MST- Department of Communication, Media, Film & Theatre Studies
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Voice Language in Documentary Films on HIV/AIDS Geared Towards Behavior Change Among Rural Dwellers in Kisumu County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2022)When there are literary challenges, the effectiveness of film as an educational prevention tool exhibits improved long-term retention, perceivably, through effective voice language use in BCC films. This study intended ... -
Interrogation of Documentary Film as a Tool for Advocacy for Positive Living with HIV/AIDS in Siaya County, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2022)Although there is sufficient knowledge on HIV/AIDS, the disease has continued to cause devastation in society. The larger Nyanza Region has recorded a high HIV/AIDS prevalence at 15.1% with Siaya County recording 21% ... -
Scenography And Character in Tinga Tinga Tales: A Kenyan Animation Film
(Kenyatta University, 2020)The Kenyan animation industry has generally realized an improved growth as depicted by the number of local animation productions that hit the market. This can however be improved through among other factors, producing more ... -
Analysis of Elements of Drama in Selected Performances Staged during Kenyatta University’s Culture Week Festival, 2013
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Culture Week at Kenyatta University is an annual festival that has been on the university’s official calendar since 1992. It is a festival that is open to all genres: recognized, newly created and pseudo. The number of ... -
Poetry Beyond the Page: An Analysis of Performance Techniques in Mufasa’s Spoken Word Poetry
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Spoken word performance is an expression of oral art. This classification of poetry has not benefited much from documented academic criticism. The little criticism documented, focuses more on the literariness of the poetry ... -
Key Components of Film Script Construction
(Kenyatta University, 2019-11)This study contended that love scenes, fight scenes, chase scenes and crowd scenes were essential components in film script writing. This study employed the Hollywood classical theory of film making. Hollywood classicis ... -
An Investigation of the Applicability of Susan Napier’s Japanese Animation (Anime) ‘Genre Classification Model’ in Kenyan Animation
(Kenyatta University, 2019-05)This research project explored the unconventional genre practices illustrated in the Kenyan Animation industry. Some practitioners in this industry are experimenting with unconventional genre and thus lack a way to classify ... -
Catholic Centredness in Selected Plays Presented at Kenya National Catholic Drama and Music Festivals, 2015
(Kenyatta University, 2019-05)The Kenya National Catholic Youth Drama and Music festival is an annual festival whose idea was mooted in the year 2000 by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is an event whose theme is derived from the Pope's ... -
Rebranding Packages of Kenyan Beverages Targeting the Urban Youth using Visuals from the Local Fashion culture
(Kenyatta University, 2018-08)This study aimed at using visuals derived from local fashion culture in rebranding packages of Kenyan beverages that target the urban youth. These beverages are sold on markets which comprise relatively homogeneous ... -
Set Components as a Modern Narrative: A Study of Selected Feature Fiction Films on the Genocide against the Tutsi.
(Kenyatta University, 2019-07)This study aims at making meaning of set components in historical fiction films on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The argument is that when it comes to historical feature films, emphasis tends to be put on the ... -
Construction of the Theme of Drugs and Substance Abuse in the Play Genre at the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival, 2013-2015.
(Kenyatta University, 2019-05)The Kenya National Drama Festival Committee usually enters into a sponsorship agreement with other institutions to help in disseminating certain messages through drama. One of these bodies is NACADA (National Agency for ... -
The convergence of creativity and marketing: a case of two selected drama programs on Citizen TV, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2018-07)Film is both an art and a business. This study was interested in both sides of the art form. The study had three objectives; to identify the creative strategies employed in the selected dramas, to investigate audience ... -
The art of stage directing: a case of three Kenyan directors
(Kenyatta University, 2018-05)Abstract This study interrogates the directing techniques/styles used by three Kenyan stage directors: Joseph Murungu a guruin the Schools and Colleges and Universities Drama Festival director, Sammy Mwangi of Heartstrings ... -
Nexus between literary texts and corresponding film adaptations: a reading on intertextuality
(2017-11)This research makes a comparative study of antecedent literary texts and their corresponding adapted films. The study is occasioned by the aim of putting to scrutiny the reflections and divergences between the two media. ... -
Narrative dispositions of non-verbal elements of sound design in selected Kenyan drama films
(Kenyatta University, 2016-08)Aesthetic creativity in the manipulation of technical elements of image and sound in a film lies at the heart of storytelling in cinema. As such, it is the aim of this study to interrogate critically how the film story is ...
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Voice Language in Documentary Films on HIV/AIDS Geared Towards Behavior Change Among Rural Dwellers in Kisumu County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2022)When there are literary challenges, the effectiveness of film as an educational prevention tool exhibits improved long-term retention, perceivably, through effective voice language use in BCC films. This study intended ... -
Interrogation of Documentary Film as a Tool for Advocacy for Positive Living with HIV/AIDS in Siaya County, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2022)Although there is sufficient knowledge on HIV/AIDS, the disease has continued to cause devastation in society. The larger Nyanza Region has recorded a high HIV/AIDS prevalence at 15.1% with Siaya County recording 21% ... -
Scenography And Character in Tinga Tinga Tales: A Kenyan Animation Film
(Kenyatta University, 2020)The Kenyan animation industry has generally realized an improved growth as depicted by the number of local animation productions that hit the market. This can however be improved through among other factors, producing more ... -
Analysis of Elements of Drama in Selected Performances Staged during Kenyatta University’s Culture Week Festival, 2013
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Culture Week at Kenyatta University is an annual festival that has been on the university’s official calendar since 1992. It is a festival that is open to all genres: recognized, newly created and pseudo. The number of ... -
Poetry Beyond the Page: An Analysis of Performance Techniques in Mufasa’s Spoken Word Poetry
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Spoken word performance is an expression of oral art. This classification of poetry has not benefited much from documented academic criticism. The little criticism documented, focuses more on the literariness of the poetry ... -
Key Components of Film Script Construction
(Kenyatta University, 2019-11)This study contended that love scenes, fight scenes, chase scenes and crowd scenes were essential components in film script writing. This study employed the Hollywood classical theory of film making. Hollywood classicis ... -
An Investigation of the Applicability of Susan Napier’s Japanese Animation (Anime) ‘Genre Classification Model’ in Kenyan Animation
(Kenyatta University, 2019-05)This research project explored the unconventional genre practices illustrated in the Kenyan Animation industry. Some practitioners in this industry are experimenting with unconventional genre and thus lack a way to classify ... -
Catholic Centredness in Selected Plays Presented at Kenya National Catholic Drama and Music Festivals, 2015
(Kenyatta University, 2019-05)The Kenya National Catholic Youth Drama and Music festival is an annual festival whose idea was mooted in the year 2000 by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is an event whose theme is derived from the Pope's ... -
Rebranding Packages of Kenyan Beverages Targeting the Urban Youth using Visuals from the Local Fashion culture
(Kenyatta University, 2018-08)This study aimed at using visuals derived from local fashion culture in rebranding packages of Kenyan beverages that target the urban youth. These beverages are sold on markets which comprise relatively homogeneous ... -
Set Components as a Modern Narrative: A Study of Selected Feature Fiction Films on the Genocide against the Tutsi.
(Kenyatta University, 2019-07)This study aims at making meaning of set components in historical fiction films on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The argument is that when it comes to historical feature films, emphasis tends to be put on the ... -
Construction of the Theme of Drugs and Substance Abuse in the Play Genre at the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival, 2013-2015.
(Kenyatta University, 2019-05)The Kenya National Drama Festival Committee usually enters into a sponsorship agreement with other institutions to help in disseminating certain messages through drama. One of these bodies is NACADA (National Agency for ... -
The convergence of creativity and marketing: a case of two selected drama programs on Citizen TV, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2018-07)Film is both an art and a business. This study was interested in both sides of the art form. The study had three objectives; to identify the creative strategies employed in the selected dramas, to investigate audience ... -
The art of stage directing: a case of three Kenyan directors
(Kenyatta University, 2018-05)Abstract This study interrogates the directing techniques/styles used by three Kenyan stage directors: Joseph Murungu a guruin the Schools and Colleges and Universities Drama Festival director, Sammy Mwangi of Heartstrings ... -
Nexus between literary texts and corresponding film adaptations: a reading on intertextuality
(2017-11)This research makes a comparative study of antecedent literary texts and their corresponding adapted films. The study is occasioned by the aim of putting to scrutiny the reflections and divergences between the two media. ... -
Narrative dispositions of non-verbal elements of sound design in selected Kenyan drama films
(Kenyatta University, 2016-08)Aesthetic creativity in the manipulation of technical elements of image and sound in a film lies at the heart of storytelling in cinema. As such, it is the aim of this study to interrogate critically how the film story is ... -
A Study of the Subject of National Healing and Reconciliation in Selected Plays at the Kenya National Drama Festival 2008-2010.
(Kenyatta University, 2016-04)Utilizing Kenya Schools and Colleges’ Drama Festival theatre space, this study investigates the use of theatre as a strategy for healing and reconciliation in the aftermath of conflict. On the assumption that plays performed ... -
Cinematographic Techniques of Hilary Ngweno’s The Making of a Nation
(Kenyatta University, 2016)Just in the same way the African history was reconstructed through such elements as archaeological sources, oral traditions among others, Hilary Ngweno‘s The Making of a Nation documentary film series used the same principle ... -
Analysis of Narrative Form in Three Kenyan Fiction Video Films
(Kenyatta University, 2015-10)Research has identified poor quality and unprofessionalism as factors that limit the appeal of Kenyan video films (Kenya Film Commission, Audience Consumer Trends Survey, 2010). This study investigates the problems that ... -
Kenyan Drama Films: An Investigation of the Aesthetics of Selected Films.
(Kenyatta University, 2015-01-07)This study investigated the aesthetics of selected Kenyan drama films. The movies selected are those produced, directed, and acted by Kenyan people in Kenya. Three Kenyan movies were analysed; Zeinabu Rudi Nyumbani (2008) ... -
Gender Microaggression Motif in Films Featuring Steven Kanumba
(2014-07-24)This study will examine gender archetypes prevalent in purposively selected films featuring Steven Kanumba as the protagonist or antagonist. It shall explore the spaces occupied by women characters, articulating the ...
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