Essays about: "Grotesque"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the word Grotesque.
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6. The Playboy of the Western World: A Carnivalesque Reading
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : A carnivalesque reading of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is presented. Mikhail Bakhtin defines carnivalesque as a literary style that challenges authority and traditional social hierarchy through the use of humour and chaos, and he compares the carnivalesque in literature to the carnivals of popular culture. READ MORE
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7. Attraction, Aesthetics and Advertising. An Interdisciplinary Look at the Presentation of "Ugly Models".
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : To attract and to appeal to their consumers, designs and concepts of advertisements continually have to be changed in an industry that is saturated with similar campaigns. In this thesis, I analyse how this change is created through the depiction of “ugly models”. READ MORE
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8. "Well? Shall we go?" "Yes, let's go." [They do not move.] : -Vernacular Comedy and Waiting for Godot.
University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay discusses the relationship between the characters Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and the vernacular clowning tradition. The discussion is supported by analyzing similarities between Waiting for Godot and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque realism as it is presented in his work Rabelais and His World, as well as elements of the Italian Commedia dell’Arte and 20th century silent movie comedy. READ MORE
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9. An Auteur Study of Kira Muratova Focusing on the Films Two in One and Melody for a Street Organ
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis is dedicated to the cinema art of Kira Muratova with the focus on the theme of grotesque. Kira Muratova shot films of different genres; mixing styles, creating a new reality of cinema, mixing audio-visualization of people with animals, classical literature with slang, including photography and pornography, installation, performance, opera and ballet. READ MORE
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10. "How a leader turns to dictator" : Analysis of Kaddafi's life through leadership theories
University essay from Ekonomihögskolan, ELNUAbstract : Abstract To the pantheon of grotesque and bloodthirsty dictators is now, on the front row, the Colonel Muammar Kaddafi who, for over 40 years, bought the silence of Western democracies with oil from his country and amuse the gallery with his folk outfit, his tents, his very close female guard, his reasoning and his degenerated offspring for a smoky diversion to hide the crimes of his regime. How the world has tolerated all these years, a fool like him who dictated the law to his enslaved people and executed worldwide opponents? Was it not enough to analyze his rambling speeches to understand that it was a Nero in power? Initially, this fictional character, out of "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was probably not as crazy. READ MORE
