Browsing Theses by Subject "Languages, Linguistics & Film"
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Hoods and Yakuza The Shared Myth of the American and Japanese Gangster Film.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-05-03)While there have been many studies of the Hollywood gangster film and others of the Japanese yakuza-eiga (gangster films), there have been very few which look in any detail at the relationship between the two traditions: ... -
Investigation of Spatial Harmonic Magnetrons for High Power Millimetre and THz Wave Operations
(Queen Mary University of London, 30/11/2016)Magnetron is a crossed-field vacuum tube and has found applications in many fields where high power microwave is required, such as meteorological radar, marine navigation, particle accelerator and domestic and industrial ... -
Protean Ulyssisms in Portuguese Modernism: Reconceptualizations of Nationhood and Interactions with Brazil
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-03-16)This thesis investigates the spaces of interaction between Portuguese and Brazilian modernists. Relocations and transfigurations of the Ulysses myth are the main threads reconceptualizing the nation in the works analysed. ... -
Spelling Out the Noun Phrase: Interpretation, Word Order, and the Problem of `Meaningless Movement'
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-01-27)This thesis is an investigation of the nature of the syntax-semantics and syntaxphonology interfaces, focusing on the noun phrase. It is argued that, under the assumption that the mapping between syntax and semantics ...