Search Results - "villain"
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Angela carter’s heroes and villains: a dystopian romance
Published 2013“…The present paper modestly attempts to study Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969) as a dystopian romance in apocalyptic mode .It is an attempt to present how Angela Carter critically examines Rousseau’s Utopia of Noble Savage in Heroes and Villains. …”
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Moulding a villain in billion dollar whale: a post-humanist approach
Published 2023“…This paper examines how post-humanistic ideas can be employed as tools to mould the villain, Jho Low, in Tom Wright’s and Bradley Hope’s Billion Dollar Whale. …”
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Hero and villain on a foreign land: a textual analysis on U.S. newspaper coverage of China’s Uighur unrest
Published 2017“…Drawn from the theories of news framing and news narratives, the analysis found that the news discourse about China’s Uighur unrest presented a clear-cut vision of a repressive government and a prisoned intellectual Ilham Tohti.This image conjures two major mythical elements: the repressive villain and the persecuted hero. By attributing the ultimate blame unanimously to government control and policy, the articles employed a resentment frame to portray China's ethnic relationships and downplayed the severity of actual attacks.…”
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Hell and Night
Published 2016“…Hell and Night is a short film that considers the character of Iago, the villain of Shakespeare’s Othello. While the motivations for Iago’s destructive machinations are never made entirely clear in the play, his narcissism, exaggerated sense of personal injury and contempt for those around him are traits that are easily translated into a contemporary context. …”
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John Curtin's War (vol. I): The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia
Published 2017“…It shows Curtin not as a hero and certainly not as a villain but as the pivotal figure making his uncertain way between what Australia was, and what it would become. …”
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Analysis of five texts using Russian formalist framework
Published 2009“…The texts “Book the Second: The Reptile Room” (1999), “Book the Forth: The Miserable Mill” (2000), “Book the Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator” (2001), “Book the Eight: The Hostile Hospital” (2001) and “Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope” (2003) are stories that contain the spheres which are the main subject of the analysis. These spheres; villain, helper, donor, sought-for person, and hero are elaborated in Russian Formalist framework, the theory in which was applied in conducting the textual analysis of plot in relation to characters in the study. …”
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From International Horror Films to the Local Filem Seram: Examining the Cinematic Identity and Roles of the Malaysian Pontianak
Published 2016“…Her capability of resurrecting from the afterlife and using her sexuality in seeking for death and destruction to those who have wronged her could position her as a villain or antagonist due to the chaos, destruction and murder to those regardless of innocence. …”
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Context and culture via cohesive devices in higher education students’ and professional writers’ opinion articles
Published 2020“…The current paper attempts to fill this gap, and, therefore, combat an idealised ‘villain’ in research, which is confining textual analysis to in-text relations. …”
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Cicakman: A study on glocalization in Malaysian superhero movie genre / Foo Mei Lee
Published 2017“…A superhero film is a film that is focused on the actions of one or more individuals who usually possess superhuman abilities and are dedicated to protecting the public from super villain or rival with bad intentions. These films usually feature action, fantasy or science fiction elements, which also include the origin of their special powers. …”
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And Still It Comes: Fate and Mortality in the Halloween Franchise
Published 2021“…And yet the films repeatedly interrogate and undermine this categorisation, foregrounding the humanity of their villain even as they insist on his monstrosity. …”
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Batman film series: friedrich nietzsche’s beyond good and evil in hollywood superhero films / Mohamad Faez Yahya
Published 2015“…So in this research, the philosophy of Beyond Good and Evil are place in various Batman film characters from heroes like Batman and Robin to villains like The Joker and Mr. Freeze. This research discovers that in some circumstances the characteristics of heroes do possess immoral characteristics and on the other hand the villains show an act of goodness. …”
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A study on the figure drawing of local historical comics / Mohamad Akmal Ariff Kamarudin
Published 2015“…Some of these cartoon stories are rr.eant to be very hwnorous, but the term "comic book" often brings to mind images of colourful and courageous superheroes, along with equally as ghastly super villains. Comic books are magazines that are comprised of several comic strips…”
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Critical discourse and semiotic analyses of the changes in the roles and representations of women in action movies across three eras of Hollywood
Published 2014“…The impact of the women’s liberation movement resulted in the representation of sexually aggressive or villainous characters in the post-classical era. In addition, women are often cast as equals with men in independent roles in the new era. …”
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Zynga’s FarmVille, social games, and the ethics of big data mining
Published 2015“…In determining whether this contradiction is accidental or purposeful, this paper will ask, in effect, whether Zynga and other big data miners behind social games are entrepreneurial heroes, more sinister FarmVillains, or whether it is possible at all to draw a line between the two? …”
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