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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Literature and Film"”.
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Gothic Representations: History, Literature, and Film
… in 1764. This short novel created the standard motifs and tropes that will forever be associated with the genre-the destitute castle, the foreboding atmosphere, supernatural or inexplicable events, omens, prophecies, heroes, villains, and of course, a deteriorating world facilitated by …
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"Unorthodox Conduct": Re-membering Queer Africa in Literature and Film
… explores positive representations of sexual and gender minorities in African literatures and film from the 1970s to 2010s that dismantle heterosexist notions of African sexuality and work towards what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o calls "re-membering." I interrogate how literary and cinematic depictions …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
This dissertation examines how both literature and film were responsible for the construction of the Cuban Revolutionary Archive. On one hand, the immediate foundation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) three months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's 26 of July guerrilla movement in 1959, showed …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
Analyzes how 20th Century British writers and Hollywood filmmakers have adapted common features of the Gothic literary tradition - the imperiled but investigative heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been …
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In visible cities : envisioning the Canadian prairie city in literature and film
… Aritha van Herk's novel Restlessness (1998), and Guy Maddin's film The Saddest Music in the World (2004) to determine how each work uses non-representational narrative strategies in order to reproduce the pedestrian experience of seeing the prairie city. In a tradition that is predominantly …
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Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
My dissertation, “Technologies of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s,” examines the vital role technology and machines – both actual and imagined – play in defining the ‘new Soviet man’ and ‘new Soviet woman’ in early Soviet culture. As I argue in my dissertation, the period …
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Moving Rhizomatically: Deleuze's Child in 21st Century American Literature and Film
… critiques Western culture’s vertical command of “growing up” to adult completion (rational, heterosexual, married, wealthy, professionally successful) as a reductionist itinerary of human movement leading to subjective sedimentations. Rather, my project proposes ways of “moving …
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Decolonial delinquency: Gender, sexuality, and criminality in Latina/o gang literature and film
… studies the representation of violence and criminality in Latina/o literature and film since 1950. The project analyzes a range of genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and documentary, to uncover how cultural production discloses a systemic impetus to gang violence in …
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Between Heimat and Fremde: New Configurations of Happiness in Contemporary German Literature and Film
… representations of happiness in recent German literature and film. The interpretations focus on how happiness is negotiated in the context of home and travel, of Heimat and Fremde, in order to understand happiness, not only insofar as it contributes to “the good life”, but also as an element …
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Between the Mob and the Noose: The Lynching Intercessor in American Literature and Film
… is a trope for racial reconciliation in American literature and film. The intercessor works to mediate between loyalty to an ideal democracy and recognition of a past and present that is inextricable from violent, racist oppression. While the lynching intercessor often negotiates the prevention of …
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A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film
… origins of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and the effects of its transmission into American literature and film. I argue that though eruptions of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the grain of these …
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
… dissertation examines the concept of asexuality and a variety of representations of asexuality in literature, film, and popular media. I argue that asexuality, often defined as a "lack of desire or sexual attraction," challenges the notion that sexual object choice is always a central point of …
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Society's Biological Entrapment: Maternity, Eugenics, and Violence in 1920's American Literature and Film
… charts the ways in which fictional, dramatic, and cinematic texts displayed negative visualizations of maternity as a response to the early twentieth-century preoccupation with eugenics. In this project, I argue that these methods of opposition took place through actions of child abuse, …
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Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film
… dissertation is an examination of literary and filmic representations of the post-1945 city, organized in three thematic sections—“Alienation”; “Disappearance”; and “The Random Encounter and Possibility of Community”—each of which is composed of a diptych of two “plateaus.” “Alienation” …
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New Forms of Kinship in Contemporary Literature and Film from the German-Speaking World
… the ways in which contemporary German-language literature and film partake in the representation, interrogation, and constitution of kinship as a contested field of social relations in the twenty-first century. In considering kinship, with the philosopher Judith Butler, as the constitutive …
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EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935
… married life for women, but in most historical and critical discussions of this era, breach of promise, also nicknamed Heartbalm, has been overlooked, and the purpose of this dissertation is to examine canonical and non-canonical literature from this period and recontextualize these works in …
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The Imagined After: Re-Positioning Social Memory Through Twentieth-Century Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Film
… functions as a social phenomenon in significant and real ways, primarily understood through the social relations that arise within social frameworks, which provide a structure against which people’s memories come together to form important memory-narratives that configure individual and social …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… or alluding to the pre-Islamic legacy and the political conditions of Iran. Through discursive analyses, it shows that these works in new political conditions change the orientation and main thrust of their message, and use or allude to the same pre-Islamic legacy for promoting …
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Representations of Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Film: Moving from Erasure to Creative Transformation
… repeated erasure of trauma from public knowledge and social consciousness by examining how a variety of crisis events have been represented in contemporary American literature and film. Intersecting archival, trauma, literary and film studies, this project highlights connections across politics of …
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"Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativizing ""Chineseness"" Through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film"
"This dissertation focuses on Southeast Asian literature and film to discuss how overseas Chinese artists use narrative as a tool to reevaluate and renegotiate their hybrid identity. Through this evaluation, the theoretical notion of ""Chineseness"" is reconstructed within a temporal and spatial …
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