Browsing Dalhousie University Libraries by Subject "dramatic arts"
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Horreur et fantastique: L'Animalité dans le film Nosferatu de Murnau
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 Planète Mars dans les romans de science-fiction anglo-saxons des années 1990: La Peur du monstre de pierre
(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
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Le Genre comme outil d'interprétation en réception: Le Cas des téléséries chiliennes
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)Most research on the telenovela views this type of TV production as a genre with relatively stable characteristics. The research conducted for this article, dealing with identification processes in the reception of the ... -
Les Fictions à épisodes télévisuelles: Quelle place pour les personnages secondaires face aux héros multiples?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Characters in TV serials are less and less alone. This phenomenon of the "multiple hero" is not new. One can therefore wonder whether secondary characters still have a role to play in this system. The analysis of three ... -
Les Formes à épisodes, des structures multi-médiatiques (parallélisme et interaction des ensembles paralittéraires et télévisés)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)English: Serials as multi-media structures (similarities and interactions between paraliterary and TV narratives). TV and popular literature influence each other since they both make use of similar structures, the two kinds ... -
Les Vampires
(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 ... -
Quand le cow boy n'est plus solitaire: Profil et fonction diégétique de la partenaire féminine dans quelques séries policières de la télévision: Rick Hunter, Law and Order: Criminal Intent et Crime Scene Investigation
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article deals with a specific relation within TV productions: that between the principal investigator and his assistant in detective serials. This grouping of two characters often of the opposite sex offers an interesting ... -
Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à la fusion
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Through the history of a sub-genre of science-fiction (cartoons featuring giant robots), this article attempts to identify how the robot switches roles, going from simple instrument to essential part of the plot. The various ... -
Seres fantà¡sticos japoneses en la literatura y en el cine: Obakemono, Yurei, Yokai y Kaidan
(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
(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 ...