From Quixote to Caractacus: Influence, intertextuality, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Some commonalities are analyzed between Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the popular 1968 children's musical film, and four standard literary texts, namely Don Quixote, Peregrine Pickle, Tristram Shandy and Great Expectations. Cervante's Don Quixote is suggested to have influenced the story of the movie, which has Caractacus Potts as its central character, while also exploring the film in terms of an intertextual relation of the three English novels in the depiction of a specific character of an English eccentric.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 2006
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Playing like the boys: Patricia Conrwell writes men
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Patricia Cornwell diminished normal restraints and explores gender construction from multiple points of view, male/female, hetero-/homosexual, and adolescent/adult. Cornwell forces her readers to examine their assumptions about constructing femininity and masculinity.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 2006
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