Gender-Based Ideology in Film and Literature: The Fantastic and Related Genres

The work studies gender-based ideology in the fantastic and related genres. It begins with a general definition of the genre and an examination of its production in filmic and literary texts. Chapter 1 thus situates the fantastic while chapter 2 explores the identity and the otherness of the fantastic agent as represented in and through the text. Reader and spectator strategies are discussed, with emphasis on similarities and differences between the two. Additionally, the ideological implications of the treatment of Woman, her image and her desire are examined. Finally, related genres, especially romance/adventure, are treated in light of their capacity to protect the homogeneity and closure of the phallocentric text after the propaganda inherent in the fantastic was revealed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

French

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Hottell, Ruth Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jahiel, Edwin,

• Literature, Romance
• Cinema

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8803067

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71041