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From Sexploitation to Canuxploitation (Representations of Gender in the Canadian ‘Slasher’ Film)
Maple Syrup Gore: From Sexploitation to Canuxploitation (Representations of Gender in the Canadian ‘Slasher’ Film) by Agnieszka Mlynarz A Thesis presented to The University of Guelph In partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Theatre Studies Guelph, Ontario, Canada © Agnieszka Mlynarz, April, 2017 ABSTRACT Maple Syrup Gore: From Sexploitation to Canuxploitation (Representations of Gender in the Canadian ‘Slasher’ Film) Agnieszka Mlynarz Advisor: University of Guelph, 2017 Professor Alan Filewod This thesis is an investigation of five Canadian genre films with female leads from the Tax Shelter era: The Pyx, Cannibal Girls, Black Christmas, Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, and Death Weekend. It considers the complex space women occupy in the horror genre and explores if there are stylistic cultural differences in how gender is represented in Canadian horror. In examining variations in Canadian horror from other popular trends in horror cinema the thesis questions how normality is presented and wishes to differentiate Canuxploitation by defining who the threat is. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dr. Paul Salmon and Dr. Alan Filewod. Alan, your understanding, support and above all trust in my offbeat work ethic and creative impulses has been invaluable to me over the years. Thank you. To my parents, who never once have discouraged any of my decisions surrounding my love of theatre and film, always helping me find my way back despite the tears and deep- seated fears. To the team at Black Fawn Distribution: Chad Archibald, CF Benner, Chris Giroux, and Gabriel Carrer who brought me back into the fold with open arms, hearts, and a cold beer. -
Finn Ballard: No Trespassing: the Post-Millennial
Page 15 No Trespassing: The postmillennial roadhorror movie Finn Ballard Since the turn of the century, there has been released throughout America and Europe a spate of films unified by the same basic plotline: a group of teenagers go roadtripping into the wilderness, and are summarily slaughtered by locals. These films may collectively be termed ‘roadhorror’, due to their blurring of the aesthetic of the road movie with the tension and gore of horror cinema. The thematic of this subgenre has long been established in fiction; from the earliest oral lore, there has been evident a preoccupation with the potential terror of inadvertently trespassing into a hostile environment. This was a particular concern of the folkloric Warnmärchen or ‘warning tale’ of medieval Europe, which educated both children and adults of the dangers of straying into the wilderness. Pioneers carried such tales to the fledging United States, but in a nation conceptualised by progress, by the shining of light upon darkness and the pushing back of frontiers, the fear of the wilderness was diminished in impact. In more recent history, the development of the automobile consolidated the joint American traditions of mobility and discovery, as the leisure activity of the road trip became popular. The wilderness therefore became a source of fascination rather than fear, and the road trip became a transcendental voyage of discovery and of escape from the urban, made fashionable by writers such as Jack Kerouac and by those filmmakers such as Dennis Hopper ( Easy Rider, 1969) who influenced the evolution of the American road movie. -
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (2016)
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2 (2016) ● Directed by Dave Green ● Distributed by Paramount Pictures ● 112 minutes ● PG13 ● 135 million dollar budget (180 with promotion) QUICK THOUGHTS ● Phil Svitek ● Demetri Panos DEVELOPMENT ● After the 2014 film exceeded box office expectations, Paramount and Nickelodeon officially announced a sequel was greenlit, and set to be released in theatres on June 3, 2016 ○ The sequel was announced two days after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) was released ● They planned to incorporate Bebop, Rocksteady and Casey Jones ● Jonathan Liebesman and Brad Fuller were also interested in doing a storyline that involved Dimension X and Krang ● In December 2014, it was revealed Paramount was in early negotiations with Earth to Echo director Dave Green to helm the sequel, also revealing Jonathan Liebesman was no longer a part of the project ● Known briefly as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell, Paramount revealed in December 2015 that the title had officially been changed to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows WRITING ● Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, the writers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, have inked a twoyear, firstlook feature deal with Paramount Pictures ○ The duo have become goto scribes for the studio, having worked on the Paramount franchise pic Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, which earned nearly $700 million worldwide, and the initial Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, which grossed almost $500 million. They also are -
Spatial Design Principles in Digital Animation
Copyright by Laura Beth Albright 2009 ABSTRACT The visual design phase in computer-animated film production includes all decisions that affect the visual look and emotional tone of the film. Within this domain is a set of choices that must be made by the designer which influence the viewer's perception of the film’s space, defined in this paper as “spatial design.” The concept of spatial design is particularly relevant in digital animation (also known as 3D or CG animation), as its production process relies on a virtual 3D environment during the generative phase but renders 2D images as a final product. Reference for spatial design decisions is found in principles of various visual arts disciplines, and this thesis seeks to organize and apply these principles specifically to digital animation production. This paper establishes a context for this study by first analyzing several short animated films that draw attention to spatial design principles by presenting the film space non-traditionally. A literature search of graphic design and cinematography principles yields a proposed toolbox of spatial design principles. Two short animated films are produced in which the story and style objectives of each film are examined, and a custom subset of tools is selected and applied based on those objectives. Finally, the use of these principles is evaluated within the context of the films produced. The two films produced have opposite stylistic objectives, and thus show two different viewpoints of applying the toolbox. Taken ii together, the two films demonstrate application and analysis of the toolbox principles, approached from opposing sides of the same system. -
Models of Time Travel
MODELS OF TIME TRAVEL A COMPARATIVE STUDY USING FILMS Guy Roland Micklethwait A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University July 2012 National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences APPENDIX I: FILMS REVIEWED Each of the following film reviews has been reduced to two pages. The first page of each of each review is objective; it includes factual information about the film and a synopsis not of the plot, but of how temporal phenomena were treated in the plot. The second page of the review is subjective; it includes the genre where I placed the film, my general comments and then a brief discussion about which model of time I felt was being used and why. It finishes with a diagrammatic representation of the timeline used in the film. Note that if a film has only one diagram, it is because the different journeys are using the same model of time in the same way. Sometimes several journeys are made. The present moment on any timeline is always taken at the start point of the first time travel journey, which is placed at the origin of the graph. The blue lines with arrows show where the time traveller’s trip began and ended. They can also be used to show how information is transmitted from one point on the timeline to another. When choosing a model of time for a particular film, I am not looking at what happened in the plot, but rather the type of timeline used in the film to describe the possible outcomes, as opposed to what happened. -
Best Enjoyed As Property, Shoe and Hairdo Porn.”
”Best enjoyed as property, shoe and hairdo porn.” Creating New Vocabulary in Present-Day English: A Study on Film-Related Neologisms in Total Film Rauno Sainio Tampere University School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies English Philology Pro Gradu Thesis May 2011 ii Tampereen yliopisto Englantilainen filologia Kieli-, käännös- ja kirjallisuustieteiden yksikkö SAINIO, RAUNO: ”Best enjoyed as property, shoe and hairdo porn.” Creating New Vocabulary in Present-Day English: A Study on Film-Related Neologisms in Total Film Pro gradu -tutkielma, 135 sivua + liite (6 sivua) Kevät 2011 Tämän pro gradu -tutkielman tarkoituksena oli tutustua eri menetelmiin, joiden avulla englannin kielen sanastoa voidaan laajentaa. Lähdekirjallisuudesta kerättyä tietoa käsiteltiin tutkielman teoriaosuudessa, minkä jälkeen empiirinen osuus selvitti, kuinka kyseisiä menetelmiä sovelletaan käytännössä nykyenglannissa. Tämän selvittämiseksi käytiin manuaalisesti läpi korpusaineisto, joka koostui isobritannialaisen Total Film -elokuvalehden yhden vuoden aikana julkaistuista numeroista. Elokuvajournalismissa käytettävä kieli valittiin tutkimuksen kohteeksi kirjoittajan henkilökohtaisen kiinnostuksen vuoksi sekä siksi, että elokuva on paitsi merkittävä, myös jatkuvasti kehittyvä taiteen ja populaarikulttuurin muoto. Niinpä tämän tutkielman tarkoitus on myös tutustuttaa lukija sellaiseen sanastoon, jota alaa käsittelevä lehdistö nykypäivänä Isossa-Britanniassa käyttää. Korpuksen pohjalta koottu, 466 elokuva-aiheista uudissanaa käsittävä sanaluettelo analysoitiin -
GARY KRAUSE Music Editor FILM CREDITS
GARY KRAUSE Music Editor Emmy Award winning Music Editor, Gary L. Krause has been an active member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and Motion Picture Sound Editors for over 20 years. His career has allowed him to work at movie studios, scoring stages, and recording studios all over the globe including Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Studios, Universal Pictures Studios, Paramount Pictures Studios, Sony Pictures Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Lucas Film/ Skywalker Ranch, Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage, Clint Eastwood Scoring Stage, Paramount Scoring Stage, Todd AO Scoring Stage, Capitol Records, The Village Studios, Conway Studios, Abbey Road, Studio City Sound, and Signet Sound. He has worked directly with many prominent film makers which include Justin Lin, James Wan, F. Gary Gray, Francis Lawrence, Sylvester Stallone, William Friedken, Richard Donner, Bill Paxton, Alex Kurtzman, Peter Lenkov, and Brian Tyler. Gary began his career as a musician working at the world famous West LA Music, ushering in the digital recording era. While there he worked with many prominent artists, producers and composers such as Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control (formerly known as Media Ventures), Columbia Pictures, David Foster, Brenda Russell, Christopher Cross, Greg Wells, Anthony Hopkins, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Donny Osmond, Ringo Star, John Debney, Danny Elfman, William Ross and Charlie Fox. He left West LA Music to join Todd AO Sound in 1996, where he collaborated with many talented colleagues and honed his editorial and mixing skills working on many film and television projects. He segued from sound editorial to music editorial in the late 90’s - early 2000’s to assist A-List composer Brian Tyler with the launch of his then nascent career. -
“Black Sails” Set to Make Waves on Amazon Prime Instant Video
Season Two of “Black Sails” Set to Make Waves on Amazon Prime Instant Video January 19, 2015 Season Two of the Emmy® Award-winning Pirate Drama “Black Sails” available to UK Amazon Prime Instant Video customers just hours after US release 19th January 2015, LONDON – Season Two of US television series “Black Sails”is set to debut exclusively in the UK on Amazon Prime Instant Video on the 25th January 2015, with further episodes due to be released weekly in the UK just hours after the US screening. A hugely popular prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island,’ “Black Sails” is the pirate drama that follows the brilliant and murderous Captain Flint and his crew as they search for their fame and fortune in the Bahamas while battling thieves and marauders. Season Two of “Black Sails” finds the Walrus crew stranded, with an army of Spanish soldiers standing between them and their precious treasure. With their crimes against their brethren no longer a secret, Flint and Silver must join forces in a desperate bid for survival. The series is created and executive produced by Jonathan E. Steinberg (“Jericho,” “Human Target”) and Robert Levine (“Touch”), and executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Purge. “Black Sails” takes viewers on an unforgettable journey across the high seas and into the treacherous world of pirates. “Black Sails” stars Toby Stephens as the cut-throat Captain Flint alongside an all-star cast including Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie, Luke Arnold as John Silver, Jessica Parker Kennedy as Max, and Zach McGowan as Captain Charles Vane. -
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Mark of the Devil: On a Classic Exploitation Film Conference Report by Thomas Hödl and Joachim Schätz 170 The landmark film Mark of the Devil While Deniz Bayrak and Sarah Reininghaus premiered in Europe in 1970. Although the smartly analysed the topological system of the film boasts an incredible cast, including two movies, Marcus Stiglegger set them in Herbert Lom, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Fux and relation to his concept of transgressive cinema a young Udo Kier, and was successful enough, as inspired by Georges Bataille. Julian Petley both in Europe and the U.S., to reach cult succinctly traced the history of Mark of the status and spawn a sequel, it faced controversy Devil’s censoring in Great Britain. Michael and censorship from the very start. Critics Fuchs engaged with the question of panned it for its excessive violence and authorship, which is an important point, given exploitative nature. In 2014, genre film scholar that the first film has two directors, one of Andreas Ehrenreich proved that the film was whom – Austrian actor and 1950s heartthrob more than just a meaningless series of Adrian Hoven – also acted as the film’s depictions of sex and torture and furthered the producer. (Mark of the Devil’s other officially consideration of the film from other points of credited director Michael Armstrong, a view. With the support of the Department of relative newcomer from the U.K., who had Theatre, Film and Media Studies of the previously made the 1969 proto-slasher The University of Vienna, he organised a three-day Haunted House of Horror, would go on to conference in Tamsweg, Austria, a town in the write seventies sex comedies such as Lungau region, which provided much of the blockbuster-director-to-be Martin Campbell’s gorgeous scenery for both Mark of the Devil The Sex Thief and Eskimo Nell.) Sarah Held’s and Mark of the Devil Part II. -
Re Missing!: Local Podcast Explores Cultural Blindspots Nothing Missing with Tony (Left) and Matt (Right) Behind the Mic
SENE on Screen: The beloved film festival returns for its 13th year For more than a decade, the annual SENE (rhymes with scene) Film Festival has celebrated film, art and music, and this year’s festival, which takes place October 13 – 16, will screen 130 films from around the world. SENE was created by producing director Don Farias and artistic director Phil Capobres, who work to create a welcoming atmosphere for festival entrants and attendees. And their efforts paid off — for four years in a row, SENE was named one of the Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee by MovieMaker Magazine, one of the most respected voices in the film industry, and was rated one of the best reviewed festivals by FilmFreeway. The festival made its COVID comeback over the summer. “We were thrilled that we were able to host fun events for visiting filmmakers in June,” said Farias. “It’s the first time in over a year that the world felt almost normal. I was impressed with the attendance, especially since I was not sure if people were actually ready to leave their homes. It was nice to see the filmmakers meeting new friends at our networking events. Everyone was ready to collaborate and begin creating films again. We expect October to be bigger with more filmmakers attending.” SENE has been a powerful force in building community within the local film world, and while the festival receives films from all around the world, it makes a point to highlight all things local. The festival will kick off on Wednesday, October 13, with a special screening of local filmmaker Christian De Rezendes’ SLATERSVILLE, a much-anticipated episodic documentary on the 200-year history of the first industrialized mill village in the U.S., located in the heart of the Blackstone Valley. -
Female Authorship in the Slumber Party Massacre Trilogy
FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE TRILOGY By LYNDSEY BROYLES Bachelor of Arts in English University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 2016 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS May, 2019 FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE TRILOGY Thesis Approved: Jeff Menne Thesis Adviser Graig Uhlin Lynn Lewis ii Name: LYNDSEY BROYLES Date of Degree: MAY, 2019 Title of Study: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE TRILOGY Major Field: ENGLISH Abstract: The Slumber Party Massacre series is the only horror franchise exclusively written and directed by women. In a genre so closely associated with gender representation, especially misogynistic sexual violence against women, this franchise serves as a case study in an alternative female gaze applied to a notoriously problematic form of media. The series arose as a satire of the genre from an explicitly feminist lesbian source only to be mediated through the exploitation horror production model, which emphasized female nudity and violence. The resulting films both implicitly and explicitly address feminist themes such as lesbianism, trauma, sexuality, and abuse while adhering to misogynistic genre requirements. Each film offers a unique perspective on horror from a distinctly female viewpoint, alternately upholding and subverting the complex gender politics of women in horror films. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................1 -
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