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Making Markets for Japanese Cinema: A Study of Distribution Practices for Japanese Films on DVD in the UK from 2008 to 2010 Jonathan Wroot PhD Thesis Submitted to the University of East Anglia For the qualification of PhD in Film Studies 2013 1 Making Markets for Japanese Cinema: A Study of Distribution Practices for Japanese Films on DVD in the UK from 2008 to 2010 2 Acknowledgements Thanks needed to be expressed to a number of people over the last three years – and I apologise if I forget anyone here. First of all, thank you to Rayna Denison and Keith Johnston for agreeing to oversee this research – which required reining in my enthusiasm as much as attempting to tease it out of me and turn it into coherent writing. Thanks to Mark Jancovich, who helped me get started with the PhD at UEA. A big thank you also to Andrew Kirkham and Adam Torel for doing what they do at 4Digital Asia, Third Window, and their other ventures – if they did not do it, this thesis would not exist. Also, a big thank you to my numerous other friends and family – whose support was invaluable, despite the distance between most of them and Norwich. And finally, the biggest thank you of all goes to Christina, for constantly being there with her support and encouragement. 3 Abstract The thesis will examine how DVD distribution can affect Japanese film dissemination in the UK. The media discourse concerning 4Digital Asia and Third Window proposes that this is the principal factor influencing their films’ presence in the UK from 2008 to 2010. -
Reviewing Distinctive DVD Experiences: NEO Magazine and the Critical Reception of Asian Media Distributors
. Volume 12, Issue 1 May 2015 Reviewing distinctive DVD experiences: NEO Magazine and the critical reception of Asian media distributors Jonathan Wroot, University of Worcester, UK Abstract: This article closely analyses the reviews for Asian films from the longest-running UK magazine that specialises in Asian media – NEO. The critical reception of Asian films has been investigated before, but what has not been realised is the significance of the DVD distributors in shaping these reviews. As a result of examining how influential the discs’ labels are on the review content, it becomes clear that the critics in NEO are assessing more than the film itself. The reviewers are evaluating the entire viewing experience that a home media format, such as DVD, can offer. This is important for Asian media as the NEO reviews illustrate how the discs are the primary means of accessing such films for UK audiences. The reviews also suggest that viewers are becoming aware, and have a substantial interest in, how distributors shape their viewing experience. Key words: Asian media, critical reception, distributors, DVD, Japanese films. DVDs are integral to how Asian media texts, such as Japanese films, are made available to UK consumers. Cinema releases and online outlets (via streaming or downloading) have not been consistently profitable practices for distributors that specialise in Asian films and media. Ever since the popularity of Japanese horror films from 2000 onwards, a steady stream of Asian cinema titles have made their way to the UK via DVD. The importance of this format has also been realised by other distributors of other media exports from Japan, such as anime (animation) and manga (comics). -
UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Polacos, White Slaves, and Stille Chuppahs: Organized Prostitution and the Jews of Buenos Aires, 1890-1939 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bx304mn Author Yarfitz, Mir Publication Date 2012 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Polacos, White Slaves, and Stille Chuppahs: Organized Prostitution and the Jews of Buenos Aires, 1890-1939 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History by Mir Hayim Yarfitz 2012 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Polacos, White Slaves, and Stille Chuppahs: Organized Prostitution and the Jews of Buenos Aires, 1890-1939 by Mir Hayim Yarfitz Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Los Angeles Professor José C. Moya, Chair This dissertation explores the particularly prominent role of Jews in coercive sex trafficking, then called white slavery in Buenos Aires when it was considered to be the world capital. The project aims to de-exoticize the subject by comparing Jewish pimps and prostitutes to other immigrants, grounding them in the neighborhoods they lived in, exploring the concrete concerns of their opponents, and connecting the broader discourses around these issues to transnational conversations about migration, sexuality, and the significance of race, ethnicity, and nationhood – the establishment of the boundaries of whiteness – in the furor around white slavery. I introduce new evidence about the Zwi Migdal Society (also called the Varsovia Society), a powerful mutual aid ii and burial association of Jewish pimps based in the Argentine capital. -
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Agfacolor-Kinofilme International
Gert Koshofer Agfacolor-Kinofilme international Eine Gewähr für die Vollständigkeit, insbesondere bei kürzeren Dokumentar- und Kulturfilmen nach 1945 sowie den Filmen aus den früheren Warschauer-Pakt-Staaten (außer DDR) kann nicht übernommen werden. Werbekurzfilme und Amateur-Schmalfilme sind grundsätzlich nicht enthalten. Dafür sei auf das Buch von Dirk Alt (siehe Quellen) verwiesen. Lediglich auf Agfacolor Positivfilm kopierte Filme, die auf anderen Filmmaterialien (insbesondere Eastman Color) aufgenommen wurden, bleiben unberücksichtigt. TABELLE 1: ALPHABETISCHE LISTE Zeichenerklärung: (L) = Leverkusener Fabrikation, (W) = Wolfener Nachkriegsfabrikation, ohne Klammer = Wolfener Fabrikation vor 1945 Die Jahreszahl gibt das Jahr der Fertigstellung bzw. Premiere an. Wenn keine besondere Angabe erfolgt, handelt es sich bei den Titeln um Spielfilme. Soweit fremdsprachige Filme in den deutschen Verleih kamen, wird der deutsche Titel zuerst genannt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Titel Jahr Land Bemerkungen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 x 2 ist manchmal 5 (Kettö x kettö neha 5) (W) 1955 Ungarn 6. Landesschießen 1943 Innsbruck. Wehrbereit – Allezeit! 1943 D Dokumentarfilm Der 8. Wochentag (L) 1957 Polen/BRD nur Farbinsert 100 Jahre Photographie – 50 Jahre Agfa 1939 D Dokumentarfilm mit Farbinsert, ursprünglich „100 Jahre Photo- graphie und die Agfa“ 1000 Sterne leuchten (L) 1959 BRD 1940 (Goebbels’ Kinder gratulieren 1940 -
Artworks Information.Pdf
Artworks The image is not nothing (Concrete Archives) Judy Watson. and education in their native language. Throughout the witness tree, 2018 the subsequent crisis and Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, On the next visit I made rubbings of some of the Serbian language came to be perceived as the language trees and ground on the memorial site using charcoal of the oppressor. Today it is largely abandoned by the and earth from the site. There is an indelible memory majority Albanian population. within this place which I wanted to convey within the The community's fraught relationship towards its works on canvas and back in my studio in Brisbane. recent history and the violence of language, resonates I overlaid these ground pieces with the maps of the with the wider questions of trauma, memory, identity, perpetrators journey to Myall Creek and the journey of breakdown, and loss. Sgt Denny Day to bring them to justice. Counter to common opinion, it is much easier to I took lengths of muslin and wound them around face the prospect of one’s own death than to imagine several of the trees. It felt like covering a deep wound the death of the symbolic universe articulated in within the psyche of the trees, a reparative gesture on language. And this is precisely what Collins’ film is my part. about – the irreducible corporeality and, consequently, Then Greg attached microphones to the trees, the finitude of language. If the viewers believe there listening to the sounds deep within them. is a message for them here it could be only a brutal It felt like covering a deep wound within the psyche one: not only your body but your language too will dry of the trees, a reparative gesture on my part to ashes and blow away. -
Agfa Range of Films
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Artist's Artwork Statements
Artworks The image is not nothing (Concrete Archives) Kumanara Boogar Australia needs to wake up. Walpa (Wind) Bulga (Big) Maralinga, 2008 I'm listening tonight. There are two things I can hear: water and profit. Kumanara Boogar made a number of works about Why are we selling water to make profit? That's Maralinga prior to their death. what I'm hearing. My people on the river, that relied on those animals Megan Cope for their food source for thousands of years, are now Mourning for Menindee 2020 dying. This is the second wave of genocide that's Mourning for Menindee comes as we continue to happening in my community. witness ongoing ecocide to one of the “Australia’s” So, I'm going to speak for my community. I'm going most important river systems, The Murray Darling to raise a voice for those that have been voiceless over Basin Authority continues to fail the nation and the the last 230 years. connecting Traditional Owners and custodians whom That's what frustrates me and that's what is have lived with and protected the river systems for frustrating our community. centuries. Why are our people dying young? Why are our Alarmed by the enormous fish kills which saw people suffering? hundreds of thousands of fresh water fish species Because of the greed. The taking of our water. suffocate to death from the blue-green algae blooms Where is First Nations rights to water? We have a along with the unrecorded deaths of Emu, Cope felt right to fresh water! compelled to make mourning ceremonial wreaths Put the water back in the river — not just for us — with cotton flowers and fish scales whilst listening but for the environment. -
Thinking Media Aesthetics: Media Studies, Film Studies and the Arts
Introduction Liv Hausken All through the 20th century, there have been rich and complex interchanges between aesthetic practices and media technologies. Along with the arrival of mass media, new technological forms of culture were gradually added to the old typologies of the arts. Photography, film, television, and video increasingly ap- peared in the curricula of art schools and were given separate departments in art museums. With the introduction of digital media technologies in the 1980s and 1990s, the means of production, storage, and distribution of mass media changed, and eventually, so did its uses. As artists adopted the technologies of mass media, the economy of fine art (like the economy of limited editions) was confronted with the logics of mass production and mass distribution. Thus, when visiting a contemporary art museum one might find, for example, such conceptually con- tradictory displays as “DVD, edition of 3” (see for instance Lev Manovich 2000). The increasing centrality of digital tools and technologies in all sorts of social practices has changed the media as we have known it. These social, cul- tural and technological changes in everyday life have also influenced artistic forms, as well as modes of imagination, expression, and critique. In these complex interchanges between aesthetic practices and media technolo- gies, media aesthetics has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of research between media studies and the aesthetic disciplines. This field grew out of earlier attempts at theorizing about the relations between aesthetics, technology and media, such as media philosophy (Friedrich Kittler), medium theory (Joshua Meyrowitz), mediol- ogy (Régis Debray) and critical theory (most notably Walter Benjamin), and is influenced by current, aesthetic theories of what has been termed “new media” (Mark Hansen) and “visual culture” (W.J.T. -
UNSTITCHING the 1950S FILM Á COSTUMES: HIDDEN
1 UNSTITCHING THE 1950s FILM Á COSTUMES: HIDDEN DESIGNERS, HIDDEN MEANINGS Volume I of II Submitted by Jennie Cousins, to the University of Exeter as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Film Studies, October 2008. This thesis is available for library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previously been submitted and approved for the award of a degree by this or any other University. …………………………………. 2 Abstract This thesis showcases the work of four costume designers working within the genre of costume drama during the 1950s in France, namely Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare, Marcel Escoffier, and Antoine Mayo. In unstitching the cinematic wardrobes of these four designers, the ideological impact of the costumes that underpin this prolific yet undervalued genre are explored. Each designer’s costume is undressed through the identification of and subsequent methodological focus on their signature garment and/or design trademark. Thus the sartorial and cinematic significance of the corset, the crinoline, and accessories, is explored in order to determine an ideological pattern (based in each costumier’s individual design methodology) from which the fabric of this thesis may then be cut. In so doing, the way in which film costume speaks as an independent producer of cinematic meaning may then be uncovered. By viewing costume design as an autonomous ideological system, rather than a part of mise-en- scène subordinate to narrative, this fabric-centric enquiry consolidates Stella Bruzzi’s insightful exploration of film costume in Undressing Cinema, Clothing and Identity in the Movies (1997). -
Aerial Photography Product Overview 2004
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Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts This is the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now in its second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of today’s students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analysed with depth and clarity. Entries include: • auteur theory • Black Cinema • British New Wave • feminist film theory • intertextuality • method acting • pornography • Third World Cinema • War films A bibliography of essential writings in cinema studies completes an authoritative yet accessible guide to what is at once a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times. Susan Hayward is Professor of French Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of French National Cinema (Routledge, 1998) and Luc Besson (MUP, 1998). Also available from Routledge Key Guides Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches Neville Morley Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Second edition) Susan Hayward Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings Oliver Leaman Fifty Eastern Thinkers Diané Collinson Fifty Contemporary Choreographers Edited by Martha Bremser Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers John Lechte Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers Dan Cohn-Sherbok Fifty Key Thinkers on History Marnie Hughes-Warrington Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations Martin Griffiths Fifty Major Philosophers Diané Collinson Key Concepts in Cultural Theory Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy Oliver Leaman Key Concepts in