Film (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Cinematic Verbalists : Dialogue Integration in the Work of Selected Contemporary American Writer-Directors
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis contributes to the study of dialogue in cinema, an area that remains critically under-developed within film studies. In general, scholarly references to speech tend to be made in passing, disregarding dialogue's ... -
White Cottage / White House : Irish-American masculinities and spaces of home in Hollywood cinema 1930 - 1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis examines constructions of Irish-American masculinity in classical Hollywood cinema's sound era (1930-1960) across five, chronologically-structured 'modes': James Cagney at Warner Bros; the Catholic priest; ... -
Narrative and ideology in contemporary Hollywood cinema, 1990-1999
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between ideology and the narrative structure of popular Hollywood cinema in the 1990s, particularly the manner in which a closed narrative structure serves ... -
Profane love, the heartening story and sublation : the dialectical image in film
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis develops an understanding of the application of Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image. Benjamin’s theory of the dialectical image is examined through the comparison of avant-garde and realist film productions and ... -
Community filmaking in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2014)This thesis explores the state of the field of knowledge and looks at the limitations of current research. It identifies what the term community means and examines its importance for cinema. It defines community film and ...