Titre (a voir): Economie et evolution du titre de film depuis 1968 questions autour de l'interpretation theorique des titres de film
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Title
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Titre (a voir): Economie et evolution du titre de film depuis 1968 questions autour de l'interpretation theorique des titres de film
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:30fed54ba018:10288
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identifier
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10225
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Creator
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Rouxel-Cubberly, Noelle,
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Contributor
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Royal S. Brown
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Date
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2009
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Modern language | Film studies | film titles | french | titology
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Abstract
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This dissertation seeks to define the relations between film titles and their cotexts on the one hand and to weigh the importance of the values they shape and convey to the audience at large on the other hand. Also considered as an economical term in French ("titre"), the title represents cultural as well economic values. As suggested by the founders of literary titology, Claude Duchet, Leo Hoek but also Barthes, Genette and Derrida, titles lead (to) the co-text. This position of power, concretely embodied by complex institutional regulations, calls for an array of theoretical perspectives. If this study draws from these eminent theoreticians, it also examines film titles as conscious and unconscious representations as well as exchange values. Mainly borrowing from Appadurai's notion of exchange, Glissant's poetics of relation, and Derrida's reflexion on titles as "counterfeit money", this dissertation intends to explore the economics of French film titling as a sociocultural phenomenon revealed through an ekphrastic and psychoanalytic approach. A comparative study of French film comedies in the 1970's and in the 1990's illustrates the distorted mirror-effect film titles provide in our reading of the world. This study aims at theorizing film titles' own theorizing of our shifting beliefs and values.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
