre. In this examination the process of globalization is understood as one of complex connectivity postulated by John Tomlinson in Globalization and Culture as ‘the rapidly developing and ever-densening network of interconnections and interdependences that characterize modern social life’. This theory of globalization is used as a methodological framework to understand the complex network of global and local interconnections that has driven the development of Working Title Films over the past twenty five years to becoming one of the most important British production companies in the international film industry. Through a detailed analysis of the practices of development, production, distribution and exhibition by Working Title Films and the Hollywood dominated global film industry, this thesis seeks to understand the function of genre and genre films as cultural products, economic products and meaningful representations in the global market and to better understand Hollywood, mainstream film and cinema as social institution. The analysis in the following chapters serves as evidence to support the central argument of this thesis that the use of genre in the film industry’s production, distribution and exhibition processes of globalization was the critical area for Working Title Films to master in order to produce value as meaningful audience appeal and connectivity to global audiences for on-going economic success.

Graças ao abrandamento das crises econômicas por que passavam os países da América do Sul e à implementação de melhores políticas de apoio ao cinema, a produção cinematográfica da região começou a retomar o seu ritmo nas últimas duas décadas. Esta atividade vem recebendo o apoio de algumas iniciativas da região. O debate em torno da idéia de integração fomentado pelo Mercosul, bem como os acordos que daí têm resultado, oferecem oportunidades de fortalecimento para a indústria cinematográfica e de ampliação de mercado através da entrada nos países vizinhos. Ainda que estabelecidos à margem de um programa comum com objetivos coordenados, os desafios apresentados a partir do Mercosul Cultural levaram a iniciativas que tecem redes e têm instalado circuitos para ocupar o espaço quase vazio de trânsito cultural entre os países mercosulinos. / In the past two decades the South American film production went back on track thanks to the slowdown of economic crises in the countries of the region and the implementation of better policies to support the film sector. This movie activity has received support from some initiatives in the region. The debate around the idea of integration promoted by Mercosul and the agreements signed since that offers opportunities to consolidate the movie industry and to expansion the film market through the entry into neighboring markets. Although weren´t established by a program with coordinated goals, the challenges presented to the MERCOSUR Cultural led to initiatives that weave networks and installed 5 circuits to occupy the space almost empty of cultural traffic between the countries of MERCOSUR.

Anti-communism in America reached its apex in the 1950s. One element of this crusade focused on preventing suspected communists from working in their chosen profession, a practice called blacklisting. In attempting to assert their legal rights, the blacklisted found an imperfect justice system, cloaked in equality, yet hampered by the existing cultural setting that treated as immoral anything communist. This dissertation deconstructs the interplay between culture and law, between the desire to root out communists and the attempt to maintain a fair legal system. With an emphasis on the entertainment industry, broadly defined, I will trace blacklisting from anti-labor tool to for-profit instrument focusing on how the blacklisted employed the lawsuit to fight for their jobs. I argue that from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, blacklisted plaintiffs continuously found themselves handicapped by their association -- either current or past, real or perceived -- with the Communist Party, and not until a plaintiff with no demonstrable ties to communism came along did the legal system prove a comprehensively effective tool in ending the practice. I show that various members of the blacklisted community, with the aid of a small number of lawyers, tried an assortment of legal theories in their attempt to remedy their pariah status with the results often promising -- the first three jury trials ended in victories for the plaintiffs -- but ultimately hollow as a recalcitrant appellate judiciary dashed these early hopes. Moreover, I show how plaintiff's lawyers, sensitive to a legal system that demanded a successful plaintiff be free of communist ties, adjusted their strategy to accommodate the relationship between cultural setting and legal success. / text

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Nous essayons tout au long de cette thèse de lever le voile sur les aspects obscurs d’une industrie particulière, celle des médias, dans un pays à l’environnement politico-économique d’autant plus complexe : la Chine. Après avoir dans un premier temps défini la convergence des médias, nous verrons quelles sont les différentes formes que celle-ci peut prendre dans l’empire du milieu en comparaison avec les pays occidentaux puis nous expliquerons les raisons qui nous permettrons de comprendre en quoi il est tout à fait logique que la Chine prenne sa propre voie dans tous les domaines et en particulier celui des médias. Nous montrerons ensuite les influences que la convergence peut avoir sur une industrie en particulier : celle du cinéma ; comment tous les maillons de la chaine de valeur, depuis l’investissement jusqu’à la distribution en passant par la production, connaissent grâce à l’évolution des nouvelles technologies médiatiques et leur convergence, une révolution constante. A travers l’étude des lois et autres consignes censés réguler cette industrie, mais aussi des flux complexes que la Chine échange avec l’extérieur tout en essayant de les contrôler, nous montrerons en quoi les enjeux sont si importants dans ce marché en constante évolution. Nous présenterons les principaux acteurs de cette convergence en Chine en les comparant notamment avec le géant américain Netflix puis nous nous poserons la question suivante tout au long de ce travail : comment ces entreprises d’Internet transforment-elles la face du cinéma d’aujourd’hui ? / We will try all along this thesis to lift the veil on the vague aspects of a complex industry: medias, in a country with an even more complex political and economic environment: China. After defining de concept of media convergence, we will see what are its different forms in the Middle Kingdom in comparison with Western countries. We will explain the reasons why China is naturally taking its own path and not necessarily following the Western models, especially in the media industry. We will then show how the convergence influences one industry in particular: the film industry; how all the links of the value chain from investment to production and distribution are affected by the constant evolution of the new media technologies and how they merge with each other. By reviewing the different laws and other instructions that are supposed to rule the film media industry, but also by analyzing the complex flows between China and the rest of the world that the government tries to control, we will show how much is at stake in this huge market. We will present the main actors of this convergence in China comparing them particularly with the American giant Netflix. How these internet giants transform today’s film industry? This is the question we will try to answer all along this research.

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is the ascertainment of the attitudes of members of the Texas film industry toward the film curriculum offered in Texas institutions of higher learning. Based on the findings the following conclusions have been reached. There is not a high regard overall for film-studies programs in Texas institutions of higher learning within the film industry. This may be overcome by an interaction of the professional film community as an active participant in curriculum planning and development. Of prime consideration should be an association of film schools coordinating programs in cooperation with the Texas Film Commission. An effective curriculum for film-studies education may be organized by utilization of learning modules. This plan would organize the learning experiences in a functional manner and would move toward involvement of a career nature.

This thesis seeks to increase recognition of contemporary Palestinian women’s cinema and locates it firmly within the Palestinian film industry. I argue that Palestinian women’s cinema has created and developed a nuanced cinema whilst sustaining and enhancing the Palestinian film industry. The twenty-first century has undeniably witnessed the vigorous development of a Palestinian women’s cinema and the number of Palestinian women filmmakers and films is still on the rise. Scholars have often focused on increasing worldwide recognition of mainstream Palestinian films directed and produced by well-known Palestinian filmmakers. This has resulted in the marginalisation of Palestinian women’s cinema within an already marginalised Palestinian film industry. I locate Palestinian cinema, in the introduction, as a transnational cinema and I also explain my rationale for placing women’s film under the category of “women’s cinema”. In order to offer a comprehensive analysis and to understand and examine the corpus of films in this thesis, I firstly provide an overview of the historical and contemporary background of Palestinian popular arts and cinema, highlighting Palestinian women’s participation. In chapter 2, I discuss women’s roles in Palestinian politics in order to trace women’s positions and roles in political public life because it is difficult to separate activism from social life and thus from cinema, as these three intersect and mutually influence one another. In chapter 3, 4 and 5 I argue, through detailed discussion and analysis of this body of work that, unlike Palestinian cinema at large, Palestinian women filmmakers embody, interweave and reflect on the complex and often contradictory contemporary and historical issues taking into account ideologies and socio-cultural differences in a complex geopolitical space (e.g. sexual restrictions, power and authority, femininity and masculinity, restriction on movement and hyphenated identities). I also argue that these women filmmakers are interested in developing responses to what they see as heterogeneous and hyphenated Palestinian identities while adapting traditional and modern filmic styles. Here I have studied their works thematically as this provided greater insight into the social and historical contexts of contemporary Palestinian lives. I argue that films by Palestinian filmmakers living inside Palestine focus and revolve around socio-culturally sensitive and underrepresented issues of love and sexuality (chapter 3), violence and power (chapter 4). I also argue that hyphenated Palestinian filmmakers, in this case, Palestinian American filmmakers, explore through their work themes of displacement and the imagined homeland by reflecting on historical events and also through examining the different ‘journeys’ of their hyphenated characters, both internal and geographical. I study the films in this thesis within contemporary discourses on culture, cultural capital, discourses of power, identity, migration and diaspora, exile, feminist debates, gender politics, postcoloniality and borderlands.

Graças ao abrandamento das crises econômicas por que passavam os países da América do Sul e à implementação de melhores políticas de apoio ao cinema, a produção cinematográfica da região começou a retomar o seu ritmo nas últimas duas décadas. Esta atividade vem recebendo o apoio de algumas iniciativas da região. O debate em torno da idéia de integração fomentado pelo Mercosul, bem como os acordos que daí têm resultado, oferecem oportunidades de fortalecimento para a indústria cinematográfica e de ampliação de mercado através da entrada nos países vizinhos. Ainda que estabelecidos à margem de um programa comum com objetivos coordenados, os desafios apresentados a partir do Mercosul Cultural levaram a iniciativas que tecem redes e têm instalado circuitos para ocupar o espaço quase vazio de trânsito cultural entre os países mercosulinos. / In the past two decades the South American film production went back on track thanks to the slowdown of economic crises in the countries of the region and the implementation of better policies to support the film sector. This movie activity has received support from some initiatives in the region. The debate around the idea of integration promoted by Mercosul and the agreements signed since that offers opportunities to consolidate the movie industry and to expansion the film market through the entry into neighboring markets. Although weren´t established by a program with coordinated goals, the challenges presented to the MERCOSUR Cultural led to initiatives that weave networks and installed 5 circuits to occupy the space almost empty of cultural traffic between the countries of MERCOSUR.