Current Search: Freedman, Eric M. (x)
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Sally Potter: A filmmaker's use of deconstruction in film.
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Creator
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Honour, Diane Susan., Florida Atlantic University, Freedman, Eric M.
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Hollywood films have a great impact on many countries in the world. Fictional cinema tends to predominantly follow a particular form of narrative which is used beyond the United States. British film tends to use this format but there are filmmakers who prefer to take an alternative route to creating film. Theoretical systems of postmodernism and poststructuralism, and textual analysis, reveal that the body of films by Sally Potter: Thriller, The Gold Diggers, The-London Story, Orlando and The...
Show moreHollywood films have a great impact on many countries in the world. Fictional cinema tends to predominantly follow a particular form of narrative which is used beyond the United States. British film tends to use this format but there are filmmakers who prefer to take an alternative route to creating film. Theoretical systems of postmodernism and poststructuralism, and textual analysis, reveal that the body of films by Sally Potter: Thriller, The Gold Diggers, The-London Story, Orlando and The Tango Lesson demonstrate deconstruction to varying degrees. Analysis indicates that Potter's deconstructive films speak from different perspectives, draw attention to stereotypical representations in cinema, expose binary oppositions, comment on the nature of film, and address issues that might be ignored in dominant film. The analysis explores the roots of her deconstructive tendency, examining national and artistic angles.
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Date Issued
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2000
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12683
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Subject Headings
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Potter, Sally--Criticism and interpretation, Deconstruction
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Document (PDF)
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Marketing the television apparatus for American consumption: Producing meaning in contemporary magazine advertisements.
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Maskevich, Kimberly J., Florida Atlantic University, Freedman, Eric M.
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Contemporary magazine ads for television sets have much in common with their post WWII counterparts, the latter being produced during an era when the new technology was first getting installed in homes across the United States. Much has changed in the TV landscape since the postwar years. In particular, digital technology has altered the general terrain and set choices themselves are more diverse. Digital television began penetrating the marketplace in the 1990s and is predicted to become...
Show moreContemporary magazine ads for television sets have much in common with their post WWII counterparts, the latter being produced during an era when the new technology was first getting installed in homes across the United States. Much has changed in the TV landscape since the postwar years. In particular, digital technology has altered the general terrain and set choices themselves are more diverse. Digital television began penetrating the marketplace in the 1990s and is predicted to become mainstream by 2010. Even though the cultural climate has shifted since the postwar era, along with the concept of the familial and traditional notions of gender, the rhetorical strategies in advertising are strikingly similar. This essay examines 11 national ads by Sharp, Philips, Panasonic and Pioneer taken from contemporary popular women's magazines between the years 1998 and 2005. This essay considers the discourses attached to the evolved television apparatus as its digital incarnation is introduced into the private sphere of American homes. Each of the ads is placed within the framework of political economy, reading changes in the ad industry and the broadcast industry in such a context.
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Date Issued
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2006
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13331
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Consumption (Economics)--United States, Advertising--Social aspects--United States, Television advertising--Social aspects, Communication and culture--United States
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Document (PDF)