Browsing School of Creative Arts by Subject "Drama, Film & Music, Ph.D."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Dylan in cinema
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)[Exerpt from the final paragraph of the summary, page vi] In broad terms, the thesis shows Dylan as highly attuned to the language and construction of film as a means of structuring songs and composing lyrics. Also ... -
Female performances and representation in the Hollywood musical, 1929 - 1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis explores the evolution of female performance paradigms and representation in Hollywood musicals from 1929 to 1940. In particular, it considers how the paradigmatic representation of femininity within the musical ... -
Performing videogames : understanding digital play, agency, and engagement through live performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This thesis Is a contribution to the fields of digital cultural studies, game studies, and studies of theatre and performance, I will consider the aesthetic, structural and technological exchanges, interactions, and ... -
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 ... -
The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015)In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This ... -
The drama of Oscar Wilde : contesting Victorian gender dynamics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2014)This thesis will analyse Oscar Wilde’s dramatic characters and propose that he challenged the typical Victorian gender roles on the stage, and re-imagined more modern modes of masculinity and femininity in his plays. In ... -
The playfellow of Judas, J.M. Synge : Plays, politics and pre-Christian Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This dissertation provides a cultural materialist reading of J.M. Synge's dramatisation of the cultural residue of pre-Christian Ireland in five of his seven plays: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), ... -
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; ...
