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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"thrillers"”.
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The French troubles thriller: genre, ideologies and representations (1971-1998)
… the conflict was ongoing: the Troubles thriller. Thrillers on Irish matters are part of the virtually inexhaustible output of thrillers and crime fiction published from the 1960s to 1990s by popular publishers in France. Thrillers on the Troubles featured in several of the genre's most popular …
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Once Upon a Time in Tarantino-Occupied Carnage: A Study of the Aesthetic Affectations and the Moral Dilemmas Powering Violence in the Revenge Cinema of Quentin Tarantino
… the violent content in his three revenge thrillers: Kill Bill (2003-4), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012). Throughout Tarantino’s career, critics have attacked him for aestheticizing bloodshed to such a degree that it becomes a glib, pop culture affectation, and the …
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s
… attending to the connection between readings of thrillers and crucial political events such as Watergate. Following a survey of what might be thought to be the key discursive features of the history of the 1970s, the thriller in the period will be approached in two ways: in relation to its …
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Harrowville
… career and developed it through the writing of thrillers and young adult stories. These stories were in my comfort zone of writing and I have a passion for writing them. Upon entering the writing program at UNR, I was challenged to step outside of my comfort zone to explore more literary fiction …
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Race and the Modernist Imagination: The Politics of Form, 1900--1940
… confronts its limitations in the Dr. Fu-Manchu thrillers of Sax Rohmer, where melodramatic race-wars threaten to end white England's global sovereignty. In Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West's primitivist narratives, blackness and femininity conjoin to become metropolitan modernity's …
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The Question of Genre Classification in the Drama Series “Ubizo: The Calling (2007)”
… Govender, 2007) blends elements of psychological thrillers, horrors as well as the gothic genre. The relationship of these subgenres is discussed in this paper in the context of the African spiritual practice of divine calling that is narrated by the series. The paper concludes that genre …
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Losers in the isthmus: Central America in American literature
… from romances and actioners to existential thrillers and B-movie narratives. Nonetheless, their vision of the isthmus and the kind of Americans that go there, and ultimately of the US itself, has remained remarkably similar--almost immutable--for all this time. This vision and its renewal …
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The contemporary horror film
… into the related genres of detective stories/thrillers, horror, and science-fiction, the inter-relatedness of these three genres forming part of the cultural context for modern horror. Chapter 3 considers Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) in relation to the structures and iconography of the …
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Family Pictures: Representations of the Family in Contemporary Korean Cinema
… The third chapter explores a branch of recent thrillers that depicts mothers as dark and dangerous characters, offering an interesting cultural framing to the multiple perceptions of the mother figure in contemporary society. Finally, the last chapter aims to extend representations of the …
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Belinda Lee: fame and female identity in British and Continental cinema of the 1950s
… and her first film roles in Anglo/American thrillers and British comedy. Her subsequent contract with a major film company of the period, the Rank Organisation, is described in relation to the company’s structure and ideology. Chapter Two expands on this to discuss the problems of gender …
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State of distrust: interpreting 1970s Italy through the seriality of news media and the poliziottesco.
… social reality. It analyses 1970s Italian police thrillers, the so-called poliziottesco, and argues that these films can be considered historical documents. Building on on-going debates on the poliziottesco (Bondanella, 2009; O’Leary, 2011; Marlow-Mann, 2013; Fisher 2014), this thesis argues that …
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… by men, and for investigating psychological thrillers, where issues of sexuality and desire are dramatised, particularly in relationship to death and the fear of obliteration. The thesis considers the 'gendering' of the texts - how they construe sexual difference, through fantasy and through …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… (peplum mythological epics, horror films, giallo thrillers, poliziotteschi crime dramas, westerns and others) released during a frenzied period of film production between the late 1950s and mid 1980s. A disproportionate emphasis on scenes of often extreme violence and spectacle can be traced …
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A history of apartheid censorship through the archive
… detailed reports on throwaway pulp detective thrillers, erotic mysteries, apparently forgettable works of mass-market fiction; letters from members of the public; letters between censors arguing fiercely over the literary merits of a novel; letters from state officials; newspaper reports, book …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… John Kenneth Galbraith publish conspiracy thrillers that expose the imbrication of empires in the Caribbean. Public intellectuals such as Waldo Frank praise Fidel Castro’s great experiment, and Cuban-American journalist and fiction writer Jose Yglesias humanizes rural Cubans under Castro in …