Sendo o curta com uma das gags impossíveis mais famosas de Buster Keaton, The Playhouse (1921) trabalha com a relação existente entre o mundo onírico e a realidade, iniciando com um sonho da personagem de Keaton em que ele interpreta todos os papéis de um espetáculo, de atores e membros da orquestra aos espectadores da apresentação. Em seguida, acompanhamos Keaton em seu dia de trabalho após ser despertado pelo chefe, e vemos que diversos elementos de seu sonho ainda estão presentes na realidade desse faz-tudo do teatro. Lançado no segundo ano de trabalho de Keaton como diretor de suas próprias obras, o curta coloca como tema central a questão do trabalho no teatro e no cinema, apresentando diferentes possibilidades e experimentações no campo social e cinematográfico. Deste modo, esta dissertação propõe uma análise acerca da construção dessa temática no curta, refletindo sobre os escritos de Walter Benjamin e Michael Löwy sobre a relação entre o cinema, a comédia muda norte-americana em especial o trabalho de Keaton e uma crítica feita à sociedade capitalista industrial; e a teoria de Bertolt Brecht sobre o teatro épico. / As the short movie that holds one of the most famous impossible gags made by Buster Keaton, The Playhouse (1921) works with the relation between the oneiric world and reality, beginning with a sequence dreamed by Keaton\'s character in which he plays all the roles in the spectacle, from actors and musicians in an orchestra to the spectators of the show. After this dream, we follow Keaton during his day at work since the moment he was woken up by his boss and we notice that various elements of his dream are still present in the reality of this handyman from the theater. Released in the second year of Keaton\'s work as a director of his own films, this short movie presents as its main theme the working world in the theater and the cinema, putting forward different possibilities and experimentations in the social and cinematographic fields. Therefore, the following master\'s dissertation brings an analysis of the way this theme is presented in the short movie, considering the writings of Walter Benjamin and Michael Löwy about the relation between cinema, American silent comedy - especially Buster Keaton\'s work - and the criticism of capitalistic industrial society; and Bertolt Brecht\'s theory about epic theater.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Telmo Antonio Dinelli Estevinho.pdf: 1165004 bytes, checksum: 442ab0824ae72d7a854afcf1e0ed39cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aim is to make an analysis of Film Industry Policies in Brazil from the 1960s to the late 1990s. In this period, the main state agencies to support the Brazilian movie production were created and this specific policy remained basically constant regardless of political and economic changes in the country. For this, we use the concepts of historical institutionalism to demonstrate the resilience of a specific system in these policies and to explain the mechanisms that allowed its deployment over time. The centralization of the movie production unlinked to its public distribution, and the implementation of these policies by the educational and cultural state agencies were constant during more than 30 years what enabled interactions between the state and influent political sectors of Brazilian Film industry. This shows the influence of formal and informal Brazilian institutions over the public policy design and its respective implementation process. National agencies like Instituto Nacional de Cinema and Embrafilme were important because they meant to be an opened space in the state in order to make possible the interactions among filmmakers, producers and politicians. The cultural characteristics of the brazilian movies were also used for the maintenance and reproduction of these interactions. The research used a systematic analysis of the film legislation, studies and reports produced by professional associations and government institutes as well as interviews with Brazilian filmmakers, producers and politicians / Esta pesquisa tem como objeto uma análise das políticas de cinema no Brasil entre os anos de 1960 ao final dos anos 1990. Neste período foram criadas as principais agências estatais de suporte à produção cinematográfica e o desenho da política foi aqui concebido e permaneceu mais ou menos constante independente das mudanças nos regimes políticos e das transformações econômicas. Para tanto utilizamos os conceitos do neoinstitucionalismo histórico para demonstrar a relisiência de um formato específico nas políticas de cinema implementadas no Brasil e explicar os mecanimos que permitiram o seu desdobramento através do tempo. A centralidade conferida a produção de filmes desvinculada de sua difusão ou circulação pública e a implementação dessas políticas pelos setores educacionais e culturais do Estado mantiveram-se constantes durante mais de trinta anos permitindo contínuas interações entre as burocracias estatais e setores politicamente influentes do cinema brasileiro. Constata-se assim a influência das instituições, sejam elas formais ou informais, sobre o desenho das políticas de cinema e o seu respectivo processo de implementação. Assim agências estatais como o Instituto Nacional de Cinema e a Embrafilme foram importantes porque eram arenas abertas no interior do Estado para que as interações entre cineastas, produtores e políticos pudessem ocorrer. Os atributos culturais conferidos ao filme nacional também foram utilizados para a manutenção e reprodução dessas interações. A pesquisa utilizou uma análise sistemática da legislação cinematográfica, de estudos e relatórios produzidos por associações de classe e entidades governamentais bem como entrevistas com cineastas, produtores e políticos

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Telmo Antonio Dinelli Estevinho.pdf: 1165004 bytes, checksum: 442ab0824ae72d7a854afcf1e0ed39cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aim is to make an analysis of Film Industry Policies in Brazil from the 1960s to the late 1990s. In this period, the main state agencies to support the Brazilian movie production were created and this specific policy remained basically constant regardless of political and economic changes in the country. For this, we use the concepts of historical institutionalism to demonstrate the resilience of a specific system in these policies and to explain the mechanisms that allowed its deployment over time. The centralization of the movie production unlinked to its public distribution, and the implementation of these policies by the educational and cultural state agencies were constant during more than 30 years what enabled interactions between the state and influent political sectors of Brazilian Film industry. This shows the influence of formal and informal Brazilian institutions over the public policy design and its respective implementation process. National agencies like Instituto Nacional de Cinema and Embrafilme were important because they meant to be an opened space in the state in order to make possible the interactions among filmmakers, producers and politicians. The cultural characteristics of the brazilian movies were also used for the maintenance and reproduction of these interactions. The research used a systematic analysis of the film legislation, studies and reports produced by professional associations and government institutes as well as interviews with Brazilian filmmakers, producers and politicians / Esta pesquisa tem como objeto uma análise das políticas de cinema no Brasil entre os anos de 1960 ao final dos anos 1990. Neste período foram criadas as principais agências estatais de suporte à produção cinematográfica e o desenho da política foi aqui concebido e permaneceu mais ou menos constante independente das mudanças nos regimes políticos e das transformações econômicas. Para tanto utilizamos os conceitos do neoinstitucionalismo histórico para demonstrar a relisiência de um formato específico nas políticas de cinema implementadas no Brasil e explicar os mecanimos que permitiram o seu desdobramento através do tempo. A centralidade conferida a produção de filmes desvinculada de sua difusão ou circulação pública e a implementação dessas políticas pelos setores educacionais e culturais do Estado mantiveram-se constantes durante mais de trinta anos permitindo contínuas interações entre as burocracias estatais e setores politicamente influentes do cinema brasileiro. Constata-se assim a influência das instituições, sejam elas formais ou informais, sobre o desenho das políticas de cinema e o seu respectivo processo de implementação. Assim agências estatais como o Instituto Nacional de Cinema e a Embrafilme foram importantes porque eram arenas abertas no interior do Estado para que as interações entre cineastas, produtores e políticos pudessem ocorrer. Os atributos culturais conferidos ao filme nacional também foram utilizados para a manutenção e reprodução dessas interações. A pesquisa utilizou uma análise sistemática da legislação cinematográfica, de estudos e relatórios produzidos por associações de classe e entidades governamentais bem como entrevistas com cineastas, produtores e políticos

Die Arbeit ist mit den ökonomischen Auswirkungen von Regulierungen, die für die deutsche Filmwirtschaft relevant sind, befasst. Es werden die ökonomischen Effekte dreier Regulierungsfelder, die in der öffentlichen Debatte diskutiert werden, betrachtet. Diese sind: Das deutsche Filmförderungsgesetz (FFG), das Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG) und der Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (RStV). Im Zentrum der Analyse steht die Frage, wie die jeweiligen Regulierungen die ökonomische Effizienz beeinflussen. Darüber hinaus werden wesentliche institutionelle und marktliche Charakteristika der deutschen Filmwirtschaft betrachtet. Teile der Untersuchung sind in eine breit angelegte Regressionsanalyse über die Determinanten des Erfolges deutscher Kinofilme eingebettet. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass die betrachteten Regulierungen im Allgemeinen negative Auswirkungen auf die ökonomische Effizienz haben. / This work deals with the economic impact of regulations on the German film industry, focusing in particular on the effects of three pieces of legislation central to Germany's public debate on film politics. The legislation considered is the Film Act (Filmförderungsgesetz - FFG), the amendments to the Copyright Law (Urheberrechtsgesetz - UrhG), and the Inter-State Agreement on Broadcasting (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag - RStV). The inquiry examines how these statutes affect economic efficiency. In addition, major market and institutional characteristics of the German motion picture industry are studied. The analysis is partly embedded in a broadly disposed regression analysis of the determinants of performance of German movies in the theatrical market. The work indicates that the regulations considered generally detract from economic efficiency.

Throughout much of Christian history, the church had predominant control over religious ritual and belief. As early as the 1st Century, institutions representing "orthodoxy" were banning, forbidding or destroying the "heretical", separating it from what eventually would become canon and religious practice. The 21st Century provides new ways for spiritual knowledge to spread, bypassing traditional methods. Modern Martin Luthers can nail a manifesto to an internet door while the media's obsession with non-canonical texts provides no shortage of material for movies and television. A multi-media barrage challenges orthodox concepts and scriptural definition, often blurring the line between religion and entertainment. The initial clash between the churches and media has evolved over the last century to a point where the media may now produce beneficial results, educating many who may have either left the church or never joined it.

Dynamic complexity occurs in every social structure. Film industry, as a type of creative industries, constitutes a dynamic environment where uncertainty is at high levels. This complexity of the environment renders the more traditional operations research models somewhat ineffective, and thus, requires a dynamic analysis. In this study, a model showing the dynamics of film exhibition is given. The interactions within and between the theatrical and the DVD sales channels are implemented by the model. Later on, the possible effects of piracy to the model are discussed, using the inferences obtained by the created model. The model is examined with scenario and sensitivity analysis. All the modeling studies are done with a commercial dynamic systems modeling software. The model also can be extended for the whole film industry, or for some other creative industries like the publishing industry.

This dissertation focuses on film co-productions of the East German film studio DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) with East and West European partners. It revisits patterns of institutional and transnational collaboration during the Cold War in order to challenge the predominant cliché of the isolation of East European film industries. The project seeks to re-position East German cinema within evolving debates on European film, deriving its argument from archival research on production histories and contemporaneous press releases, as well as from correspondence and personal testimonials such as interviews with former East German and East European filmmakers. The discussion is structured around three categories that focus attention on the interplay between the East German studio’s co-production agenda and state-imposed film policy: cultural prestige, popular entertainment, and international solidarity. I devote a chapter to each category in my study, and show how co-productions, as collective enterprises at the intersection of national cinemas, allowed DEFA to compete for internationally renowned film stars and to re-appropriate Hollywood genres by forming multinational film collectives and sharing sets, talent, and production costs, while simultaneously negotiating complex economic, political, and market conditions in each host country. This project moves beyond previous approaches to East German film as European cinema’s ‘other.’ DEFA co-productions provide a privileged route into the examination of socialist film production as a state-controlled and ideologically compliant cultural domain, and, at the same time, as a venue for artistic collaborations that challenged the limitations of state censorship and sponsorship. Undoubtedly, East German and East European films were influenced by international developments and responded to them. Focusing on DEFA as a case study, I shed light on the negotiation of cultural policies not only within a discrete film studio, but also among the various institutions involved in filmmaking in Eastern Europe. / text

根據Joseph Nye的定義:軟實力是透過吸引和説服，而非以強迫或收買，使你得到想要的東西的能力。最近，為了推動他們的「和平崛起」，中國政府致力於軟實力的發展。其焦點是採用非威脅的、基於文化的方法以迎合世界其他國家，進而達到展現中國是新興超級強國的目的。 已知電影為強而有力的文化工具，而在二十一世紀美國好萊塢的電影產業一向穩占世界主導地位。但在世紀之交，中國把本土的電影業市場化，將此媒介從純粹的宣傳工具變成一個文化產業。根據胡錦濤二零零七年的敦促，中國需要進一步發展文化上的軟實力以因應國家快速的崛起。發展至今，固然中國電影業的軟實力尚未能與美國電影業相比擬，但它在過去十年的進步仍然令人難以置信。 若中國確實將電影業視為國家重要的軟實力資源之一，則仍然有許多障礙需要克服。 但所謂的障礙究竟是什麽？本論文將評論中國電影業的軟實力發展。我們將蒐集與評估現有的資料以研究其進化與現況。更將進一步分析， 在針對中國特定的軟實力目標上，該產業的成功與不足。 / According to Joseph Nye, “Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments” (2004, 256). Recently, China has been making a soft power push to promote its “peaceful rise,” focusing on a non-threatening culture based approach, with the aim of ingratiating themselves as an emerging super power to the rest of the world. Film remains a powerful cultural tool, one that the U.S. industry in Hollywood has dominated throughout the twenty-first century. But as China marketized its own film industry at the turn of the century, the medium there has moved away from being purely a propaganda apparatus to more of a cultural industry. Upon Hu Jintao’s urging in 2007, China must better develop its cultural soft power to accommodate its meteoric rise. While the Chinese film industry’s soft power development has not yet reached the ranks of the U.S.’s, it has made incredible strides over the past decade. There are still many hurdles for it to surpass if it truly intends to become a significant soft power resource for the country, but what are they? This thesis will evaluate the Chinese film industry’s soft power development by surveying existing material, data, and research on the subject, by examining its evolution, by reviewing its current environment, and by analyzing its successes and its shortcomings against the framework of China’s specific soft power objectives.

After experimental beginnings in the 1970s, a commercial push in the 1980s, and an underground existence in the 1990s, from 2000 to 2007 contemporary Australian horror production has experienced a period of strong growth and relative commercial success unequalled throughout the past three decades of Australian film history. This study explores the rise of contemporary Australian horror production: emerging production and distribution models; the films produced; and the industrial, market and technological forces driving production. Australian horror production is a vibrant production sector comprising mainstream and underground spheres of production. Mainstream horror production is an independent, internationally oriented production sector on the margins of the Australian film industry producing titles such as Wolf Creek (2005) and Rogue (2007), while underground production is a fan-based, indie filmmaking subculture, producing credit-card films such as I know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2006) and The Killbillies (2002). Overlap between these spheres of production, results in ‘high-end indie’ films such as Undead (2003) and Gabriel (2007) emerging from the underground but crossing over into the mainstream. Contemporary horror production has been driven by numerous forces, including a strong worldwide market demand for horror films and the increasing international integration of the Australian film industry; the lowering of production barriers with the rise of digital video; the growth of niche markets and online distribution models; an inflow of international finance; and the rise of international partnerships. In light of this study, a ‘national cinema’ as an approach to cinema studies needs reconsideration – real growth is occurring across national boundaries due to globalisation and at the level of genre production rather than within national boundaries through pure cultural production. Australian cinema studies – tending to marginalise genre films – needs to be more aware of genre production. Global forces and emerging distribution models, among others, are challenging the ‘narrowness’ of cultural policy in Australia – mandating a particular film culture, circumscribing certain notions of value and limiting the variety of films produced domestically.

Cette étude prend pour objet les salles de cinéma et la relation des spectateurs avec elles. Pour pouvoir embrasser toutes les facettes de la salle de cinéma à l’ère de la multiplication des écrans, le travail s’insère pleinement dans une perspective socio-économique qui articule méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives et s’organise en trois grandes parties. La première décrit les lignes générales de l’expérience cinématographique avec ses écrans et ses sites, la deuxième aborde directement le contexte du paysage cinématographique en Turquie, et la troisième partie s’attache à décrire la place des spectateurs dans ce contexte particulier. Il essaye de construire, à la manière d’un puzzle, le portrait du spectateur-type en Turquie, tout en espérant que ce portrait sera révélateur pour comprendre le spectateur actuel. Les observations par immersion faites dans le cadre de cette étude témoignent de l’existence d’une ligne commune qui traverse tous les types de salles, que ce soit des multiplexes, des salles de quartier ou des espaces de visionnement alternatifs, et de la continuation de l’expérience en salle à domicile. / The object of this research is the movie theaters and the relationship of the audience with them. To embrace all aspects of the movie theaters in the era of proliferation of screens, the study which follows up a socio-economic perspective articulating quantitative and qualitative methods is organized into three parts. The first part describes the general lines of the cinematic experience with its screens and sites, the second directly addresses the context of the film industry in Turkey, and the third sets out to analyze the place of the movie spectators in this particular context. It thus tries to build up like a jigsaw puzzle, a portrait of the typical spectator in Turkey, hoping that this portrait would be relevant to understand today’s audience. The field observations made within the framework of this study demonstrate the existence of a common line cutting across all types of movie theaters, whether it be multiplexes, neighborhood cinemas or alternative screening areas, and illustrate the continuation of the theater experience at home.