The first glance at the tropical haven emerging from the luminous teal waters arouses an awe of such a paradise. The inhabitants of a facility in the Michael Bay film, The Island, daily abide in that awe, assured in their eminent continuance succeeding a lethal global contamination. Their perception, however, is limited. The inhabitants are components of a rhetorical vision and their view of the Island is less that panoramic. Through a rare analysis of film, the device of Fantasy Theme Analysis, devised by Ernest Bormann, interfaced with a notion of vampiring, an unobstructed cyclorama of the Island is made available, indeed, providentially for the inhabitants in the film as well as the real world American society
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Islands have always occupied a significant place in literature and have been a source of inspiration...
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This paper opens with a historical survey of the imaginary representation of islands in Western lite...
Land and Sea are of a very different kind. One roots people to their contexts, tying them to its bor...
This paper discusses the role of the border of the island as a complex aesthetic zone in the journal...
A travers des oeuvres cinématographiques, picturales et littéraires, d’Homère aux frères Quay, en pa...
This paper opens with a historical survey of the imaginary representation of islands in Western lite...
This paper will be oriented around twin poles: the aesthetics and politics of destruction, and the p...
Today, ‘warm water’ islands are often the objects of what may be the most lavish, global and consis...
Islands have always occupied a significant place in literature and have been a source of inspiration...
A screenplay, co-authored with novelist Yannick Hill, centres around a lone islander and takes three...
Islands have always occupied a significant place in literature and have been a source of inspiration...
This research focuses on the American myth of technology as a savior and its paradox in American te...
This thesis examines the motif of the desert island in anglophone post-war popular culture as it coi...
Berlenga Grande is an island situated in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Portugal, belonging to...
Islands are a powerful recurring motif in the writing of David Mitchell. His globe-trotting fictions...
Take a typical book on Island Tourism (Conlin & Baum, 1995). The cover shows ayoung couple froli...
This paper opens with a historical survey of the imaginary representation of islands in Western lite...
Land and Sea are of a very different kind. One roots people to their contexts, tying them to its bor...
This paper discusses the role of the border of the island as a complex aesthetic zone in the journal...
A travers des oeuvres cinématographiques, picturales et littéraires, d’Homère aux frères Quay, en pa...
This paper opens with a historical survey of the imaginary representation of islands in Western lite...