Back for good: melodrama and the returning soldier in post-war Italian cinema

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

War, Peace, and Cinema: Excerpts from the Foreign Policy of the USA with a Look at Stanley Kubrick’s Cinema

The notion of peace, regardless of theorizations accepted in th field and since the                  Enlightenment Period, and the era known as Modernism, has, constantly, been one of the challenges of mankind, and also scientists in the field of political sciences and international relations.  Contrary to the presentation of the idea of peace and respect to the human rights in some of the fore...

The Psychological Effects of War on Citizen and Soldier

Representation of Gender Identity of Women in the Cinema of War

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of t...

Good soldier falls: the liver in sleep apnea.

SEVERE OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA fires a complex array of physiological stressors rapidly and relentlessly across each period of sleep. With each occlusion of the upper airway, particularly in obese individuals, arterial oxygen content and delivery fall precipitously, carbon dioxide rises, acidosis ensues, hemodynamics are perturbed, cortisol levels rise, and sympathetic activation surges (for re...