George Lucas Thx1138 And Don Delillos White Noise A Comparison

Author : Bjoern Schubert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656669414
Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book George Lucas’ "THX1138" and Don DeLillo’s "White Noise." A Comparison written by Bjoern Schubert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, Technical University of Braunschweig, language: English, abstract: In order to work out similarities in the lines of thought expressed in the screenplay to the movie "THX 1138" by George Lucas and Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise", the author performs a close reading of both texts. While the plots of both works are completely different, this paper aims to show that the thoughts, beliefs and fears of ‘cold-war-America’ expressed in both works – death, echnology, capitalism versus communism, and the impact of media on society and the individual – can be found in both texts.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410319946
Total Pages : 35 pages
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Download or read book A Study Guide for Don DeLillo's White Noise written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Don DeLillo's "White Noise," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535822060
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Don DeLillo's White Noise written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Riepe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638374491
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Don DeLillo's 'White Noise' written by Jan Riepe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: Proseminar "Postmodern American Fiction after 1975", language: English, abstract: In the following pages I will discuss the role of Death in Don DeLillo’s “White Noise” and I will show that the protagonist, Jack Gladney, is not only obsessed with death, but that fear and obsession are the main driving forces in his life. Further it is the aim of this paper to show that Jack Gladney goes through a change, which results in him being able to cope with his fear and that DeLillo holds technology responsible for Jack’s obsessive fear. In order to support the thesis of this paper I will analyze the role that death plays in Jack’s life in regard to his family, his job, consumption and technology. To support the thesis of Jack going through a change I will discuss Jack’s relationship to death before and after the exposure to the chemical spillage and, most important, before and after Jack’s being “nearer to death”, when attempting to kill Willie Mink. Concluding, I will look at the novel’s link between death and technology. Jack Gladney lives with his wife Babette and their children from previous marriages in a house at the end of a quiet street in the quiet town of Blacksmith. He is head of the department of Hilter Studies at the College-on-the-Hill. Jack has specialized on Hitler and built a whole department around this single figure of history. In academic circles he is widely known as the leading expert on Hitler and his articles are printed in the appropriate journals. But Jack neither reads nor speaks the German language, a fact he desperately tries to keep a secret. He hides behind his dark glasses and academic robe. [...]

Author : George Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
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Download or read book THX 1138 written by George Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Riepe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638827437
Total Pages : 133 pages
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Download or read book The Future Belongs To Crowds: Media in Don DeLillo's Libra, Mao II and White Noise written by Jan Riepe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: Magisterpr fung, 68 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper analyzes the treatment of media in novels by Don DeLillo. Key concepts in the study of media will be presented and explained in regard to how they are represented in DeLillo's novels. The focus will be on the novels and not on the media, after all this is a master's thesis in Literary and not in Communications Studies. Media and media theory, in our age of information capitalism are, now more than ever before, a topic that deserves close scholarly attention. Media theorists agree that to study the media is to study one of the most important topics of the day and that "such study should be compulsory part of every citizens liberal education" (Fred Inglis. Media Theory. An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. p. 6). Most people in their daily lives are permanently surrounded by media. No matter if it is our entertainment, information, health, knowledge, memory, identity, dreams, emotions, or even our dying - all have by now been incorporated by the media. It is impossible to understand our acting and thinking without considering the influence of mediation. The entire history of mankind is inseparable from media, from language to the alphabet and the printing press all the way to today's instant electronic communication. "Every interpretation of anything is medially determined"(Arjen Mulder. Understanding Media Theory. Language, Image, Sound, Behavior. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing/NAi Publishers, 2004. p. 179), media are our means of understanding, it is through them that we try to make sense of the world. As this paper will show, the mass media now have an enormous influence of both public and private life of Western culture, in fact individuals as much as nations today formulate their agendas, memories, and

Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733017
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

Author : Carol Vernallis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190258179
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media written by Carol Vernallis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection surveys the contemporary landscape of audiovisual media. Contributors from image and sound studies explore the history and the future of moving-image media across a range of formats including blockbuster films, video games, music videos, social media, experimental film, documentaries, video art, pornography, theater, and electronic music.

Author : Sascha Klein
Publisher : Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)
ISBN 13 : 9783631792018
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Skyscraping Frontiers written by Sascha Klein and published by Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study models the skyscraper as a complex network of actors and retraces its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onwards by looking at a great number of US-American novels and movies. It connects classic spatial theories with concepts and methods of ANT and Urban Studies.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062938797
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book The Arrest written by Jonathan Lethem and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car. The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits working. . . . Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn’t hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings’ life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear. Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he’s up to, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him. Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest.