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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Villain"”.
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From Villain to Hero: Traces of the Gothic Villain/Hero in Four Modern Films
… application, it will be seen that although the villain has evolved into a Gothic hero, and the setting has moved closer to the "here and now" than in the early Gothic, the themes and motifs remain relatively unchanged. These themes are the struggle for the "self-as-other" to coexist with …
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Playing Devil's Advocate: The Attractive Shakespearean Villain
… the playwright's most hypnotic figures are his villains, those characters whom audiences should by all counts detest but cannot help but find alluring. Some of these villains have attracted more critical attention than others. For instance, Iago, the scheming fiend of Othello, has forever …
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The development of the villain character in English drama to John Webster
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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From Hindu villain to heroic Buddhist king: Dathagiri in the Thiri Rama
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
… <em>The Monk: A Romance</em> (1796). The Gothic villain aligns with Edelman’s sinthomosexual to illustrate a pattern of victimization and retaliation which results in both the villain and sinthomosexual’s persistent abjection from the social order. However, a close reading of Lewis’s narrative …
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Citizen participation in transportation planning: hero and villain; the Boston inner belt and the Red Line extension.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
… analyzes how the antagonistic female type, or villain, compares and contrasts with other female figures in these works by Grass, according to a paradigm derived from Beauvoir's description of woman. From this analysis, a better understanding of the female villain's nature emerges. Indeed, such …
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"You're not portraying me as the villain this season, are you?": Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Netflix's serialized sports docuseries
This thesis examines the current boom of sports documentary television through the lens of Netflix and their popular program Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Although Netflix is not the first streaming platform to find success with sports content, they have developed their own signature style of …
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A rotten and dead body : disabled villainy on the early modern stage
… in which the persistent trope of the disabled villain manifests on the early modern stage is, I believe, necessary work. There has been no extended scholarly account of this phenomenon; analyses of the fictional disabled villain have generally served as side arguments to larger discussions …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
… deliberately commits murder and functions as a villain. As the character grew in popularity, the sign of the<em> femme fatale</em> became ubiquitously applied to any seductive woman in film, television, or other media, regardless of the whether or not the woman functions as a villain or a sex …
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
… Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus as the play's villain. These scholars have held to the notion that as the villain, Aaron is evil incarnate and embodies all that countermands the order of the Roman patriarchy. I assert that these scholars have failed to consider the implications of the play's …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
… heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been repressed by, but which continue to affect, modern cultures. Argues that, in each case, the text "acts out" the repressed cultural trauma underlying its …
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The gifts of Odin: the violaceous amethyst
… a conniving, double-crossing, espresso-drinking villain.
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The damned, the bad, and the ugly: Our society's bad (and occasionally sinister) habit of using villains to label, deter, and other
<p>As the most dynamic characters within a plot, villains have the ability to initiate change. To demonstrate the effect a villain can have, I have chosen two very different villains of popular culture—Theodora of <em>Oz the Great and Powerful</em> and the Joker of T<em>he Dark Knight</em>—because …
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The Iran I Know as a Woman; Exploring the Boundaries of Literature and Ethnography in Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis
… era, Nafisi and Satrapi reinforce the binary of villainvictim. They define these dichotomous couples in relation to each other, so that those villain women from a religious point of view are in fact victim women from secular backgrounds oppressed by villain men from a religious background. …
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… in their sympathetic process with the female villains and fallen heroines. Affective tools employed by sensational fiction create an understanding between the reader and the villains that occupied most of sensation fiction. The second chapter, "The Fallen Heroine: Feeling Injustice” discusses …
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Louisa May Alcott and the Female Fairy Tale (Form, Massachusetts)
… something or, less often, is wronged by a villain. Traveling forth to look for her desires, she is helped by a wise donor. The tales climax in difficult tasks or struggles with villains. Finally, the heroine triumphs, is transfigured, and is rewarded with marriage and sometimes a type of …
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Creation of Surface and Bulk Defects of Germanium and Surface Roughening of Germanium During High Energy Ion Irradiation
… at room temperature. Also, model of Politi and Villain agrees relatively well with the roughening and coarsening of the Ge(111) surfaces etched by 5 keV Xe ions at 250°C and 275°C. At 300°C, a surface pattern is observed only when the incident ion direction is parallel to the step …
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Hench
… genre, and following the henchman of an evil villain, offers a commentary on the modern working world by serving as a metaphor for the corporate workplace. The film follows a lowly henchman, Hank, who learns to challenge this corporate structure by achieving self-respect, thanks to an unlikely …
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