Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Supervisor "McGuirk, Kevin"

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Christopher Nolan and the Art of Anamorphosis

Kolahjooei Alvar, Farzad (University of Waterloo, 2017-07-20)

This dissertation explores the cinema of Christopher Nolan over a 15-year period. It focuses on the portrayal of the subject in five of his major films: Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception ...
“In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov

Dehghani, Morteza (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)

This dissertation explores the concept of loss and the possibility of consolation in Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog and Alexander Sokurov’s Oriental Elegy through a method that ...
Macabre Collectibles: Collecting Culture and Stephen King

Hosseini, Seyyed Mohsen (University of Waterloo, 2018-07-09)

Objects have a significant place in Stephen King’s horror fiction and the landscape he has created in his numerous novels and short stories. The human-thing relationship in his fiction, however, has been generally reduced ...