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Film Finance: Teaching/Research, Collaborative Project

Dyson College- Seidenberg School of CSIS : Collaborative Projects and Presentations

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Itsembabwoko ‘À La Française’? Rwanda, Fiction And The Franco-African Imaginary, Madelaine Hron

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

This article explores the literary representation of the genocide in Rwanda, and by extension, that of the Franco-African imaginary. Since the horrific events in 1994, “Rwanda” has become a discursive epiphenomenon, be it in global human rights, African or francophone contexts. Literary works about itsembabwoko, mostly published in France, now represent both a varied and a substantial corpus in Francophone literature. Problematically, however, France played a critical, if not insidious, role in the 1994 Tutsi genocide. This paper therefore examines to what extent Francophone literature about Rwanda is shaped by French politics. Specifically, it contrasts Franco-African texts produced as part …

Public Mood Ring, Collaborative Project

Dyson College- Seidenberg School of CSIS : Collaborative Projects and Presentations

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Virta-Flaneurazine-Sl, Clinical Study, Collaborative Project

Dyson College- Seidenberg School of CSIS : Collaborative Projects and Presentations

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Peach, Jewell (Fa 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 355. Paper: "Folklore in Film" written by Jewell Peach for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Improvising Chicago, Tamas Dobozy

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

d, 7(1):101-127 (provide link). Reproduced with permission.

Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society On "Trial" In The Films Of John Waters, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

In this Article Professor Banks argues that what makes many of filmmaker John Waters early films so subversive is his use of the “white-trash” body—people marginalized by and excluded from conventional white America—as countercultural heroes. He uses the white trash body as a surrogate for talk about race and sexuality in the early 1960s. I argue that in many ways Waters’ critiques of mid-twentieth century American society reflect the societal changes that occurred in the last forty years of that century. These societal changes resulted from the civil rights, gay pride, student, anti-war and women’s movements, all of which used …

The Spirit Of Stuff: What I Learned When I Sold (Almost) Everything, Rachel Tamsen Perry Schrank

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The following document is a report submitted in conjunction with a video project. The video is a personal documentary, filmed in Denver, Colorado and Mexico City, Mexico, which explores the spiritual connection that people have with their material objects. The report is comprised of a project proposal and a post-production report. The proposal discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the project, and offers a plan for the film's production. The post-production report discusses my filmmaking process in retrospect, reviews production problems and solutions, and includes a final schedule and budget.

Please visit my website at http://www.upupintothesky.com, or contact the author at …

Welcome To The World Of Tomorrow Today: Matt Groening's Futurama As Posthuman Mediator, Amanda Jill Taylor

Theses Digitization Project

In this thesis an explanation of posthuman theory along with a close analysis of both Fry and the robot Bender. These analyses respectively show how we are already posthuman as well as the material limitations of posthuman subjectivity.

From Demigods To Slayers: Contemporary Mythology And Gender Economies In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Adam Kem Yerima

Theses Digitization Project

In the critically acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, writer-director Joss Whedon revises the trope of monster slaying into a contemporary feminist Slayer mythology. This thesis explores how Buffy's Slayer mythology revises gender conventions performed by Greek Demigods myths, specifically Apollodorus' rendition of the myths in the Library of Greek Mythology.

Review Of The Frodo Franchise: The Lord Of The Rings And Modern Hollywood, By Kristin Thompson, Carol A. Leibiger

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Unspooling Of Artkino: Soviet Film Distribution In America, 1940-1975, James H. Krukones

History

The article discusses the distribution of Soviet motion pictures in the U.S. by distribution company Artkino, from 1940 to 1975. The author states that Artkino was virtually the sole U.S. distributor of movies from the Soviet Union for 20 of those years. Discussion is offered relating the conditions of the Soviet film sector in the U.S. as well as describing the marketing and business management of the company. Comments are also given profiling the first Soviet film distributed in the U.S. "The Battleship Potemkin," directed by Sergei Eisenstein, and other typical films of the era.

When Was Dracula First Translated Into Romanian?, Duncan Light

Journal of Dracula Studies

Dracula is one of the world’s best-known books. The novel has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into about 30 languages (Melton). Yet, paradoxically, one of the countries where it is least known is Romania. The usual explanation given for this situation is Romania’s recent history, particularly the period of Communist Party rule (1947-1989). Dracula, with its emphasis on vampires and the supernatural, was apparently regarded as an unsuitable or inappropriate novel in a state founded on the materialist and “scientific” principles of Marxism. Hence, no translation of Stoker’s novel was permitted during the …

Mother Dearest, Mother Deadliest: Object Relations Theory And The Trope Of Failed Motherhood In Dracula, Brigitte Boudreau

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Vixens And Virgins In The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Novel: Representations Of The Feminine In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Susan Parlour

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of Japanese Mythology In Film: A Semiotic Approach To Reading Japanese Film And Anime By Yoshiko Okuyama, Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

No abstract provided.

Pathos, Winter 2009, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Nataliya Pirumova

Issue 8

We're All Waiting For Something, Christina N. Bigler

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

One reason I knew I wanted to join the Eastern Michigan University Honors College (EMU HC) was because I would be allowed to make a film for my Honors Senior Thesis Project. Of course, joining the Honors College would help me to widen my academic boundaries and surround me with other students who were as passionate about succeeding both in the classroom and out as I was. However, in the end, I knew that with all of the hard work I would put in throughout my entire college career, whether it was in honors or non-honors classes, in film courses …

Marketing Under Feminist Scrutiny, Andrew Harris

XULAneXUS

At first glance, an ad in a magazine may appear harmless when left critically unexamined, but when studied closely, patterns start to arise that express male dominance which habitually goes unnoticed because male dominance has long been taken for granted. Laura Mulvey writes on phallocentrism in her essay entitled “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” and explains how to recognize the distinction between men and women in popular media. The most dominant theme in her essay is that marketers depict female characters so they seem like man’s opposite, suggesting that women only exist when defined by their “castration” or penislessness. This …

Casino Royale And Franchise Remix: James Bond As Superhero, Robert P. Arnett

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

The article discusses the role of the film "Casino Royale" in remixing the James Bond franchise. The author believes that the remixed Bond franchise has shifted its genre to a superhero franchise. When Sony acquired MGM in 2004, part of its plan was to transform the 007 franchise at par with "Spiderman." The remixed franchise re-aligns its franchise criteria with those established by superhero films. The author cites "Casino Royale's" narrative structure as an example of the success of the film as franchise remixed for the future. The portrayal of Bond as a superhero by actor Daniel Craig is discussed.

German Film And The Frankfurt School (Spring 2009), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

This course is an introduction to German cinema. We will study masterpieces of German film, important critical and theoretical discussions of them, and the contexts in which they were produced and received. As a critical lens, we will rely heavily on psychoanalytic and Frankfurt School criticism, focusing on writings by Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor Adorno. By the end of the semester, students should know the history of German film, have a better understanding of German culture, and have developed a critical understanding that is useful for their appreciation of all cinematic form.

A photo of this Spring 2009 …

The National Imagination (Spring 2009), Robert D. Tobin, Marvin D'Lugo, Alice Valentine

Syllabi

This course compares the idea of the nation in two or three different traditions. This particular syllabus compares the national in Argentina, Japan, and Germany.

A photo of this Spring 2009 class was taken as part of Professor Bob Tobin's ongoing class photo tradition. The photograph was taken by Stephen DiRado as part of his Classroom Series.

Global Freud (Fall 2009), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

This course provides an introduction to Freud’s thinking, especially on literary and cultural topics. Reading his writing in conjunction with literary texts from a variety of cultural backgrounds, we will focus on the ways in which authors, artists, musicians and film makers from around the world have used Freud’s insights and try to determine in what ways his thoughts translate globally.

Learning The Five Lessons Of Youtube: After Trying To Teach There, I Don't Believe The Hype, Alexandra Juhasz

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

That Moment Now = 此時．那刻, Tin Yan, Celia Ko

Artists-in-Residence Programme : Exhibition Catalogues

Art Exhibition by Celia Ko

In a new exhibition ‘Th at Moment Now’ on show at Lingnan University, Hong Kong artist Celia Ko presents three bodies of work that take as their subject the artist’s relationship to her maternal Chinese ancestry. In pursuing her subject Ko has created a trilogy of images through which the interior life of her family is approached from diff erent vantage points. Using large-scale images and hand made garments and jewellery Ko explores the pervasive power of familial myths and narratives.

The first part of the exhibition are large-scale portraits of her mother’s parents: grandfather …

Media Literacy, Brian O'Neill, Ingun Hagen

Books/Book chapters

Across Europe and beyond, the promotion of media literacy, for children and adults, has acquired an important public urgency. Traditional literacy is seen to be no longer sufficient for participation in today’s society. Citizens need to be media literate, it is claimed, to enable them to cope more effectively with the flood of information in today’s highly mediated societies. As teachers, politicians and policy makers everywhere struggle with this rapid shift in media culture, greater responsibility is placed on citizens for their own welfare in the new media environment. Media literacy is therefore all the more essential in enabling citizens …

¿De Qué Cine Hablamos? Las Tareas De Los Estudios Del Cine Latinoamericano, Claudia Ferman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

La introducción a este grupo de trabajos en los que se abordan los desarrollos recientes en los estudios del cine comienza con la pregunta acerca del objeto de ese estudio, es decir, de qué cine hablamos (o debemos hablar) cuando se piensa el cine latinoamericano. Los trabajos que siguen basan su discusión en el reconocimiento de que la expresión cinematográfica latinoamericana se ha multiplicado exponencialmente (Remedi) y que, gracias a nuevas tecnologías tanto de producción (digital) como de reproducción (DVD), así como a políticas más decididas por parte de algunos gobiernos nacionales del continente, el cine latinoamericano ha llegado en …

Etre Et Parler: Being And Speaking French In Abdellatif Kechiches Lesquive And Laurent Cantets Entre Les Murs, Dana Strand

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Work

French film-makers have long recognized the primordial importance to the nation’s ‘imagined community’ of the centralized public school system, which, since the early days of the Third Republic, has been viewed as a bulwark of Republican values. In this essay, I discuss the ways in which two recent films, Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive/The Dodge (2004) and Laurent Cantet’s Entre les murs/The Class (2008), interrogate the role French schools play in shaping national identity. Both films focus on language as a marker of difference as well as a point of tension, performance and potential subversion, by exploring the respective contrast between the …

0772: Jason Stewart Video, 2007-2008, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of 18 Panasonic Mini DV tapes of interviews and other raw film used in the creation of the documentary film about Philip Belt titled “Phil Belt and the Forte Piano.” Also included in the collection is a DVD copy of the final documentary along with a booklet documenting major life events for Belt. The DVD contains the following chapters: 1. Road Trip, 2. Introducing Phil Belt, 3. Getting Into Piano Building, 4. The Historical Performance Revival, 5. Phil Belt the Forte Piano Maker, 6. End Credits, Bonus: 1. Growing Up (Phil’s Younger Years).

No Man An Island: The Cinema Of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, James N. Udden

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Hou Hsiao-hsien is arguably the most celebrated Chinese-language film director in the international film festival realm. However, this is not due to an inert cultural tradition so much as to numerous historical/contextual factors – most of all his being from Taiwan -- which together explain the accomplishments of Hou.