The popular and critical successes of films like 'The Sixth Sense' and the 'Ring' film and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countr…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- The Gothic Tradition -- Freud and Motifs -- 2. Three Major Predecessors -- The Haunted House -- The Changeling (Peter Medak, Canada, 1979) -- The Malevolent Hotel -- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, GB, 1980) -- The Avengin…
The popular and critical successes of films like 'The Sixth Sense' and the 'Ring' film and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countr…
"From Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black women--and Blackness more broadly--are understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects…
This project, a graduate research thesis, means to unearth Charles T. Dazey’s most famous work, In Old Kentucky. This thesis examines the facets of In Old Kentucky which made it a perennial favorite across the entirety of the United States for more than thirty years from 1892, w…
The Scarlet Pimpernel is historical fiction, written with a melodrama’s moral framework and imbued with history of the French Revolution. Since it was published in 1906, Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s novel The Scarlet Pimpernel spawned many adaptations; each adding further meaning to…
Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la telenovela latinoamericana se estableció como uno de los producto culturales más importantes del continente y logró la expansión y el reconocimiento a nivel internacional. Sin embargo, cada nación en la que se producen telenovelas ha usa…
The dissertation concentrates upon a series of theatrical texts—John Augustus Stone's Metamora, William Dunlap's André , Clifton Tayleure's Horseshoe Robinson, Louisa de Medina's Nick of the Woods, William Pratt's Ten Nights in a Bar-room, W. H. Smith's The Drunkard, and Dion Bo…
This thesis illustrates how Melodrama and the melodramatic mode have been adapted within contemporary cinema as both a means of commenting on prior LGBTQI representation, and of exposing mainstream audiences to the issues still faced by many within this spectrum. Through my anal…
This thesis analyses how ways of thinking about and meanings of family are (re)negotiated and (re)presented in six films that, to varying degrees, are categorised as cine social. The group of films consists of Familia (León de Aranoa, 1996), Solas (Zambrano, 1999), Flores de otr…
Foreign Bodies: Military Medicine, Modernism and Melodrama traces how representations of warfare in the modernist novel, girls' romances, nursing memoirs, and war films dramatize the humanitarian disaster of war through the figure of woman. My analysis focuses on the visual and …
This dissertation argues that melodrama was a crucial mode for the representation of British imperialism within generically hybrid works of late Victorian fiction. Previous critics have noted the popularity of the melodramatic mode and mentioned its importance for imperial propa…
From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts chang…
"From 19th-century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres."--Provided by publisher.
Guru Dutt, 1925-1964, Indian film actor and director.
