Browsing by Subject "Film"
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Adapting Tristram Shandy
(2011-09-07)Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has been noted as an unconventional eighteenth-century novel and it has long been considered unadaptable and unfilmable. In the last decade, however, ... -
Are You Hungrier Than a Fifth Grader? The Rise of the Monstrous Child in The Walking Dead
(2016-09-01)Contemporary Western zombie narratives have become overrun with the little girl zombie. This figure exists in a liminal space: its function in the narrative is difficult to pinpoint because—even as monster—it is often ... -
Cinema during the first two decades of the Soviet Union: how censorship of the arts inhibits the dissemination of information
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)This paper examines the increased censorship that film experienced during the inaugural decades of the Soviet Union. Through an overview of the different genres and trends of Soviet cinema during this time, I draw parallels ... -
Revising Documentary Modes: a Critical Study of American Iraq and Afghanistan War Documentaries, 2003 – present
(2014-10-27)This thesis identifies and examines a corpus of American documentary films, released between 2003 and 2014, that concern themselves with the US’ recent concurrent land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Employing Bill Nichols ... -
Robert Bresson et l'absence sublime
(2015-04-10)This thesis asserts that the demanding body of work of French filmmaker Robert Bresson may be better understood through the notion of sublime absence which we develop and present here. To begin, we offer a survey of the ...