Sökning: "Political Cinema"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden Political Cinema.
1. Electronic Labyrinths : An Archaeology of Videographic Cinema
Sammanfattning : This study scans six decades of film history in search for video images, the imaginaries within which they are framed, and (taking cues from the archaeological methods of Friedrich Kittler and Michel Foucault) their technical, historical, and institutional conditions of existence. The British experimental science fiction film Anti-Clock (Jane Arden and Jack Bond, 1979) revolves around a video device with the capacity to confront subjects with their own repressed memory images. LÄS MER
2. The Untimely-Image : On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking
Sammanfattning : This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of “potential” in thought in the form of moving-images. LÄS MER
3. The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras
Sammanfattning : In order to examine contemporary Russian cinema, this thesis has two points of departure: firstly the Petersburg myth, which is here defined as reversible or ambiguous since it includes both an eschatological and a cosmogonic aspect; and secondly, the Petersburg literary text as defined in works by Vladimir Toporov. During the twentieth century, the vitality and actuality of the Petersburg myth was questioned both in literature and in theoretical works. LÄS MER
4. Reel Socialism : Making sense of history in Czech and German cinema since 1989
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative study of the communist past as depicted in Czech and German feature films since 1989, or ‘reel socialism’. It is the first detailed study of post-1989 Czech history films and the first comparative study of German post-reunification cinema. LÄS MER
5. ‘A Machine for Living’ : Urban Domesticity in Polish Literature and Cinema 1969–2008
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study urban domesticity in Polish film and literature against the background of the political and social transformations that have taken place in recent decades. The study begins with the so-called belle époque of the Polish People’s Republic and the decade of Edward Gierek, continues through the political upheavals, the period of martial law, and the system transformation of 1989 and the two following decades, which have been marked by the introduction of democracy, global capitalism, consumerism etc. LÄS MER
