• GLOCALIZING SHAKESPEARE – KOZINTSEV’S KING LEAR AND KUROSAWA’S RAN 

      DROSU, CLAUDIU-GENARO (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)
      This paper aims to explore two filmic representations of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of King Lear: Grigori Kozintsev’s King Lear (1971) and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985). The analysis of these filmic texts pays close ...
    • GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 

      TANASE, MIHAELA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)
      The present paper focuses on Ransom Riggs’ works, on the impact the Gothic genre has had on writers and their texts, and on the evolution of the style up to the contemporary times. The main purpose of this paper is to ...
    • RETELLING THE STORY RECYCLING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN VIDEO GAMES 

      CHIRILA, CATALINA-ANDREEA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)
      Many of the beloved bed-time stories from today were not created with the purpose of entertaining the young masses, but rather of educating it through rigid sets of values and morals; throughout time they were rewritten ...
    • “’SEE THE GREAT DOOM’S IMAGE!: CINEMATIC POETRY IN TWO FILM ADAPTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH” 

      HLIVNOI, ECATERINA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)
      Along with Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s plays that captivated the imagination of the most creative filmmakers all over the world, presenting almost endless alternatives for the exploration ...
    • THE GOTHIC IN ANIMAMUNDI THE DARK ALCHEMIST 

      ZAHARIA, ROXANA ELENA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)
      The aim of this paper is to provide a structural and in-depth analyses of the Gothic visual novel “Animamundi the Dark Alchemist”. In order to fulfil my objective, I have divided my paper in three main focus points. The ...
    • THE NEW FEMALE GOTHIC IN CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA 

      CARP, MADALINA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)
      Female Gothic constitutes a subgenre of the Gothic that focuses on the untold story of women. Replacing the stereotypical victimised feminine figure, Female Gothic allows its heroines to have agency and take action in their ...
    • THE PORTRAYAL OF DEGENERACY IN OSCAR WILDE’S THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 

      GRASU, CONSTANTIN COSMIN (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)
    • THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF STORIES- LITERARY AND FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS 

      VLADIMIROV, RALUCA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-07)
      Our paper focuses on the therapeutic effect that storytelling and story creating can have when it comes to dealing with past unresolved trauma, both in and out of therapy. The twist is that in analyzing our “patients” we ...
    • THE UNCANNY AND THE JAPANESE GOTHIC IN SATSURIKU NO TENSHI AND KARA NO SHOUJO 

      MOCANU, DANIELA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)
      This paper aims to demonstrate how the Gothic genre has evolved in the Western and the Eastern traditions, and how the many nuances it has acquired over time are reflected in the 21st century Japanese anime, visual novels ...
    • WRITING AND FILMING THE PAINTING: KLIMT’S WORLD IN FEMALE PAINTING 

      NICOARA, RALUCA (UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI, 2020-09)
      Fin-de-siècle Vienna is marked by the division of its multicultural population into two categories: on the one side, there are the conservatives who refuse to let go of the past and move forward, and on the other side, ...