Master's thesis presents comparison of motifs and images of fantastic appearance and terror in the novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley and its film and theatre adaptations, and studies their changes. It deals not only with theoretical problems of fantastic appearance, terror (horror) and adaptation, but especially the Frankenstein myth and its influence on creating these images in given texts. Thesis describes the development of fantastic and horrific images from the literary text towards visual and performance media. The thesis studies the transformation of these images within three film adaptations made by directors J. Searlse Dawley (1910), James Whale (1931) and Kenneth Branagh (1994), and one play written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle (2011). Key words: Frankenstein, Frankenstein myth, fantastic appearance, fantastic, terror, horror, adaptation

When Donald Trump took the stage as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, he made a historical appeal to LGBTQ Americans: to the boisterous applause of a Republican audience, he promised "to protect LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology." Utilizing this historical moment as an indicator of shifting political views around LGBTQ rights in the Republican Party and the US nation-state as a whole, this paper links contemporary iterations of the War on Terror to the legalization of same-sex marriage in June 2015. Connecting same-sex marriage to the US nation-building project, I argue that the "dignity" newly available to certain queer folks via the institution of marriage makes possible an articulation of queer-defensibility that services a Republican investment in the aging War on Terror and the sustained targeting and hyper-surveillance of Muslims globally.

This study examines the severe conditions under which local media workers produce reports for global media outlets in conditions of war and the ways in which they cope with and respond to these challenges. I take as my case study, the diminution of the Pashtun journalist into a “fixer” for global media in the U.S.-led, so-called War on Terror (WoT). Based on my experience as a journalist as well as interviews with local Pashtun journalists, I disclose a situation in which the local journalist is compelled to risk his very life to gather news; news, which further exposes him to threats to life from the two warring sides. Precarity, in this scenario, is a fact of life, which carried serious consequences, not just for the journalist and his community, but also for what is passed off as news in global media.

Thesis advisor: Timothy Crawford / This thesis focuses on United States civil-military relations during the first decade of the twenty-first century. It examines interactions between principal-level civilian and top-tier military leadership during three strategic decision-making moments. Each case involves examples of subjective civilian control. The author's goal is to investigate and then categorize the processes that were used, assessing how variables influenced the nature of subjective control. Qualitative process tracing is the primary methodology. The author focuses on available sources from myriad avenues including but not limited to journalism, memoirs, primary documents, and social science literature. Case study analysis identifies numerous variables. Presidential leadership and process organization were found to be the most influential, spanning from engaged to "delegatory" and orderly to ad-hoc, respectively. Correlations are identified between the variables. Then, theories from established literature are reviewed and applied when possible. Research finds that subjective civil-military relations became increasingly moderate and theoretically "pure" over each case, chronologically. The author uses his analysis to create new typologies of subjective civil-military control, focusing on the relationships between presidential leadership and process organization. The resulting typologies are intended to assist political scientists' identification and categorization of varying civil-military relationships on the subjective end of Huntington's spectrum. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science.

Thesis advisor: Shep Melnick / Most of the literature on the separation of powers in the war on terror vastly overstates the power of the presidency and pays little attention to the respective roles of Congress, the courts, and the bureaucracy in prosecuting that conflict. Scholars – especially those in the legal academy – have consistently failed to appreciate the ways in which the president has been, and continues to be, checked and constrained by a variety of forces. In my dissertation, I engage in highly detailed case studies of U.S. law and policy with respect to detention and military commissions in the war on terror. I pay special attention to the complex interactions that occurred within and between our governing institutions in these policy areas. There are two central arguments that come out of my research and run through my case studies. First, the political scientist Robert Kagan’s work on “adversarial legalism” is no longer simply applicable to the domestic policy realm. The proliferation of legal rules and extensive litigation has increasingly come to characterize foreign affairs as well, with important consequences for how the U.S. implements its national security policies and fights its armed conflicts. In short, adversarial legalism has gone to war. Second, loose talk about the “unitary” nature of the executive branch is misleading. The executive branch is a sprawling bureaucracy made up of diverse actors with different perspectives, preferences, and norms, and that bureaucracy has interacted with Congress and the courts in surprising ways to constrain the presidency in the war on terror. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science.

Des lettres trouvées dans des portefeuilles d'émigrés (1793) d'Isabelle de Charrière à Quatrevingt-Treize (1874) de Victor Hugo, qui engage une relecture de la période au miroir de la Commune, la Terreur a nourri l'imagination de nombreux romanciers. Déferlement inouï de violence ou expérience démocratique inédite ? La fécondité de ce moment révolutionnaire tient en partie à ses paradoxes et aux tensions que sa mémoire suscite. Au coeur de controverses historiques et idéologiques qui, aujourd'hui encore, ne se sont pas éteintes, la Terreur est pendant tout le XIXe siècle un sujet d'autant plus actuel que les secousses révolutionnaires de 1830 et de 1848, en particulier, en réveillent le souvenir. Excédant le seul genre du roman historique, qui en a fait l'un de ses sujets de prédilection, le traitement romanesque de la Terreur ne résulte pas d'une simple transposition fictionnelle de la réalité historique, mais peut être envisagé comme le fruit d'un système de relations complexes entre l'historiographie, la littérature mémoriale et d'autres genres littéraires. De la Révolution à la Commune, le genre romanesque a été l'un des lieux où s'est inventé ce que nous avons choisi d'appeler, en hommage au grand livre de Daniel Arasse, un« imaginaire de la Terreur» que n'épuise pas l'image de la guillotine. Regarder comment le roman a participé, en complémentarité ou en concurrence avec d' autres types d'écriture, à des constructions discursives et à l'élaboration de cet imaginaire, et comment ces entreprises de figuration romanesque ont pu s'articuler à des enjeux idéologiques et à des choix poétiques, tel est l'enjeu de cette nouvelle enquête. De Ducray-Duminil à Dumas, de Sénac de Meilhan à Barbey d ' Aurevilly, de Germaine de Staël à GeorgeSand, en passant par Ballanche, Nodier, Balzac ou encore Vigny, cet essai de généalogie romanesque prend appui sur un large corpus de textes et entend faire place à des oeuvres méconnues dont le rôle n'a pas été moindre que celui des oeuvres les plus canoniques dans la mise en fiction de la Terreur révolutionnaire. / From Isabelle de Charrière's lettres trouvées dans des portefeuilles d'émigrés ( 1793) to Victor Hugo's Quatrevingttreize(1874), which reinterprets the period in the mirror of the Commune, the Terror fed the imagination of manynovelists. Unprecedented surge of violence or unheard of democratic moment ? The fecundity of this revolutionary moment is in part due to its paradoxes and the tensions triggered by its memory. At the heart of the historical and ideological controversies that, to this day, have not been extinguished, the Terror was, throughout the 19th century, a subject even more topical than the revolutionary tremors of 1830 and 1848, particularly by reawakening the memory.Exceeding the historical nove! genre, the fictional treatment of the Terror is not the result of a simple fictional transposition of the historical reality, but can be envisaged as the fruit of a system of complex relationships between historiography, memorial literature and other literary genres.From the Revolution to the Commune, the fictional genre was one of the spaces where the invention of what we have chosen to call an "imagination of the Terror" - in homage to Daniel Arasse's great book - was not exhausted by the image of the guillotine. Looking at how the novel participated, in conjunction or competition with other types of writing, in discursive constructions and the development of this imagination, and how undertaking fictional figurationrevolved around ideological issues and political choices, is the challenge of this new investigation. From Ducray Duminilto Dumas, Sénac de Meilhan to Barbey d'Aurevilly, Germaine de Staël to George Sand, via Ballanche, Nodier, Balzac and even Vigny, this genealogy of fiction dissertation is supported by a large corpus oftexts and intends to makeway for little-known works, whose role was no less than that of the most canonical works in fictionalising the revolutionary Terror.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T14:42:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 464517.pdf: 1115696 bytes, checksum: 01d0397608922588e23526e058cb971b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-08 / Our work has as study object the construction of the type-character of the Villain, in Horror Movies. For our analysis, were chosen the following movies: Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (1920), by Robert Wiene; The Phantom of The Opera (1925), by Rupert Julian; Mystery of The Wax Museum (1933), by Michael Curtiz; The House on Haunted Hill (1959), by William Castle. The theorical sustention is made, having as basis the a priori categories: Cinema , by Edgar Morin; Archetype , by Carl Gustav Jung; Imaginary , by Michel Maffesoli; Stereotype , by Ruth Amossy and Anne Pierrot; Horror , by No?l Carroll. The Method used is the Complexity Paradigm, proposed by Edgar Morin, and our technique of analysis is the Film Analysis, proposed by Francis Vanoye and Anne Goliot-L?t?. In our study, we have found characteristics that may be recurrent on the analyzed characters. Thanks to the analysis, is evident to us that, in Horror movies, the Villain are the personification of metaphors, which represent our deepest fears, or incarnations of our desires and fantasies. We can also detach the duality, or ambiguity of the characters, as proof that none Villain brings, in itself, the personification of pure evil. Similarly evident were the motivations of the characters, which are the result of internal and subjective questions, and outward actions suffered by these characters; also the characteristics that, although present in characters of Horror Movies, in the same way are present in Villains of movies belonging to any and all Genres. These characteristics are recurrent and immutable, because they are part of the deposit of references and the cultural baggage. Furthermore, our study about Horror, as cinematographic Genre showed the moralist and conservative character present in the narratives of the movies belonging to this Genre, that aim to Always show to the spectator that such world where the characters live, before the arrival of the Villain, is the ideal world, and that the order and harmony must be re-established / Nosso trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a constru??o do personagem-tipo do Vil?o, em filmes de Horror. Para nossa an?lise foram escolhidas as seguintes obras cinematogr?ficas: O Gabinete do Dr. Caligari (1920), de Robert Wiene; O Fantasma da ?pera (1925), de Rupert Julian; Os Crimes do Museu (1933), de Michael Curtiz; A Casa dos Maus Esp?ritos (1959), de William Castle. A sustenta??o te?rica de nossa pesquisa ? constru?da, tendo por base as categorias a priori Cinema, em Edgar Morin; Arqu?tipos, em Carl Gustav Jung; Imagin?rio, em Michel Maffesoli; Estere?tipo, em Ruth Amossy e Anne Pierrot; Horror, em No?l Carroll. O M?todo utilizado ? o Paradigma da Complexidade, proposto por Edgar Morin, e nossa t?cnica de an?lise ? a An?lise F?lmica, proposta por Francis Vanoye e Anne Goliot-L?t?. Em nosso estudo, encontramos algumas caracter?sticas que podem ser recorrentes nos personagens analisados. Gra?as ?s an?lises realizadas, ficou, para n?s, evidente que, nos filmes de Horror, o Vil?o ? a personifica??o de met?foras, que representam nossos medos mais profundos, ou encarna??es de nossos desejos e fantasias. Tamb?m podemos destacar a dualidade, ou ambiguidade dos personagens, como prova de que nenhum Vil?o traz, em si, a personifica??o da maldade pura. Igualmente evidente ficaram as motiva??es dos personagens, que s?o sempre frutos de quest?es internas e subjetivas, e de a??es exteriores sofridas por esses personagens; como tamb?m as caracter?sticas que, embora presentes em personagens em filmes de Horror, da mesma forma est?o presentes em Vil?es de obras f?lmicas pertencentes a todo e qualquer G?nero. Essas caracter?sticas s?o recorrentes e imut?veis, pois fazem parte do dep?sito de refer?ncias e bagagem cultural. Al?m disso, nosso estudo do Horror, enquanto G?nero cinematogr?fico evidenciou o car?ter moralista e conservador presente nas narrativas dos filmes pertencentes a esse G?nero, que visam sempre mostrar ao espectador que aquele mundo que os personagens vivem, antes da chegada do Vil?o, ? o mundo ideal, e que a ordem e harmonia devem voltar a ser estabelecidas.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-11-17T11:28:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogério Vicente Stropa.pdf: 1168962 bytes, checksum: 8c18646f38b9295211ef7e6241515ed9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-17T11:28:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogério Vicente Stropa.pdf: 1168962 bytes, checksum: 8c18646f38b9295211ef7e6241515ed9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-20 / This work aims to find the restricted terror literature field in Brazil; for this, we analyzed the horror effects present in three tales of the author Amândio Sobral: O homem que matou um morto, A estranha cavalgada de Ivan Palinskyand A podridão viva, these stories present in the work Contos Exóticos, published in 1934. For the realization such intent, the dissertation is divided into four chapters. In the first, Tale: a genre that says a lot in a few words, we analyze the theories of the story in order to point out the main characteristics of this genre. We rely here on considerations made by theorists such as Julio Cortazar, Ricardo Piglia and Edgar Allan Poe. In the second chapter, horror aesthetic variations, we analyze the fantastic genre and its relationship with the unusual, gothic, horror, the grotesque and the sublime. For this we use the theories of Marcelo Briseno Marques de Melo, Maurício Cesar Menon, Wolfgang Kayser, Tzvetan Todorov and Lainister de Oliveira Esteves. The third chapter, Amândio Sobral: a seemingly text out of context, in turn, has the purposeof presenting the author and his context and point out some of its predecessors literary influences regarding the use of the horror and the fantastic in literature Brazil, using this aspect, the reflections of Antonio Candido, Alfredo Bosi, Randal Johnsonand Luis Bueno. At last, Suspense, fear and horror: the tales of Amândio Sobral, we present the analysis of the works and the strategies employed by the author to generate the horror effect and fear in his short stories, using, for this, the H.P. Lovecraft considerations, Alcides Ribeiro, Gaston Bachelard and Benedito Nunes / Este trabalho tem a finalidade de pesquisar o restrito campo da literatura do terror no Brasil; para isso, analisamos os efeitos de terror presentes em três contos do autor Amândio Sobral: O homem que matou um morto, A estranha cavalgada de Ivan Palinskye A podridão viva, contos esses presentes na obra Contos Exóticos, publicada em 1934. Para a realização de tal intento, a dissertação está dividida em quatro capítulos. No primeiro deles, Conto: um gênero que diz muito em poucas palavras, analisamos as teorias sobre o conto, a fim de apontarmos as principais características desse gênero. Baseamo-nos, aqui, nas considerações feitas por teóricos como Julio Cortázar, Ricardo Piglia e Edgar Allan Poe. No segundo capítulo, Variações da estética do horror, analisamos o gênero fantástico e sua relação com o insólito, o gótico, o terror, o grotesco e o sublime. Para isso, fizemos uso das teorias de Marcelo Briseno Marques de Melo, Maurício Cesar Menon, Wolfgang Kayser, Tzvetan Todorov e Lainister de Oliveira Esteves. O terceiro capítulo, Amândio Sobral: um texto aparentemente fora do contexto, por seu turno, tem a finalidade de apresentar o autor e seu contexto, bem como apontar algumas de suas predecessoras influências literárias no que concerne ao uso do horror e do fantástico na literatura brasileira, recorrendo, neste aspecto, às reflexões de Antônio Candido, Alfredo Bosi, Randal Johnson e Luís Bueno. No último, Suspense, medo e horror: os contos de Amândio Sobral, apresentamos a análise das obras e as estratégias empregadas pelo autor para gerar o efeito de horrore medo em seus contos, utilizando, para isso, das considerações de H.P. Lovecraft, Alcídes Ribeiro, Gaston Bachelard e Benedito Nunes

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the performances of gender that permeated the justifications for Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan, focusing on the representational practices that dominated the Bush administration's narratives of rescue and circumscribed our understanding of the actors involved. In particular, I will argue that the image of Afghan women as the helpless victim of Taliban oppression not only allowed the United States and its coalition allies to cast themselves as heroic masculine warriors but also helped to reinforce the idea that Afghan women were little more than mere symbols of helplessness, placing them in a position of absolute inferiority and dependency. Crucially, I will claim that this image of Afghan women as the passive prisoners of the Taliban was contingent upon the suppression of a series of alternative perspectives that could not be accommodated within the parameters established by the prevailing frames of war. On the one hand, I argue that the dominant representations of Afghan women tended to show them in decidedly monolithic and one-dimensional terms, with the Bush administration and its coalition allies defining them almost entirely by the suffering they experienced. Absent from these accounts, however, was any mention of women's resistance to Taliban rule or their criticisms of the military intervention. On the other hand, I will show how the international community relied upon a particular historical narrative that allowed them to present Afghanistan as a barbaric aberration in the modern world whilst allowing them to dismiss the period of Taliban rule as a terrifying oddity in the country's history, destroying many of the freedoms that were said to exist under previous regimes. As well as ignoring the myriad of interactions between Afghanistan and the outside world and the complex social, economic and political forces that helped to precipitate the rise of the Taliban, I will argue that this historical narrative reinforced the idea that the lives of Afghan women were in a state of suspense during this period, their very existence as human beings held in abeyance until coalition troops could intervene to redeem them. What distinguishes my argument from the work of other feminists is my attention to the way in which these representational practices are contingent upon an uneasy process of repetition and reiteration, leaving them vulnerable to the possibility for subversion and resignification. Drawing on Judith Butler's work on performativity, normative violence and the politics of intelligibility along with Gayatri C. Spivak's work on the subaltern subject, I show how the activities of organisations such as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and the voices of individuals such as Malalai Joya help to expose the limits of the dominant norms of intelligibility, opening up the possibility for a less violent and less exclusionary re-imagining.

Uppsatsen analyserar fyra noveller i John Ajvide Lindqvists novellsamling Pappersväggar som utkom 2006. Novellerna som analyserats är ”Gräns”, ”By på höjden”, ”Equinox” och ”Vikarien”. Syftet med analysen är att undersöka hur Ajvide Lindqvist arbetar för att göra sina noveller skrämmande och vad som är skrämmande. Uppsatsen utgår från en etablerad begreppsapparat som definierats av olika teoretiker och författare, som skriver inom genrerna gotik och skräck. Analysen visar att Ajvide Lindqvist använder sig av karaktärsdrag och grepp som går att finna inom genrerna gotik och skräck. Jag finner även att det som framför allt skapar skräckeffekt i hans noveller är vardagsförankringen. De drag och grepp han använder sig av får en större verkan på grund av att det utspelar sig i välbekanta miljöer som nog de flesta läsare kan relatera till.