Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age
This thesis investigates ways to wed Gene Youngblood’s notions of expanded cinema with the popular appeal of dramatic films whose narrative structures are driven by the conflict-crisisresolution system. By examining alternatives to conventional narratives surrounding war-torn sites of conflict, this...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | Šabanović, Faruk |
| author2 | Sinnokrot, Nida |
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| description | This thesis investigates ways to wed Gene Youngblood’s notions of expanded cinema with the popular appeal of dramatic films whose narrative structures are driven by the conflict-crisisresolution system. By examining alternatives to conventional narratives surrounding war-torn sites of conflict, this thesis examines a series of experimental animation and kinetic and nonlinear story-driven artworks to develop an alternative grammar for a possible visual, narrative, and technical storytelling style for a future society of global peace. Drawing upon my personal history as a Bosnian animation filmmaker and having experienced first-hand the conflict as a casualty of war, these experiments seek to shed light on the imperative for simultaneously seeking a popular anti-war language while avoiding the mass appeal of conflict-driven narrative structures. I have developed a series of open-source, easily reproducible expanded cinematic experiments using everyday materials to address this issue. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1449602022-08-30T03:35:47Z Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age Šabanović, Faruk Sinnokrot, Nida Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture This thesis investigates ways to wed Gene Youngblood’s notions of expanded cinema with the popular appeal of dramatic films whose narrative structures are driven by the conflict-crisisresolution system. By examining alternatives to conventional narratives surrounding war-torn sites of conflict, this thesis examines a series of experimental animation and kinetic and nonlinear story-driven artworks to develop an alternative grammar for a possible visual, narrative, and technical storytelling style for a future society of global peace. Drawing upon my personal history as a Bosnian animation filmmaker and having experienced first-hand the conflict as a casualty of war, these experiments seek to shed light on the imperative for simultaneously seeking a popular anti-war language while avoiding the mass appeal of conflict-driven narrative structures. I have developed a series of open-source, easily reproducible expanded cinematic experiments using everyday materials to address this issue. S.M. 2022-08-29T16:23:44Z 2022-08-29T16:23:44Z 2022-05 2022-06-16T20:13:01.138Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144960 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright MIT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Šabanović, Faruk Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age |
| title | Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age |
| title_full | Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age |
| title_fullStr | Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age |
| title_full_unstemmed | Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age |
| title_short | Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age |
| title_sort | expanded cinema and war trauma in hyper documented age |
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