Browsing Electronic Text Centre (ETC) by Subject "genre study"
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Ce genre n'existe pas-pourquoi l'inventer?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)Stand-up comedy is as low-brow as they come: oral, popular/vulgar, and of course not serious. It is also hardly studied by French academic criticism. In its case, even the problem of the devaluation of media genres (genre ... -
The Dragon Lady's Well Favored Children: The Transition from Corporatist to Individualist in Comic Strips of 1930s
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)In the 1930s the heroes of American comic strips underwent a significant transformation. Beginning as clowns or as personifications of the values of social elites, comic strip heroes were after 1929 increasingly alienated ... -
Eclipse, exil et survie du krimi en Allemagne nazie (1933-1945)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)The German Krimi from the Nazi period finds itself in an ambiguous ideological position: how does one narrate the crime and its resolution when delinquency is not to be mentioned under the Third Reich and the police becomes ... -
Ecrire pour la jeunesse, ou comment voler la vedette à Super Mario?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)English: Writing for young people, or How to steal Super Mario's spotlight. What is the nature of the opposition between children's literature and the other media, particularly video games? This article deals with the ... -
Il romanzo poliziesco italiano, 1964-2007: La memoria tra noir, enigmi e post-fascismo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Italian detective stories have strong ties with noir fiction since the beginning of the Sixties. Among other cultural issues, the rapid industrialization of Italy after the Second World War and all its subsequent phenomena ... -
La Chick lit ou les mémoires d'une jeune femme 'dérangée'
(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 Fièvre dans le sens
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)As the enhanced echo chamber of a society, of its complexities and its world of representations, the thriller prefers private individual conflicts to collective tensions. But beyond the drama and interpersonal conflicts, ... -
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 Récits médiatiques de grande diffusion au prisme de l'argumentation dans le discours: Le Cas du roman feuilleton
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Stratégies narratives et mises en scène lexicales du roman sentimental sériel contemporain: L'Auteure, le corps et les sentiments
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Love novels apparently suffer from an identity problem. It is generally thought that their women writers produce virtually identical novels according to a fixed recipe, described by Gustave Reynier as "a love, an obstacle, ...