Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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In deze scriptie wordt de game Silent Hill 2 (Konami 2001) geanalyseerd door middel van psychoanalyse. Door de psychoanalytische methode te gebruiken kunnen onderliggende elementen van de game...Show moreIn deze scriptie wordt de game Silent Hill 2 (Konami 2001) geanalyseerd door middel van psychoanalyse. Door de psychoanalytische methode te gebruiken kunnen onderliggende elementen van de game worden blootgelegd. Omdat psychoanalyse onlosmakelijk verbonden is aan de mens, zegt deze scriptie niet alleen iets over de wetenschappelijke potentie van games, maar ook over de werking van games op de speler. Daarnaast geeft Silent Hill 2 nieuwe inzichten in bestaande psychoanalytische theorieën. In deze scriptie zal de diepgewortelde binding met de avatar worden geanalyseerd en hoe het effect van onbeschrijfbaar trauma door een gevoel van onmacht voelbaar wordt bij de speler van Silent Hill 2.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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Het doel van dit eindwerkstuk is om aan te tonen dat het werk van Refn, ondanks het gebruik van een overdadige expressieve stijl, niet inhoudsloos is, en dat hij stijl juist inzet om een ...Show moreHet doel van dit eindwerkstuk is om aan te tonen dat het werk van Refn, ondanks het gebruik van een overdadige expressieve stijl, niet inhoudsloos is, en dat hij stijl juist inzet om een (emotionele) reactie op te roepen bij de kijker. Ik zal aantonen dat zowel het overdadige gebruik van kleur als de hoge mate van gewelddadigheid een functie dient, en dat zijn werk raakvlakken heeft met de zogeheten transcendentale stijl.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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Een studie naar de narratieve werking van het gebruik van voice-over vertellingen in cinema. Met een nadruk op de ironie die dit gebruik creëert in Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) en Adaptation. ...Show moreEen studie naar de narratieve werking van het gebruik van voice-over vertellingen in cinema. Met een nadruk op de ironie die dit gebruik creëert in Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) en Adaptation. (Jonze, 2002).Show less
Embalming Time is a theoretical inquiry into the temporality of film - consisting of three parts - in associative conversation with a visual thesis. The first chapter of the thesis is centered...Show moreEmbalming Time is a theoretical inquiry into the temporality of film - consisting of three parts - in associative conversation with a visual thesis. The first chapter of the thesis is centered around more ‘classical’ thought about the temporality of film; ranging from Andre Bazin to Roland Barthes’ view on cinema and its impossibility to have a punctum - and how these are brought together and critically reworked by Laura Mulvey. The second chapter revolves around Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema books and the Bergsonian heritage of his conception of film as a medium. The third and last chapter (featuring at once one of the most recent film-philosophers and arguably the oldest) discusses Jacques Rancière’s writings on cinema, focusing on film’s opsis -its pure visuality -over the narrative qualities of the medium, and dives deeper into the influence of Jean Epstein’s thinking about film, focused through his discussions of photogénie and slow motion. Together, these three chapters form a tentative inquiry towards the possibility of a new cinematic form, of which the temporality of the filmic medium is integrally and inextricably part.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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Een vergelijkend onderzoek tussen Twin Peaks (1990) en de films noir Laura (1944) en Kiss Me Deadly (1955), waarin beide films noir worden gebruikt als grond voor het uiteenzetten van zowel de...Show moreEen vergelijkend onderzoek tussen Twin Peaks (1990) en de films noir Laura (1944) en Kiss Me Deadly (1955), waarin beide films noir worden gebruikt als grond voor het uiteenzetten van zowel de vroegere als de latere film noir. Na deze uiteenzetting worden beide films direct vergeleken met Twin Peaks om op deze wijze te betogen waarom de serie als een neo-noir gelezen kan worden.Show less
This thesis aims to challenge the shortcomings identified in the analysis of transnationally funded non-western cinema shown at the international film festival circuit, which mainly results from...Show moreThis thesis aims to challenge the shortcomings identified in the analysis of transnationally funded non-western cinema shown at the international film festival circuit, which mainly results from framing these films as parts of a ‘National cinema’ and by analyzing them within western frameworks and according to western points of reference. Focusing on Thai films funded by the Hubert Bals Fund over the past 20 years, this thesis offers a contextual approach to modern cinema with a focus on locality and local history. This thesis is an attempt to reduce the gap between the respective fields of Area Studies and Film Studies as well.Show less
This thesis analyses French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s body of work, particularly the films Laurence Anyways (2012), Tom at the Farm (2013), and Mommy (2014). Starting from the notion that...Show moreThis thesis analyses French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s body of work, particularly the films Laurence Anyways (2012), Tom at the Farm (2013), and Mommy (2014). Starting from the notion that Dolan explicitly argues against the queer labelling of his films, the piece explores the content and form of his filmography with a range of theories from film, gender and queer studies, and an emphasis on feminist authors. Gender performance and alternative femininities in Laurence Anyways are discussed through camp. The reading of Tom at the Farm draws parallels with the perspectives on masculinities and bisexual desire found in bromance and buddy films. The analysis of Mommy investigates how queerness embodies both the film’s form and text, possibly placing it in a new New Queer Cinema movement.Show less
Connecting Kaurismäki to irony is not surprising, but is surprisingly enough, not so much scholarly researched in the past. Irony appears in different disguises, largely depending on the function...Show moreConnecting Kaurismäki to irony is not surprising, but is surprisingly enough, not so much scholarly researched in the past. Irony appears in different disguises, largely depending on the function of it; what the ironist wants to achieve. Applying it can originate from an urge to complicate a matter of discussion but can also be applied to translate the oppositional stance the ironist wants to reveal. In the case of the enigmatic Kaurismäki his intentions or motivations in his choice of theme and subject are essential to the humour he adapts in telling his stories, but always remains somewhat vague. This thesis provides an image of how irony prevails and functions in his cinema on the base of a series of comparative case studies linked to three of his films: I Hired a Contract Killer (1990), The Man Without a Past (2002) and The Other Side of Hope (2017). It eventually sets out an idea of a filmmaker who, by applying irony, both distances though simultaneously engages himself with his audience in his own wayward fashion.Show less
The uprisings of 2011 started in Tunisia and impacted a lot of countries in the Middle East. The consequences can still be seen today. This thesis attempts to approach how these events have...Show moreThe uprisings of 2011 started in Tunisia and impacted a lot of countries in the Middle East. The consequences can still be seen today. This thesis attempts to approach how these events have impacted the cinema industry and in particular the place and representation of women in it.Show less
