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Any resemblance to actual persons : the real people behind 400+ fictional movie characters / / Hal Erickson
Any resemblance to actual persons : the real people behind 400+ fictional movie characters / / Hal Erickson
Autore Erickson Hal <1950->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 403 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 791.436
Soggetto topico Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Film adaptations
ISBN 1-4766-2930-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910796846203321
Erickson Hal <1950->  
Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., , [2017]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Any resemblance to actual persons : the real people behind 400+ fictional movie characters / / Hal Erickson
Any resemblance to actual persons : the real people behind 400+ fictional movie characters / / Hal Erickson
Autore Erickson Hal <1950->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 403 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 791.436
Soggetto topico Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Film adaptations
ISBN 1-4766-2930-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910826670503321
Erickson Hal <1950->  
Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., , [2017]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Characters in Film and Other Media : Theory, Analysis, Interpretation
Characters in Film and Other Media : Theory, Analysis, Interpretation
Autore Eder Jens
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2025
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (0 pages)
Disciplina 791.436
Altri autori (Persone) LowryStephen
Soggetto topico Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
ISBN 1-80064-249-0
1-80064-250-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Research on characters : an overview -- What are characters, how are they created and experienced? -- A basic model for analysis : the character clock -- Grasping represented beings : forming mental models of characters -- Analysing represented beings : an anthropological heuristic -- Shaping characters with cinematic means : sensuality and structure -- Characters as artefacts : aesthetic qualities and conventions -- Motivation and plot : characters' needs, goals, and actions -- Character constellations as social and aesthetic systems -- Characters as symbols : how characters convey higher-level meanings -- Characters as symptoms : how characters interact with reality -- Imaginative involvement with characters : a matter of perspective -- Affective involvement with characters : sympathy, empathy, and beyond -- Summary : fundamentals of character theory and analysis -- A challenging case : characters and the weight of reality in death and the maiden.
Record Nr. UNINA-9911018765803321
Eder Jens  
Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2025
Materiale a stampa
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Neo-Victorian villains : adaptations and transformations in popular culture / / edited by Benjamin Poore
Neo-Victorian villains : adaptations and transformations in popular culture / / edited by Benjamin Poore
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (360 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina 820.9/352
Collana Neo-Victorian series
Soggetto topico Villains in literature
Villains in motion pictures
Characters and characteristics in literature
Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
English literature - Adaptations - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - Influence
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 90-04-32225-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Villain-Effect: Distance and Ubiquity in Neo-Victorian Popular Culture / Benjamin Poore -- Theatrical Transformations -- ‘A Perfect Demon’: Michael Eaton’s Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend / Richard J. Hand -- Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian Hollywood / Christina Parker-Flynn -- Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the Victorians / Guy Barefoot -- Imperial Heroes and Native Villains / Robert Dean -- Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on Screen / Gillian Piggott -- Transitional and Liminal Figures -- Kissing the Medium: The Spiritualist-Witch as Countercultural Heroine in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1959) / Marion Gibson -- Jack the Representation: The Ripper in Culture / Mark Jones -- On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister Sinister / David Bullen -- Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied Soul / Emma V. Miller -- Neo-Victorian Sex and ‘Sexsation’ -- The Postfeminist Tart: Neo-Victorian Villainy and Sex Work in Ripper Street / Sarah Artt -- “I raise the devil in you, not any potion. My touch”: The Strange Case of Heterosexuality in Neo-Victorian Versions of Jekyll and Hyde / Helen Davies -- A Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and ‘Lad Culture’ in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian Gray / Claire O’Callaghan -- Literary Villains Reimagined -- Svengali: The Evolution of Ethnic Evil through Adaptation / Rob Welch -- From ‘the wicked man’ to the ‘bastard boy of seven’: The Evolution of John Jasper’s Villainy in Adaptations of The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Jonathan Buckmaster -- “I’m always angry”: Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero Films / Emma A. Harris -- Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Frances Pheasant-Kelly and Natalie Russell.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910511770703321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Neo-Victorian villains : adaptations and transformations in popular culture / / edited by Benjamin Poore
Neo-Victorian villains : adaptations and transformations in popular culture / / edited by Benjamin Poore
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (360 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina 820.9/352
Collana Neo-Victorian series
Soggetto topico Villains in literature
Villains in motion pictures
Characters and characteristics in literature
Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
English literature - Adaptations - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - Influence
ISBN 90-04-32225-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Villain-Effect: Distance and Ubiquity in Neo-Victorian Popular Culture / Benjamin Poore -- Theatrical Transformations -- ‘A Perfect Demon’: Michael Eaton’s Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend / Richard J. Hand -- Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian Hollywood / Christina Parker-Flynn -- Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the Victorians / Guy Barefoot -- Imperial Heroes and Native Villains / Robert Dean -- Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on Screen / Gillian Piggott -- Transitional and Liminal Figures -- Kissing the Medium: The Spiritualist-Witch as Countercultural Heroine in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1959) / Marion Gibson -- Jack the Representation: The Ripper in Culture / Mark Jones -- On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister Sinister / David Bullen -- Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied Soul / Emma V. Miller -- Neo-Victorian Sex and ‘Sexsation’ -- The Postfeminist Tart: Neo-Victorian Villainy and Sex Work in Ripper Street / Sarah Artt -- “I raise the devil in you, not any potion. My touch”: The Strange Case of Heterosexuality in Neo-Victorian Versions of Jekyll and Hyde / Helen Davies -- A Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and ‘Lad Culture’ in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian Gray / Claire O’Callaghan -- Literary Villains Reimagined -- Svengali: The Evolution of Ethnic Evil through Adaptation / Rob Welch -- From ‘the wicked man’ to the ‘bastard boy of seven’: The Evolution of John Jasper’s Villainy in Adaptations of The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Jonathan Buckmaster -- “I’m always angry”: Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero Films / Emma A. Harris -- Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Frances Pheasant-Kelly and Natalie Russell.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910792960503321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Neo-Victorian villains : adaptations and transformations in popular culture / / edited by Benjamin Poore
Neo-Victorian villains : adaptations and transformations in popular culture / / edited by Benjamin Poore
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (360 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina 820.9/352
Collana Neo-Victorian series
Soggetto topico Villains in literature
Villains in motion pictures
Characters and characteristics in literature
Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
English literature - Adaptations - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - Influence
ISBN 90-04-32225-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Villain-Effect: Distance and Ubiquity in Neo-Victorian Popular Culture / Benjamin Poore -- Theatrical Transformations -- ‘A Perfect Demon’: Michael Eaton’s Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend / Richard J. Hand -- Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian Hollywood / Christina Parker-Flynn -- Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the Victorians / Guy Barefoot -- Imperial Heroes and Native Villains / Robert Dean -- Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on Screen / Gillian Piggott -- Transitional and Liminal Figures -- Kissing the Medium: The Spiritualist-Witch as Countercultural Heroine in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1959) / Marion Gibson -- Jack the Representation: The Ripper in Culture / Mark Jones -- On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister Sinister / David Bullen -- Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied Soul / Emma V. Miller -- Neo-Victorian Sex and ‘Sexsation’ -- The Postfeminist Tart: Neo-Victorian Villainy and Sex Work in Ripper Street / Sarah Artt -- “I raise the devil in you, not any potion. My touch”: The Strange Case of Heterosexuality in Neo-Victorian Versions of Jekyll and Hyde / Helen Davies -- A Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and ‘Lad Culture’ in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian Gray / Claire O’Callaghan -- Literary Villains Reimagined -- Svengali: The Evolution of Ethnic Evil through Adaptation / Rob Welch -- From ‘the wicked man’ to the ‘bastard boy of seven’: The Evolution of John Jasper’s Villainy in Adaptations of The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Jonathan Buckmaster -- “I’m always angry”: Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero Films / Emma A. Harris -- Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Frances Pheasant-Kelly and Natalie Russell.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910822752903321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Sardinia on screen : the construction of the Sardinian character in Italian cinema / / Maria Bonaria Urban ; cover illustration courtesy of Salvatore Mereu ; photograph by Paolo Bianchi
Sardinia on screen : the construction of the Sardinian character in Italian cinema / / Maria Bonaria Urban ; cover illustration courtesy of Salvatore Mereu ; photograph by Paolo Bianchi
Autore Bonaria Urban Maria
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (570 p.)
Disciplina 791.436
Altri autori (Persone) MereuSalvatore
BianchiPaolo
Collana Studia imagologica
Soggetto topico Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Sardinians
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 94-012-1001-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sardinian Tropes in Literature before 1900 -- Sardinian Tropes in Literature after 1900 -- Sardinian Tropes on Screen -- Sardinian Characters on Screen -- Sardinian Identity on Screen -- Cases -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index of Names -- Index of Films.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910453500603321
Bonaria Urban Maria  
Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Sardinia on screen : the construction of the Sardinian character in Italian cinema / / Maria Bonaria Urban ; cover illustration courtesy of Salvatore Mereu ; photograph by Paolo Bianchi
Sardinia on screen : the construction of the Sardinian character in Italian cinema / / Maria Bonaria Urban ; cover illustration courtesy of Salvatore Mereu ; photograph by Paolo Bianchi
Autore Bonaria Urban Maria
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (570 p.)
Disciplina 791.436
Altri autori (Persone) MereuSalvatore
BianchiPaolo
Collana Studia imagologica
Soggetto topico Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Sardinians
ISBN 94-012-1001-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sardinian Tropes in Literature before 1900 -- Sardinian Tropes in Literature after 1900 -- Sardinian Tropes on Screen -- Sardinian Characters on Screen -- Sardinian Identity on Screen -- Cases -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index of Names -- Index of Films.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791098603321
Bonaria Urban Maria  
Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Sardinia on screen : the construction of the Sardinian character in Italian cinema / / Maria Bonaria Urban ; cover illustration courtesy of Salvatore Mereu ; photograph by Paolo Bianchi
Sardinia on screen : the construction of the Sardinian character in Italian cinema / / Maria Bonaria Urban ; cover illustration courtesy of Salvatore Mereu ; photograph by Paolo Bianchi
Autore Bonaria Urban Maria
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (570 p.)
Disciplina 791.436
Altri autori (Persone) MereuSalvatore
BianchiPaolo
Collana Studia imagologica
Soggetto topico Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Sardinians
ISBN 94-012-1001-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sardinian Tropes in Literature before 1900 -- Sardinian Tropes in Literature after 1900 -- Sardinian Tropes on Screen -- Sardinian Characters on Screen -- Sardinian Identity on Screen -- Cases -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index of Names -- Index of Films.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910823828403321
Bonaria Urban Maria  
Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui