Sökning: "Documentary Film"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden Documentary Film.
1. Extracting versatility : Films commissioned by the mining industry in postwar Sweden
Sammanfattning : This study investigates how films commissioned by Swedish mining companies were employed for institutional use between 1945 and 1965. A central aspect of what gave these films their versatility stems from circumstances that allowed commissioned texts to pass as non-partisan audiovisual aids, as educational and informative instruments and as occasional examples of film art through intermediaries. LÄS MER
2. Jill Bilcock : Revealing the Invisible Artist. Recognising the creative contributions of film editors to filmmaking through biographical documentary film
Sammanfattning : Film editing is recognised as the conceptual innovation that, at the dawn of the twentieth century, helped transform the novelty of moving images into cinema. Despite this acknowledgment, misconceptions about the art form linger. LÄS MER
3. Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics : An Exploration in Artistic Research
Sammanfattning : How does film become a political act? That is the question that the artistic research project Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics revolves around. Taking Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the constitution of the political arena as its point of departure, this dissertation reflects on the aesthetic mechanisms that underlie contemporary strategies for collective and feminist filmmaking. LÄS MER
4. Figures of time : on the phenomenology of cinema and temporality
Sammanfattning : Image and time represent a favored issue among theorists and practitioners in the history of cinema, where discussion is related to the ingenious machine, the new art, as well as the experience of film. Looking back on this debate, and considering recent accounts of 'time-images,' it is striking to note how the problem has always oscillated between issues of the medium specific and issues of film experience; that is, the ontology of cinema as a time-bound medium, the quality of rhythm, duration, and recorded views, and, not least, the sensory and affective impact of mediated sound-images. LÄS MER
5. Patterns of recollection : the documentary meets digital media
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to propose a conceptual framework for the analysis of historical programming in digital media. Radical breakthroughs in the technologies for registration and dissemination of moving images have created a need for common vocabularies that can be shared by media practitioners, researchers from different fields of inquiry, and end-users of documentary accounts. LÄS MER