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Surrealism Is Not Dead: A Look At Surrealism In Contemporary Mass Communication Via Analysis Of Modern Popular Films, Joi Deanne Chadwick

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This study examined three modern films - Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland, and Iron Man 2 - to understand the place of Surrealism in contemporary communication. The thesis began with a review of literature regarding Surrealism's revolutionary propensities and its flow into the mainstream. The review's basis was postmodernist philosophy rooted in Roland Barthes's and Umberto Eco's semiotics and Stuart Hall's cultural studies. This underlying philosophy asserted the complexity and mutability of signs and styles, a media role in acceptance and mutation of signs/styles, and endurance of ideas through cultural shifts. Semiotic analysis was crucial methodology in this study …

Voice, Listening And Social Justice: A Multimediated Engagement With New Immigrant Communities And Publics In Ireland, Alan Grossman

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.

Cinematic Space In Rome’S Disabitato: Between Metropolis And Terrain Vague In The Films Of Fellini, Antonioni, And Pasolini, Patrick Barron

English Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.

Isp Thesis, Joseph Michael David

Wayne State University Theses

Abstract

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ON TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

By: JOSEPH DAVID

December 2010

Advisor: Dr. Richard Raspa

Degree: Master of Interdisciplinary Studies

Many people in today's world often submit to broad assumptions, generalizations and faulty reasoning in determining what constitutes a competent leader. Qualities such as high energy, positive attitude and charisma are unfortunately the sole traits that elect leaders. While positive thinking does help to produce compelling visions to inspire people, high energy is necessary for leadership given the workload and charisma needed to win people over. These are components for election not successful leadership.

Such narrow sighted values for …

The Fortas Film Festival, Brian L. Frye

Studio for Law and Culture

The story of Jack Smith’s film Flaming Creatures and the “Fortas Film Festival” illustrates the dialectic of obscenity. The obscenity doctrine expresses the conventional wisdom that the First Amendment actually protects art, and protects pornography only by extension. But Flaming Creatures and the Fortas Film Festival suggest that obscenity is dialectical. The obscenity doctrine provides the thesis: art protects pornography, by justifying the protection of sexual expression. Flaming Creatures and the Fortas Film Festival provide the antithesis: pornography protects art, by normalizing sexual expression. The history of obscenity law provides the synthesis: art and pornography protect each other. In other …

Inside And Outside Southern Whiteness: Film Viewing, The Frame, And The Racing Of Space In Yoknapatawpha, Peter Lurie

English Faculty Publications

Though neither film nor film viewing is ever named in As I Lay Dying, both the apparatus of cinema and what we might term its sociohistorical effects are evoked powerfully by and in the novel. These include the passing before the reader’s “gaze” of the discrete, separate “frames” of the various characters’ monologues, as well as, in particular section, a fascination with watching machinery that resembled the interest of early film biewers in the cinematic apparatus (see Doane 108).

If Vardaman and his family are not explicitly depicted as film viewers, they nevertheless show signs of what has been …

Translating The Language Of Film: East Asian Films And Their Hollywood Remakes, Julia Yu

CMC Senior Theses

Hollywood remakes of East Asian films clearly change more than just the language of a film, and the choices that producers and directors make in order to tailor a foreign film so that it better appeals to American audiences creates an entry point that allows for a more direct comparison of aesthetic styles, cultural tastes, and narrative conventions. An analysis of two case studies, South Korean hit film My Sassy GIrl (2001) and Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002, 2003, 2003) remade into My Sassy Girl (2008) and The Departed (2006), explores the principles of Korean and Hong Kong commercial …

Does An Academy Award Affect Stock Return?, Kelli M. Maltsbarger

CMC Senior Theses

This study examines the affect of winning an Academy Award on the stock price of parent companies.  On average, receiving an Oscar has no significant impact on the stock of parent companies during the few days surrounding the broadcast of the Academy Awards.  The findings of this study introduce questions of external interference and possible limitations on this type of research.  However, my study sheds light on future topics of investigation for analyzing the effects of televised award shows on the stock market.

文学研究的合法化：一种新实用主义、整体化和经验主义文学与文化研究方法 (Legitimizing The Study Of Literature: A New Pragmatism And The Systemic Approach To Literature And Culture), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (斯蒂文·托托西). 文学研究的合法化：一种新实用主义、整体化和经验主义文学与文化研究方法 (Legitimizing the Study of Literature: A New Pragmatism and the Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture). Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i (马瑞琪翻). Peking University Academic Lectures Series 7. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1997. ISBN 7-301-03482-2 217 pages. The book contains texts of invited public lectures at Peking University in 1994, 1995, and 1996 on radical constructivism, culture and literary theory and methodology, women's writing, film and literature, and Canadian and Hungarian modern and contemporary prose. The Peking University Press 1997 print version of the book does not include a Works Cited: in the 2011 pdf version …

Computer-Generated Imagery, Bob Rehak

Film & Media Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Pathos, Winter 2011, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Joel Eisenhower

Issue 14

The Return Of The 1950s Nuclear Family In Films Of The 1980s, Chris Steve Maltezos

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the 1980s the cinematic nuclear family flourished again after the self-explorative 1960s and turbulent 1970s. This thesis explores the portrayal of the idealized American family in film between the 1950s and 1980s. The 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause reflects the 1950s cinematic family model. My investigation includes the role of the father figure and the bonds in intergenerational relationships. During the early 1980s, films such Ordinary People and ET: The Extraterrestrial reflect the need to reevaluate the 1950s ideal nuclear family. My examination of these films continues to include the importance of the father figure and bonds between …

_Alien_ Thoughts: Spectatorial Pleasure And Mind Reading In Ridley Scott's Horror Film, Cecilia Madeline Bolich

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Pleasure experienced in an unpleasant film genre, like horror, has prompted numerous discussions in film studies. Noted scholars like Carol J. Clover and Noël Carroll have rationalized spectatorial enjoyment of a genre that capitalizes on human anxieties and complicates cultural categories. Clover admits that horror initially satisfies sadistic tendencies in young male viewers but then pushes them to cross gender lines and identify with the strong female heroine who defeats the film's threat. Carroll provides a basic explanation, citing spectators' cognitive curiosity as the source of pleasure. Both scholars are right to consider emotional, psychological, and cognitive experiences felt by …

The Hero Soldier: Portrayals Of Soldiers In War Films, Gavin Davie

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The mythos of the hero has existed within the stories of humanity for as long as we can remember. Within the last hundred years film has become one of the dominant storytelling media of our culture and numerous films, especially war films, about heroes and their inspirational actions have been made. This study focuses on war films and the hero soldiers and their actions portrayed in those films. It uses a narrative analysis of five war films to accomplish this. The findings suggest that the hero soldier has become more human and fallible over time and that heroes are a …

The Need For Foreign Correspondents: A Cost Benefit Analysis, Haley Petersen

Journalism

This paper includes an examination of the decline in foreign news coverage, the factors contributing to the decline, the implications of decreased coverage in a democratic society, the market for international news, and an explanation of various models of foreign correspondence in relation to the quality of work produced contrasted against the cost of production.

Heartbeat's Future: Plan A And Plan B, Unknown

Landon Saunders Documents

Explores further the idea of Heartbeat's future resting with an Institute and an endowed chair at a university. Contains a narrative of key events in Heartbeat's history; discusses points in favor of an Institute and endowed chair, and recommends that Saunders teach a semester and retreat to Temenos for renewal while writing his book. Acknowledges critical nature of Saunders's face-to-face involvement in small groups and mentoring.

Also proposes a Plan B with Saunders producing a weekly video in story and application format and using Mike Cope to present to young audiences.

Date of document is estimated to be after February …

Una Entrevista Con Daniel Golstein, Pionero Del Sonido Cinematográfico Español, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Esta entrevista con el renombrado pionero del sonido cinematográfico español es de 2011. Aquí Goldstein narra su larga colaboración con Ricardo Steinberg, y comenta el pasado, presente y futuro del sonido cinematográfico en España. Incluye muchas anécdotas sobre sus colegas profesionales, y también sobre sus colaboraciones con directores como Carlos Saura, Manuel Gutiérez Aragón, Luis García Berlanga, Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenábar, José Luis Cuerda y Adolfo Aristarain. Este proyecto fue subvencionado por la Purdue University, y está dedicado a Antonio Illán y Leopoldo “Polo” González Aledo.

English Translation:

This is an interview conducted in 2011 with renowned Spanish cinematic sound …

Una Entrevista En Madrid Con El Premiado Mezclador, Marc Orts, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En esta entrevista con Patricia Hart en 2011, el premiado mezclador Marc Orts habla sobre sus comienzos en el mundo del sonido cinematográfico, y de la importancia de adaptarse a todos los proyectos, para que no haya un sonido “Marc Orts.” Habla de los que más le enseñaron—David Calleja y Brad Anderson, por ejemplo. Comenta su trabajo con los directores Pedro Almodóvar, Montxo Armendáriz, Rodrigo Cortés, Guillem Morales, Isabel Coixet, Jaume Balagueró y Paco Arango. También comenta brevemente el efecto del doblaje en el cine español.

English Translation:

In this interview with Patricia Hart in 2011, Goya-winning mixer Marc Orts …

Una Entrevista Con El Experto De Sonido Cinematográfico, Carlos Faruolo, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Ésta una entrevista con el renombrado pionero y experto argentino/español en el sonido cinematográfico, Carlos Faruolo. Cuenta su llegada de Argentina en los años 70, y da un repaso fascinante de la historia y el presente del diseño sonoro cinematográfico en España. Hay muchas anécotas sobre sus experiencias con directores de la talla de Carlos Saura, Jaime Chávarri, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Vicente Aranda, Pilar Miró y José Luis Cuerda. Cuenta historias sobre su trabajo con guionista/productor Elías Querejeta, y con actores como Antonio Banderas, Luis Tosar, Francisco Rabal, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Alicia Hermida y Terence Stamp. Este proyecto fue subvencionado …

Una Entrevista Con El Mezclador De Sonido Cinematográfico, Alfonso Pino En Mayo De 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Ésta una entrevista de 2011 con el renombrado pionero en las mezclas de sonido del cine español, Alfonso Pino (nominado 13 veces al Premio Goya, y ganador de 7). Describe su formación profesional y su larga carrera en Estudios EXA durante la dictadura franquista, la Transición y la democracia. Incluye muchas anécdotas sobre sus influencias y sus compañeros, además de historias sobre su trabajo con directores de la talla de Alejandro Amenábar, Aranda, Isabel Coixet, Emilio Martínez-­‐Lázaro, Fernando Trueba e Imanol Uribe. Le entrevista Patricia Hart. Este proyecto fue subvencionado por Purdue University, y está dedicado a Antonio Illán y …