Essays about: "Historical fiction"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 49 essays containing the words Historical fiction.
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11. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE
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12. The Framing of Evil in Oppressive Systems : Barbara, Phoenix, and Transit by Christian Petzold
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierAbstract : The present study aims to create a deeper understanding of the cinematic representation of “evil”. Therefore, a special focus lies on contemporary historical fiction films whose stories are set in totalitarian systems with direct or indirect references to German history. READ MORE
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13. Screenwriter and Character Gender in a 2020 Body of Swedish Feature Film Proposals
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This study of correlations between screenwriter and character gender is based on a 2020 body of 369 Swedish feature fiction film proposals by 380 individual writers, submitted to the Swedish national broadcasting corporation Sveriges Television (SVT) specifically for development funding for screenwriting. Results are compared both with similar data from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI), which is the national funding body, as well as with SFI’s statistics of Swedish films receiving selective or market support. READ MORE
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14. Extinction, or the Extension of Life : Biology and History as Representation and Metaphor in Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters"
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This paper explores Ted Chiang's novella "Seventy-Two Letters" and the way in which it combines genres, scientific and historical ideas in an effort to examine topics about life and creation. The combinations result in an intriguing representation of a history which is then made different and where Chiang can creatively challenge past ideas. READ MORE
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15. What Society Feeds Us : Immersion, racism and police violence in the novel and film version of The Hate U Give in the EFL classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give is a young adult novel that covers controversial topics such as racism and police violence. In this essay, the concept of immersion is used to examine how the novel and its 2018 film counterpart adaptation differ in examining these topics. READ MORE
