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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Film adaptations"”.
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… employs a methodology which compares a range of film adaptations with the books from which they are taken.<br/><br/>The thesis explores the agency and voice of four novels and their film adaptations,<sup>1</sup> using techniques derived from narrative analysis where "the implied author" is the …
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Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools
… every secondary school English teacher includes film as part of the English/language arts curriculum, there is, to this point, nothing published about effectively studying the relationship between film adaptations and their print source texts in secondary school. There are several important works …
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Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation in Post-Colonial Indonesian Film Adaptations
… and repoliticisation in post-colonial Indonesian film adaptations, primarily focusing on Blood and Crown of the Dancer (1983) and The Dancer (2011), the two adaptations of Ahmad Tohari’s novel The Dancer (1982). The investigation is motivated by a series of problems in adaptation studies, namely, …
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'Shadowy Copies'? Film Adaptations of the Second Austrian Republic
… has been passed between literature and film studies, frequently dismissed as ‘shadowy copies’ and parasitic reproductions, the unwanted bastard child of the disciplines searching in vain for an academic home. Despite the emergence of insightful new scholarship into the development of …
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… and Islamic Guidance (MCIG). By analyzing four films spanning the 1990s to the 2020s, the dissertation argues that these adaptations function as dynamic sites of cultural and intermedial negotiation. The first analytical chapter of the dissertation focuses on Dariush Mehrjui’s Sara (1993), …
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Race and the Renaissance: The legacy of diversity in Disney fairy-tale and folkloresque film adaptations
… constructs at the heart of Disney fairy-tale adaptations while demonstrating how the only two Black princesses depicted by the corporation are given different rules for how they might access the same fairy-tale magic as their white counterparts. The third chapter examines Disney’s most recent …
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Scoring for the Specter: Dualities in the Music of the Ghost Scene in Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
… is to analyze dualities found in different films of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each version brings different ideas to it. By analyzing each version and focusing on the Ghost Scene, comparisons of the scene's symbolism are made between the musical scores. The beginning chapters provide a history …
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Assessing Industry Ideologies: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence in the Book Versions and Film Adaptations of The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Divergent Trilogy, and The Vampire Academy Series
… sexual violence in both the book versions and film adaptations of The Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent trilogy, and the Vampire Academy series. These three series are representative of a major pop culture trend in which young adult novels are not only popular and financially successful, but …
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Middle-earth's War on Terror: a Post-9/11 Reception Study on the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
… of 9/11 and its proximity to Peter Jackson's film adaptations hitting theaters. </p>
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"Taming" Feminism: Tracing Women and Culture Through Adaptation
… My particular focus in this thesis is film adaptations of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> and the messages that these adaptations send about cultural responses to feminism. The staging of the play--and the nature of Kate and Petruchio's relationship--acts as a barometer of sorts, …
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The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation on Film in Adaptations of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and Washington Square
… James presents somewhat of a problem for the film adaptor: how does one convey on screen James' delicate implications, which are formative to the text without actually existing on the printed page? This project not only works to answer that question, but it also addresses a more serious …
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Shakespeare and the cinema of excess
… dissertation examines the notion of excess in film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. It takes its critical approach from the work of Georges Bataille, who used "eroticism" to describe a confrontation with excess that destabilises the individual’s sense of identity. Bataille suggests that art …
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As cem cadeiras: comédia fílmica como fonte historiográfica
A Hundred Chairs: Film Comedy as Historiographycal Source. The uses and limits of historic approaches essayed on nine film adaptations of a sovietic novel, Dvienatsat Stuliev de Ilf e Petrov, 1927: Keep Your Seats, Please!, Dreizehn Stühle, EI Sillón Y Ia Granduquesa, It's in the Bag!, As Treze …
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Home Girls And Understudies: Shy Women In Cold War Theatre And Film
… contrast to studies of U.S. Cold War theatre and film which typically focus on the era's "crisis of masculinity," portrayals of mother-son relationships, and portrayals of dynamic and 'dangerous' women, this project examines constructions of shy young women. Primary play and musical texts, their …
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Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'comic Book' Superhero
… are increasingly becoming more affiliated with film media than comic books. The amount of revenue generated, the formation of new fans, and the interests of comic publishers’ parent companies all suggest that superhero film adaptations are the medium most associated with the superhero character. …
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Stories in a Different Perspective: A Study of the Adaptation of 'The Witcher' and 'Metro' into Videogames
Adaptations utilising the videogame medium have become increasingly prevalent as technology has improved, allowing videogames to accommodate bigger and more diverse virtual worlds. However, the methods by which we analyse these videogame adaptations are indistinct from those utilised for analysing …
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A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays :Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
… of the selected plays, watching recorded film adaptations and archive including interviews with the actors, with directors, Pinter’s own commentary and that of his wife Lady Antonia Fraser.
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Amy March: More than Jo’s Foil : Analysis of Little Women’s Amy March
… to analyse Amy’s character and use two of the film adaptations from 1994 and 2019, both of which are directed, written and produced by a female crew, to compare the portrayal of her in the novel and how she is depicted in the two films. Both films offer a new perspective from other adaptations. …
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