1964 Los Angeles. Five marriages are put to the test as their struggles to communicate boil over, all while ignoring the mysterious disappearing street signs wreaking havoc on the city around them.

Ce que nous proposons de faire dans ce mémoire est de s’attarder au phénomène spécifique de la lecture des scénarios dans le contexte institutionnel québécois. Nous analyserons un corpus de cent soixante douze rapports de lecture de scénarios de longs métrages de fiction rédigés entre 1972 et 2004. Il n’existe, à notre connaissance, aucune étude portant spécifiquement sur un corpus de rapports de lecture. Dans un premier temps, nous situerons le rôle et la place du scénario dans l’histoire de la production de films de fiction québécoise, entre acceptation et refus. Ensuite, nous nous intéresserons à la manière dont concrètement les scénarios sont lus : par qui, comment, dans quelles conditions, avec quels objectifs. Enfin, en utilisant une analyse par théorisation ancrée (grounded theory), nous identifierons, à partir des commentaires émis dans les rapports, cinq entités sur lesquelles le lecteur se fonde pour formuler son jugement. Il s’agit du scénariste, du scénario proposé, du lecteur lui-même, du film à faire et du spectateur présumé que nous nommerons fictif. Nous en conclurons que le lecteur de scénario occupe une fonction de médiateur entre un texte et son auteur d’une part et un futur film et son spectateur réel d’autre part. Cette médiation est le lieu de convergence de différentes attentes, celles des lecteurs, des auteurs, des producteurs et des institutions. / Our purpose in this study is to focus on the specific phenomenon of screenplay reading in Quebec institutional context. We’ll analyze a corpus of one hundred seventy two screenplay reading reports for feature fiction films, written between 1972 and 2004. There is, to our knowledge, no specific study on reading reports texts. At first, we’ll situate function and place of the scenario in Quebec fiction film production history, between acceptance and rejection. Then, we will look at how scenarios are read: by whom, how, under what conditions and with what objectives. Finally, using a grounded theory analysis, we will determine, based on the commentaries founded in the reading reports texts, five entities from which the reader settled his judgment: the screenwriter, the screenplay, the reader himself, the film forthcoming and the expected viewer we’ll call fictitious viewer. We’ll conclude that the screenplay reader is a mediator between a text and its author on one hand, and a forthcoming movie with his fictitious viewer on the other hand. This mediation is the convergence center of different expectations, those of the readers, authors, producers and institutions.

A dissertação Vidas secas, do livro ao filme se propõe a fazer um estudo da estrutura e da questão narrativa das obras Vidas secas, livro de Graciliano Ramos e do filme homônimo de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, levando-se em consideração as diferenças entre os dois meios, os fenômenos decorrentes da adaptação, as circunstâncias de produção e a distância temporal entre as duas obras. A adaptação é mais uma questão de diálogo e admiração do que de diferenças fundamentais entre os autores. Mais do que ser apenas a adaptação de uma obra-prima da literatura nacional, a leitura cinematográfica que Nelson Pereira dos Santos fez de Vidas secas de Graciliano Ramos quis também ser uma intervenção na conjuntura política contemporânea, nesse caso como parte do debate então vigente sobre a reforma agrária e a estrutura social brasileira na década de 1960. O que pretendemos com esta dissertação é, valendo-se de diversos embasamentos teóricos ligados aos Estudos Comparados e à Literatura Comparada, chegar a uma leitura analítica focada na compreensão da construção das duas formas narrativas de Vidas secas: romance (livro / narrativa original / linguagem literária) e filme (produto final de uma releitura audiovisual / linguagem cinematográfica / The dissertation Barren Lives, from book to film aims to comparatively study the structure and the issue of narration in Graciliano Ramoss book Vidas secas and in Nelson Pereira dos Santos film Vidas secas, taking into consideration the differences between literature and film, the patterns created by the process of adaptation, the circumstances within which the two works were produced and the temporal lap between the two pieces. Adapting a book into film is, in our opinion, much more a matter of admiration and dialogue than of establishing differences between one piece of work and the other. More than an adaptation of one of the Brazilian contemporary literatures masterpieces into film, the cinematic reading of Vidas secas made by Nelson Pereira dos Santos also aimed to intervene in its contemporary Brazilian political life, especially in the debate concerning the land ownership and the Brazilian social structure in the 1960s. In this dissertation, our aim is to build up an analytical reading of these two works, based on some concepts from Comparative Studies and Comparative Literature, trying to better understand the two pieces different structures, the books original literary narrative and the films cinematic narrative, considering the latter a result of an audiovisual comprehension and re-creation of the first.

A dissertação Vidas secas, do livro ao filme se propõe a fazer um estudo da estrutura e da questão narrativa das obras Vidas secas, livro de Graciliano Ramos e do filme homônimo de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, levando-se em consideração as diferenças entre os dois meios, os fenômenos decorrentes da adaptação, as circunstâncias de produção e a distância temporal entre as duas obras. A adaptação é mais uma questão de diálogo e admiração do que de diferenças fundamentais entre os autores. Mais do que ser apenas a adaptação de uma obra-prima da literatura nacional, a leitura cinematográfica que Nelson Pereira dos Santos fez de Vidas secas de Graciliano Ramos quis também ser uma intervenção na conjuntura política contemporânea, nesse caso como parte do debate então vigente sobre a reforma agrária e a estrutura social brasileira na década de 1960. O que pretendemos com esta dissertação é, valendo-se de diversos embasamentos teóricos ligados aos Estudos Comparados e à Literatura Comparada, chegar a uma leitura analítica focada na compreensão da construção das duas formas narrativas de Vidas secas: romance (livro / narrativa original / linguagem literária) e filme (produto final de uma releitura audiovisual / linguagem cinematográfica / The dissertation Barren Lives, from book to film aims to comparatively study the structure and the issue of narration in Graciliano Ramoss book Vidas secas and in Nelson Pereira dos Santos film Vidas secas, taking into consideration the differences between literature and film, the patterns created by the process of adaptation, the circumstances within which the two works were produced and the temporal lap between the two pieces. Adapting a book into film is, in our opinion, much more a matter of admiration and dialogue than of establishing differences between one piece of work and the other. More than an adaptation of one of the Brazilian contemporary literatures masterpieces into film, the cinematic reading of Vidas secas made by Nelson Pereira dos Santos also aimed to intervene in its contemporary Brazilian political life, especially in the debate concerning the land ownership and the Brazilian social structure in the 1960s. In this dissertation, our aim is to build up an analytical reading of these two works, based on some concepts from Comparative Studies and Comparative Literature, trying to better understand the two pieces different structures, the books original literary narrative and the films cinematic narrative, considering the latter a result of an audiovisual comprehension and re-creation of the first.

Lonely Monsters is a full-length feature screenplay that explores the ways in which a classic damsel narrative may be reconsidered. It offers ideas on how death and girlhood may find symmetry. The characters within Lonely Monsters deal with loss, identity of the self versus the world's ideas on self-identity, place, gender, and class. Utilizing the elements of a fairy tale, the narrative seeks to complicate the roles of gender in a cautionary tale. Set in the fictional Florida town of Puerto Palmera, an economic divide between the Estates and the Glades makes for a ripe, troublesome environment for a foul modern-day aristocrat who masquerades as a grandiose and romantic prince. The story's protagonist, Fisher Franklin, loses two key relationships—as well as her sound mind—in the wake of the false prince's folly. Utilizing her experiences as a child within the lavish lives of the Estates—at the desire of a wealthy and secretive benefactor with motives of her own—Fisher creates a persona who becomes entangled in a lustful and dangerous liaison with Wyatt Sharpe, the villainous playboy. By assuming this persona, Fisher recasts herself as the damsel, the monster, and the heroine.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Ce mémoire, présenté sous forme de recherche-création, est consacré à l'étude de scénarios issus du mouvement du Renouveau du cinéma québécois, ainsi qu’à la représentation de la poésie issue de la littérature francophone dans le cinéma d'auteurs québécois contemporains. Il s’agit de faire des liens entre l'utilisation de textes littéraires dans le cinéma d’auteur québécois et les nouvelles interprétations qu’elles suggèrent. En bref, en quoi la poésie, dans le cinéma québécois contemporain, fait-elle écho aux problématiques sociales du Renouveau, et comment cela se manifeste-t-il concrètement dans l'écriture d'un scénario? Mon projet de recherche est voué d’une part à l’analyse d’un corpus prédéfini issu du cinéma d’auteur québécois ainsi qu’à l’étude de l’expression littéraire au sein du septième art et de son rôle dans l'ambivalence de l'identité québécoise, notamment dans les films suivants : La face cachée de la lune (Robert Lepage, 2004), À l’Ouest de Pluton (Myriam Verreault, 2008), J’ai tué ma mère (Xavier Dolan, 2009), Les amours imaginaires (Xavier Dolan, 2010), Nuit #1 (Anne Émond, 2011), Laurentie (Mathieu Denis et Simon Lavoie, 2011), et Laurence Anyways (Dolan, 2012). Je m’appuie sur les études des chercheurs Christian Poirier (Le cinéma québécois : À la recherche d’une identité?, 2004), Michel Chion (L’écrit au cinéma, 2013), et Isabelle Raynauld (Lire et écrire un scénario, 2019). D’autre part, ce mémoire est consacré à l’écriture d’un scénario original basé sur mes recherches, intitulé À l’ombre des supernovæ, s’inspirant du recueil de poèmes L’outre-vie de Marie Uguay. / This thesis, presented as a research-creation project, is devoted to the study of screenplays resulting from the movement of the Renewal of Quebec cinema in the early 2000s, as well as to the representation of poetry from French literature in the cinema of contemporary Quebec authors. It is about making links between the use of literary texts in Quebec authored cinema and the new interpretations they suggest. In short, how does poetry in contemporary Quebec cinema echo the social issues of the Renewal, and how does this manifest itself in the writing of a screenplay? My research project is devoted on the one hand to the analysis of a predefined corpus from Quebec author cinema and to the study of literary expression within the seventh art, as well as its role in the ambivalence of Quebec identity, particularly in the following films: La face cachée de la lune (Robert Lepage, 2004), À l’Ouest de Pluton (Myriam Verreault, 2008), J’ai tué ma mère (Xavier Dolan, 2009), Les amours imaginaires (Xavier Dolan, 2010), Nuit #1 (Anne Émond, 2011), Laurentie (Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie, 2011), and Laurence Anyways (Dolan, 2012). I rely on the studies of researchers Christian Poirier (Le cinéma québécois : À la recherche d’une identité?, 2004), Michel Chion (L’écrit au cinéma, 2013), ans Isabelle Raynauld (Lire et écrire un scénario, 2019). On the other hand, this dissertation is devoted to writing a screenplay based on my research, titled À l’ombre des supernovae, inspired by the collection of poems L'outre-vie by Marie Uguay.

Author's fairy tale with a musical theme as a means to improve cooperation and kindergarten is the main aim of the thesis. The musical development of the child until the end of the preschool age and its subsequent response opens the theoretical part, musical ability - characteristics, creativity, integration of musical abilities, integrative design, and creative dramatics conclude the theoretical part, which will be followed by a practical part. The practical part will consist of architectural scenario where a subsequent analysis of the Copyright scenarios, questionnaires, interviews and observations will serve as a result of the thesis.

This thesis concentrates on the phenomenon of theatre adaptation of films in context of czech contemporary theatre. It's goal is - on examples of theatre transcriptions of Lars von Trier's films - to capture and describe difficult process of adaptation, which is wageing during the transformation of films and film texts into their theatre versions. During the process of analyses, we will try to trace not only the concrete transfigurations, but to name possible approaches and techniques revelating during the act of adaptation.

This dissertation examines the nature, scope, and significance of a new pedagogical approach to teaching of views on nature of science (VNOS) to high school students. Educational approaches based on teaching ‘correct’ VNOS continue to be dominated by the epistemology of logical empiricism and, as I will point out, these approaches are inadequate to address the issues of VNOS. I assert and the findings presented in this dissertation offer evidence that students’ VNOS are dynamic and context-based. In this research I used filmmaking to explore students’ VNOS. High school students, supported by a professional filmmaking crew, completed a short film entitled, The Shadows of Hope; this film explores the use of scientific knowledge in understanding everyday life problems. The filmmaking environment introduced simultaneously a number of contexts in which students’ VNOS were concurrently collected using mixed methods methodology. The results show that contexts sway students’ VNOS and generate a variety of the VNOS for each student. Evidence shows that there is a common, theme-based pattern to individual students’ set of VNOS. The variety of expressed VNOS seemed natural to the students, with no registered discomfort. However, in this study a contrast between students’ VNOS and their ‘school-based’ understanding of science also became apparent. This is evidence that cognitive dissonance is not sufficient to explain the full spectrum of ways in which students learn, deepen knowledge and arrive to conceptual change. I assert that including cognitive contextual expansion in our understanding of conceptual change is essential to provide a framework that allows to integrate cognitive diversity into the theory of learning, reflecting a perhaps more natural way human mind works. The project’s findings offer evidence that students’ VNOS deepened and expanded through filmmaking; students arrived to a more examined and mature VNOS while enjoying the activity of making a film. There is evidence that cooperation with a professional team provided students with a feeling of respect and pride. Filmmaking offers a robust way of learning, based on collaborative work that enlivens a large number of learning-enhancing activities. Additional resources and a Brief Guide For Teachers are added to this text to support teachers in adopting filmmaking as a unique pedagogical method. / Graduate / 0714 / 0900 / 0533 / akottova@uvic.ca

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