Esta dissertação tem por objetivo estudar a subversão da forma do romance policial clássico nos livros Jaime Bunda, o agente secreto; Jaime Bunda e a morte do americano e O Terrorista de Berkeley, Califórnia, do autor angolano Pepetela que recria o gênero com o uso da paródia, da ironia, da polifonia e do riso. Traça-se um panorama do romance policial em Angola, desde o século XIX para situar o autor estudado e verificar-lhe as rupturas com o gênero. Segundo a pesquisa, a originalidade do escritor aparece com o uso da multiplicidade de gêneros narrativos para compor estas narrativas policiais, explorando a própria natureza do romance, ou seja, a sua permeabilidade a todo gênero. O trabalho ainda estuda as possibilidades que o romance policial de Pepetela propicia de uma análise sobre a complexidade social e as relações de poder exercidas no seio da sociedade angolana, uma vez que, o benguelense explora, por meio de suas personagens, as situações experienciadas pelos habitantes da cidade, exibindo-a sob os signos da solidão, do crime, da doença e da sedução. / This dissertation aims at studying the subversion of the classic form of the detective novel in the books: Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent, and, Jaime Bunda and death of the American and The Terrorist Berkeley, California by the Angolan writer, Pepetela, who recreates the genre by the use of parody, irony, polyphony and laughter. Moth is an overview of the detective novel in Angola since the nineteenth century to situate the author studied and verify it breaks with the genre. According to research, the originality of the writer appears with the use of the multiplicity of narrative to compose these police narrative genres, exploring the nature of the novel, its permeability to the whole genre. The paper also considers the possibilities that the crime novel by Pepetela provides an analysis on the social complexity and power relations exercised in Angolan society, since the Benguela explores , through its characters , the situations experienced by inhabitants of the city , bringing it under the signs of loneliness, crime , disease and seduction.

Le roman policier français entre 1970 et 2000. La thèse suivante procède à l’analyse littéraire de romans policiers français de la fin du XXème siècle. L’intention est alors de montrer que si ces romans policiers peuvent être analysés avec les outils de l’analyse littéraire, ces romans peuvent alors être considérés comme des œuvres littéraires et leurs auteurs comme des écrivains à part entière. Le corpus contient les principaux romans de quatre auteurs répartis sur les quatre dernières décennies du XXème siècle : Jean-Patrick Manchette, Frédéric H. Fajardie, Didier Daeninckx et Tonino Benacquista. Les outils d’analyses choisis sont ceux liés aux personnages de romans, aux lieux dans lesquels se déroulent ces romans et aux différents types d’intrigues proposées par les auteurs. Il s’agit des travaux d’Yves Reuter, d’Isabelle Krzywkowski ou Paul Larivaille. Ces auteurs ont permis l’analyse des textes choisis et ont aussi permis à l’auteur de confronter ces mêmes textes aux outils d’analyse littéraires en usage académique. C’est ainsi que l’analyse littéraire produite par l’auteur permet d’avancer l’idée que les textes des romans policiers, en étant analysés avec ces outils, peuvent faire partie du corpus ordinaire de la littérature / The French crime novel from 1970 to 2000The following thesis conducts literary analysis on French crime novels of the late twentieth century. The intention is then to show that if these detective novels can be analyzed with the tools of literary analysis, these novels can then be considered literary works and their authors as writers in their own right. The corpus contains the main novels of four authors spread over the last four decades of the twentieth century: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Frederick H. Fajardie, Didier Daeninckx and Tonino Benacquista. The tools selected for analysis are those related to novels characters, the places in which these novels take place and different types of plots offered by the authors. This is the work of Yves Reuter, Isabelle Krzywkowski and Paul Larivaille. These authors have allowed the analysis of selected texts and also allowed the author to confront these same texts to literary analysis tools in academic use.Thus literary analysis produced by the author allows him to advance the idea that the texts of detective novels, being analyzed with these tools, can be part of the regular corpus of literature.

This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1009/thumbnail.jpg

This report summarizes the script development, pre-production, production, and post-production stages of making the short film Lost Pines. The short was produced as my graduate thesis film in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Production. / text

Monster Business is a feature film project comprising a horror-thriller feature screenplay and an accompanying exegesis. The screenplay is about a best-selling author who is behind on the delivery of the sequel to his money-spinning first novel and is made an offer by an enigmatic stranger to help rearrange his working environment to facilitate the rapid completion of the manuscript. Over the coming hours, then months, the author discovers just how far the stranger will go to complete the terms of this bizarre and brutal new contract. This accompanying exegesis examines a series of 'paratexts' (a logline, a one-pager and a treatment) that the screenplay has given rise to. The thesis argues that the role of the screenwriter does not end with the production of the core text--the screenplay. Instead, in order to support the development and/or the marketing of the script into a feature film, the screenwriter is an ongoing generator of supplemental documents or paratexts. The paper explores the status and function of paratexts (loglines, onepagers, treatments and explanatory development notes). It further argues that developmental paratexts are a necessary evil, providing a sifting or culling mechanism for producers and production executives, and that they are intended to guide a project toward being 'greenlit' but will more often have, at best, benign or, at worst, negative or destructive effects on its development. In this way, developmental paratexts, although ubiquitous and pro forma, are inherently problematic.

This thesis adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to explore the development of the conspiracy thriller genre in British cinema during the 1980s. There is considerable academic interest in the Hollywood conspiracy cycle that emerged in America during the 1970s. Films such as The Parallax View (Pakula, 1975) and All the President's Men (Pakula, 1976) are indicative of the genre, and sought to reflect public anxieties about perceived government misdeeds and misconduct within the security services. In Europe during the same period, directors Costa-Gavras and Francesco Rosi were exploring similar themes of state corruption and conspiracy in films such as State of Siege (1972) and Illustrious Corpses (1976). This thesis provides a comprehensive account of how a similar conspiracy cycle emerged in Britain in the following decade. We will examine the ways in which British film-makers used the conspiracy form to reflect public concerns about issues of defence and national security, and questioned the measures adopted by the British government and the intelligence community to combat Soviet subversion during the last decade of the Cold War. Unlike other research exploring espionage in British film and television, this research is concerned exclusively with the development of the conspiracy thriller genre in mainstream cinema. This has been achieved using three case studies: Defence of the Realm (Drury, 1986), The Whistle Blower (Langton, 1987) and The Fourth Protocol (MacKenzie, 1987). For each case study chapter, interviews have been conducted with the film-makers in order to gain insight into the aims and motivations that underpin each film. As well as employing these first-hand accounts of the production contexts, close analysis of film style is provided in order to understand the ways in which the British genre is informed stylistically by its Hollywood and European forebears. This means that for the first time, the British conspiracy cycle can be understood within a wider historical and cinematic context. Detractors of the conspiracy genre argue that it offers audiences a simplistic view of complex political events. We will reflect on this criticism and evaluate the extent to which the British films provide meaningful political comment within the conventions of mainstream cinema.

In this critical review I will explore the aims and influences; themes, characterisation, genre and plot summaries; research impact, publication histories and critical reception of my four novels: Hitman, The Fixer, Baptism and Sacrifice. In addition, I will provide a commentary on the processes and methodology I employed in the writing of the four novels as well as a critical reflection on them. Published between 2000 and 2013, my books represent a body of work that is rooted within the British crime thriller genre. However, in the nature of the novels’ construction and target readerships, they also represent two distinct literary styles. The first two novels, Hitman and The Fixer, published in 2000 and 2001 respectively are satirical thrillers in which I experiment with genre with the intention of unsettling and confounding readers’ expectations while at the same time, testing the boundaries of what the crime fiction genre can sustain. In these two novels, I draw on a range of influences and traditions in literature, film and popular culture. The second two novels, Baptism and Sacrifice, published in 2012 and 2013 are more closely aligned to the accepted conventions of the thriller genre but are no less ambitious in their intention to explore new forms of plotting and characterisation. In their writing, I was influenced more by contemporary geo-politics, particularly surveillance, intelligence, cyber warfare and the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7 than I was by literature and film. The latter two books continue a theme of experimentation I began in the first two, combining disparate influences to create original fiction. Further reflection will be made on the part that these novels have played, and continue to play, within my ongoing body of work as a novelist, screenwriter and Creative Writing academic.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo estudar a subversão da forma do romance policial clássico nos livros Jaime Bunda, o agente secreto; Jaime Bunda e a morte do americano e O Terrorista de Berkeley, Califórnia, do autor angolano Pepetela que recria o gênero com o uso da paródia, da ironia, da polifonia e do riso. Traça-se um panorama do romance policial em Angola, desde o século XIX para situar o autor estudado e verificar-lhe as rupturas com o gênero. Segundo a pesquisa, a originalidade do escritor aparece com o uso da multiplicidade de gêneros narrativos para compor estas narrativas policiais, explorando a própria natureza do romance, ou seja, a sua permeabilidade a todo gênero. O trabalho ainda estuda as possibilidades que o romance policial de Pepetela propicia de uma análise sobre a complexidade social e as relações de poder exercidas no seio da sociedade angolana, uma vez que, o benguelense explora, por meio de suas personagens, as situações experienciadas pelos habitantes da cidade, exibindo-a sob os signos da solidão, do crime, da doença e da sedução. / This dissertation aims at studying the subversion of the classic form of the detective novel in the books: Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent, and, Jaime Bunda and death of the American and The Terrorist Berkeley, California by the Angolan writer, Pepetela, who recreates the genre by the use of parody, irony, polyphony and laughter. Moth is an overview of the detective novel in Angola since the nineteenth century to situate the author studied and verify it breaks with the genre. According to research, the originality of the writer appears with the use of the multiplicity of narrative to compose these police narrative genres, exploring the nature of the novel, its permeability to the whole genre. The paper also considers the possibilities that the crime novel by Pepetela provides an analysis on the social complexity and power relations exercised in Angolan society, since the Benguela explores , through its characters , the situations experienced by inhabitants of the city , bringing it under the signs of loneliness, crime , disease and seduction.

Cette « enquête » sur le secret dans À la recherche du temps perdu s’attache à montrer que le secret, parce qu’il fonctionne comme une thématique romanesque engageant la structure même du récit, permet de saisir la tension, au sein de l’œuvre proustienne, entre une conception positiviste de la narration et du sens largement tributaire des modèles épistémologiques du XIXe siècle et sa mise en question, qui caractérise la production romanesque du XXe siècle. L’analyse des figures et des motifs récurrents du secret, en relation avec la fortune de la notion dans l’histoire des idées et des formes romanesques au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, montre que se développe dans la Recherche un imaginaire empreint à la fois d’une mythologie personnelle et de thématiques héritées du roman policier et du roman d’aventures. L’analyse des techniques narratives fournissant au roman sa structure énigmatique permet ensuite de dégager le « parcours herméneutique » proposé au lecteur sur les traces du héros-narrateur : sa dynamique, qui témoigne de l’émergence d’un paradigme indiciaire accompagnant le renouvellement des sciences humaines, est progressivement minée par l’émergence d’une autre logique, fondée sur l’indétermination du sens et la multiplicité des points de vue. Enfin, l’analyse de « l’entre-deux » générique et interprétatif montre que l’œuvre proustienne propose une expérience de lecture qui ouvre la voie à une conception de l’interprétation fondée sur la prise en compte des possibles mis en jeu par l’écriture fictionnelle. / This investigation about the secret in À la recherche du temps perdu attempts to show that the secret, as a fiction theme involving the very structure of the narrative, allows to seize the tense, within Proust’s work, between a positivist conception, both of the narration and of the meaning, broadly dependent upon the 19th century models of epistemology, and its questioning, which characterizes the fiction production of the 20th century. The analysis of figures and recurring patterns of the secret, related to the success of this notion in the history of ideas and novel writing forms at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, shows that Proust’s imaginary world in la Recherche is marked by both his own myths and themes inherited from the detective and adventures novel. Then, the analysis of the narrative technique, which gives its enigmatic structure to the novel, makes it possible to identify the “hermeneutic journey” proposed to the reader in the footsteps of the hero-narrator: its dynamic, reflecting the emergence of an evidential paradigm accompanying the renewal of human sciences, is gradually undermined by the emergence of a different logic, based on the indeterminacy of meaning and the multiplicity of viewpoints. Lastly, the analysis of the generic and interpretative “entre-deux” shows that Proust’s work proposes an experience of reading which paves the way for a conception of interpretation based on the consideration of the textual virtualities involved by fictional writing.

In this thesis, I outline the changing shape of the reenactment in the contemporary true crime documentary to illustrate a burgeoning crisis of epistemology and anxieties about the authority of evidence in the Digital Age. I examine two works—The Jinx and The Imposter—that deal with evidence in formally similar but ideologically opposite ways. Logic in the Digital Age prioritizes an ever-widening collection of increasingly more precise artifacts and details, which supposedly paint a more complete picture but end up highlighting what is unknown more often. Key to this examination is the adoption of classic Hollywood thriller techniques (e.g., non-traditional narrative structures that emphasize subjectivity, twist endings that create uncertainty and doubt, etc.) which indicate a shift away from the traditional “cool” rhetorical control of social realist documentaries towards the emotionally charged manipulation of the thriller. This shift cannot be sufficiently explained by the overarching progression of the documentary towards more reflexive and performative modes. Rather, at the center of this shift is the use of stylized reenactments that share both the thriller’s preoccupation with subjectivity and uncertainty and digital logic’s pervading heterogeneous makeup. This shift troubles the mastery true crime docs implicitly claim to offer through evidence and the authority of the American criminal justice system in a different way than the more self-reflexive modes of documentary. To resolve the trouble, these films appeal less to evidence and more to emotional certainty and pathos as a way of judging guilt and innocence, shifting the way concrete evidence is understood.