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Films For The Colonies: Cinema And The Preservation Of The British Empire, Thomas Barker

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Tom Rice, Films for the Colonies: Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire (University of California Press, 2019).

The Outriders Documentary, Zakariya Rodgers

University Honors Theses

The Outriders is a portrait documentary filmed in Saudi Arabia. The film follows David, the head outrider, at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh. An Outrider is a mounted horseman who assists racehorses to facilitate and maintain safety on the track. The primary duties highlighted in the film are that of catching loose horses and escorting non-compliant horses to various stations along the track. The documentary delves into David’s history, starting in the US, and the journey that led him across the world to Saudi Arabia. It offers a window into what it takes to be an Outrider in ...

Peridot Pictures - Bowling Green-Warren County Bicentennial Film (Mss 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 715. Proposal, script materials, correspondence, publicity, interviews and other items relating to the production of a film for the Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) bicentennial by Peridot Pictures and the Landmark Association of Bowling Green.

Influential Storytelling At Its Finest: Why The Postwar West Took Notice Of Yasujirō Ozu’S Tokyo Story, Abigail Deveney

Japanese Society and Culture

Tokyo Story (1953) came to fame in 1958, when Yasujiro Ozu’s postwar film about a fragmenting family won the Sutherland prize at the London Film Festival – or so cinematic scholarship suggests. There is, however, a much more complex tale to be told. In fact, director Ozu’s shomingeki-genre film was being discussed and promoted internationally long before what is considered that watershed moment.

This dissertation explores why the western world took note. It argues that Tokyo Story’s nuanced and humanist narrative was a unique form of soft power, attracting and persuading decades before that concept was formally articulated ...

Measuring The Effects Of Narrative And Analytical Messages In Video Production, Levy G. Randolph Ii, Ricky W. Telg, Joy N. Rumble, Sebastian Galindo, Angela B. Lindsey

Journal of Applied Communications

Communication practitioners in the agriculture industry have the challenge of identifying the best way to educate consumers, and they have experienced challenges in consumer engagement. Additionally, food safety issues have continued to rise with a trend of recalls and foodborne illnesses. While the rhetoric in the agriculture industry is pointing to the need for agricultural issues to be addressed from an agriculturist sharing their stories and perspectives, there is limited research on the impact of personal narratives on attitude change and message elaboration. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of narrative and analytical practices on elaboration ...

Morkovcha [Korean Carrot Salad], Lidiya A. Kan

School of Arts & Sciences Theses

Morkovcha, Korean Carrot Salad is a short documentary that tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the diaspora is told through conversations with my mother, personal stories, fragmented memories, and my family photo archive. This very personal film is my attempt to revisit the 160-year history of the Russian Korean diaspora and to record and preserve our unique fusion of cultures in the melting pot that is the United States. Its purpose is to help to process and accept the tragic past of my ...

Article 6.21, Tatiana Stolpovskaya

School of Arts & Sciences Theses

Article 6.21 is a short documentary film that aims to examine the state of censorship around queerness in Russia today and its effects on personal lives in the queer community.

Twenty years after Russia decriminalized homosexuality, on June 30th in 2013, President Vladimir Putin signed Article 6.21 "for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values", also known as the "Gay Propaganda Law". Its broad and ambiguous wording allows the government significant leeway in deciding what kind of public queerness is punishable.

In 2020 Russia passed multiple constitutional amendments that affect ...

Kevin Macleod Documentary, Thomas E. Seymour

School of Arts & Sciences Theses

Kevin MacLeod is a film composer with over 2,000 songs that anyone can use for free in their films and projects as long as credit is provided to MacLeod. For over twenty years his music has been available to the public.

In Order To Escort Her, Kimberly Baglieri

School of Arts & Sciences Theses

In Order To Escort Her is a thirty-five minute hybrid-documentary in which Lila, my great-aunt, converses with her niece, my mother, about various supernatural creature encounters and spirit visitations from relatives. This is interspersed with a “visitation” from another close relative, communicating from a different time and space dimension. By weaving together supernatural stories and matter-of-fact accounts of resilience and survival, a magical world is created where boundaries between the material and the invisible realms blur. The main thematic concerns of this film are love, care, presence in joy amidst terror, and the journey of the soul.

Letting The Body Lead, Amanda Boggs

Masters Theses

Letting the Body Lead is an exhibition and workshop series that focuses on embodiment in social context and invites attendees to engage with the work, both as viewers and active participants. Embodiment in social context refers to the understanding of lived experiences in the body. Within my creative practice, I explore the body's creativity, knowledge, and agency while bridging and brining together the fields of fine arts, movement-based and socially just art making. I believe in the transformative potential of how movement and contemplative practices can support a more liberated way of being both within an individual and, by ...

Contemporary MoʻOlelo: Filling The Literature Stream With Pacific Water, Kalilinoe Detwiler

Horizons

Introduction: This paper discusses the essentialness of drawing from moʻolelo and traditional knowledge in creative works and conducting the production of those works through an Indigenous lens. Methods: I first identify the discourse community through which the research and conclusions are oriented, which is the Native Hawaiian community interested in telling stories through new mediums. I identify a concern of this community which is the number of storytellers who use Hawaiʻi as a backdrop for stories that misrepresent the community and culture in the entertainment industry as a commodity. Results: Through the research, I identify the harm of allowing non-Indigenous ...

Pivotal Transition - A Women’S Skateboarding Documentary, Maya Volpacchio

Honors Theses

This documentary examines the current state of women’s skateboarding during a pivotal time in the industry. Social media has allowed what was once a small, marginalized community to blossom into something much greater. In addition, the induction of skateboarding into the next Summer Olympics places the sport at an interesting crossroads. I begin with a personal reflection of my own journey in skateboarding, acknowledging how the lack of visibility for women and the male dominance made participating in the sport intimidating and difficult. I transition to talk about how once I began meeting other women skateboarders and building a ...

陳果電影與後殖民香港的文化身份, Dian Zheng

Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南

回歸以前，香港後殖民處境下港人的身份危機不僅在學術領域廣受探討，亦成為眾多文藝作品的靈感來源。一九八四年，中英簽署聯合聲明後，香港人對未來的焦慮更為頻繁地呈現在銀幕上方。

「不在現場，勝於現場」 : 雲劇場是否即將取代實體劇場？, Pui Yiu Lo

Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南

本文將會先淺談在疫情下線上劇場的實行情況，從而探討在這些演出中帶出的演出新定義。筆者亦將為題目中的「取代」落下定義，包括劇場工業、市場、劇場美學等多方面，比較線上劇場及實體劇場在此等方面的情況，看看線上劇場是否終將能把實體劇場全面取締。

El Abrazo De La Serpiente O Un Mise-En-Scène Sin Fronteras, Sandra Ortiz-València

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

El abrazo de la serpiente es una de las obras cumbre del cine latino americano que más reconocimiento internacional ha obtenido, pero ¿por qué el filme de Ciro Guerra fascinó a un público tan amplio y diverso, obteniendo premios en lugares tan alejados y dispares como Montreal o Yereván, por nombrar alguno? Esta presentación realiza un análisis en profundidad de la puesta en escena en El abrazo para explicar el lenguaje audiovisual con el que el filme de Ciro Guerra construye una narrativa cinematográfica alejada de las formas dominantes, pero habilitada para emocionar a audiencias de todo el mundo. Tomando ...

Plastic Goes Concrete: "Plasticnic" And "Plasticpoems", Two Animated Poetry Videos About Plastic Pollution, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Nhat Truong, Tisha Deb Pillai

The Goose

The author describes the creation of two short animated video poems about plastic pollution that originated in concrete/visual poems. "Plasticnic" is a humorous and colourful narrated video based on a shaped poem depicting how we enjoy nature while simultaneously harming it through plastic consumption. "Plasticpoems" is a text-based, unnarrated animated video poem about plastic pollution based on two shaped/visual/concrete poems.

Toward A Fluid Cinematic Spectatorship And Desire: Revisiting Laura Mulvey’S Psychoanalytic Film Theories, Taylor Ashton Mcgoey

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis project re-evaluates Laura Mulvey’s film theories regarding psychoanalysis and the “male gaze,” first found in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). By re-evaluating the limitations of Mulvey’s use of the Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic model this project seeks to understand the desires and processes of identification of cinematic spectators who reject the ideological imperative of the “male gaze”. As many critics have noted, Mulvey’s initial examination of cinema does not account for LGBTQ+ spectators and/or black spectators who occupy looking relations that reject cis-normative and heteronormative white Hollywood cinematic conventions. From this ...

《過春天》 : 關口上的春耕春收, Ziyan Chen

Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南

電影《過春天》（下簡稱《過》）是導演白雪的處女作，講述了十六歲少女佩佩為完成和閨蜜一起去日本看雪的約定，冒險成為「水貨客」的獨特經歷（過春天，2020）。在影片正式公映前，已連續獲得了多項國際大獎（電影大暴走，2019）。《過》的劇情落地在香港和深圳，兩個比鄰而居卻因「一國兩制」被分隔成為境外、境內的不同行政區域的城市。

盜亦有道 : 關於中國網絡字幕組的記憶和敘述 (2001-2020), Yayuan Ma

Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南

二零零一年中國加入世界貿易組織（WTO），在與世界接軌的同時，也抓緊時機大力發展文化產業以輸出文化產品和價值理念。同年，互聯網開始在中國普及，以翻譯歐美日韓影視劇爲主的網絡字幕組應運而生、發展壯大，且因工作高效和免費服務而廣受互聯網用戶追捧和好評。網絡字幕組以游走於法律灰色地帶的方式為中國互聯網用戶引入海量影視劇資源，而中國官方從起初的視而不見到為加强知識版權和文化審查而接連打擊、查封字幕組，並把字幕組在跨文化傳播上的巨大貢獻排除在中國文化產業發展的敘述邏輯之外

十九大之際，從影片《戰狼Ⅱ》淺談個人主義, Huoma Man Shan

Cultural Studies@Lingnan 文化研究@嶺南

二零一七年《戰狼Ⅱ》（以下簡稱：《戰2》）的上映，不僅刷新了中國票房資本紀錄，也被國內外多家主流媒體作為一種文化現象廣為報導。這位由吳京老師自導自演的「Captain China」，身披五星紅旗，腳踏雇傭士軍，一騎當千、百毒不侵、萬夫莫當地穿梭於各種槍林彈雨。他以一個近乎完美的個人英雄主義形象，懷著為搜尋殺害未婚妻真凶的內心執著，用精通十八班武藝這特種兵的身份，幫助解決了一個國際危機，片中盧靖姍(Celina Jade)飾演的混血美女無國界醫生猶如「007幫女郎」般伴其左右。