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  • Horreur et fantastique: L'Animalité dans le film Nosferatu de Murnau 

    Margat, Claire (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    Fantastic and horror, as they are experienced through literature, do not create fear in the same way. The feeling of the fantastic comes from the acceptance of the existence of a strange and disquieting alternate universe. ...
  • I'm Not Scared' ...: I'm Marketable 

    Cristiano, Anthony (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
    This article is a critical assessment of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel and Gabriele Salvatores' homonymous film I'm not scared in their attempt at portraying the point of view of a child within an Italian family at the end of ...
  • Il terrore e lo sguardo 

    La Polla, Franco (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    What is horror's discourse and what is the discourse on horror? The inventor of terror is power – a concept of power that has its ultimate horizon in the divine. But in hell, on the screen or on the page, horror is elsewhere. ...
  • Jules Verne au pays du manga 

    Suvilay, Bounthavy (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
    Jules Verne is still known nowadays because of his technological imagination, and has considerably influenced two of the major authors of Japanese animation: Hayao Miyazaki (Chihiro's Travels) and Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis ...
  • L'Anarchiste' dans le cinéma de fiction français: Un Motif singulier entre caricature bienveillante et charge malintentionnée 

    Marinone, Isabelle (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
    Since the end of the 19th century, anarchists have been represented almost exclusively as violent, godless and lawless terrorists. This caricature, loosely based upon some real propagandists of the period from 1892 to 1894 ...
  • L'ultimo upgrade 

    Pellegrini, Valerio (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
    The symbiosis between man and technology is obvious in the robot who is the main character of the movie Bicentennial Man, adapted in 1999 from Isaac Asimov's short story bearing the same title. The humanist search of ...
  • La Chick lit ou les mémoires d'une jeune femme 'dérangée' 

    Olivier, Severine (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
    In 1998, in France, Helen FIELDING's Bridget Jones' Diary met with great success and stimulated literary imitators, while on TV, series such as Ally MacBeal and Sex and the City were widely followed. "chick lit" is now in ...
  • La Planète Mars dans les romans de science-fiction anglo-saxons des années 1990: La Peur du monstre de pierre 

    Villers, Aurelie (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    When it deals with the planet Mars, nineteen-nineties science-fiction faces an alternative: either the heroes adapt to Mars' hard conditions (and that's "pantropy"), or they adapt Mars to make it livable for human beings ...
  • Le Genre cinématographique: Une Catégorie de l'interprétation 

    Moine, Raphaelle (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
  • Les Vampires 

    Chazal, Serge (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
    What was the influence of the First World War upon French cinema? This article offers an interpretation of the effects of the conflict on the movie scene of the time, mostly through an analysis of Louis Feuillades' famous ...
  • Seres fantà¡sticos japoneses en la literatura y en el cine: Obakemono, Yurei, Yokai y Kaidan 

    Hidalgo, Cora Requena (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2009)
    In Japan, fantastic beings have been featured in countless stories, belonging to both popular and elite culture, from the beginnings of literature in the eighth century to the present day. They have illustrated the desires, ...
  • Textures of Terror: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day 

    Morrey, Douglas (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    Like her last film Beau travail (1998), Trouble Every Day (2001) sees Claire Denis taking a sexual narrative that has been familiarised through theoretical (often psychoanalytic) interpretation and filming it in such a way ...