University of Glasgow Department of Film and Television Studies Beyond “Brutality”: Understanding the Italian Filone’s Violent Excesses by Robert J. Edmonstone Matriculation #: 9703623 Supervisors: Dr. Ian Garwood / Dr. Karen Boyle 2 Contents Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Introducing the Filone: Industry‚ Cycles and Censorship 2. Investigating Violence and Spectacle in the Filone 3. Theorising Excess and Violence in the Filone 4. Narrative versus Excess in the Filone
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Analyse de textes littéraires anglais « Vin ordinaire – D.H Lawrence » INTRODUCTION : In a short story‚ details are very important. Everything must be explained. The reader needs to go line by line like a fine tooth comb. Focus on the details and the meaning of them. We have to read with a dictionary and prove our justifications with evidences in the text and biography. Literature is also an art; it wakes up our imagination and emotions. THE TITLE: Vin Ordinaire or Thorn in the flesh
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Narrators in Film and Novel In this chapter‚ Stam introduces the different styles of narrators in Novel. According to him‚ they vary from the first-person report-narrator to the multiple letter writers of epistolary novels‚ to outside-observer narrators of reflexive novels like Don Quixote and Tom Jones‚ to the once intimate and impersonal narrator of Madame Bovary‚ to the “stream-of-consciousness” narrators‚ on to the intensely objective/subjective obsessional narrators of Robbe-Grillet. What
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Critical Theory Notes 8/27/2014 Practical Criticism → close reading I.A. Richards introduces Practical Criticism and centers on close analysis of the words that comprise each page of text William Empson was a pupil of Richard’s. He applies an assiduously strict‚ almost mathematical formula to textual analysis‚ the drawback of which is that the flexibility of language is largely discounted. F.R. Leavis‚ along with Q. D. Roth (whom he eventually marries)‚ takes the process of close reading to
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1 “Fantasy and Myth in Pan’s Labyrinth: Analysis of Guillermo del Toro´s Symbolic Imagery.” The ancient myth of Cronus (or “Saturn” for the Romans). is at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). Del Toro revealed that a major inspiration for the creation of the supernatural creatures in the film was painter Francisco de Goya. In fact the scene were the Pale Man bites the fairies in half and gobbles them up is a direct reference to one of Goya’s most famous Black Paintings: “Saturn
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HOME ABOUT THEORIES SEARCH SITE MAP CONTACT US LINKS STUDYING LITERATURE You are here : Home Page / Theories / Derrida / Deconstruction and différance AVAILABLE LANGUAGES Consultez cette page en FRANÇAIS Consult this page in ENGLISH Deconstruction and différance By Lucie Guillemette and Josiane Cossette Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières lucie_guillemette@uqtr.ca 1. ABSTRACT` DERRIDA Jacques Derrida ’s theory of the sign fits into the poststructuralist movement‚ which runs
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Vin ordinaire by Lawrence Lawrence His biography can help understand his work but it is not enough: his work exceeds his life. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a very isolated man but was also a visionary. He came to maturity at period of WWI‚ a time of political and cultural changes when the question “where is the western civilization going” was asked. Question imposed by the traumatic effects of mass destruction. And by the many changes in society: social classes‚ roles of men and women‚ how to find
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IMPACT AESTHETICS: BACK TO THE FUTURE IN DIGITAL CINEMA? Scott McQuire Millennial fantasies As anyone interested in film culture knows‚ the last decade has witnessed an explosion of pronouncements concerning the future of cinema. Many are fuelled by naked technological determinism‚ resulting in apocalyptic scenarios in which cinema either undergoes digital rebirth to emerge more powerful than ever in the new millennium‚ or is marginalised by a range of ‘new media’ which inevitably include some
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Film Music Analysis and Pedagogy David Neumeyer The ubiquitous videocassette gives us‚ for the first time‚ a convenient way to examine films and their music closely. Many classic films are available‚ especially in VHS format‚ and‚ thanks to cable stations‚ more films of all eras and genres are being shown on television than ever.1 Since music has been an important element in the medium from its earliest days‚ it follows that now we have the opportunity to invoke film scores routinely as audio-visual
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seamlessly and logically from one sequence or scene to another. This is an unobtrusive cut that serves to move the narrative along. Deep focus: A technique in which objects very near the camera as well as those far away are in focus at the same time. Diegesis: The denotative material of film narrative‚ it includes‚ according to Christian Metz‚ not only the
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