Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "noir" and "neo-noir" have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse. The book seeks to re-establish a purpose for neo-noir films and re-consider the organization of 60 years of neo-noir films. Using the notion of …
Le propos de ce livre est de retracer, de l'Antiquité à nos jours, l'histoire internationale de l'utopie en tant que genre littéraire, lui-même reflet privilégié des situations historiques - société, politique, idéologie, économie. Non seulement l'utopie draine avec elle les exp…
The West has long been conceived in American culture as the site of an elusive ideal of authenticity. This thesis aims to define the concept of American Authenticity as a political philosophy, affective current, and 'structure of feeling' which finds expression within the Hollyw…
From the dynamic landscape of contemporary South Korean cinema, one trend that stands out is the palpable revival of the historical drama (known as the ‘sageuk’ in Korean). Since the early 2000s, expensive, visually striking, and successful costumed pieces have been showcased to…
Autofiction has been the subject of much critical investigation in France, yet little of this theory extends to contemporary texts. Furthermore, autofictional theory has, until now, neglected the study of ludic performance – an important feature within the genre –, and this thes…
This thesis investigates a corpus of films identifiable as Hollywood political thrillers during the Cold War spanning a period of seventeen years, between 1945 and 1962. It aims to dispel the assertion by critics and scholars that the political thriller originates with the relea…
The author "explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens ... By examining issues of militarization, peacekeeping, terrorism, human and environmental security, the book considers how the gender-security nexus pushes us to ask different questions and broade…
The author "explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens ... By examining issues of militarization, peacekeeping, terrorism, human and environmental security, the book considers how the gender-security nexus pushes us to ask different questions and broade…
Sanatsal korkunun çeşitli formlarında canavar unsuruna ve canavar anlatılarına rastlanmaktadır. Seyircilerin sinemada korkuyu deneyimlemeleri noktasında işlevsel rolü olan canavar, Hollywood sineması için de verimli kaynaklar sağlamıştır. Bu canavarlardan ve canavar anlatılarınd…
In the landscape of writing instruction in higher education, there has been a longstanding critique of the efficacy of Generalized Writing Skills Instruction (GWSI) for preparing students to write in the genres of their majors, disciplines and workplaces (Petraglia, et al 1995).…
L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
Why do we like the music that we like? This seemingly simple question is surprisingly understudied. This dissertation aims to give some answers to this question, with a focus on analyzing the dataset of the FAV Corpus, a collection of pieces and excerpts that 140 survey particip…
With the explosive growth of information on the Internet, recommender systems have been broadly applied in user engaged systems to efficiently discover items of potential interest. In order to automatically generate such “guess what you like” results and serve matching recommend…
One of the pieces found in the Himie Voxman Research Archive which has not been distributed or seen as an active piece of the bassoon repertoire for many years is the Concerto for Oboe or Clarinet, Bassoon and Orchestra by Johann Friedrich Schubert. After studying the set of par…
This project aims to study the generic characteristics of current news satire on television, focusing on how audiences interact with this genre in order to learn more about audiences’ expectations and responses to these programs and how that influences the shows, and thus the ge…
This dissertation uses Friedrich Schlegel’s (1772–1829) literary concept of the arabesque to analyze genre mixture and formal digression in the early Romantic piano concerto. Drawing on both John Daverio’s adaptation of the arabesque for nineteenth-century music (1987;1993) and …
Focusing on English anthologies of Chinese avant-garde fiction published by UK and US publishers between 1993 and 2003, this thesis studies the translational path of this literary corpus to the Anglophone cultural context in the post-Tiananmen era. Particular attention is given …
This study presents a lost recension of a homiletic Midrash belonging to the Tanhuma family found in the Cairo Genizah. Five vellum fragments with a total of ten sides of text, all originating from the same early manuscript, containing parts of seven homilies on different sedari…