Scripting Therapeutic Screen Stories : Animating The Healing Potential Of Film Narratives,
2013
Edith Cowan University
Scripting Therapeutic Screen Stories : Animating The Healing Potential Of Film Narratives, Andrew Levett
Theses : Honours
Beyond entertainment, animated narratives can potentially induce psychological healing, termed “individuation.” Stories exist in many forms, like literature, film and conversation, as well as in the human mind, or “psyche.” These “self-narratives” use life experience to shape consciousness. Therefore, effective storytelling based on archetypal myths can restructure the psyche. Film narratives communicate meaning through symbols, termed “textual cues”, while screenwriters employ specific templates, which organise story information into familiar structures. These guide audiences towards predetermined meaning. Through bibliotherapy, which is the use of literature for therapeutic purposes, audiences project their unconscious content onto narrative components that resonate with it. Ego-consciousness …
From Eileen Chang To Ang Lee: Lust/Caution Ed. By Peng Hsiao-Yen And Whitney Crothers Dilley,
2013
Loyola Marymount University
From Eileen Chang To Ang Lee: Lust/Caution Ed. By Peng Hsiao-Yen And Whitney Crothers Dilley, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Rushmore’S Max Fischer And Dwight Macdonald’S “Midcult”,
2013
Arcadia University
Rushmore’S Max Fischer And Dwight Macdonald’S “Midcult”, Emily A. Pugh
Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works
This essay attempts to explain the theory of Dwight Macdonald's Midcult from his essay Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain and presents examples of the concept in Wes Anderson’s film Rushmore (1998). Midcult is described a hybrid of cultures in our society between High Culture and Masscult. Midcult presents itself as part of the High Culture but corrupts High Culture standards by being formulaic and without any standards except for popularity (Macdonald, 398). Rushmore details the life of Max Fischer, a prep school student who strives for recognition. Within the film Max exemplifies the concept of Midcult by …
"You Might Be A Redneck If" You Consider Yourself One?,
2013
Arcadia University
"You Might Be A Redneck If" You Consider Yourself One?, Danielle Bartholomew
Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works
No abstract provided.
What I Want To Do Before I Die,
2013
Abilene Christian University
What I Want To Do Before I Die, Landon Brady Saunders
Landon Saunders Documents
Saunders outlines a basic plan for Heartbeat and for himself after he steps down from Heartbeat.
The Art Of Irene Chou (Zhou Luyun, 1924-2011) : A Case Study Of Ink Painting,
2013
Lingnan University
The Art Of Irene Chou (Zhou Luyun, 1924-2011) : A Case Study Of Ink Painting, Hung Sheng
Lingnan Theses
Ink Painting was first initiated by Lui Shou Kwan (1919 - 1975) in the 1960s and it had a significant and remarkable influence on Hong Kong painters. It aimed to revitalize Chinese painting as a reaction largely triggered by the dominant trend of imitative practice of the Lingnan School in Hong Kong at the time. Lui stressed the importance of gen (根 root) and shi (適 adaption) and signaled many possibilities of ink painting as a new category. Gradually, a group of artists pursuing the same goal gathered and made the Ink Painting Movement possible. Irene Chou was one of …
The Cinematic Experience Through The Micro-Budget Paradigm,
2013
University of Central Florida
The Cinematic Experience Through The Micro-Budget Paradigm, Jeffrey Lehman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Tailor’s Apprentice is a feature-length, micro-budget, narrative digital motion picture, written, produced and directed by Jeffrey Lehman in partial fulfillment of the requirements of earning a Master of Fine Arts in Film from the University of Central Florida. The film is a result of applying specific monetary, logistical and creative limitations to the production process in order to contribute in defining the micro-budget aesthetic, resulting in a final shared cinematic audience experience. This thesis is a record of all stages from conception to completion of the executed, feature length film with-in the micro-budget production paradigm.
Re-Imaging A Career In Filmmaking,
2013
University of Central Florida
Re-Imaging A Career In Filmmaking, Jason Sutton
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this project was to learn every aspect of the film business, and to do so within the guidelines of an ultra-low budget digital format. This meant creating a project that could be written, produced, and directed all for fewer than fifty thousand dollars. All of the money had to be raised by me as well. The process began day one in the classroom, learning every step of the way. It began by turning an idea into a feature length film script. This was done over the course of a year. The next step began putting together every …
Less Lost: No Touchdown Dance,
2013
University of Central Florida
Less Lost: No Touchdown Dance, William Conner
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Less Lost is a feature-length film by William Chase Conner, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Digital Media from the University of Central Florida.
The Fall Of The Yellow Wallpaper,
2013
Brigham Young University
The Fall Of The Yellow Wallpaper, Rachel Payne
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Many have acknowledged the Gothic influence of Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Critics often examine the opposition of genres in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” arguing it as either a feminist movement or Gothic tale. However, the Female Gothic genre centers the female role inside a Gothic tale. This genre typifies a criticism of oppressive patriarchies and support for female independence. Both “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” demonstrate women who overcome repressed voices by finding their expressions through writing.
Gilda's Gowns,
2013
Brigham Young University
Gilda's Gowns, Rachel Ann Wise
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Critics have overanalyzed the portrayal of the femme fatale in film noir as female ruthless seduction in attempts to overpower men. However, a paramount aspect of the femme fatale has been under analyzed—women’s use of and exploitation of fashion. In film noir, Gilda particularly showcases the importance of fashion in the film’s plot. Gilda’s undressing and dressing in the film signifies the multifarious personalities and complexity of the femme fatale character. In understand Gilda’s character via her diegetic, fashionable, and mutable clothes, the femme fatale is exposed as a complex being defying stereotype by the variety of her wardrobe, but …
Costruire La Razza Come Mostruosità,
2013
Stony Brook University
Costruire La Razza Come Mostruosità, Simone Brioni Dr.
Department of English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Brown V. Entertainment Merchants Association: "Modern Warfare" On First Amendment Protection Of Violent Video Games,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Brown V. Entertainment Merchants Association: "Modern Warfare" On First Amendment Protection Of Violent Video Games, Jessica Fisher
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Metafilm In The Spanish Post-Civil War Period: Cinematic Self-Reflection In Berlanga’S Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall And Bardem’S Calle Mayor,
2013
Georgia Southern University
Metafilm In The Spanish Post-Civil War Period: Cinematic Self-Reflection In Berlanga’S Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall And Bardem’S Calle Mayor, Lucy F. Lee
The Coastal Review
The focus on the self-referential as a means of destabilizing reality and calling attention to the artificial nature of life may be noted in a number of films of the Spanish post-Civil War period, among them José Antonio Berlanga’s Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall and Juan Antonio Bardem’s Calle Mayor. Through their use of metacinematic devices such as distancing techniques, parody, and the incorporation of performance and cinematic models, the constructed nature of provincial life and Spanish identity is exposed, ushering in a new era of Spanish cinema.
The Personal, Political, And The Virtual? Redefining Female Success And Empowerment In A Post-Feminist Landscape,
2013
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
The Personal, Political, And The Virtual? Redefining Female Success And Empowerment In A Post-Feminist Landscape, Linda Elizabeth Chardon
Honors Theses and Capstones
No abstract provided.
Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, And Trauma In Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia For The Light,
2013
University of South Florida
Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, And Trauma In Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia For The Light, Nora Szegvari
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This work situates Patricio Guzmàn's Nostalgia for the Light in the broader field of essay documentary film and unveils it as a locus of discursive resistance and the generative crux of diverse conventionally isolated academic dialogues. In doing so, it addresses the challenging and controversial questions of historical meaning-making, remembrance and oblivion, melancholia and mourning. My thesis also endeavors to detect the dynamic and anxiety-inducing threshold between singularity and collectivity, and the human and the cosmic. I lay the historically unprecedented common ground for trauma theory and the essayistic comportment and argue that bearing the clash of time planes, paradoxicality, …
The Terror Of Possibility: A Re-Evaluation And Reconception Of The Sublime Aesthetic,
2013
University of South Florida
The Terror Of Possibility: A Re-Evaluation And Reconception Of The Sublime Aesthetic, Kurt Fawver
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
While the sublime aesthetic has a long and complex critical history, it is nonetheless a schizophrenic concept. Indeed, in the over two thousand years since the sublime became a subject of learned inquiry, it has not been resolved into any one concrete idea, but has become, rather, an expansive tapestry of disparate if interconnected theoretical threads from which aestheticians may pick and choose to define what they mean by the term "sublime." Kant postulates one sort of sublime, Burke another, and Lyotard, Zizek, and the Romantics still others. In this way, the contemporary sublime aesthetic is, in essence, an ever-extending …
The Transience Of The Interior Self: Exploring The Lost Real Within A Creative Visual Praxis,
2013
Edith Cowan University
The Transience Of The Interior Self: Exploring The Lost Real Within A Creative Visual Praxis, Jacqueline Monks
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This research investigates psychological ideas of the interior self as transient and its relationship to the Real within a creative practice that includes video, projection and animation. The significance of the research is in the critical development of my creative practice and its creative outcome as a means of visually manifesting ideas of the interior self as explored by the theorist Slavoj Zizek. Theoretically, the notion of the interior self is defined as a transient state of co-existing contradictions. Its definition is located in Zizek’s reading of Jacques Lacan’ s triad of orders that comprise the thinking self (Zizek, 2007a, …
Refiguring Indexicality: Remediation, Film, & Memory In Contemporary Japanese Visual Media,
2013
University of South Florida
Refiguring Indexicality: Remediation, Film, & Memory In Contemporary Japanese Visual Media, Janine Marie Villot
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Through an analog between film and memory, I argue contemporary Japanese visual media constantly remediates this relationship in order to develop a more inclusive, plastic indexicality that allows media without direct material contiguity access to an indexicality not typically attributed to it. Amidst the early twenty-first century shift from old, mechanical media to new, electronic media, each Japanese text engages the West through intercultural discourses and intracultural responses, just as Japan has continually encountered the West since its forced opening by Commodore Perry in 1853. The plasticized indexicality figured by contemporary Japanese visual media implies the plastic nature of abstracted …
The Sopranos Experience,
2013
University of South Florida
The Sopranos Experience, Eli Benjamin Weidinger
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
My thesis explores what I call the "Sopranos Experience," which draws upon both the historical conventions of the gangster genre as well as the aesthetics and economics of pay-cable television to complicate The Sopranos' (HBO, 1999-2007) psychological relationship with the 21st-century, neoliberal American audience. The Sopranos Experience explicates how wavering identifications and dis-identifications that develop for the spectator through the series' form and content draw the responsibility of an audience away from moral ultimatums that attempt to finalize their experience with the genre, and towards a more personal ethical entanglement with the characters and their socioeconomic anxieties and desires. The …
