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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, ...
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 ...
Le Genre cinématographique: Une Catégorie de l'interprétation
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...