In Contemporary Mormon Pageantry, theater scholar Megan Sanborn Jones looks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon.
The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s.
In the same vein of Wendy Suzuki's Healthy Brain, Happy Life and Peter Attia's Outlive, this inspiring narrative weaves together personal narratives, interviews, and cutting-edge science to explore the power of partner dance in transforming lives.
Dyma’r astudiaeth gyntaf o hanes lliwgar a ffilmiau dadleuol y Bwrdd Ffilmiau Cymraeg (1971 – 86), a sefydlwyd yn unswydd er mwyn cynhyrchu ffilmiau Cymraeg eu hiaith megis Teisennau Mair, O’r Ddaear Hen a Madam Wen.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,5, University of London, course: Cinema and Nation, language: English, abstract: In the 1980s Turkish-German cinema started to become an important impact on German national cinema.
Master's Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,0, University of Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: Wim Wenders, one of the key figures of New German Cinema, a movement similar to the Nouvelle Vague in some ways, is of another generation than Fellini and Godard.
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this volume traces Neshat's evolution from Women of Allah to her feature films Women Without Men, Looking for Oum Kulthum and Land of Dreams, situating her within global debates on feminism, exile and transnational aesthetics.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: Film + Philosophy = Filmosophy, language: English, abstract: Because the times in film production change, a change in reception is also necessary.
This book offers a fresh and timely exploration of the intersections between ecology, media, and culture in Asian contexts, with particular attention to audiovisual narratives.
Considerada una de las novelas mas influyentes de la ciencia ficcion, La Guerra de los Mundos es una obra extraordinaria que combina aventura, suspense e imaginacion para presentar una de las historias mas impactantes de la literatura universal.
This book offers a fresh and timely exploration of the intersections between ecology, media, and culture in Asian contexts, with particular attention to audiovisual narratives.
Modernity tends to produce ever new experiences of loneliness, which, however, remain abstract, invisible and thus non-negotiable in everyday experience.
Modernity tends to produce ever new experiences of loneliness, which, however, remain abstract, invisible and thus non-negotiable in everyday experience.
In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking.
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1, University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: American Film Renaissance, language: English, abstract: The term 'postmodern' has been used in different areas of study to describe similar phenomena.
Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen.
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation.
The innovative collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars brought together in The Brazilian Road Movie - Journeys of (Self) Discovery represents the first book-length publication on Brazil's encounters with and reworkings of one of cinema's most enduringly popular genres.
William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, written in or around 1602, is referred to as one of Shakespeare's most troublesome plays, as its tone shifts fiercely, and the characters are introduced in a solid way, delivering them challenging to comprehend.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: A, Roehampton University London, language: English, abstract: A man speaking English beautifully chooses to speak in French, which he speaks with greater difficulty, so that he is obliged to choose his words carefully, forced to give up fluency and to find the hard words that come with that difficulty, and then after all that finding he puts it all back into English, a new English containing all the difficulty of the French, of the coining of thought in a second language, a new English with the power to change English for ever [.
Dyma’r astudiaeth gyntaf ar hanes blynyddoedd cynnar un o sefydliadau diwylliannol pwysicaf Cymru – Sianel Pedwar Cymru – sy’n cloriannu penderfyniadau a gweithgareddau’r sianel yn ystod blynyddoedd ei chyfnod prawf rhwng 1981 a 1985.
'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMANA wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,7, University of Siegen, course: Serial TV, language: English, abstract: Desperate Housewives is an American comedy-drama serial created by Marc Cherry.
A hybrid combination of 1970s police series and science fiction time travel, Life on Mars (Kudos/BBC Wales 2006-07) exemplifies the capacity of contemporary British television to find a loyal audience for work that it is innovative and unsettling.
As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a way to think about films through a global and local framework.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,7, University of London, course: Latin American Cinema, language: English, abstract: Amores Perros (2000) is the first feature film of Mexican Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking.
This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symbolic regimes of various popular genres (period films, war films, disaster movies) and screen modes (documentary, art cinema, animation).
