Keywords
Dogme 95 (Group), Fiction films -- United States, Film noir, Happiest place on Earth (Motion picture), Independent films, Low budget films, Melodrama, Motion picture authorship, Realism in motion pictures
Abstract
The Happiest Place on Earth is a feature-length film written, directed, and produced by John Goshorn as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Digital Media from the University of Central Florida. The project aims to challenge existing conventions of the American fiction film on multiple levels – aesthetic, narrative, technical, and industrial – while dealing with a distinctly American subject and target audience. These challenges were both facilitated and necessitated by the limited resources available to the production team and the academic context of the production. This thesis is a record of the film, from concept to completion and preparation for delivery to an audience
Notes
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Graduation Date
2012
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Stoeckl, Ula
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Visual Arts and Design
Degree Program
Film; Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0004325
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0004325
Language
English
Release Date
May 2015
Length of Campus-only Access
3 years
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic, Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
STARS Citation
Goshorn, John, "The Happiest Place On Earth - The Microbudget Model As A Means To An American National Cinema" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2313.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2313