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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Fictionalization"”.
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"Compulsion": The Fictionalization of the Leopold-Loeb Case and the Struggle for Creative Control of "The Crime of the Century"
<p>When an artist releases a project into the global marketplace, it is difficult to say that it is “their” project from that point onward. Once an artistic work is made accessible to the public, it all but becomes public property as it is reinterpreted and re-released in different forms. In the …
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Rethinking the informed citizen in an ago of hybrid media genres : Tanner '88, K-Street, and the fictionalization of news
A close reading of two television shows, K-Street and Tanner '88, was performed to examine how one might become informed about real-life political news by viewing entertainment programs that combine fiction with actual current political events, issues, and figures. In his book The Good Citizen, …
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A Virginia Woolf of One's Own: Consequences of Adaptation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours
… historical figure. By including in The Hours a fictionalization of Virginia Woolf, Cunningham entrenches his adaptation with Virginia Woolf's life and identity. My thesis compares the two adaptations of Virginia Woolf's identity in the novel The Hours and the film The Hours and investigates the …
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Fiction as History: James Jones, <em>From Here to Eternity</em>.
… <em>From Here to Eternity</em>,as more than a fictionalization of historic events. Juxtaposing the correspondence between the author and his brother, begun when James Jones enlisted in 1939, and the novel allows an understanding of the extent that the novel was a distillation of Jones' …
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How Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election Eclipsed Frank Underwood’s Election in ‘House of Cards’
… real election progressed, the distorted cynical fictionalization of reality in the political thriller began to reflect reality. This thesis examines how the real and fictional presidents handled controversies, interacted with women, and associated with the alt-right movement; and attempts to …
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The Truth and Other Fictions: The Nuance of Truth in Medieval Literature
… that medieval texts often have a high degree of fictionalization and focus on creating an aesthetic or communicating an idea in ways that embrace the use of fiction.</p> <p>This work proceeds by laying out its understanding of truth as a category of information both within an objective and …
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The Media of Memories: Argentine and Brazilian Transitional Justice as Seen on TV
… activism. Through its visual depiction and fictionalization of the limit experiences of collective traumas, television stages those realities that resist verbal narration and operates as a form of symbolic reparations that restores dignity to victims, develops a more inclusive narrative of …
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The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East
… in elude the internal structure of narrative, fictionalization, the objectivity of language and the diversity of voices, the potentiality of language and the elosure of narrative, plot and the ordering of a narrative, and fragmentarity and the perceiving of a narrative. In theoretical …
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Metamorphoses of a Genre: British and Italian Sound Docudrama in Context and Contemporary Production
… real and invented materials and renderings. Fictionalization as a counterpoint to factuality implies that sound not only accompanies and comments on the words but also actively contributes to the construction of further signification, to the point of modifying, warping and often conflicting …