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Podeschi, Mario. « What comes next / ». View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131428176.pdf.
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Cabrera, Remberto. « Love comes in at the eye ». FIU Digital Commons, 1998. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1958.
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LOVE COMES IN AT THE EYE relates the story of Marshall Craig, a Midwesterner transplanted to South Florida who turns 35 in the course of the book. Marshall is an assistant curator for a Miami art museum, a man who has been obsessed with--as he calls it--a greed for seeing from a young age. His fascination with the surface of appearance of things is exacerbated by his precocious studies in art and its histories. Marshall views himself as marked by his red hair and freckled skin, as someone whose chances of attracting a partner into a meaningful relationship have been diminished by his looks. He is colored by his image of himself as unattractive and most importantly, convinced that his romantic life would be more successful, more vibrant, if he'd been graced with the face and figure of, say, a Velazquez. When Marshall meets a Cuban-born man from Atlanta, he is transfixed by the conviction that this is the man the universe has selected for him. The thrust of the story goes beyond boy-meets/loses/gets-boy to an exploration of said boy coming to terms with his definition of self. In a pivotal span of six months, the book explores Marshall's obsessions with seeing and how they define his vision of reality, the emphasis placed on beauty in gay culture, the tentative beginnings of a relationship as it takes root and grows, and finally, the inexplicable, magical forces that direct our romantic destinies.
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Grimm, Gunter E. « Kometenforschung zwischen Aberglauben und Science-fiction - Comet research between superstition and science fiction ». Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2002. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-08162002-150835/.
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Cho, Victoria. « Trouble Comes From the Mouth ». ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2237.
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Bond, John A. « Reconcilable differences, a dark comedy ». FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1731.
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Reconcilable Differences is the story of Miami radio host Adam Painter. Confused about relationships, Adam cancels his wedding and, under the guidance of his bad-boy best friend, delves into the demi-monde inhabited by strippers and hookers. On the air he begins to examine how men and women interact. Adam explores the night world, moving from a connection with its denizens through his talk show to direct experience of its license and loneliness. He fails miserably in his clumsy efforts with women and is fired, sued and arrested. An unlikely, unwilling rebel, Adam confronts change and stumbles almost truculently toward self-discovery. This picaresque novel is told in the third person closely attached to the protagonist. The time scheme covers a thirteen-week radio ratings period. The story encompasses the worlds of radio and the sex industry, using South Florida settings to re-inforce character, plot and theme.
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Vincent-Comte, Sandra Varinard André. « Le principe de la responsabilité pénale personnelle réalité ou fiction ? / ». Lyon : Université Lyon3, 2005. http://thesesbrain.univ-lyon3.fr/sdx/theses/lyon3/2005/comte_s.
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Kurtz, Matthew B. « What Comes After the Blues ». Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619717430532435.
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Gilder, John M. « The First Rule of Improv ». ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2607.
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The First Rule of Improv is a collection of fictional short stories concerned with loss, life’s unfairness, the weight of the past, and how people succeed or fail in coping. Each story explores these notions through its characters, who vary wildly in terms of both dramatic severity and success in the face of adversity, with the first rule of improv—to accept and build—being suggested by the author as the healthiest manner of approach, if not necessarily the easiest.
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SEGATO, GIULIO. « THE AMERICAN COMEDY. TEMI, INNOVAZIONI E TEOLOGIA NELL'OPERA DI ELMORE LEONARD ». Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/45734.
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Il giudizio di molti critici e biografi nei confronti di Elmore Leonard è stato tanto positivo quanto un po’ superficiale: è uno dei più validi scrittori di crime fiction americani grazie alla sua particolare ‘prosa cinematografica’ e al suo orecchio per i dialoghi dei personaggi. Credo che invece nelle narrazioni di Leonard ci siano molti altri aspetti degni d’interesse che il mio lavoro cercherà di indagare.
Prima di scrivere ‘romanzi del crimine’ (dal 1969, con la pubblicazione di The Big Bounce) Leonard si era specializzato in racconti e romanzi western con cui sperimentò la sua distintiva tecnica narrativa basta sul discorso indiretto libero e altre innovazioni tematiche.
Questa tesi esamina principalmente tre caratteristiche fondamentali dell’opera di Leonard. Anzitutto, nei suoi libri non c’è mai una vera e propria indagine. I lettori sanno già dalle prime pagine chi è il colpevole del crimine e il detective stesso lo scopre poco dopo. Tuttavia, l’eroe non riesce ad arrestare il responsabile a causa di continui impedimenti burocratici. La ricerca delle prove necessarie a incastrare il delinquente si trasforma quindi in una sfida personale che metterà a dura prova l’eroe e la sua coscienza.
La seconda caratteristica riguarda le scelte narratologiche dello scrittore, che ha sviluppato un uso singolare del punto di vista. Leonard racconta le sue storie attraverso un narratore onnisciente in terza persona, solo apparentemente neutrale. In realtà, il punto di vista della narrazione continua spostarsi durante la storia, per cui ogni capitolo può essere narrato dal punto di vista di ogni personaggio (anche di un morto, come avviene in Glitz). La scelta di usare un particolare punto di vista non è solo una mera faccenda tecnica ma è anche e soprattutto una questione morale, che rende i libri di Leonard piuttosto disturbanti per il lettore attento.
Infine, Leonard, che ha avuto un’educazione cattolica, tende a nascondere dilemmi teologici nelle intercapedini delle sue storie grottesche. Ad esempio, nei suoi romanzi la violenza non è mai la soluzione più giusta – non si configura una violenza necessaria – per cui i suoi eroi preferiscono dialogare con i criminali, o abbandonare la scena, piuttosto che sparare.Critics and biographers have summarized Elmore Leonard’s work too easily: he was one of the best crime novels writers in America because of his “cinematic” prose and his unerring ear for the voices of the characters. I think there are much more issues in Leonard’s narratives, so my thesis is focused on investigating other distinctive traits of his novels. Leonard actually wrote westerns for many years before first trying his hand at crime fiction (in The Big Bounce 1969), the genre that gave him great fame. My thesis basically examines three distinguishing features. First, in Leonard’s books there is almost never any process of detection. Readers generally know from the very beginning who the murderer is, and in many cases the detective finds out soon after, but he is always prevented from arresting or killing him at once. What prolongs his pursuit is generally not a process of investigation but rather a frustrating combination of legal procedural constraints that are often portrayed as arbitrary, and the killer’s own animal willingness and absurd good luck. Secondly, Leonard, in his narrative, develops a very distinctive point of view. The writer always tells his stories from the omniscient point of view in the third person, only apparently neutral. In Leonard’s novels any chapter can be narrated from the perspective of any character (even a murder victim as in Glitz). This issue is not only a technical problem, it is a moral one, who makes Leonard’s novels disturbing to the reader. Finally Leonard, who had a catholic education and a deep knowledge of the Bible, hides theological issues in his grotesque crime stories. For example, in his novels violence is never the right solution, never necessary, as his heroes prefer talking with the villain or leaving, instead of shooting him.
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SEGATO, GIULIO. « THE AMERICAN COMEDY. TEMI, INNOVAZIONI E TEOLOGIA NELL'OPERA DI ELMORE LEONARD ». Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/45734.
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Il giudizio di molti critici e biografi nei confronti di Elmore Leonard è stato tanto positivo quanto un po’ superficiale: è uno dei più validi scrittori di crime fiction americani grazie alla sua particolare ‘prosa cinematografica’ e al suo orecchio per i dialoghi dei personaggi. Credo che invece nelle narrazioni di Leonard ci siano molti altri aspetti degni d’interesse che il mio lavoro cercherà di indagare.
Prima di scrivere ‘romanzi del crimine’ (dal 1969, con la pubblicazione di The Big Bounce) Leonard si era specializzato in racconti e romanzi western con cui sperimentò la sua distintiva tecnica narrativa basta sul discorso indiretto libero e altre innovazioni tematiche.
Questa tesi esamina principalmente tre caratteristiche fondamentali dell’opera di Leonard. Anzitutto, nei suoi libri non c’è mai una vera e propria indagine. I lettori sanno già dalle prime pagine chi è il colpevole del crimine e il detective stesso lo scopre poco dopo. Tuttavia, l’eroe non riesce ad arrestare il responsabile a causa di continui impedimenti burocratici. La ricerca delle prove necessarie a incastrare il delinquente si trasforma quindi in una sfida personale che metterà a dura prova l’eroe e la sua coscienza.
La seconda caratteristica riguarda le scelte narratologiche dello scrittore, che ha sviluppato un uso singolare del punto di vista. Leonard racconta le sue storie attraverso un narratore onnisciente in terza persona, solo apparentemente neutrale. In realtà, il punto di vista della narrazione continua spostarsi durante la storia, per cui ogni capitolo può essere narrato dal punto di vista di ogni personaggio (anche di un morto, come avviene in Glitz). La scelta di usare un particolare punto di vista non è solo una mera faccenda tecnica ma è anche e soprattutto una questione morale, che rende i libri di Leonard piuttosto disturbanti per il lettore attento.
Infine, Leonard, che ha avuto un’educazione cattolica, tende a nascondere dilemmi teologici nelle intercapedini delle sue storie grottesche. Ad esempio, nei suoi romanzi la violenza non è mai la soluzione più giusta – non si configura una violenza necessaria – per cui i suoi eroi preferiscono dialogare con i criminali, o abbandonare la scena, piuttosto che sparare.Critics and biographers have summarized Elmore Leonard’s work too easily: he was one of the best crime novels writers in America because of his “cinematic” prose and his unerring ear for the voices of the characters. I think there are much more issues in Leonard’s narratives, so my thesis is focused on investigating other distinctive traits of his novels. Leonard actually wrote westerns for many years before first trying his hand at crime fiction (in The Big Bounce 1969), the genre that gave him great fame. My thesis basically examines three distinguishing features. First, in Leonard’s books there is almost never any process of detection. Readers generally know from the very beginning who the murderer is, and in many cases the detective finds out soon after, but he is always prevented from arresting or killing him at once. What prolongs his pursuit is generally not a process of investigation but rather a frustrating combination of legal procedural constraints that are often portrayed as arbitrary, and the killer’s own animal willingness and absurd good luck. Secondly, Leonard, in his narrative, develops a very distinctive point of view. The writer always tells his stories from the omniscient point of view in the third person, only apparently neutral. In Leonard’s novels any chapter can be narrated from the perspective of any character (even a murder victim as in Glitz). This issue is not only a technical problem, it is a moral one, who makes Leonard’s novels disturbing to the reader. Finally Leonard, who had a catholic education and a deep knowledge of the Bible, hides theological issues in his grotesque crime stories. For example, in his novels violence is never the right solution, never necessary, as his heroes prefer talking with the villain or leaving, instead of shooting him.
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Haun, Sharla R. « BROKESVILLE GOLF CLUB ». University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1523208681345663.
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Scherpenhuizen, Johannes. « Dutch Technique : Comic Books, Discourse and Vedanta/The Saga of the Atlantean ». Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28060.
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Dutch Technique is a work of experimental art which refuses classification and emerges variously in the form of comic-book pages, non-fiction writings, prose fiction, poetry and visual art. DT questions traditional binary modes of thinking which contrast sciences and arts, high arts and low arts, academic and non-academic discourse, science and religion/mysticism, and eschews discriminatory tribalism. It explores the inexhaustibility of the text, ideas and being in the form of comedy, drama, rhetoric, philosophical analysis and synthesis, poetic evocation and drama, liturgy and ritual. Its primary sources are self-reflection, contemplation in the analytical/synthetic philosophical mode and in meditation, trance and altered states of being, and the practise of art as self-revelation, healing, therapy, entertainment and communication. Its textual sources are film (particularly science fiction and comedies) comic books, philosophical texts (primarily those of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Existentialism). As literature it mines stream of consciousness, experimental modes, satire, genre and literary fiction, poetry and popular song. Also central is scripture and what may be termed, “the Perennial Philosophy” exemplified by Vedanta. Incorporated into this experimental mix is a traditional academic thesis The Superhero and the Self which argues that superhero comics can fruitfully be considered as spiritual literature.
The Saga of the Atlantean is a graphic novel which embodies the critical stance of Dutch Technique in utilising what is generally conceived as a 'low art' genre – the superhero story – with a serious purpose and high art pretentions, without avoiding various characteristics which might be considered typical of the genre. It is a meta-textual work which comments both blatantly and obliquely on the form of comics and the human condition. TSOTA can be read separately from the rest of the work or as an integral component. It can be read prior to the other work, interspersed with its chapters or after it. As Dutch Technique asserts; there is no beginning, there is no middle, there is no end.
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Lau, Cheung-cheung. « A study of Manga and adolescent popular fiction in Hong Kong / ». Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20354010.
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Délicat, Marcelle. « Le pictural dans la création artistique littéraire, bédéiste et cinématographique. Une lecture intermédiatique des fictions biographies des peintres du début du XXème siècle ». Thesis, Pau, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PAUU1041/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif de lire à travers les médias hôtes que sont la littérature, la bande dessinée et le cinéma, la présence d’éléments picturaux au sein de fictions biographiques. Il s’agit d’une étude comparative qui considère l’art comme lieu de reconstruction mais aussi de conservation de l’histoire en général et de l’histoire artistique en particulier. De manière générale, les interactions entre le pictural et les autres arts prennent deux orientations. La première est la reconstitution du champ pictural et de son fonctionnement. Et la seconde orientation passe par la réappropriation des techniques et des moyens de création produisant des effets picturaux au sein des autres formes artistiques. L’insertion du pictural laisse donc entrevoir une tension entre le média qui recoit et la forme insérée et le résultat se partage entre opacité et transparence; homogénéité et hétérogénéité du média hôteThe aim of this thesis is to read through the media hosts that are the literature, comics and cinema, the presence of pictorial elements in biographical fiction. Here is about a comparative study that considers art as a construction’s place but also the conservation of the history in general and artistic history in particular. In general, the interactions between the pictorial and other arts take two ways. The first way or orientation is the reconstitution of the pictorial field and it's functioning. And the second way or orientation goes through the reappropriation of techniques and means of creation producing pictorial effects with other artistic forms. The insertion of the pictorial may suggests a clear tension between the host media and the inserted form and the result is divided between opacity and transparency; homogeneity and heterogeneity of the host media
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Davis, Drew. « Guardians of Freedom ». Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2016. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/419.
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Guardians of Freedom is my attempt to make sense out of my time spent in uniform, in the only way that is appropriate: hyperbolic comedy. It is a story of Specialist Henry, a disillusioned soldier returning from one deployment in the Global War on Terror and facing another. Thoughts of making a difference and changing the world dashed, he wants nothing more than to be rid of the uniform and live an admittedly pointless life. He is joined by the various characters of Bravo Company, the deploying unit which has been used as a dumping point for medically-impaired soldiers. Outwardly, the story is about the bureaucracy and inanity of military life in a time of prolonged war. Hopefully though, there is a glimpse at the very real people that I met and loved and who, like me, were forced to find a way to survive and live in an environment that’s sole purpose revolves around death.
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Noonan, Michael. « Laughing & ; disability : comedy, collaborative authorship and Down Under Mystery Tour ». Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48647/1/Michael_Noonan_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis is an exploration of representation, authorship and creative collaboration in disability comedy, the centre piece of which is a feature-length film starring, co-created and co-written by three intellectually-disabled people. The film, entitled Down Under Mystery Tour, aims to entertain, and be accessible to, a mainstream audience, one that would not normally care about disability or listen to disabled voices. In the past, the failure of these voices to reach audiences has been blamed on poor training, marginal timeslots and indifferent audiences. But this project seeks an alternative approach, building collaboration between disabled and non-disabled people to express voice, conceive, construct and produce a filmed narrative, and engage willing audiences who want to listen.
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Rydin, Felicia. « Bland Aliens, Robotar & ; Normbrott : En queerteoretisk analys av framställningen av köns-, genus- & ; sexulitetsnormer genom Prince Robot IV i science fiction-serietidningen Saga ». Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Genusvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169455.
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I denna studie granskas science fiction-serietidningen Saga utifrån dess upprätthållande eller brytning av traditionella normer kring sexualitet, kön och genus utifrån både normer inom science fiction men även vårt samhälles normer. Syftet med denna uppsats är att att undersöka Sagas framställning i media som ett normbrytande och nytänkande medium och undersöka om denna kategorisering faktiskt stämmer överens med seriens innehåll och berättelse. I analysen utgör Prince Robot IVs karaktär från serien, samt scener han agerar i, grundempirit. Uppsatsen använder sig av semiotisk bildanalys och diskurspsykologi som analysens metodredskap för att bättre kunna examinera innehållet. Analysen sker främst ur en queerteoretisk utgångspunkt med fokus på teorier kring heteronormativitet, könsroller, maskulinitet och andrafiering. I analysen utgår studien efter fyra teman för att mer konkret kunna jobba med frågeställningarna; “Heteronormativitet, homosexuellt begär och tvåsamhet”, “Den manliga hjälten - om könsroller och toxisk maskulinitet”, “Robotar som monster & avvikande aliens” samt “Den domesticerade familjen”. I analysen framgår det att Saga både upprätthåller och bryter normer inom de teman som undersöks. Uppsatsens slutsats dras till att Saga är ett normbrytande media som går emot många normer kring sexualitet, kön och genus, främst genom hur Saga presenterar homoerotiskt begär och maskulinitetsrollen genom Prince Robot IV. Sammanställningen av analysen visar även att normerna kring sexualitet, kön och genus inte förändras utifrån att seriens karaktärer är aliens, eftersom de följer samma normer som är aktuella i vårt samhälle. I slutsatsen framgår det också att ‘den andre’ i Saga blir robotarna då de inte passar in under det naturliga som är gemensamt för övriga aliens i Saga, utan robotarna tillhör snarare det tekniska.
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Mutard, Bruce Roberts. « Bully Me : A graphic novel ; The Return : A graphic novel ; Comakademix : A comics anthology ; Leadbetter : A comic ; Laundry : A minicomic -and- The Erotics of Comics : An exegesis ». Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2489.
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Beholding a comic is ideally, a pleasure. The work informs, entertains and stimulates the mind in some way. There is no gainsaying which works will affect which beholders howsoever it does, yet the expectation of pleasure from a work of comics makes beholders seek it. Making the comic is also a pleasure, even if the process can be long-winded, winding and difficult. The maker wants to give others the same pleasure they drew from beholding comics, but in their way, making their vision of Batman, Lieutenant Blueberry or, their own story worlds. What this research seeks to explain are many of the considerations and constraints that makers have when producing a work of comics, which can often shape the finished artefact in ways that are not obvious by looking at it. In specific, it seeks to answer a narrower question: can exploring the way tacit knowledge accumulates and is applied, offer a ‘thick’ understanding of comics?
Michael Polanyi argues that tacit knowledge is knowing more than you can say, which in comics is the knowledge makers possess about tools, surfaces, materials, storytelling, pacing, mise en panel and logistics among others. This knowledge is rarely codified. In the comic as commodity, it is hidden from view so that beholders may immerse themselves in the work. Unknown is the iterative process that went into making a work: the moment of inspiration; grappling with the ideas via voluminous preparatory works; handling of materials and tools; working out the logistic dimension and constraints that will determine the type of encounter with the work beholders will have. I propose a Cycle of Erotics as a means to codify this knowledge and give critical commentators another lens for their use in analysing comics; a way of looking through and not just at comics.
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Heifner, Pepper J. « Trans Stories, Trans Voices : How the Internet Empowers Transgender Creators to Have Agency in Trans Fiction ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/495.
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Although many advocates believe that the increased representation of transgender people in mainstream fiction will lead to more understanding for the transgender community, many transgender scholars (Page, Richards) are critical of representation that is created without any involvement of actual transgender people. Some fear that the more radical perspectives of trans lives are being erased and replaced with a homogenous idea of the kinds of trans people who are “acceptable” (cárdenas). To avoid this homogeneity, it is important to allow for a multiplicity of trans perspectives and empower transgender people to have agency over their own narratives.
The goal of this project is to highlight how trans agency in story telling can benefit trans fiction and take it beyond simply providing a “trans 101” for cisgender audiences. It will also address how the internet has benefitted trans creators by providing a platform for a variety of trans voices to share their stories. By analyzing fiction that centers on transgender experience and is created by transgender people, this thesis will explore the topics and issues addressed in trans stories and the diversity in the perspectives shown. Internet-based fiction such as webcomics and web series will be examined, as well as a trans authored anthology that was funded online. Examining these stories may show us what we are missing by relying on the current homogenous mainstream representation and open our eyes to the importance of empowering transgender people to tell their own diverse, radical stories.
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Mérard, Aurélien. « La figure du posthumain : pour une approche transmédiale ». Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30048/document.
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Ce travail s’attache à étudier les figures de la posthumanité en s’appuyant sur un corpus transmédial et transnational et à répondre à deux questions principales : Peut-on, au travers de la figure du posthumain, percer à jour les désirs et les angoisses de l'homme de ce millénaire encore naissant ? Comment l'expérience de pensée posthumaine, mise en mouvement par la fiction, questionne-t-elle la notion même d'humanité ? Dans un premier temps, il met en relief les liens existant entre la posthumanité et ce territoire homogène et récurrent dans le corpus, qu’on nommera à la suite d'Antonio Negri et Michael Hardt, l’Empire. Dans un second temps il s’intéresse à la plasticité du corps et de l’esprit posthumains, à la façon dont leurs multiples avatars se déploient à travers le temps ainsi qu’aux raisons qui sous-tendent cette extrême plasticité. Enfin, dans un dernier mouvement, il s’attelle à montrer que, loin de s’inscrire dans un imaginaire radicalement nouveau, le post-humain procède en fait du réagencement ou de la reconfiguration d’un imaginaire anthropologique déjà bien ancré dans l’inconscient collectifThis work focus on the study of the posthuman figures. It is based on a transmedial and transnational corpus. It seeks to answer two key questions : can we expose, through the posthuman figure, the desires and the anguishes of this still rising millennium’s man ? How the posthuman thought experiment, set into motion by the fiction, challenge the very concept of humanity ? As a first step, this work emphasizes on the links that exist between posthumanity and this homogeneous and reccuring, in our fictions, territory that Antonio Negri and Micharl Hardt call Empire. Then, it’s interested in the plasticity of the posthuman bodies and minds, in the way that their numerous avatars expand through time as well as the reasons that underlie this extreme plasticity. Lastly, he tries to show that the posthuman do not fall into a dramatic new imagination, but that it proceeds, in fact, of the reordering or the reconfiguration of a anthropological imagination already well rooted in the collective unconscious
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Dedman, Stephen. « Techronomicon (novel) ; and The weapon shop : the relationship between American science fiction and the US military (dissertation) ». University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0093.
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Techronomicon Techronomicon is a science fiction novel that examines far-future military actions from several different perspectives. Human beings have colonized several planets with help from the enigmatic and more technologically advanced Zhir, who gave spaceships and habitable worlds to those they deemed suitable and their descendants. The Joint Expeditionary Force is the military arm of the Universal Faith, called in when conflicts arise that the Faith decides are beyond the local government and militia and require their intervention. Leneveldt and Roader are JEF officers assigned to Operation Techronomicon, investigating what seems to be a Zhir-built defence shield around the planet Lassana. Another JEF company sent to Kalaabhavan after the murder of the planets Confessor-General loses its CO to a land-mine, and Lieutenant Hellerman reluctantly accepts command. Chevalier, a civilian pilot, takes refugees fleeing military-run detention camps on Ararat to a biological research station on otherwise uninhabited Lila. The biologists on Lila discover a symbiote that enables humans to photosynthesize, which comes to the attention of Operation Techronomicon and the JEF's Weapons Research Division. Leneveldt and Roeder, frustrated by the lack of progress on Lassana, are sent to Lila to detain the biologists, who flee into the swamps. Hellerman's efforts to restore peace on Kalaabhavan are frustrated by the Confessors, and his company finds itself besieged by insurgents. The novel explores individuals' motives for choosing or rejecting violence and/or military service; the lessons they learn about themselves and their enemies; and the possible results of attempts to forcibly suppress ideas.
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Field, Roger Michael. « Alex la Guma : a literary and political biography of the South African years ». Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2001. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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The South African years (1925-1966) of Alex la Guma is examined in this thesis. While La Guma's father was an important role model, most critics have overlooked his mother's contribution to his literary and political development. Throughout the thesis the same point is made about Blanche, La Guma's wife, who supported him in many ways. The researcher describes La Guma's infancy, childhood and adolescence, his father's political profile, how notions of race and writing, coloured identity and family and political experiences created the conditions that enabled him to become a story teller and political activist ...
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Labrude, Guillaume. « L'évolution des représentations de la famille dans la saga Batman, de 1939 à nos jours ». Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0246.
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Le thème principal de cette thèse est l’évolution des représentations de la famille dans la saga Batman et ses différentes adaptations depuis sa création en 1939. En quoi la thématique familiale est-elle un terreau aussi fertile dans l’élaboration de la mythologie de cette licence mais aussi et surtout de ses dimensions patrimoniale et transmédiatique ? Pour répondre à cette problématique, les présents travaux se proposent d’analyser l’ensemble de la franchise au prisme des études culturelles, alliant l’herméneutique littéraire aux analyses graphiques, cinématographiques, sociologiques et psychanalytiques tout en replaçant les œuvres étudiées dans leur contexte historique. Cette thèse de doctorat se présente en deux parties distinctes : la première s’emploie à mettre en évidence les éléments canoniques de la franchise là où la seconde s’emploie à souligner les constantes, les évolutions et les itérations de ces éléments comme celui du drame familial à l’origine de la naissance du héros, son rapport avec sa famille de substitution mais aussi ses relations sentimentales et les éléments caractérisation qui le rapproche ou le différencie de ses antagonistesThis thesis is about the representations of the family in Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939. Through the analysis of comic books, films, TV series and video games, these works have to answer the following questions: is the family subject a way to transform a comic book into a monument of American culture? Is it the key, or a way, to decline a vigilante story on different Medias, as Henry Jenkins wrote on The Matrix? Is Batman patrimonial because of its nature of human society mirror through the ages? In order to answer these questions, the franchise is analyzed through graphic and cinematic studies, sociology and psychanalysis. The first part of this thesis is about the different elements which characterize the saga and stay the same through ages. The second part deals with evolutions and iterations, based on these unchangeable elements
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Imber, Thomas. « Poétique des mondes mythographiques : essai sur la bande dessinée de science-fiction et ses super-héros ». Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030143.
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Cette étude de la littérature transautoriale (récits traités par plusieurs auteurs), notamment la mythologie gréco-romaine et les comics américains de super-héros, est centrée autour des mondes fictionnels. L’étude comporte une analyse des structures et des contraintes narratives spécifiques aux œuvres traitant de récits ou de personnages hérités d’un auteur antérieur, et de la tendance à remplir le temps mytho-historique d’une tradition. Des questions de temporalité, séquentialité, et simultanéité sont abordées. Le rôle que joue la relation entre un monde fictif et le monde empirique dans la définition des genres est mis à l’étude, ainsi que les concepts de mondes parallèles et de divergence historique. Les trois principales littératures étudiées — la mythologie antique, la science-fiction et les comics de super-héros — sont par ailleurs mises dans leur perspective historiqueThis study of transauthorial literature (stories which are treated by more than one author (namely, Greek and Roman mythology and American super-hero comics) focuses on fictional worlds. It analyzes both the reception of established myth, determining the narrative structures and constraints which arise from the use of pre-existing fictional worlds and characters, and the tendancy towards the completeness of the ‘mythico-historic’ time of a given tradition. Questions of temporality, sequentiality, and simultaneity are addressed. There is an examination of the relation between a fictional world and the empirical world in determining genres, and the ideas of parallel worlds and historical divergence are examined as well. Historical perspectives of the three primary literatures studied (ancient mythology, science fiction, and superhero comics) are offered
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Lechler, Ron. « The Best Medicine ». Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801938/.
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The Best Medicine is an animated documentary that explores the true stories behind the live performances of stand-up comedians. The film juxtaposes live stand-up performances with candid interview footage combined with animation and illustration. Three subjects– Michael Burd, Casey Stoddard, and Jacob Kubon– discuss alcoholism, childhood abuse, and sexual anxiety, respectively. Their candid, intimate interviews reveal personal information, creating a new context with which to understand live stand-up comedy performance. This illustrates themes of finding humor in dark or painful circumstances and the cathartic nature writing and performance.
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Opperman, Susan. « Transmuting the mundane into transcendence : migrations of myth and its connection to contemporary comic books ». Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6823.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the human capacity of modifying established myth in the light of new circumstances. It focuses on the changing status of myth and mythical cosmologies in Western culture as advances in telematics and techno-culture has led to the abundant proliferation of mythic content in modern society. The rise of scientific, secular and rational tendencies in the Occident has resulted in the demystification and negation of some myths and the cultural realities they once supported. Mythical symbols, however, do exhibit a certain degree of independence from their original set ontologies, growing and transforming continuously within contemporary culture as they are communicated to all social spheres. A particular focus is placed on the demystification of myth and its ability to be appropriated within other discourses, most notably fiction. As such, myth tends to exhibit certain migratory and conservational qualities that this study investigates. This serves as background for this thesis that is primarily located within the broader theoretical argument of myth as a system of world-representation in society, the main point of discussion is the re-appropriation of myth within the narrower field of visual signification, specifically the comics medium, as exemplified in the works of Neil Gaiman and Conrad Botes, as well as in my own work.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tesis ondersoek die menslike kapasiteit om gevestigde mites te wysig in die lig van nuwe omstandighede. Dit fokus op die veranderlike status van mites en mitiese kosmologieë in die Westerse kultuur, aangesien vooruitgang in die telematiek en tegnokultuur gelei het tot ’n ryk proliferasie van mitiese inhoud in die moderne samelewing. Die opkoms van wetenskaplike, sekulêre en rasionele tendense in die Weste het die demistifikasie en negasie van sommige mites en kulturele realiteite wat hulle eens ondersteun het, tot gevolg gehad. Mitiese simbole vertoon egter ’n sekere graad van onafhanklikheid van hul oorspronklike vasgestelde ontologieë en groei wild binne die kontemporêre kultuur, aangesien hulle deurlopend gekommunikeer word aan verskillende sosiale sfere. Daar word veral gefokus op die demistifikasie van die mite en sy vermoë om geapproprieer te word binne ander diskoerse, veral in fiksie. As sodanig is mites geneig tot migrasie en die vertoon van konserverende kwaliteite, soos ondersoek in hierdie studie. Alhoewel die tesis eerstens gelokaliseer is binne die breër teoretiese argumentasie rondom mite as ’n sisteem van wêreldrepresentasie in die samelewing, is die kern van diskussie die re-appropriasie van die mite binne die smaller veld van visuele betekenisgewing, spesifiek in strippe as medium, soos uitgelig in die werke van Neil Gaiman en Conrad Botes, asook in my eie werk.
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Bomhoff, Gary. « Toward the Red Shore ». Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5914.
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A fictional novel utilizing third person limited narration from the perspective of the primary character, Ilya Kollide, who narrates the story as though it were happening in his head as it occurred, with frequent embellishments. He has come to live near an old mansion on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, named Neimasaurus, to find an antiquated, dusty world of faded aristocracy. Temporarily orphaned at the age sixteen by the recent death of his parents, he has traveled four thousand miles to live with his last living relative, an uncle named Demetri, whom he has never met. The year is 1990, only this is not a world where the rule of the Tsar was supplanted by the Soviet Union. Instead, it is a logical exploration of what Russia might resemble, had communism never taken root. While the fantastical may or may not occur, depending upon how the reader chooses to interpret the point of view of the narrator, the setting in and of itself is not meant to be fantastical. Ilya discovers that all the servants who work there are deaf, as is his uncle and his own now deceased parents, whom he carries around in an urn after mixing their ashes together.
While working at the great estate of the Neimasaurus family, Ilya discovers a surprising numbers of stories and people who both parallel his own experiences and serve as allegorical warnings toward his future mistakes in life. He becomes obsessed with the idea that he is to blame for his parents' death and sets out on a quest to bring redemption to the wounded inhabitants of the estate, only to discover that not everyone wants to be helped. In fact, they want him dead. They see him as an allegory, just as he sees them. To the young man Shoji Yamano, Ilya represents everything he was, and can no longer be. As such a reflection, he resolves to shatter Ilya like a mirror. The novel charts Ilya's personal growth from a neurotic wreck, incapable of normal interaction with people, to a young man capable of not just self-sacrifice, but an understanding of what it actually means to literally sacrifice himself for the well-being of someone he barely knows. He learns to value time spent with others rather than dwelling within a narcissistic and lonely fantasy world.?M.F.A.
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Pita, Vanessa Fernandes Queiroga. « O Decamerão de Jorge Furtado : adaptação e comédia na TV ». Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2012. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6196.
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Esta dissertação abrange as áreas de Ficção televisiva, Literatura e Produção de sentido, e tem o intuito de realizar um processo de análise e interpretação discursiva da adaptação audiovisual do livro Decamerão, de Giovanni Boccaccio, veiculada em 2009, pela Rede Globo. A microssérie Decamerão: a comédia do sexo é um projeto do diretor Jorge Furtado e foi inspirada nas temáticas e novelas toscanas presentes na obra do autor italiano. A nossa proposta consiste em identificar como as duas obras dialogam nessa adaptação, destacando os pontos em comum com texto fonte, mas também ressaltando outros pontos sugeridos por Jorge Furtado ao reinterpretar o Decamerão, e também em observar a presença do elemento cômico na teleficção, tendo em mente a construção de um discurso ficcional televisivo e a sua consequente produção de sentido. Para tal intento, desenvolvemos a nossa pesquisa por meio da análise do discurso ficcional, realizando um estudo interdisciplinar, onde aliamos as teorias da Comunicação, especificamente sobre a televisão, e da Narrativa, articuladas a aspectos de outros campos do conhecimento das ciências humanas, como a Literatura, o Cinema e a Sociologia. Desse modo, foi possível comentar aspectos do Decamerão, como o contexto da Peste Negra, a estrutura das novelas toscanas e a manifestação do elemento cômico; e ainda observar a microssérie a partir dos formatos teleficcionais que a compõem e da influência cênica exercida pela commedia dell arte na construção da sua dramaturgia. Assim, na última etapa da nossa dissertação, almejamos destacar em Decamerão: a comédia do sexo os principais elementos de uma adaptação teleficcional e os fatores presentes devido à logística de funcionamento da televisão. Por fim, analisamos o nosso corpus, o piloto Comer, amar e morrer, e realizamos o estudo de correlação com os outros quatro episódios que compõem a microssérie. Diante disso, objetivamos realizar uma pesquisa com interesse estético e comunicacional sobre um importante momento da produção teleficcional brasileira, configurado, em nossa dissertação, no estudo de Decamerão: a comédia do sexo.
Esta dissertação abrange as áreas de Ficção televisiva, Literatura e Produção de sentido, e tem o intuito de realizar um processo de análise e interpretação discursiva da adaptação audiovisual do livro Decamerão, de Giovanni Boccaccio, veiculada em 2009, pela Rede Globo. A microssérie Decamerão: a comédia do sexo é um projeto do diretor Jorge Furtado e foi inspirada nas temáticas e novelas toscanas presentes na obra do autor italiano. A nossa proposta consiste em identificar como as duas obras dialogam nessa adaptação, destacando os pontos em comum com texto fonte, mas também ressaltando outros pontos sugeridos por Jorge Furtado ao reinterpretar o Decamerão, e também em observar a presença do elemento cômico na teleficção, tendo em mente a construção de um discurso ficcional televisivo e a sua consequente produção de sentido. Para tal intento, desenvolvemos a nossa pesquisa por meio da análise do discurso ficcional, realizando um estudo interdisciplinar, onde aliamos as teorias da Comunicação, especificamente sobre a televisão, e da Narrativa, articuladas a aspectos de outros campos do conhecimento das ciências humanas, como a Literatura, o Cinema e a Sociologia. Desse modo, foi possível comentar aspectos do Decamerão, como o contexto da Peste Negra, a estrutura das novelas toscanas e a manifestação do elemento cômico; e ainda observar a microssérie a partir dos formatos teleficcionais que a compõem e da influência cênica exercida pela commedia dell arte na construção da sua dramaturgia. Assim, na última etapa da nossa dissertação, almejamos destacar em Decamerão: a comédia do sexo os principais elementos de uma adaptação teleficcional e os fatores presentes devido à logística de funcionamento da televisão. Por fim, analisamos o nosso corpus, o piloto Comer, amar e morrer, e realizamos o estudo de correlação com os outros quatro episódios que compõem a microssérie. Diante disso, objetivamos realizar uma pesquisa com interesse estético e comunicacional sobre um importante momento da produção teleficcional brasileira, configurado, em nossa dissertação, no estudo de Decamerão: a comédia do sexo.
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Goudmand, Anaïs. « Récits en partage. Expériences de la sérialité narrative en culture médiatique ». Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH115/document.
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Cette thèse vise à analyser les formes de l’expérience des récits sériels en culture médiatique, dans les différents supports à travers lesquels se sont déployés les feuilletons et les séries du XIXe au XXIe siècle (journal, bande dessinée, cinéma et télévision notamment). La relation des publics aux récits sériels est fondée sur la dynamique de la diffusion discontinue et de la récurrence, qui structurent une promesse de retrouvailles. Les expériences sérielles ne se limitent pas au moment d’actualisation des épisodes ni à l’objet « récit » en tant que tel : elles se prolongent de diverses manières durant le temps d’attente inter-épisodique. En outre, fondées sur l’échange et le partage, elles sont indissociables de la sociabilité qu’elles impliquent, ainsi que des interactions entre les pôles de la production et de la réception, qui passent par diverses médiatisations et favorisent la formation de communautés interprétatives. Il s’agit donc d’expériences médiatiquement situées : les caractéristiques thématiques ou formelles des récits ne sont pas détachables de facteurs économiques ni de leurs contextes de production et de réception. Afin de décrire la spécificité de l’engagement dans les récits sériels dans toute sa complexité, je propose de suivre une démarche intégrative, articulant l’étude des dispositifs narratifs et de la dimension sémantique des récits sériels à celle de leurs usages socioculturelsThis thesis analyses the modalities under which serial narratives are experienced in media culture, looking at the different media in which serials and series were developed from the 19th to the 21st century (newspapers, comics, cinema and television in particular). The way different audiences relate to serial narratives is grounded in the dynamics of discontinuous distribution and recurrence, thus framing their expectation of a renewed event. Serial experiences are not limited to the moment of reading or viewing, nor to the “narrative object” as such: they extend beyond it in various ways during the inter-episodic waiting time. Moreover, since these experiences are based on exchange and sharing, they are inseparable from the sociability they imply, as well as from diversely mediatized interactions between production and reception, which favor the emergence of interpretive communities. Therefore, these experiences are conditioned by the media from which they stem: the thematic and the formal dimensions cannot be separated from the material conditions, within the contexts of production and reception. In order to describe the specific modes of engagement of audiences with serial narratives in all its complexity, I follow an integrated approach, by studying narrative devices and the semantic dimension of serial narratives as well as their sociocultural uses
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Pelegrini, Christian Hugo. « Sujeito engraçado : a produção de comicidade pela instância de enunciação em Arrested Development ». Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-20052014-123431/.
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A pesquisa se volta para os mecanismos de enunciação nos sitcoms de câmera única e a produção de comicidade por parte do sujeito enunciador que emerge do texto audiovisual. O trabalho inicia com uma abordagem do gênero sitcom, considerando-o como uma categoria cultural, analisando, em seguida, como o sitcom se constituiu, ao longo das décadas de sua história, em uma variedade de temas e formas que negam qualquer tentativa de abordagem definicional do gênero.Propomos, então, uma análise da oposição entre os modos de produção recorrentes no gênero, o multicâmera e o câmera única. Nestes, observam-se procedimentos de encenação, cinegrafia e edição que produzem material audiovisual com características bem distintas, opondo formas textuais diferentes no interior de um mesmo gênero. Tais modos de produção (e tais formas textuais) vão se articular com as teorias da subjetividade audiovisual na identificação de uma instância mediadora dos diferentes sitcoms. Para tal, buscamos compreender o processo de enunciação audiovisual, perscrutando as formulações oriundas da linguística e revisando o arcabouço teórico das teorias da enunciação na literatura e, especialmente, no cinema. Buscamos também o arcabouço teórico que instrumentaliza a pesquisa para identificar os mecanismos de levam ao riso, revisando as principais formulações teóricas que explicam o fenômeno (a Teoria da Superioridade, a Teoria da Incongruência e a Teoria do Alívio). A partir de tais formulações, propomos uma taxonomia dos sintagmas cômicos que nos permita isolar os ocorrências de gags, eventos cômicos e mordacidade. É neste ponto que isolamos o sujeito da enunciação no contexto do sitcom, observando suas diferenças no sitcom de multicâmera e no sitcom de câmera única. Tomado este último, identificamos a pluralidade de estilos que resulta de mudanças na estética televisual americana ao longo das décadas de 1980 e 1990, em fenômenos conhecidos como televisualidade e continuidade intensificada, para chegar aos single camera sitcoms do começo do século XXI. Desta leva de programas, tomamos nosso objeto de análise, o sitcom Arrested Development, para analisar de que forma o seu sujeito enunciador vai além de sua função de mediador, ultrapassando-a em favor de uma atitude incisiva como comentador da diegese, francamente fazendo rir pelo modo como mostra personagens e situações.The research turns to the utterance mechanisms of single camera sitcoms and the making of comic by the utterance subject that comes from the audiovisual text. This work starts with an approach of sitcom genre, taking it as an cultural category, analyzing, then, how the sitcom constituted itself through the decades of its history, in a variety of themes and forms that denies any trying of definitional approach of the gender. Then, we propose an analysis of the opposition between the more usual modes of production of this gender, the multicam and the single camera. On these modes of production, we observe proceedings on staging, cinematography and edition that produces audiovisual material with very distinct characteristics, opposing textual forms in the same television gender. Such modes of production (and such textual forms) articulates with the audiovisual subjectivity theories identifying an utterance instance on different sitcoms. For such, we search understand the process of audiovisual utterance, searching on theories formulations arising from linguistics and reviewing the theory body from utterance on literature and, specially, cinema. We search also the theories that instrumentalizes this research for to identify the mechanisms that takes us to laugh, reviewing the main theoretical formulations that explains the phenomenon of laughing (the Superiority Theory, the Incongruence Theory and the Relief Theory). From such formulations, we propose a taxonomy of comic sintagms that allows us to isolate the occurrence of gags, comic events and wit. It is on this point that we isolate the subject of utterance in the sitcom context, looking for the differences between the multicam sitcom and the single camera sitcom. Taking the last one, we identify the plurality of styles that comes from the esthetical changes on American television by the decades of 1980 and 1990, known as televisuality and intensified continuity, to get to the single camera sitcoms of the beginning of XXI. From this wave of shows, we take the sitcom Arrested Development, to analyze the way its utterance subject goes beyond the mediation role, acting incisively as a diegesys commentator, frankly making us laugh by the way it shows characters and situations.
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Raynolds, Nicholas. « the emotional plague ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3773.
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The artist discusses his Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition “the emotional plague” held at the Reese Museum in Johnson City, Tennessee from March 2nd through March 27th, 2020 in which he examines a number of literary and invented narrative subjects influenced by science fiction, Surrealism and the current political climate in an attempt to reconcile the social and the personal through the creative act.
Largely improvisational in their conception, the paintings and drawings in this exhibition reflect ideas derived from writers, thinkers and artists including Wilhelm Reich, J.G. Ballard, W.S. Burroughs and Goya, all distilled through the uncertain territory of Raynolds’ personal, internal landscape. He utilizes an amalgam of characters, tropes, and stories as metaphorical expressions of social psychosis and decay.
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Bonord, Aude. « Le saint et l’écrivain : variations de l’hagiographie dans la littérature non confessionnelle au XXe siècle (Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Delteil, André Gide, Christian Bobin, Sylvie Germain, Claude Louis-Combet) ». Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040171.
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Cette étude explore un paradoxe littéraire et culturel : la réécriture de vies de saints chrétiens, historiques ou imaginaires, par des auteurs non confessionnels du XXe siècle (André Gide, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Delteil, Christian Bobin, Sylvie Germain, Claude Louis-Combet). Quelles variations firent-ils subir au genre hagiographique et à la figure du saint par rapport à la tradition médiévale, représentée au premier chef par La Légende dorée, mais aussi par rapport à la tradition catholique, religieuse et littéraire, représentée par leurs confrères contemporains ? Pour des auteurs empreints de modernité ou vivant à l’heure de la « postmodernité », que signifie ce ressourcement inattendu ?Situé à la croisée de l’anthropologie, de l’histoire littéraire, de l’histoire de la spiritualité et des idées, notre travail analyse tout d’abord les bases d’une hagiographie non confessionnelle, de l’itinéraire spirituel des auteurs à la définition de leur statut atypique, de l’image du saint qu’ils façonnent à l’élaboration d’un modèle de sainteté. La seconde partie évoque les métamorphoses du genre, du jeu subversif au glissement vers la fiction de l’intime et la littérature d’idées. Nous montrons, enfin, comment l’hagiographie cristallise une réflexion sur le statut de l’écrivain, la fonction de la littérature, les pouvoirs du langage et la conception de la langue littéraireThe purpose of this work is to explore a literary and cultural paradox : the re-writings of lives of Christian saints, both historical and fictional, by non-confessional authors of the twentieth century (André Gide, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Delteil, Christian Bobin, Sylvie Germain, Claude Louis-Combet). What variations did they bring to the hagiographical genre and to the figure of the saint compared to the mediaeval tradition, as exemplified by the Légende Dorée, and to Catholic tradition, both religious and literary, represented by fellow authors of the same period ? Furthermore, what is the meaning of this unexpected return to the origins on the part of authors marked by the modern world or living in a post-modern context ?At the crossroads of anthropology, literary history, history of Religions and Ideas, this work aims first of all at exploring the basis of non-confessional hagiography, from the spiritual quest of the author to the definition of their atypical status, from the depiction of the saint to the definition of a model of sainthood. In the second part, we will probe the metamorphoses of the genre, how the subversive play shifts towards the fiction of intimacy and the literature of ideas. Finally, we will try to demonstrate how hagiography combines reflections on the status of the writer, the function of literature, the powers of language and the conception of a literary language
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Langeo, Gaëlle. « Jeunesse, culture, société en Grande-Bretagne 1978-2009 : l'exemple du "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ». Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30039.
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Cette recherche porte sur The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, une série de science-fiction humoristique britannique créée pour la BBC Radio 4 en 1978. Sur la période étudiée (1978 – 2009), la série a été déclinée sur tous les supports que peut offrir la culture de masse. Dans les premières années, la série trouve un écho important auprès des adolescents, des étudiants et des jeunes adultes. L’auteur de la série - Douglas Adams - a gardé la main sur toutes les incarnations de Hitchhiker’s. Au cours de sa vie, l’auteur de cette science-fiction qui veut faire rire a progressivement été qualifié de « gourou de la technologie » par la presse. Les grandes passions de Douglas Adams étaient effectivement au nombre de quatre : les ordinateurs, l’évolution des espèces, les Beatles et les Monty Pythons. Cette recherche s’attache donc à comprendre comme ces quatre éléments se sont articulés dans la vie de Douglas Adams, l’influence qu’ils ont eu sur Hitchhiker’s et ce que le succès de la série dit des évolutions de la société britannique. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy arrive à un moment où les attentes changent en matière de comédie, comme le montre l’essor de l’Alternative Comedy. La percée de Hitchhiker’s se déroule aussi dans un contexte où la technologie prend de l’importance dans la vie quotidienne et où la culture geek prend forme, à la croisée des mondes imaginaires et de l’informatique. Le retentissement de la série peut aussi se voir comme un témoignage de l’existence de ce que le sociologue Mike Savage a appelé la classe moyenne technique. Par ailleurs, en voulant créer un album de rock pour la radio, Douglas Adams a produit une fiction en adéquation avec l’univers sonore de la jeunesse des années 1970. La technologie du studio stimule la créativité, tout comme l’ordinateur personnel le fera dans les années 1980This research focuses on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a British science-fiction comedy series created for BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Over the study period (1978-2009), the series was provided to the public in all possible formats that mass culture can offer. In its first years the series attracted a strong audience among teenagers, students and young adults. Douglas Adams, the series’ author, maintained control over all the incarnations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Over the course of his life, the author of this science fiction series, made to make people laugh, gradually became known as a ‘‘technology guru” by the press. Indeed, Douglas Adams had four great passions : computers, evolution of species, the Beatles and the Pythons. Therefore, this research endeavours to understand how these four topics were expressed in Douglas Adams’ life, the influence they had on Hitchhiker’s and how this series’ success shows the evolution of British society. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy occurs at a time when expectations towards comedy were changing, as shown by the rise of Alternative Comedy. Hitchhiker’s breakthrough also takes place at a time when technology was gaining importance in daily life and geek culture was developing, at the crossroads of imaginary worlds and computer science. The series’ impact can also be considered as evidence of what the sociologist Mike Savage called the technical middle class. In addition, by creating a rock album for the radio, Douglas Adams created a fantasy consistent with the musical universe of the 1970s youth. The technology used in the radio studio stimulates creativity, just like the personal computer will do in the 1980s
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CHAVES, Gabriel Lyra. « Narragonia 3.0 : ficção científica e tecnognose em experimentações narrativas gráficas ». Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2784.
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Previous issue date: 2011-04-28This work, done for the area of Visual Poetics and Creation Processes, set out in search of two distinct objectives: a theoretical reflection that embraces the language of comics, science fiction and tecnognose, noting the relationship of these two last elements in comic works of the early 1980s; and create a graphic narrative that reflects what was learned in theoretical deliberation. To do so, I ve examined the elements that constitute the language of comics, watching how they relate to each other in order to convey a message and generate subjective reactions in readers in the context of the story. I ve investigated how this narrative genre is structured, and at what points it approximates or take distances from other narrative genres. I ve also looked for relationships between science fiction and the definition of techgnosis, a concept which ponders about the manifestation of transcendental yearnings among supposedly secular aspects of contemporary culture. Done this theoretical approach, I will analyze two comics: Akira, from Katsuhiro Otomo and Ronin, from Frank Miller, observing the articulation of the concepts brought up to date within these comics. And finally, I will deliberate on how I had built my own fictional universe, and how this speaks to the theoretical elements studied throughout this thesis, also reflecting on the formal aspects of the creation of imagery to Narragonia 3.0, a science fiction narrative structure based on the language of comics, but designed to exploit the multiple narrative possibilities brought about by social networks, sites and other digital media over the Internet.
Esta pesquisa em poéticas visuais e processos de criação busca dois objetivos distintos: tecer uma reflexão teórica que abarque a linguagem das histórias em quadrinhos, a ficção científica e a tecnognose, observando o relacionamento destes elementos em duas obras de quadrinhos da década de 1980; e criar uma narrativa gráfica que dialogue de forma dinâmica com os aspectos envolvidos na reflexão teórica. Para tanto, analisei os elementos que constituem a linguagem dos quadrinhos, observando como eles se articulam para reforçar a mensagem no contexto da narrativa. Também procuro mostrar como o gênero narrativo da Ficção Científica se estrutura, e em que pontos se distancia e aproxima de outros gêneros narrativos. Busco tecer relações entre ficção científica e a definição de tecnognose, conceito que pondera sobre a manifestação de anseios transcendentais em meio a aspectos supostamente laicos da cultura contemporânea. Feito este recorte teórico, analisei duas obras de quadrinhos: Akira, de Katsuhiro Otomo e Ronin, de Frank Miller, observando a articulação de elementos específicos das histórias em quadrinhos e da ficção científica e da tecnognose. Finalmente, elaboro um histórico de como foi construído meu próprio universo ficcional, Narragonia 3.0, e como este dialoga com os elementos teóricos estudados ao longo da presente dissertação, refletindo também sobre os aspectos formais da criação imagética desta narrativa de ficção científica baseada primordialmente na linguagem dos quadrinhos, mas criada para explorar as múltiplas possibilidades narrativas trazidas por redes sociais, sites e outros suportes digitais presentes na rede Internet.
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Piper, Paige M. « Deathly Landscapes : The Changing Topography of Contemporary French Policier in Visual and Narrative Media ». The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469133497.
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Giddens, Thomas Philip. « Comics, crime, and the moral self : an interdisciplinary study of criminal identity ». Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3622.
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An ethical understanding of responsibility should entail a richly qualitative comprehension of the links between embodied, unique individuals and their lived realities of behaviour. Criminal responsibility theory broadly adheres to ‘rational choice’ models of the moral self which subsume individuals’ emotionally embodied dimensions under the general direction of their rational will and abstracts their behaviour from corporeal reality. Linking individuals with their behaviour based only on such understandings of ‘rational choice’ and abstract descriptions of behaviour overlooks the phenomenological dimensions of that behaviour and thus its moral significance as a lived experience. To overcome this ethical shortcoming, engagement with the aesthetic as an alternative discourse can help articulate the ‘excessive’ nature of lived reality and its relationship with ‘orthodox’ knowledge; fittingly, the comics form involves interaction of rational, non-rational, linguistic, and non-linguistic dimensions, modelling the limits of conceptual thought in relation to complex reality. Rational choice is predicated upon a split between a contextually embedded self and an abstractly autonomous self. Analysis of the graphic novel Watchmen contends that prioritisation of rational autonomy over sensual experience is symptomatic of a ‘rational surface’ that turns away from the indeterminate ‘chaos’ of complex reality (the unstructured universe), instead maintaining the power of rational and linguistic concepts to order the world. This ‘rational surface’ is maintained by masking that which threatens its stability: the chaos of the infinite difference of living individuals. These epistemological foundations are reconfigured, via Watchmen, enabling engagement beyond the ‘rational surface’ by accepting the generative potential of this living chaos and calling for models of criminal identity that are ‘restless’, acknowledging the unique, shifting nature of individuals, and not tending towards ‘complete’ or stable concepts of the self-as-responsible. As part of the aesthetic methodology of this reconfiguration, a radical extension of legal theory’s analytical canon is developed.
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Ivarsson, Marcus. « Ultima Thule ». Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & ; illustration, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6918.
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The graduation work Ultima Thule made up by four parts, the first one is a science fiction world buliding made up of scripts, notes and sketches, the second one is a science fiction comic book in the edition of 200 with the name Everything in one place, this is the first part of the Ultima Thule-world. The third part is this report with text explaining the work process, and the third part was the participation in the Konstfack Spring Exhibition, this is also described in the report. Ultima Thule is a narrative about the end of humanity set in three Swedish cities; Västerås, Uppsala and Stockholm.
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Fisk, William M. « The Horse's Ass : A Survey of Comediology ». ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2404.
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What is comedy? Can someone learn to be funny? Are there rules or guidelines for the production of laughter, the universal language? This paper, which outlines an investigation of successful comedians and the production of a short film, determines to aggregate as many of the relevant prerequisites of inducing giggles as possible, especially as they relate to the audiovisual medium of cinema.
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Gaspar, Andrea Marques. « 'Where does the new come from?' : an ethnography of design performances of 'the new' ». Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/where-does-the-new-come-from-an-ethnography-of-design-performances-of-the-new(cd77bec4-ba9b-48ed-b2c4-f53ed0eb7e03).html.
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The core concern of my thesis is with shifting the focus from the description on how innovation is done (predominantly STS accounts of innovation in-the-making) to what designers do with conceptions of innovation. The thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork within a group of interaction designers of Milan. Despite the different conceptions and traditions of innovation that these designers bring in – the artistic and technological ones – I observed that a design-centered conception of innovation is reproduced, as well as the idea that plans and intentions precede things. However, another key idea of my fieldwork is the importance designers give to imagining things as they might be, rather than focusing on how things are. This is where different models of action, planned and open ones coexist in creative ways: it is these processes that the ethnography details.
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Johansson, David. « Project Awaiting : #projectawaiting is about movement:of people with stories;stories in need of time ; your time ! initiated April 18, 2017 as part of a master's @ sh.se ». Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34604.
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The master’s project consists of two parts: the journalistic part Project Awaiting (texts) including four journalistic genres and the subsequent Research Report Project Awaiting. These are 23 pages and 32 pages respectively.
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Salas, Leslie. « Mirrors and Vanities ». Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5697.
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Mirrors and Vanities is a multi-modal collection which showcases the diversity of working in long and short storytelling forms. Featured in this thesis are fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and screenplay. Using unconventional approaches to storytelling in order to achieve emotional resonance with the audience while maintaining high standards for craft, these stories and essays explore the costs inherent to the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships. The fiction focuses on the complications of characters keeping secrets. A husband discovers the truth behind his wife's miscarriage. A girl visits her fiance in purgatory. A boy crosses a line and loses his best friend. Meanwhile, the nonfiction centers on self-discovery and gender roles associated with power struggles. A schizophrenic threatens to ruin my mother's wedding. I rediscover my relationship with my father through food writing. Sword-work teaches me to fail and succeed at making martial art. The title work of the thesis is a collaged story highlighting the tribulations of a physicist fixated on recovering his lost love by manipulating the multiverse. The multi-modal format implicates the nebulosity of physics theories and how different aspects of the narrative can be presented in various formats to best suit the nature of the storytelling. Through the interactions of characters in mundane and extraordinary circumstances, the works in this thesis examine the consequences of choice, the contrast between reality and expectation, coming of age, and the Truth of narrative.M.F.A.
Masters
English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing
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Whitcher, Gary Frederick. « 'More than America' : some New Zealand responses to American culture in the mid-twentieth century ». Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6304.
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This thesis focuses on a transformational but disregarded period in New Zealand’s twentieth century history, the era from the arrival of the Marines in 1942 to the arrival of Rock Around the Clock in 1956. It examines one of the chief agents in this metamorphosis: the impact of American culture. During this era the crucial conduits of that culture were movies, music and comics. The aims of my thesis are threefold: to explore how New Zealanders responded to this cultural trinity, determine the key features of their reactions and assess their significance.
The perceived modernity and alterity of Hollywood movies, musical genres such as swing, and the content and presentation of American comics and ‘pulps’, became the sources of heated debate during the midcentury. Many New Zealanders admired what they perceived as the exuberance, variety and style of such American media. They also applauded the willingness of the cultural triptych to appropriate visual, textual and musical forms and styles without respect for the traditional classifications of cultural merit. Such perceived standards were based on the privileged judgements of cultural arbiters drawn from members of New Zealand’s educational and civic elites. Key figures within these elites insisted that American culture was ‘low’, inferior and commodified, threatening the dominance of a sacrosanct, traditional ‘high’culture. Many of them also maintained that these American cultural imports endangered both the traditionally British nature of our cultural heritage, and New Zealand’s distinctively ‘British’ identity.
Many of these complaints enfolded deeper objections to American movies, music and literary forms exemplified by comics and pulps. Significant intellectual and civic figures portrayed these cultural modes as pernicious and malignant, because they were allegedly the product of malignant African-American, Jewish and capitalist sources, which threatened to poison the cultural and social values of New Zealanders, especially the young. In order to justify such attitudes, these influential cultural guardians portrayed the general public as an essentially immature, susceptible, unthinking and puritanical mass. Accordingly, this public, supposedly ignorant of the dangers posed by American culture, required the intervention and protection of members of this elite.
Responses to these potent expressions of American culture provide focal points which both illuminate and reflect wider social, political and ideological controversies within midcentury New Zealand. Not only were these reactions part of a process of comprehension and negotiation of new aesthetic styles and media modes. They also represent an arena of public and intellectual contention whose significance has been neglected or under-valued. New Zealanders’ attitudes towards the new cinematic, literary and musical elements of American culture occurred within a rich and revealing socio-political and ideological context. When we comment on that culture we reveal significant features of our own national and cultural selves.
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Najarian, Jonathan. « Images of modernist fiction : literary and pictorial narrative from Joyce to Spiegelman ». Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/41528.
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This project develops a new context for understanding the rise of the graphic novel by linking the grammar of comics as a form to the multimedia experiments of modernist writing. Presenting a counter-history of comics, I show how the form can be traced not just to the emergence of newspaper comics, as critics routinely claim, but also to the intermedial strain of modernist avant-garde fiction. With developments in photomechanical engraving and offset lithography, the space of the printed page increasingly became a zone of uncertain contact between text and image. Taking up a number of different genres—philosophy, modernist prose, book illustrations, and the wordless novel in woodcuts—I argue that modernist writing and early experiments in graphic narrative alike responded to this transformation of the book’s materiality by imagining new modes of literary and pictorial storytelling.
While comics scholars often trace the rise of the graphic novel to the work of Winsor McCay, George Herriman, and other early-century newspaper cartoonists, I offer a history and an aesthetics of graphic narrative that takes full account of the medium’s roots in the debates and collaborative practices of the modernist avant-garde. Graphic narratives undoubtedly take their grammar—panels, word balloons, motion lines—from newspaper comics. But they also become aesthetically entangled with the intermedial dimension of modernist writing. Literary modernism, I argue, is not a high cultural tradition that graphic novelists want to attack and overturn. It is instead a tradition that foregrounded the questions about media, language, and narrative that dominate contemporary graphic fiction. Exploring the dynamic connection between modernists like Joyce, Matisse, Rockwell Kent, and Lynn Ward, this project seeks to uncover the buried history of modernism’s kinship with the graphic novel, a kinship based on the legacy of inter-art experimentation that characterizes both modernist fiction and graphic narrative.2022-10-09T00:00:00Z
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Cooper, Amanda. « A case study of feminist comedy in Muriel Spark's Robinson ». Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:50872.
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Muriel Spark’s comedy is unnerving, thought-provoking and under-researched. Few studies have inquired into the literary and/or feminist impulses behind the ubiquitous humour of this author’s twenty-two novels. Advancing a fresh interpretation of one of Spark’s least discussed novels, this thesis aims to establish a deep and detailed understanding of how comedy functions in her work. Generally considered a difficult, inferior follow-up to her much lauded debut as a novelist, Robinson has received little critical attention. But reading this novel in the light of recent literary and cultural critical approaches to women’s comedy and feminist humour, this understudied, undervalued novel emerges as a profoundly feminist work by an obliquely and uniquely feminist author. Its comedy and humour allow both heroine and author to resist insidious masculine takeovers, critique patriarchal systems which disallow female participation in literature and culture and, finally, suggest an alternative, better future for womankind, mankind and humankind. Though rarely read through a feminist lens, this thesis aims to (re)consider the questions of whether and in what way Spark may be understood as a feminist author. Additionally, it gestures towards how a similar approach might prove fruitful in reading other Spark texts, as well as other female comic texts.
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Murphy, Martin J. « "Hilarious downfall : comic affect and the shared grammar of literary and screen comedy narratives" ». Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:49724.
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This thesis examines the operating principles of comedy narratives across literary and screen forms and describes how we can feel a positive affective response, or comic affect, towards characters we identify with in darker comedy narratives that end in failure. This is not as negatively affective as it may sound. Our bodies fall apart, people are annoying and the world doesn’t care if we fail, but our suffering is all fuel for comedy. Comedy narratives, as a general audience expectation, often end in success but failure is a fundamental narrative driver. The failure of the comic character, for various reasons examined in this research, will pilot this thesis on comic affect and its operation in the comedy narrative. Psychologist Silvan S. Tomkins writes of human suffering that “the distance between aspiration and achievement is a perennial source of distress” (313). And this distance is failure, the gap between aspiration and explosion, a permanent condition of the comedy mode. Comic affect takes our distress and places it at some distance from ourselves, giving us room to laugh, a positive affect. I have selected comedy narratives for analysis across a range of media and format as exemplars that value failure as an essential truth about human existence. I also contend that comic affect in both literary and screen comedy narratives is achieved by creating comic distance between the reader or viewer and the narrative. Furthermore the characters of literary and screen comedy narratives are defamiliarised by their comic subjectivity and limitations through the operating principles of exaggeration, comedic incongruity, and the abstraction of violence.
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FRENCL, Ondřej. « Komiksová parafráze literární předlohy Julese Verna ». Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-381092.
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This master thesis called Comics Paraphrase of Jules Verne´s Original Book consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the personality of Jules Verne, his literary works and his influence on the genre of science fiction. The thesis is also dealing with adaptations of the book Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. The final section of the theoretical part is presenting comics as an art form. The practical part consists of a realization of a set of drawings in the form of a comic book, a documentation of the drawing workflow is a part of annex I. - IV.
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Williams, Simon 1984. « Nerds of Colors Assemble : The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Fandom ». Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148312.
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With shows such as Big Bang Theory and the increased mainstreaming of San Diego Comic-con, now more than ever before, it is acceptable to be a “nerd”. The question now becomes what efforts are being made to appeal to fans of color in traditional “nerd” activities, specifically comic books (this can include television shows and movies based on comic book characters), anime, and science fiction. Throughout the decades, there have been various attempts to have a discourse about the lack of diversity in nerd culture, both among its creators and characters from various properties considered beloved to nerds. Only, at the time of this writing, in recent years does there seem to be an increase among fans of color discussing these issues in the world at large, and not just in their own social group(s). This research will discover how minority fans feel about representation, or lack thereof, in the three above fandom. It will examine how minority fans feel about specific instants involving race and ethnicity in fandom from the past year. What I have discovered is that, issues of race are not discussed among the majority of fans and creators. Occasionally, when such issues are discussed there is an amount of hostility from white fans.
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Janvier-Jalbert, Francis. « Super-héros victoriens : la transfictionnalité dans The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, suivi de Fiction Party ». Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23735.
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La transfictionnalité, concept proche de celui de transtextualité, est définie par Richard Saint-Gelais comme « le phénomène par lequel au moins deux textes, du même auteur ou non, se rapportent conjointement à une même fiction, que ce soit par reprise de personnages, prolongement d’une intrigue préalable ou partage d’univers fictionnel ». Ce mémoire de recherche-création étudie l’usage qu’Alan Moore et Kevin O’Neill font de la transfictionnalité dans leur bande dessinée The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999-2019), et plus spécifiquement leur recyclage du matériel narratif du XIXe siècle britannique, marqué par la Révolution industrielle et les politiques impérialistes du règne de la reine Victoria. Il s’agit de mieux comprendre comment les personnages de la littérature de l’époque victorienne sont réappropriés par les auteurs, transformés et recontextualisés de manière à critiquer la culture et la société qui les a d’abord générés. Fiction Party est quant à lui un récit transfictif et autofictif dans lequel Francis, le personnage principal, est invité par erreur à une soirée donnée en l’honneur de la fiction au château de Dracula. Il y fait la rencontre d’innombrables personnages des littératures de tous les pays et de toutes les époques, parmi lesquels Antigone, Meursault, Emma Bovary, Don Quichotte, ou encore le shérif de Nottingham. Au cours de la fête, cependant, un meurtre est commis, et ces grandes figures littéraires doivent alors résoudre le mystère et identifier l’assassin, dans un hommage aux récits d’enquêtes d’Arthur Conan Doyle et Agatha Christie.Transfictionnality, a concept close to that of transtextuality, is defined by Richard Saint Gelais as "the phenomenon by which at least two texts, from the same author or not, relate jointly to the same fiction, whether by resumption of characters, extension of a previous plot or sharing a fictional universe". This Master’s thesis in research-creation examines Alan Moore's and Kevin O'Neill's use of transfictionnality in their graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999-2019), and more specifically their recycling of narrative material from nineteenth century Great Britain, which is marked by the Industrial Revolution and the imperialist policies of the reign of Queen Victoria. Our aim is to better understand how the characters of literature of the Victorian era are appropriated by the authors, transformed and recontextualized so as to criticize the culture and the society that first generated them. Fiction Party is a transfictive and autofictional narrative in which Francis, the main character, is mistakenly invited to a party in honor of fiction at Dracula's Castle. He meets countless literary characters from every country and every epoch, including Antigone, Meursault, Emma Bovary, Don Quixote, and the sheriff of Nottingham. During the festivities, however, a murder is committed, and these great literary characters must then solve the mystery and identify the culprit, in a tribute to the detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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Whelan, David. « Bood, a Novel ». 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/englmfa_theses/114.
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Noras, Francisco Miguel Raimundo. « Humor e ficção na produção de conteúdos audiovisuais ». Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14577.
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O
presente
relatório
de
estágio
reflete
sobre
a
produção
de
conteúdos
audiovisuais
no
Canal
Q,
com
base
no
Humor
e
na
Ficção.
A
ele
adjacente,
encontramos
uma
reflexão
teórica
sobre
o
poder
do
Humor,
enquanto
instrumento
de
comunicação,
ao
longo
da
história.
Este
trabalho
pondera
a
relação
partilhada
entre
o
riso,
Humor
e,
em
última
análise,
a
Comédia.
Sendo
o
primeiro
o
reflexo
físico
do
segundo
e
o
terceiro,
a
sua
aplicação
dramática,
tentaremos
compreender
em
que
medida
podemos
caraterizar
esse
conceito
amplo
e
vago
que
é
o
Humor.
Mais
que
um
estado
de
espírito,
mais
que
um
género
literário
ou
cinematográfico,
o
Humor
é
uma
linguagem
muito
específica,
com
traços
estilísticos
próprios
e
com
um
poder
sociopolítico
muito
peculiar.
Para
além
da
sua
faceta
lúdica,
que
permite
um
enorme
poder
de
agregação
de
audiência,
muito
evidenciada
na
indústria
do
entretenimento,
o
Humor
revela-‐se
uma
verdadeira
arma
de
poder
político.
Com
este
entendimento
sobre
o
humor,
é
mais
fácil
compreender
a
importância
da
produção
de
conteúdos
humorísticos
nas
plataformas
audiovisuais
e
de
que
maneira
essa
produção
poderá
afetar
a
sociedade
e
o
Homem.