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- Title
- Vampire films and the social construction of whiteness.
- Creator
- McQueen, Michael Anthony., Florida Atlantic University, Budd, Michael N.
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis explores the manner in which whiteness is represented and constructed in Western media through analysis of six narrative films about vampires. The study hypothesizes that vampire films have been underexamined as a site of contestation over the meanings of racial differences because they have been considered a "white" genre. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model is used as the principal methodology, but other theories (e.g. semiotics) are used to explore the subtexts of the films....
Show moreThis thesis explores the manner in which whiteness is represented and constructed in Western media through analysis of six narrative films about vampires. The study hypothesizes that vampire films have been underexamined as a site of contestation over the meanings of racial differences because they have been considered a "white" genre. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model is used as the principal methodology, but other theories (e.g. semiotics) are used to explore the subtexts of the films. The study pays attention to the historical moment of the films' production and explores instances where race works in tandem with gender to construct Others.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15735
- Subject Headings
- Vampire films--History and criticism, Race relations in motion pictures, Whites in literature, Minorities in motion pictures
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The evolution of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights through a study of its receptions and adaptations.
- Creator
- Gleyzer, Marianna, Buckton, Oliver, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis covers the entire range of British and American film adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, as no cumulative study on this larger selection has been done thus far. However this will not be the only objective of this thesis, as I create a link between the author’s life to her novel, between the novel to the early criticism, and the criticism to later adaptations, forming a chain of transformation down the ages, to the original novel. By linking the adaptations to...
Show moreThis thesis covers the entire range of British and American film adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, as no cumulative study on this larger selection has been done thus far. However this will not be the only objective of this thesis, as I create a link between the author’s life to her novel, between the novel to the early criticism, and the criticism to later adaptations, forming a chain of transformation down the ages, to the original novel. By linking the adaptations to the earlier reception of the novel, a change of social interaction will be uncovered as one of its reasons for surviving. These examples of adaptation will be shown to be just as relevant to popular culture history as its original inspiration. This is the result of an unfolding movement of change and mutation, where each adaptation pushes to connect with the past and future.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004115, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004115
- Subject Headings
- Brontë, Emily -- 1818-1848 -- Wuthering Heights -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature -- Adaptations -- Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures and literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The concept of time in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
- Creator
- Ramnath, Rishi S., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
- Abstract/Description
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The concept of time in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is examined from social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, his version of the film, he treats the nature of time as a cyclical process. He eventually explains that the notion of physical time is non-existent or an impermanent illusion. While Clarke's novel interprets time, the film projects and manipulates the nature of space and time, which spectators may experience as...
Show moreThe concept of time in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is examined from social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, his version of the film, he treats the nature of time as a cyclical process. He eventually explains that the notion of physical time is non-existent or an impermanent illusion. While Clarke's novel interprets time, the film projects and manipulates the nature of space and time, which spectators may experience as reality. Time's direction can be viewed or experienced as a cycle from an Eastern philosophical perspective. However, a Western interpretation requires a compromise between two separate directions of time, one as a cycle, the other as linear. The film and novel ultimately negates the direction of linear time through the appearance of the mysterious monolith, which transcends and reincarnates human beings.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13082
- Subject Headings
- Kubrick, Stanley--Criticism and interpretation, 2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture), Time in literature, Space and time
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Cinematographic reading and catalogues in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass".
- Creator
- Jaramillo, Manuel J., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
- Abstract/Description
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Walt Whitman's visual imagination was influenced by paintings, panoramas, and photography. His expansive vision reflects changes in methods of perception. Whitman was also an influence on early filmmakers, like Dziga Vertov. Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory and Whitman's poetry reflect each other in their attempts to attain a "fresh" perception, to see the world "photogenically." Consequently, there is more than just similitude between Whitman and cinema. In fact, both are meant to be seen....
Show moreWalt Whitman's visual imagination was influenced by paintings, panoramas, and photography. His expansive vision reflects changes in methods of perception. Whitman was also an influence on early filmmakers, like Dziga Vertov. Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory and Whitman's poetry reflect each other in their attempts to attain a "fresh" perception, to see the world "photogenically." Consequently, there is more than just similitude between Whitman and cinema. In fact, both are meant to be seen. Although the idea of reading Whitman "cinematographically" has been mentioned by some critics, none has suggested how this reading process is to be enacted or understood by the reader. The Reader Response theory of Wolfgang Iser is used to show that the reader, when encountering a text, is involved in a process of ideation, during which mental images are influenced by and derived in part from textual schemata and indeterminacies. The cinematographic reading is, then, highly imaginative, resulting in the creation of a "virtual" text. When examined, it can be shown how Walt Whitman's catalogues intend to carry the reader along in a process of "indirect" ideation during which the structures and images of the catalogues become realized by the reader's imagination.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13182
- Subject Headings
- Motion pictures and literature, Reader-response criticism, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Leaves of Grass, Discourse analysis, Literary
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Vietnam and the legacy of Conrad.
- Creator
- Gabel, Jill Stacy., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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A mixed-media study of Vietnam War literature begins in Africa with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and travels into Vietnam with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Herr's Dispatches. Marlow, Willard, and Herr are first person narrators on voyages of self-discovery. Their journeys into Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam lead the audience into an examination of themes pertinent to not only the works, but the twentieth century and, therefore, history. Through an examination of...
Show moreA mixed-media study of Vietnam War literature begins in Africa with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and travels into Vietnam with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Herr's Dispatches. Marlow, Willard, and Herr are first person narrators on voyages of self-discovery. Their journeys into Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam lead the audience into an examination of themes pertinent to not only the works, but the twentieth century and, therefore, history. Through an examination of imperialism, the conflict of Western and non-Western values, the interplay of fantasy and reality, and the nature of moral confession, Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, and Dispatches aim to force their audiences to confront the responsibility of all mankind for the horrors of war.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14881
- Subject Headings
- Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation., Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924.--Heart of darkness., Coppola, Francis Ford,--1939---Apocalypse now., Herr, Michael.--Dispatches., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Motion pictures and the conflict.
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- Document (PDF)
