Monday, August 29, 2011

Theses collection


Nottingham eTheses

Questions of cinema

How recent theoretical debates have reworked twentieth century concepts such as hegemony, subalternity (postcolonialism) , resistance, and social transformation or revolution, all keywords in the consideration of the relation between art and politics and the mediations between text and social context.


vernacular modernism, cultural exchange, or intertextuality ?
Has the cinema changed human perception, and if so, in what ways?

What are the political possibilities of cinema?

What are the artistic possibilities of cinema?

what is cinema?

How does popular music filter change the way we view images? How does film change the way we hear music? - Dont Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967), Gimme Shelter (Maysles, 1970), The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978), Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1985), American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973), Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986), Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987), Last Days (Gus van Sant, 2005), Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989), Mo’ Better Blues (Spike Lee, 1990), Treme (David Simon and Eric Overmeyer, 2010), assorted music videos from Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze.