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Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking (2013)
Thesis
Boateng, K. Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6055

The subject of this study is Sub-Sahara Africa Anglophone Video-moviemaking and the research process is an empirical enquiry into how this contemporary cultural industry has emerged in the region, bringing with it a paradigmatic shift in the concept... Read More about Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking.

“In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s (2013)
Thesis
Ramirez, G. “In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6266

In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, experimental and independent cinema received a considerable amount of support from the U.S. federal government through the American Film Institute (AFI), and from private philanthropies and arts institutions such as... Read More about “In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s.

Development of a 3D audio panning and realtime visualisation toolset using emerging technologies (2010)
Thesis
Ferguson, P. Development of a 3D audio panning and realtime visualisation toolset using emerging technologies. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6698

This thesis documents a body of research that links the field of electro-acoustic diffusion and spatialisation with practice in the music and film post-production industries. Three research questions are posed: "How can the physical user-interfaces... Read More about Development of a 3D audio panning and realtime visualisation toolset using emerging technologies.

Malaysian cinema and negotiations with modernity: film and anthropology. (2002)
Thesis
Gray, G. T. Malaysian cinema and negotiations with modernity: film and anthropology. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4485

This thesis examines Malaysian cinema in the context of the various processes and discourses of modernity. Analysing the processes of modernity which Malaysians are engaged with provides a crucial theme by which to demonstrate how various socio-po... Read More about Malaysian cinema and negotiations with modernity: film and anthropology..