Gurov and Anna: Melodrama, metafiction, and the construction of narratives in film and fiction.

摘要

This thesis contains an original feature screenplay entitled Gurov and Anna, and an accompanying scholarly essay. The essay examines some of the themes found in my screenplay, with a focus on anxiety about the creation and consumption of narratives, and situates them within a grander literary, dramatic, and cinematic tradition, as well as in relation to the scholarly writings of Patricia Waugh and Peter Brooks.