The Publication Of Dracula, 2012 Kutztown University
The Publication Of Dracula, Paul S. Mcalduff
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Paradigmatic Brilliance - Or, So Sparkly, It's Broken, 2012 Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK
Paradigmatic Brilliance - Or, So Sparkly, It's Broken, Janet Goodall, Emyr Williams
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
"A Foreign Man In A Fog": Robert Siodmak, Lon Chaney Jr., And Son Of Dracula, 2012 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
"A Foreign Man In A Fog": Robert Siodmak, Lon Chaney Jr., And Son Of Dracula, Mark Bernard
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Playing Vampire Games: Rules And Play In Varney The Vampire And Dracula, 2012 University of Central Oklahoma
Playing Vampire Games: Rules And Play In Varney The Vampire And Dracula, Lindsay Dearinger
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity In Red Vs. Blue, 2012 Old Dominion University
"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity In Red Vs. Blue, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications
Machinima, the practice of adapting recorded video game play into short films, highlights an often unacknowledged but significant shift in the consumption of video games and represents a key and underexplored intersection between the two leading theoretical camps. Considering the landmark series Red vs. Blue through the lens of Bolter and Grusin's propositions about "new" media's relationships with other forms offers an entry point for theorizing not only machinima but also the intersections between the ludology and narratology positions in games studies.
Language, Reality And Fiction In The Island Inside (Lenguaje, Realidad Y Ficción En La Isla Interior), 2012 Portland State University
Language, Reality And Fiction In The Island Inside (Lenguaje, Realidad Y Ficción En La Isla Interior), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
La isla interior, la sexta película dirigida por el duo Dunia Ayaso y Félix Sabroso, directores y guionistas canarios, se estrenó en el 2009 y se alzó con el premio Julio Vernes del Festival de Nantes, con el premio al Mejor Actor (para Alberto San Juan, Martín) en el Festival de Valladolid y con reconocimiento en el Festival Internacional de Las Palmas. La película se centra en una familia desequilibrada española y en la reacción de todos sus miembros al suicidio del patriarca. La muerte repentina del padre obliga a todos, a su mujer francesa, a sus dos hijas y …
The Sword And The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960, 2012 Yale University
The Sword And The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960, Aaron Gerow, Rea Amit, Ryan Cook, Samuel Good, Samuel Malissa, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, David Dresser, Fumiaki Itakura
Film Series Commentaries
“The Sword And The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960” was a groundbreaking collaboration between the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, marking the first time Japan’s national film archive had co-sponsored an event with a foreign university. The film series presented rare Japanese samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, highlighting the abundant variety of Japan's most famous film genre. There are social critiques, melodramas, comedies, ghost films and even musicals, directed by some of the masters of Japanese cinema who, …
Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis, 2012 Wayne State University
Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis, Christopher Timothy Gullen
Wayne State University Dissertations
This project explores the trend of bodily and identity modification in the contemporary Hollywood musical and calls for a re-reading of the genre away from the standard classification, that of one strictly imbued with wistful nostalgia and heteronormativity. This work argues that several films have abrogated these traditional ideals to create a carnivalesque representation of the societal norms through a genre, and a production code that sought to preserve them. Using the work of Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin, this project reveals that these films feature dark and satirical para-realities of murder, debauchery and cannibalism that act as a catharsis to …
Order And Disorder: Rational Acumen And Emotional Incompetence In The Television Detective Story, 2012 Molloy University
Order And Disorder: Rational Acumen And Emotional Incompetence In The Television Detective Story, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
Faculty Publications: Communication
‘Order and Disorder’ examines the relationship between emotional disorders and the exquisite rationality of contemporary televisions detectives as portrayed in such series as Monk (USA), House (Fox), and Cracker (ITV). Television heroes who combine both emotionality and rationality would seem a more integrated form of human characterization. However, the permitted configuration of emotion and reason is highly constrained. Theirs is an ongoing struggle between thinking and feeling, in which rationality is their gift and emotionality, depicted as illness, is the constant curse that both threatens and enables their gift. These characters’ conflicts become a barometer for contemporary attitudes about emotional …
Pathos, Winter 2012, 2012 Portland State University
Pathos, Winter 2012, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos
Editor: Joel Eisenhower
Issue 17
A Narrative In One Scene, 2012 Columbus State University
A Narrative In One Scene, Aliyah C. Anglin
Theses and Dissertations
Filmmakers are visual storytellers, thus it is important to understand basic film theory as well as the elements of a narrative, such as voice, look, and feel. It is just as important for filmmakers to understand how film theory and the elements of a narrative work together to effectively convey stories to the people viewing the film. In this thesis, I researched basic film theory and analyzed three personally influential movies and directors including Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible (2012), and Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954). I chose one technique from each of the …
Extending The Local : Documentary Film Festivals In East Asia As Sites Of Connection And Communication, 2012 Lingnan University
Extending The Local : Documentary Film Festivals In East Asia As Sites Of Connection And Communication, Tit Leung Cheung
Theses & Dissertations
East Asian cinema is receiving increasing global attention. This attention is not focused merely on the fiction and feature films produced in the region, but also on the documentaries produced there; films such as Petition (2009) by Chinese director Zhao Liang which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2009. This attention to East Asian documentary can be traced to the documentary film festivals organised in the region, particularly those that devote their programming to independent documentary productions from the region. These festivals open a window that enables such works to be exhibited for the rest of the world.
But these …
“All Girls Are Barbies”: A Feminist Critique Of Nicki Minaj’S Barbie Persona, 2012 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
“All Girls Are Barbies”: A Feminist Critique Of Nicki Minaj’S Barbie Persona, Camellia Sarmadi
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
Mediums Change, Fears Stay The Same, 2012 Colby College
Mediums Change, Fears Stay The Same, Lucy Wilhelms
Honors Theses
Although generally dismissed by scholars as being overly sentimental or superstitious, the gothic genre has survived for over four centuries and maintained significant cultural appeal, outlasting the sentimental novel and the travelogue as popular literature. What, then, makes this genre different? What is so special about the gothic?
In my thesis, I examine the evolving cultural appeal of the gothic genre that keeps it attractive and relevant for readers by tracing the gothic text, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, through its initial inception and its subsequent adaptations. As a novel, The Woman in Black both repeats and revises …
"Only A Girl Like This Can Know What's Happened To You" : Traumatic Subjects In Contemporary American Narratives, 2012 University at Albany, State University of New York
"Only A Girl Like This Can Know What's Happened To You" : Traumatic Subjects In Contemporary American Narratives, Allison Virginia Craig
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This project is primarily concerned with the difficulty of representing traumatic experience and the problem of seeing violence and exploitation as natural and inevitable functions of social life. It argues that texts attempting to expose exploitive hierarchies and structural injustices often risk having their stories subsumed and commodified by the profuseness and proliferation of countervailing messages about individual choice and personal freedom. This struggle is highlighted through historicizing five contemporary American narratives--Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm, the films Boys Don't Cry and Monster, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms--with and against critical concerns and popular texts. Furthermore, by employing …
The Sabatoge Of Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" : Hitchcock Reads Conrad, 2012 University at Albany, State University of New York
The Sabatoge Of Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" : Hitchcock Reads Conrad, Robert Benton Preslar
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This paper traces the ways in which Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent and Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film Sabotage each comment on their respective mediums. Taking the object which is left behind in the wake of Stevie's death as its starting point, the triangular piece of cloth, this thesis examines the ways in which the figure of the delta alerts the reader to a commentary on language and text that echoes throughout the novel. As that triangular piece of cloth becomes a film tin bearing the title "Bartholomew the Strangler," this paper then traces the resonances that film and the …
A Search For Home: Navigating Change In Battlestar Galactica, 2012 Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change
A Search For Home: Navigating Change In Battlestar Galactica, Kimberly S. Yost
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This dissertation explores the various ways in which the multiple leaders portrayed in the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) navigate extreme conditions of continual change. In addition, the dissertation contains a discussion of the larger narrative themes of love, forgiveness, redemption, and embracing the Other as principles effective leaders must cultivate. Through an interpretation of this specific popular media text, a deeper emotional sensitivity to and understanding of leadership, positive and negative, during extreme crises is gained. Furthermore, the series serves as a vehicle through which viewers can reflect on and engage in their own self-awareness about issues …
Framing Jane: Film Adaptation And Jane Eyre, 1934-2006, 2012 Eastern Illinois University
Framing Jane: Film Adaptation And Jane Eyre, 1934-2006, Joy Wohlman Boyce
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Big Hollywood, Small Screens, 2011 Georgia State University
Big Hollywood, Small Screens, Alisa Perren, Karen Petruska
Alisa Perren
No abstract provided.
The Classical Film Score, 2011 Rhode Island College