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Outing Hybridity: Polymorphism, Identity, And Desire In Monika Trent's Virgin Machine, Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

Monika Treut's 1988 film, Virgin Machine, offers a playful, self-ironizing look at the construction of sexual identities, utilizing the techniques specific to the filmic medium to create cuts and bridges between concepts, characters, and locations. In its portrayal of the passage and passages of the story's central character, Dorothe Muller, the film takes the viewer on a voyage of self-exploration and self-discovery that moves from one harbor city, Hamburg, and ends in another, San Francisco. The move between harbor cities carries associations of commerce and exchange, arrivals and departures, as well as the potential for import and export of …

Visual Communication And Entertainment Through Animation, James T. Hamrock

Graduate Research Papers

Virtual animation is used today for everything including entertainment in motion pictures and video games, advertising on television and the internet, virtual animated videos used for industrial teaching aids, and project approvals for major building construction. Many modem companies are now insisting that new products are created using 3-D modeling and occasionally animation before approving funds for further development.

The research question in this work centers around thoughts and visions being effectively communicated so others can comprehend and share in the same perspective. This research will show the use of technology in answering this important question: Exploration of the literature …

Apocalyptic Visions, Amir Hussain

Theological Studies Faculty Works

On November 20, 1999, I was privileged to chair a session of the Religion, Film and Visual Culture group at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The session was entitled "Film and the Apocalypse", and consisted of the five papers that are collected in this volume. The word "apocalypse" comes from a Greek root meaning to reveal or uncover, which is precisely what I understand films to do, reveal something about the world. In these five papers, much is revealed about the apocalyptic visions of a number of contemporary Hollywood films. This essay will be a …

Aspek Pengarahan Dan Sinematografi Dalam Filem-Filem P. Ramlee Dan Hussein Haniff : Satu Kajian Perbandingan, Hamsan Mohamed

Student Works (2000-2009)

Analisis dalam kajian ini adalah usaha mencari tafsiran dari imej. Makna imej dalam kedudukannya bertahap, ditinjau supaya pemikiran kedua-dua orang pengarah iaitu P. Ramlee dan Hussein Hanift dapat ditetapkan. Konsepsi visual seseorang pengarah dalam membangun unsur-unsur plastik sebagai jentera penyampai falsafah dan idealisme, diberi perhatian yang wajar dan tinjauan terhadap aspek tersebut dapat dijadikan ukuran untuk menetapkan tahap penguasaan aspek teknikal-mekanikal dalam bidang perfileman bagi pengarah yang dikaji. Rekaan produksi sebagai unsur yang membentuk wajah sesebuah filem perlu dimanfaatkan dan aspek-aspek seperti rekaan dan pengarahan seni (berkait dengan tonal, atonal, tekstur dan arkitektur), pemilihan latar (set, sub-set, prop, miniature, depth, …

Adaptasi Novel Ke Filem : Analisis Perbandingan Antara Filem Melayu Dan Filem Barat, Hizairi Othman

Student Works (2000-2009)

THIS study is based on an analysis from selected different perspectives, with specifications on the concept, history, principles and case studies issues pertaining to novels into film adaptation. The main purpose of this study is to investigate and gain more understanding on the issues of adaptation. The analysis is done by choosing two different countries, Malaysia and the United States, in order to monitor both countries adaptation scenarios and problems. Malaysia representing 'the developing phase', while the United States representing 'the developed phase 'for the adaptation phenomena. Two novels, screenplays and films from both countries are selected/or this study. Malaysia …

Mothers, Gaze And Rape : Almodóvar's Cinema And The Construction Of Gender, Gorana Mlinarevic

Theses : Honours

Although often named a 'women's director': Pedro Almodóvar has frequently been attacked by feminist, mainly Anglo-Saxon, film critics. Most of them have found his portrayals of women to be very humiliating. On the other hand, Spanish heterosexual, mainly male, film critics have attacked him for focusing only on portrayals of marginal genders and sexualities. Nevertheless, he has become one of the most, if not the most, commercially successful Spanish film directors. The intention of this project is not just to analyse Almodóvar's cinema and the critics' acceptance/rejection of the same. Rather, the project is intending, through use of 'Ia politique …

The Animus : A Jungian Perspective On The Films Of Jane Campion, Taryn Louise Ricketts

Theses : Honours

Carl Jung's notion of contrasexuality allows women to embrace the masculine as well as feminine aspects of their personality. This creates a sense of complementarity or balance that is often lacking in the established psychoanalytic interpretation of female representations within mm texts. The 'animus,' or masculine complex, is an empowering theory in understanding representations of women within the filmic text as embarking on a process of self-realisation, self-acceptance, and the discovery of their own authority in the context of their relationships with men. Furthermore, the animus has been credited as Jung's greatest contribution to the study of the female psyche. …