![]() ![]() ![]() Langdon is trustworthy, as is Sophie, his female counterpart and love interest. Langdon, the novel's protagonist, anchors the story. All three novels display an impulse to redefine and thus contain womanhood, which, I argue, is a manifestation of the tension generated by the difference between social equality and biological realities. ![]() All three novels betray a fascination with conspiracy narrative as a possible antidote to postmodern indeterminacy, but they co-opt it in different ways and to a different degree. I also explore and seek to explain the reasons for the textual elements that are specific to each novel. I trace these common issues in the prose fiction of Umberto Eco (Foucault’s Pendulum), Alan Moore-Eddie Campbell (From Hell) and Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code). Among these the foremost are the legitimacy of knowledge and the status of women and femininity. Conspiracy fiction tells us the most about present issues, especially those that relate to the rapid and drastic social changes that took place in the twentieth and twenty-first century. ![]() Superimposing a the structure of conspiracy narrative onto history neutralizes the pervasive anxiety felt over the indeterminacy of postmodern life. I examine the methods with which conspiracy narratives dissolve and rearrange history in order to make sense of their present. This dissertation examines the ways in which conspiracy narratives are used in postwar prose fiction. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the current academic discourse by successfully defining one of the genre’s most essential cinematic strategies through the proposal of a conceptual framework which strives to be applicable to past as well as future royal biopics. This proposed conceptual framework is subsequently applied to the Netflix original television series The Crown, which covers the life and reign of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II and has been praised to have revolutionised its genre by re-negotiating its pre-established conventions. The present thesis aims to analyse this genre-specific approach by proposing the concept of fictional intimacy, which argues for fictional employments within the narrative of a biopic to foster the creation of a companionate relationship between the narrative and the audience. In order to achieve this goal, contemporary royal biopics undertake a combined approach of placing fictional depictions of private events and conversations against a setting which is dominated by the historic events of the past. As one of the most well-established representations of monarchy through modern media, the genre of the royal biopic is dominated by its objective to portray a historically truthful picture of monarchy while simultaneously giving private insights into the life of the sovereign and their immediate environment. ![]()
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