“I just thought you’d like to hear it from me; this is the Face, it's no great Mystery:” understanding authority in Paul Thomas Anderson’s "There Will Be Blood"
| dc.contributor.author | Hughes, Joel | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | McIntyre, Faye (English, Film, and Theatre) Eyland, Cliff (School of Art) | en |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Toles, George (English, Film, and Theatre) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-05T21:21:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-05T21:21:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-01-05T21:21:14Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | English, Film and Theatre | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the question of adaptation in relation to Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood and Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!. I argue, the reason adaptation studies has not necessarily moved beyond its obsession with fidelity is because theorists have neglected to understand a larger, more general, film going audience does not participate in perpetuating the academic theories that would do so. I then examine There Will Be Blood and its self-awareness of its relation to literature and its use of Upton Sinclair's Oil!. Finally, this line of inquiry leads me to conclude that There Will Be Blood disavows a notion of authority that would always make the adapted book better than the film. | en |
| dc.description.note | February 2011 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 422419 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4322 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | film | en |
| dc.subject | adaptation | en |
| dc.subject | Paul Thomas Anderson | en |
| dc.subject | Upton Sinclair | en |
| dc.subject | literature | en |
| dc.title | “I just thought you’d like to hear it from me; this is the Face, it's no great Mystery:” understanding authority in Paul Thomas Anderson’s "There Will Be Blood" | en |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |