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Adaptation of the Epic Legend of Siegfried: from Archetypal Hero Myth to Film
Published 2016-10-01“…This paper aims at deciphering the symbolic world of The Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen: Siegfried), a silent film created by Fritz Lang (1924). The novelty of the research lies in comparing the artistic expression of the film producer with the poetic expression of the medieval epic minstrel. …”
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Does film obey the laws of the mind? - Munsterberg, cognitivism and the films of Hussain Haniff / Norman Yusoff
Published 2007“…This is to ascertain the relevance of Munsterberg's arguments which were put forth during the silent film era in relation to the study of Malay films directed by Hussain Haniff. …”
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Filmic Eco-warnings and Television: Rolf de Heer’s Epsilon (1995) and Dr. Plonk (2007)
Published 2007-12-01“…But rather than 'shouting' the message that a messianic hero-figure can save the world as in his first eco-politically correct film, it is argued that de Heer has subsequently made a silent film in which the saviour fails: the eponymous Dr. …”
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Facts, Fictions, and Fascism: A Life of Actor Mary Taviner (1909-1972)
Published 2022-01-01“…Despite an acting career spanning both silent film and talkies, as well as London and regional theatre, Mary Taviner was not a household name. …”
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Functional subdivision of group-ICA results of fMRI data collected during cinema viewing.
Published 2012-01-01“…Here group-ICA was applied at four dimensionalities (10, 20, 40, and 58 components) to fMRI data collected from 15 subjects who viewed a 15-min silent film ("At land" by Maya Deren). We focused on the dorsal attention network, the default-mode network, and the sensorimotor network. …”
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Attention, Music, Dance: Embodying the “Cinema of Attractions”
Published 2021-11-01“… In this essay I take up the question of whether the “cinema of attractions,” as identified and analyzed by film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault, might be a useful tool for critical analysis not only of early silent film, its exhibitionist aesthetics, and approach to spectatorship, but of theatrical dance from the period. …”
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Filmic Eco-warnings and Television: Rolf de Heer’s Epsilon (1995) and Dr. Plonk (2007)
Published 2007-12-01“…But rather than 'shouting' the message that a messianic hero-figure can save the world as in his first eco-politically correct film, it is argued that de Heer has subsequently made a silent film in which the saviour fails: the eponymous Dr. …”
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Humor in Deaf culture
Published 2020-01-01“…It is a type of humor that has to be seen, and where people enjoy its visual logic and the redundancy of silent film images. The attempt to translate the humorous content of Deaf culture and share it with the hearing population should be seen not only as interlingual, but also as intercultural operation. …”
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The Development of Discourse and Morphological Features in L2 Narratives: A Study with Classroom Spanish-Speaking Learners of French
Published 2021-11-01“…They also generated two written narratives during silent-film retelling tasks. The cross-sectional sample selection was based on the learners’ test scores and the results of parametric statistical analyses. …”
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Peculiarities of Multilingual Films in the Context of Audio Visual Translation
Published 2020-04-01“…Multilingual film was developed in the 1930s, after the completion of the epoch of silent film. Since the 1990s, multilingual film has been employed to draw attention to the issues of migration and diasporas. …”
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Acting imperially: race, performance, and cinema in interwar Britain
Published 2023“…It argues firstly that silent film performance is received as a racialised element of film form in Britain; race is ‘read’ by British audiences into movements, gestures, and expressions. …”
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Por la Ruta del Discurso Eurocéntrico en el Cine de Exploradores On the Path of Eurocentric Discourse in the Cinema of Explorers
Published 2010-12-01“…<br>The films made by European explorers, in the silent film era, are built on a Eurocentric logic when it comes to Latin America. …”
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Hollywood en los relatos pulp de Robert Leslie Bellem = Hollywood in Robert Leslie Bellem’s pulp stories.
Published 2018-12-01“…So this irreverent detective’s mysteries are also linked to the genre category which we call "Hollywood narrative", which emerges over the course of the silent film era. In this sense, the work researches the types of characters that appear in these short stories -film stars, stuntmen, producers, agents, extras, an endless array of glamorous female starlets…-, all of whom are depicted by an autodiegetic narrator (that is, the detective-protagonist) in a clearly non-idealized and funny fashion. …”
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<b>Claro e confuso: a mistura de imagens no cinema</b>
Published 2007-02-01“…This resource has been utilized ever since the silent film era through to the vanguard filmmakers. …”
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La leyenda de Gösta Berling: una propuesta didáctica desde la interrelación Literatura/Cine / Gösta Berlings Saga: a teaching proposal from the interaction Literature / Cinema
Published 2017-09-01“…Our specific proposal is the approach to the Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöff – the first woman Nobel Prize for Literature– through the movie Gösta Berlings Saga (1924), directed by Mauritz Stiller and considered one of the masterpieces of Nordic silent film. By this reader-viewing guide, students can analyze an unknown aspect such as the reflection of the word in silent cinema. …”
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Nacionalismo y producción de cine silente en Irlanda: de la complicidad al conflicto
Published 2014-09-01“…Keywords: Ireland; Silent Film; Nationalism; Propaganda; Censorship; Duties.…”
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Punktnedslag i det historiske kinopublikummets opplevelser 1900-1930
Published 2019-03-01“…The article focuses on the silent film era, and the empirical material consists of extracts from nationwide collections of memories from everyday life in Norway collected in 1964 and 1981. …”
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Soundless Speech/ Wordless Writing: Language and German Silent Cinema
Published 2010-12-01“…While some film makers developed the silence of the silent film into a “gestural language” that dramatized light and movement, others reproduced the film figures’ silent speech by means of graphically stylized intertitles. …”
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El hechizo de las imágenes: Blancanieves, el cuento espectacular de Pablo Berger (2012)
Published 2015-07-01“…The originality of this transposition lies in the director’s choice of making a black-and-white silent film in which, moreover, he proposes a hispanisation of the original story. …”
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