Browsing Performing and Screen Arts Journal Articles by Subject "190204 Film and Television"
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Examining sex and climaxes in Blue is the Warmest Colour and Carol
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This essay uses the films Blue is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013), and Carol (Haynes, 2015) to examine the challenges and questions which arise when a male filmmaker directs a film with a queer female relationship at ... -
Orchestrating film : the contrasting orchestral-compositional approaches of Bernard Herrmann and John Williams and their modern legacy
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)Music is one of the most powerful forces in film, and composers’ varied use of orchestration and sound is fundamental to the impact of music in this medium. From the live accompaniments of the earliest silent film, to the ... -
Post-colonial New Zealand cinema : Gothic aesthetics and the repression of Pākehā violence in New Zealand in Fantail
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)Fantail (2013), written by Sophie Henderson and directed by Curtis Vowell, has not yet received scholarly attention for its relationship to several dominant trends in New Zealand cinema. This essay examines Fantail’s ... -
Post-modern Westerns and the endangered woman
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This research essay explores the increasing scarcity of female roles in post-modern western films due to changes that have occurred over several decades since the origination of the genre. A string of highly-acclaimed ... -
Xala (1975) : a close textual analysis
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)Xala (1975), a significant film for African cinema, directed by Ousmane Sembene, is a comedic dramatisation of events following Senegal’s (then recent) independence. Sembene focuses two hours of screen time on despising ...
