Editor's Introduction: Playing For Keeps: Games And Cultural Resistance [Special Issue], 2012 Old Dominion University
Editor's Introduction: Playing For Keeps: Games And Cultural Resistance [Special Issue], Marc A. Ouellette, Jason Thompson
English Faculty Publications
This edition is as much about Game Studies as it about the games being studied. At its heart there are really two impulses behind the collection of critical thought we have been fortunate enough to gather for this issue of Reconstruction. First, there is the sense that games can’t do anything. Second, there is the sense that games don’t do anything. Their origin (and the underlying biases) makes these sentiments particularly intriguing. In the simplest terms, these premises delineate competing camps, as well. Roger Ebert notoriously asserts that video games will never be art (Ebert). Similarly, and yet quite differently, …
Pathos, Winter 2012, 2012 Portland State University
Pathos, Winter 2012, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos
Editor: Joel Eisenhower
Issue 17
The Creation Of The Sympathetic Villain In Fritz Lang's M, 2012 Sacred Heart University
The Creation Of The Sympathetic Villain In Fritz Lang's M, Laura Hardt (Class Of 2014)
Writing Across the Curriculum
No abstract provided.
The Happiest Place On Earth - The Microbudget Model As A Means To An American National Cinema, 2012 University of Central Florida
The Happiest Place On Earth - The Microbudget Model As A Means To An American National Cinema, John Goshorn
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Happiest Place on Earth is a feature-length film written, directed, and produced by John Goshorn as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Digital Media from the University of Central Florida. The project aims to challenge existing conventions of the American fiction film on multiple levels – aesthetic, narrative, technical, and industrial – while dealing with a distinctly American subject and target audience. These challenges were both facilitated and necessitated by the limited resources available to the production team and the academic context of the production. This thesis is a record of …
When The Alligator Called To Elijah: A Handcrafted Exploration Of The Digital Moving Image, 2012 University of Central Florida
When The Alligator Called To Elijah: A Handcrafted Exploration Of The Digital Moving Image, Katherine Shults
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
When the Alligator Called to Elijah is a feature-length video conceptualized and constructed by Kate Shults in partial fulfillment of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The video is the result of an evolving exploration of the aesthetic capabilities of the digital image using Flip Video cameras, found footage and Final Cut Pro. Though originating as an experiment, When the Alligator Called to Elijah became a creation of motion collage with very specific production parameters. This thesis is a record of this video’s progression, from development to …
A Blue Flower: The Development Of A Personal Documentary, 2012 University of Central Florida
A Blue Flower: The Development Of A Personal Documentary, Nils Taranger
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A Blue Flower is a feature-length documentary film by Nils Taranger, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The film focuses on the director’s journey to find healing, both physically and emotionally. Following the guidelines of UCF’s program, Nils produced the film on a microbudget (under $50,000) level. The majority of filming took place in Florida with only a one or two person crew. This thesis is a record of the film’s progression from development to picture lock, in preparation for distribution
Founding Fathers On Screen: The Changing Relationship Between History And Film, 2012 College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences
Founding Fathers On Screen: The Changing Relationship Between History And Film, Jennifer Lynn Garrott
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Rhetorics Of Empire: The Falangist Discourse Of War (1939-1943), 2012 University of Kentucky
Rhetorics Of Empire: The Falangist Discourse Of War (1939-1943), M. Elena Aldea Agudo
Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a mix of right-wing ideologies existed among the Francoist forces. In sharp contrast with the Republican forces, the Francoist insurgents were successful in banding together despite their ideological differences. However, in the postwar era, this relative unity gave way to a struggle among the different ideological positions, each striving to impose its agenda for the new State. The party Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS) assumed power, but was not entirely successful in advancing its totalitarian project, which it had inherited from the prewar …
Translation And Distortion Of Linguistic Identities In Sinophone Cinema: Diverging Images Of The ‘Other, 2012 Technological University Dublin
Translation And Distortion Of Linguistic Identities In Sinophone Cinema: Diverging Images Of The ‘Other, Henry Leperlier
Books/Book Chapters
In today’s globalized market, Asian films are being increasingly exported; often,
multilingual movies deal with more complex societal issues and catch the interest of
a foreign audience interested in having an open door, one might say multiple doors,
into another society. The nearly complete lack of a system enabling such an audience
to be made aware of the complex multilingual and multilingual characters in such
movies ends up providing a distorted and simplified view of Chinese, Taiwanese,
Hong Kong and Singaporean societies as reflected in its cinemas.
This chapter examines all the resulting issues and cultural misunderstandings that can occur …
An Opposing Self, 2012 Rhode Island College
An Opposing Self, Christine M. Gamache
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
People have always been both frightened and fascinated by the unknown, and themes touching on the existence of things beyond human understanding have longevity in the literary arena as well as in popular culture. One such theme is that of the doppelgänger, or double, which has been around for centuries but was first made popular by Jean-Paul’s (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) work Hesperus in 1795. Due to a resurgence in the nineteenth century in the popularity of Gothic literature, doppelgängers, or variations of this double motif, found their way into some of the most famous works of literature …
Boys And Brokeback: American Attitudes Towards Gays, 2012 Eastern Illinois University
Boys And Brokeback: American Attitudes Towards Gays, Todd Bruns
Todd A. Bruns
Movies, like television, literature and music, reflect a society’s standards, values, trends, and anxieties. The wave of alien invasion movies of the 1950s (Attack of the Flying Saucers, The Atomic Submarine, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and more) revealed the American psychological paranoia of the Cold War, just as numerous movies of the late 1970s/1980s that dwelt on Vietnam (Apocalypse Now, Coming Home, The Deer Hunter, etc.) demonstrated a collective attempt to come to psychological grips with the loss of that war. As standards shift movies can become embarrassing reminders of past social norms that make contemporary viewers justifiably uneasy: …
Lloyd Alexander: A Film By Jared Crossley, 2012 Brigham Young University
Lloyd Alexander: A Film By Jared Crossley, Jared Crossley
Student Works
A 9:04 film about Lloyd Alexander "American Author, Pioneer, and the High King of Fantasy."
That's A Wrap! The Organizational Culture And Characteristics Of Successful Film Crews, 2012 University of Central Florida
That's A Wrap! The Organizational Culture And Characteristics Of Successful Film Crews, Lisa C. Cook
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study seeks to determine through survey research what characteristics film production crews possess that makes them so successful as an organization. The factors of age, gender, years of professional experience and education level were tested for their significance on how the respondents view their culture. Hofstede's six dimensions of organizational culture survey questions were rewritten to be applicable to the freelance film crew sample. The presentation of findings focuses on the resultant organizational profile of a film production crew, the workplace values of this group and the influence that the education level of the participants had on responses. The …
Design And Production Aspects Of An Electroluminescent Segment Display, 2012 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Design And Production Aspects Of An Electroluminescent Segment Display, Veronica Kopp, Chris Nixon
Graphic Communication
The purpose of this study was to get a better understanding of the different ways printed circuits could be constructed and then implemented into creative, visual designs for printed electroluminescent displays. A variety of circuit design variables, such as area and length, were tested that will help create solutions for printed electronics.
This study tested different variables of circuit design, such as length of silver traces and the size of the image area, to help optimize ways to build a printed circuit. Then, findings were implemented into a segmented graphic display in order to analyze innovative ways to utilize multiple …
Healing Or Horrifying? Portrayals Of Victorian Medicine In Bram Stoker's Dracula, 2012 University of Louisville
Healing Or Horrifying? Portrayals Of Victorian Medicine In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jennifer Miles
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
The Publication Of Dracula, 2012 Kutztown University
The Publication Of Dracula, Paul S. Mcalduff
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Paradigmatic Brilliance - Or, So Sparkly, It's Broken, 2012 Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK
Paradigmatic Brilliance - Or, So Sparkly, It's Broken, Janet Goodall, Emyr Williams
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
"A Foreign Man In A Fog": Robert Siodmak, Lon Chaney Jr., And Son Of Dracula, 2012 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
"A Foreign Man In A Fog": Robert Siodmak, Lon Chaney Jr., And Son Of Dracula, Mark Bernard
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Playing Vampire Games: Rules And Play In Varney The Vampire And Dracula, 2012 University of Central Oklahoma
Playing Vampire Games: Rules And Play In Varney The Vampire And Dracula, Lindsay Dearinger
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity In Red Vs. Blue, 2012 Old Dominion University
"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity In Red Vs. Blue, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications
Machinima, the practice of adapting recorded video game play into short films, highlights an often unacknowledged but significant shift in the consumption of video games and represents a key and underexplored intersection between the two leading theoretical camps. Considering the landmark series Red vs. Blue through the lens of Bolter and Grusin's propositions about "new" media's relationships with other forms offers an entry point for theorizing not only machinima but also the intersections between the ludology and narratology positions in games studies.