https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/49292 2026-04-11T14:21:05Z 2026-04-11T14:21:05Z Grech, John https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/49366 2019-12-08T06:11:54Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The work of art in the age of global culture : theory and practice Authors: Grech, John Abstract: This Thesis looks at two films by Wim Wenders with a view of examining how they represent the 'global city.' This thesis is not an examination of the films representation of 'the city' per se, but a consideration of the process of engagement between the films and the individual. The objective is to examine how viewers of the films engage with the cinematic process so as to enhance their awareness of and participation in the formation of the global city. By considering the role the films play in this process. I speculate on the continuing role of the work of art in the age of global culture. The scope of this Thesis is provided by two films about Berlin by Wenders. The Thesis explicates how these films aid their viewer to participate in the global city. The Thesis extrapolates three different levels of abstraction in its analysis: 1) at an empirical level by analysing the films; 2) at an historical and social level by analysing the city and citizenship; and 3) at a cultural level by analysing the role art can play in society today.

2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Grech, John https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/49312 2019-12-08T06:11:48Z 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Living with the dead : Sharkfeed and the extending ontologies of new media Authors: Grech, John Abstract: This article examines how new media are helping to actualise new forms of “being” and “knowing” by mixing realities of the virtual and the real. The blending of archival and contemporary material in a Web installation called Sharkfeed provides a context for this discussion. Themes such as death, memory, past and present, and mind and body provide the critical fissures through which to move beyond older theoretical paradigms and examine the emerging possibilities of the social particularities and cultural practices engendered in the interconnected time spaces of a digital era.

2002-08-01T00:00:00Z Grech, John https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/49304 2020-06-21T05:13:34Z 2002-05-13T00:00:00Z

Title: Empty space and the city : the reoccupation of Berlin Authors: Grech, John Abstract: Individuals of foreign origins, the migrant and the tourist are considered, alongside that of a citizen in an analytical synthesis to examine how people occupy space in the city these days. It aims at displacing fixed notions of time-space, here-there, past-present, in-out as part of a larger, ongoing search for a sense of belonging.

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