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The Frontier Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
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Ivana Barjašić The Frontier Myth has become an integral part of American culture and is constantly referenced through nostalgic depictions through which the myth has survived. Cormac McCarthy's novels seem to challenge the relationship between dominant frontier values and nationalistic conceptions of American history. The frontier is a concept open to question and uncertainty and constantly revised which is why the concept is applicable in different places, times and people. Through text analysis of...
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The Handmaid's Tale: Gender, Oppression and Dystopia
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Marta Ivanković The aim of this thesis was to analyse Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale and explore its prominent themes of gender, power and oppression. These themes will be read in the context of the dystopian setting of the novel. This study employs Foucault’s theoretical works for the chapters regarding power, hierarchy, and sexuality to emphasise the aim of Gilead. The main protagonists and their motives will also be analysed in the light of gender perspective for the part of female...
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The Horror Genre as a Social Critique
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Manuela Milas The horror genre has proven itself to be an astonishing vehicle for the implementation of criticism on certain issues that can be found within society and are related to different historical and political contexts. Because of its freedom in the portrayal of gruesome monsters and events, it has the possibility of providing this commentary in a more subtle way and executes its depiction on a completely different level than any other genre. Consequently, this paper deals with the analysis of...
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The Hunger Games: Creation of "Real" Reality
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Irena Prša This thesis focuses on literary representation of reality tv phenomenon in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, a dystopian young adult work of fiction. The trilogy is analyzed for themes that concern manipulation and representations of reality. Found themes are then incorporated into a theoretical framework of performance studies, with an anthropological observance of how they represent changing realities for individuals and societies, both in the analyzed novels and modern...
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The Importance of Language, Ideology, and Identity in the Formation of the Ukrainian Nation
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Jurica Puljiz The aim of this MA thesis is to analyze the importance of language in the formation of the Ukrainian national identity, while also taking into consideration aspects of language ideologies which shaped the status of the Ukrainian language throughout different historical periods. Moreover, this thesis analyzes the creation of the modern Ukrainian language and its importance for present-day Ukrainian national identity. This analysis has been conducted with the help of prominent works of various...
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The Influence of Politics and Ideology in Translation
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Maja Trusić This paper aims to present and discuss important issues regarding the influence of politics and ideology within the field of translation studies. Employing a theoretical approach, the work examines position of translated literature within the literary system relying on the theories of translation theorists and researchers Itamar Even-Zohar and André Lefevere. The paper also attempts to examine the position of a translator and his or her work regarding several ideological influences: the...
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The Magical World of Women: Disney and the Representation of Femaleness
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Nevena Ključanin The focus of this Master’s thesis is a feminist analysis of the representation of female characters in four Disney animated films, with an additional consideration to certain masculine ideologies both social and cultural. This paper explores the meaning behind Disney’s representation of women with a focus on the beauty ideal, femaleness, sexuality, and gender. This paper is a case study of femaleness; the goal to determine whether or not Disney’s portrayal of women is detrimental or...
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The Meaning of Life in Woody Allen´s movies
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Ana Majčica This thesis focuses on analyzing the issues of the meaning of life as shown through Woody Allen's movies and his existential approach within the film world. The analysis will focus on exploring the theoretical approach to existential issues in the context of Woody Allen's cinematography. By analyzing the selected four films, I show the various views and ways of access to topics such as the issue of meaning of life. Movies made by the director, screenwriter and actor Woody Allen are pervaded...
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The Meaning of Monty Python
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Lucija Grabovac The comedy group known as The Monty Python has made a great impact in the comedy world, but also in filmmaking. Namely, the group produced a popular 1970s show titled Monty Python's Flying Circus and five films. This thesis focuses on several of their films and aims to explain the usage of religious, political, social, and historical motifs in them, all of which serve as a comment on the society in a parodic way. The analysis has been based on three of their films: Monty Python and the Holy...
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The Mechanisms of Totalitarian Power in Dystopian Novels 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale
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Eni Trajkov George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale are two dystopian works
which essentially deal with apparently two different kinds of totalitarian power, however,
both with the scope of the absolute mastery over individual’s mind and body. Therefore, the
main focus of this thesis is to demonstrate and elaborate the mechanisms by which those who
rule Orwell’s and Atwood’s imaginary societies exercise their power, that is, to demonstrate
and elaborate the ways in...
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The Motif of the Group in Films of Howard Hawks
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Bruno Volarić Howard Hawks is one of the most important and critically recognized directors of the Classical Hollywood cinema. Throughout six decades of his career, Hawks had made films in almost every Hollywood genre, leaving a significant impact in every one of them. This impact, and Hawks’s reputation in general, consist in a specific set of themes and motifs that he developed and presented in these films, transforming the otherwise stereotypical stock of generic features into original and creative...
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The Motif of the Rose in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
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Marko Matas This paper sets out to explore the motif of the rose in William Butler Yeats's selected poems. It attempts to demonstrate in what ways Yeats used the rose as a motif: as a symbol for Maud Gonne, an expression of love's pain and portrayal of Ireland. This paper also analyses how his poetic style changed throughout his career.
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