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This dissertation explores how DVD and digital media can deviate from an original filmmaker’s intent by being used as a tool for re-mediation. It addresses an important issue about what happens to an author’s work of art from the pre-electronic age to the present when it is re-mediated or repurposed via a new platform. The Scandinavian filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968) is an ideal prototype for studying the phenomenon of remediation. Dreyer began directing movies at the peak of the silent years and made his first talkie at the beginning of the sound era. Thirteen out of the fourteen feature films that Dreyer directed are available on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-ray, and digital streaming platforms. Dreyer deserves a renewed appraisal and fresh investigation into his life and work. Why Dreyer and why in this postmodern era of digital cinema? Dreyer’s oeuvre has always been in a state of re-mediation through continuous, changing circumstances. Some rather infamous instances illustrate how the original aesthetic intentions of his films were either compromised or altered. For example, in 1951 the Italian-born film historian Joseph-Marie Lo Duca acquired an original negative of La Passi

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Author

Stephen Larry Larson

Publisher

North Carolina State University

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction