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Eisenstein, Montage and 'filmic writing'
(Brill, 2004)This essay considers the ways in which Eisenstein’s interest in the ideogram as a model for film language was reconsidered and reconfigured in the work of the French film theorist Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier in the ... -
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 ... -
Deconstructing the nation : the Abbey Theatre and stage-Irishness on screen, 1930-1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)This thesis examines the consequences for representations of the national through national discourses of the increasing artistic and technical collaboration that occurred between the Abbey Theatre and a number of film ... -
The construction of history and childhood in literature and film for children in Ireland, 1990-2003
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2006)This thesis examines the construction of and relationship between childhood and history in Irish children’s texts. The project takes a multi-disciplinary approach, focussing on the construction of history and of childhood ... -
Reel trauma : contemporary screenings of Northern Irish conflict (1996-2005)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2007)Since the first IRA ceasefire in 1994, construction of discursive memory in Northern Ireland’s cultural spheres has politicised and sanitised historical trauma. This thesis identifies audio-visual culture as being exemplary ... -
The Spectacle of Suffering: The 'Woman's Film' and Lars von Trier
(2012)Many of the films of Lars von Trier can be situated within the context of the ‘woman's film’ and, more specifically, within its subgenre of the maternal melodrama. However, the films' intensification of the investments ... -
Matka: Muteness, Metaphor, Metonymy
(2013)To say that Matka presents us with essential truths about the human condition may sound trite at best. Nonetheless, the film’s very resistance to a reductive reading along these lines suggests the possibility of a ... -
Realism and Eroticism: Re-Reading Bazin
(2013)Bazin s distinction between different kinds of realism discriminates between an authentic mode of apprehension and mere sight, or between revelation and spectacle, as it were, where spectacle, significantly, is connected ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Perfect Human and 'modern cinema'
(2015)While this film has been described as ‘modern’ in terms of its style and structure, approaching the film as ‘modern cinema’ in the terms defined by Richard Rushton allows us to consider the effects of its deliberate ... -
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; ... -
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 ... -
What Children See: Dorthe Scheffmann's The Beach (1995)
(2016)This film focuses on an unexpected reaction to a traumatic revelation, witnessed by a child. However, the final image of the boy resists reduction to its significance for an adult spectator. Instead, the boy’s unreadable ... -
The Babadook, maternal gothic, and the 'woman's horror film'
(Routledge, 2019)Like many Australian films, The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) initially fared far better overseas than it did at home. Arguably, this can be attributed to several factors that apply to Australian cinema as a whole: ... -
The art of keeping time
(2020)Like the protagonist, both the short story and the short film are subject to the demand to arrive ‘on time’. Violently freed from the imperatives of conventional storytelling, this film considers the moment when the laws ... -
Mapping her-self: ‘Ma and Da’, Small Deaths, Gasman and the ‘mobile home’
(2021)Challenging the view of home as the very opposite of voyage, Giuliana Bruno suggests that houses and films share certain similarities insofar as both could be considered inherently mobile sights/sites of passage. Taking ... -
'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay
(Edinburgh University Press, 2022)Wrapped in curtains, fishing nets, plastic bags; hidden by hair or completely cut off; faces in Lynne Ramsay’s films are often absent, incomplete or inaccessible. Framed in tight close-up they can be no less remote, ...
