Research master thesis | Arts and Culture (research) (MA)
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Neoliberalism has altered the way in which the subject consumes and subsequently reflects upon media. A popular media genre on the internet nowadays is instruction videos, which can be consumed for...Show moreNeoliberalism has altered the way in which the subject consumes and subsequently reflects upon media. A popular media genre on the internet nowadays is instruction videos, which can be consumed for various reasons, but usually rely on the notion of conveying to the viewer a certain set of skills. Since these media are therefore consumed for a specific purpose intended, the viewer already pre-establishes a certain attitude and understanding, and furthermore gains a reflective understanding of this phenomenon itself. This thesis aims to reconsider the notion of spectatorship through a lens of phenomenology, in order to reevaluate the idea of a spectator's own understanding of their experience of a medium, which this thesis names "cognitive spectatorship," and shows how the genre of instruction videos and this new viewing attitude play into the Neoliberal ideology.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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This thesis is built around a comparative close analysis of two mobile media artworks - the video installation Killing Time by Kent Klich, and the literary work No Friend but the Mountains by...Show moreThis thesis is built around a comparative close analysis of two mobile media artworks - the video installation Killing Time by Kent Klich, and the literary work No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani - to look into the way in which their medium-specific qualities can amount to a concept I propose to term border affectivity. My research positions itself in the nexus of digitalization and postcolonialism, drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s renowned question whether the 'subaltern' can speak, through mobile media. Formulating a respective 'p-literature' and 'p-cinema' (referring to the prosthetic qualities of mobile media), the case studies of my choosing can instigate an indirect or 'spectral' kind of affect: one that cannot be experienced in a direct, embodied manner, but rather requires the intervention of a Western lens/network to come into existence, to subsequently become re-embodied in the form of the eventual artwork.Show less
This article aims to designate the differences between the Fifth Generation and the Sixth Generation, both of which constitute the importance of the recent Chinese cinema. By diagnosing the...Show moreThis article aims to designate the differences between the Fifth Generation and the Sixth Generation, both of which constitute the importance of the recent Chinese cinema. By diagnosing the cultural phenomena and historical trajectories, the author investigates the two clusters with a Western theoretical framework. Three representative directors among the generations and their body of work are analysed with intensive case studies.Show less
