Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-122).

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2006. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

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This thesis examines the role of music and cultural conceptions of emotion and `the feminine' in gendered characterisation in 1940s melodrama and the woman's film. Music in melodrama and the woman's film predominantly follows the late-19th century Romantic style of composition. Many theorists have discussed this type of music in film as a signifier of emotion and `the feminine', a capacity in which it is frequently associated with female characters. The full effect of an association with this kind of music on either female or male characterisation, however, has not been examined. This study considers the effects of this association through three stages - cultural-historical precedents, the generic parameters of melodrama and the woman's film and the narrativisation of music in film. The specific study of films involves textual and musical analysis informed by cultural-historical ideas, film music theory and film theory. Since female characters are more commonly associated with music in this context, they form the primary focus of the study. Male musical-emotional characterisation, while of constant concern, comes under particular scrutiny as the final stage of the study. In conclusion I argue that cultural assumptions combine with the formal representations of film to construct a model of gender based on the idea of `inherent' emotionality. As a definitive element of this dynamic, music functions as more than just a signifier of emotion. Rather, it takes a crucial role in determining how we actually understand emotion as part of gendered characterisation.

Thesis--University of Chicago. / Photocopy of typescript. [Chicago : Dept. of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library, 197-] -- 22 cm. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 327-335).

Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, L'Amant and L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, three books written by Marguerite Duras, can be distinguished from the rest of the author's literary production by their will to rewrite the author's love story with a Chinese man. In the first novel of this cycle, cinema occupies such an important place as a theme that it influences the characters' life. In the two other novels, it appears less as a theme than through cinematographical devices that transform the author's literary style. / This thesis attempts to explain in what way cinema influences the novelistic writing of Marguerite Duras. More specifically, this study exposes the three novels' generical, intertextual, thematical and semiotical characteristics in order to establish how they contribute to the creation of a particular writing style influenced by cinema.

The work of Marguerite Duras comprises seventeen "texts-films" distributed throughout its filmic period from 1969 to 1985. These texts guides of films constitute a particular form of filmic writing which utilizes three different modes of expression. Located at the three decade old border, the text-films being studied here, Detruire ditelle, (1969), Nathalie Granger (1972), Agatha (1981) differently ask the same question of the literary, theatrical and filmic genre all while escaping from it. The "texte-film" which is primarily plural and plurifunctional is showed here in three states, at three moments of its continuous creation. In a rejection of the traditional structures of transposition of writing to film, they challenge authorities as varied as the dialogical form, the dramatic text, the scenario. Stages of a long renouncement of writing or revivals of a creativity unceasingly searching for new ways to express itself, the "texts-films" studied here are holding essential keys to understanding the very whole work of Marguerite Duras.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007. / Adviser: Yingjin Zhang. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Chicago. / Photocopy of typescript. [Chicago : Dept. of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library, 197-] -- 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 327-335). Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-301). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9963448.