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- Description:
- This dissertation argues for the political and aesthetic significance of a group of contemporary realist films that employ a non-presentational, lacunary aesthetic. Through close analyses …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Theus, Tyler A (creator)
- Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Film theory
- Realist Film theory
- Global Art Cinema
- Bazin, André, 1918-1958
- Jean-Louis Comolli
- Slow cinema
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
- offscreen space
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory
- Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
- Oliveira, Manoel de, 1908-2015
- Tarr, Béla, 1955-
- Herzog, Werner
- Jia, Zhangke, 1970-
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- The rhetoric of textual stability tends to inform much of the scholarly writing about moving images, especially those manufactured by Hollywood studios. Analytical and historical …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Skoptsov, Mikhail (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Television
- Digital media
- Motion pictures
- Historiography
- Textual variation
- Motion picture industry--Technological innovations
- Technology in motion pictures
- Motion pictures--Distribution
- Motion pictures and history
- Motion picture film--Preservation
- Home video systems industry
- Television broadcasting of films
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the creation of “life,” meaning the transformation of a static into a dynamic organization, in what I call works of animation. Although …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Guan, Cassandra (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (Advisor)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
- Aesthetics
- Capitalism
- China
- modernity
- science and technology studies
- Sovereignty
- Cinema
- Animation
- environmental media
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Soviet Union
- Propaganda
- Psychoanalytic Film Theory
- Animation (Cinematography)
- Modernism (Art)
- Mass media--Aesthetics
- Mass media and art
- Caricature
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
- Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
- Wan, Laiming
- Primitive Socialist Accumulation
- Science films
- Das Blumenwunder
- Baroque Art History
- Alienation (Philosophy)
- Nuclear weapons--Testing
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation reevaluates the history and legacies of the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Focusing on postwar cinema, I reconsider one of the avant-garde’s central preoccupations – the …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Berger, Kenneth (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Biopolitics
- Aesthetics
- Spectacle
- Critique
- Life
- Refusal
- Avant-Garde
- Cinema
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This study provides a conceptual overview of the filmed human figure as a variable object of systematic inquiry. The word “figure” and not “body” is …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Watter, Seth Barry (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- History of Science
- Communication and culture
- Motion pictures
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation project takes as its focus the cultural discourses surrounding what has been called the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism, in which “the political” has …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Ellis, Matthew Lawrence (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Television
- Socialism
- Neoliberalism
- Nostalgia
- Film theory
- Cinema
- Popular culture
- History--Periodization
- Arts--Periodization
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations