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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"The Phantom of the Opera"”.
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Phantom
<p><em>Phantom</em> is an interactive fiction adaptation of Gaston Leroux's classic novel, <em>The Phantom of the Opera.</em> In this choose-your-own-adventure style narrative, readers play as Christine Daae, the object of the titular Phantom's obsession. The choices that readers make influence the …
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The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
Examining how Chinese filmmakers, through the decades, (re)interpreted The Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925) and its source novel, Gaston Leroux's 1910 Le Fantome de L'Opera, in the Ye Ban Ge Sheng series, as well as how Hollywood and Japan borrowed from each other in the Ringu (Nakata, 1998)/The …
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
… examines Byronic heroes using psychoanalytic theory across four case studies in media, including classic literature, theater, film, and television. The Byronic hero is a literary archetype inspired by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Typical characteristics include angst, …
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The forging of modern Broadway Sound Design Techniques amid the Fires of the Rock Musicals in the Late 1960s and 1970s.
From the ancient Greek theater, through the dawn of the Renaissance, beyond the development of Shakespearean theater, to the Broadway theater boon in the 1920s, sound reinforcement within the theater remained virtually unchanged. Through Broadway's Golden Age, directors and producers relied on …
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Preparing for Operatic Roles by Combining Elements of Stanislavsky’s System with Alfreds’ Actioning
This thesis examines the process of preparing for operatic roles by combining elements of Constantin Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ with Mike Alfreds’ Actioning. The research is presented as a report of a practice-led experiment, using myself as subject, to test the efficacy of Actioning within my …
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Hypertextuality in the diegesis of the megamusical: the aesthetic and cognitive relationship between silent era film and contemporary musical theatre
This research regards the West End/Broadway musical as a hypertextual performance form through which early cinema aesthetics can be seen and felt by spectators. The ‘closed fictional worlds’ (Slugan, 2021: 142) presented by silent fiction films made between 1895 and 1930 echo those of stage …
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Society's Biological Entrapment: Maternity, Eugenics, and Violence in 1920's American Literature and Film
… dissertation examines how American writers in the 1920s demonstrated the eugenic influence on motherhood through fictional representations of violent resistance. My project charts the ways in which fictional, dramatic, and cinematic texts displayed negative visualizations of maternity as a …