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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Apocalypse now"”.
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Apocalypse now now
Baxter Zevcenko is your average 16-year-old-boy. If by average you mean a possible serial killer, the kingpin of a porn-peddling schoolyard syndicate and the only thing standing in the way of full-scale gang warfare between the two powerful gangs which control Westridge High School. Which may well …
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A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
… that of World War II. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried are highly fictionalized texts that accurately portray particular realities of Vietnam. These texts are capable of presenting truth about Vietnam through their use of specific metafictional …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… Looney Tunes shorts and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, is still a frequent presence in film, television and advertising that want to evoke sounds of war and conquest--associations created more from its use in those contexts than the original opera. This thesis will examine films and …
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"Ideological Complicity in Vietnam War Narratives From ""the Quiet American"" To ""miss Saigon"""
… They Carried. Chapter 4 argues that the film Apocalypse Now and the musical Miss Saigon share an ambivalence about dominance which indicates the instability of the ideological use of gender. This instability allows the appropriation of victimhood from the subordinate term to empower the …
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The reef at the end of the world
… shrugging off a sneak preview of the coral-reef apocalypse. Now Barkley, her boss Cohen, and the rest of the team are trying to answer a few pressing questions. Are the corals really okay? And if so, how? Moreover, what does that mean?
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Would You Recommend This Picture to Your Friends? A History of Hollywood Test Screenings
… (Universal, 1954), Shaft (MGM, 1971), and Apocalypse Now (United Artists, 1979). MGM used preview screenings to defuse censorship threats over Red-Headed Woman, a pre-Code sex comedy. Intended for a predominantly female audience, it exists at the intersection between optimism and anxieties …
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Adapting poetics : a fusion of ideas in literature to film adaptation
… through an examination ofFrancis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Theapplication of the rationale of this thesis on the specific case has revealed a complex system ofinteraction between two works that are superficially very different. In the context of …