丁香园AV

Title

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey from Novel to Film

Project summary

This study explores how the signature tension of gonzo journalism is construed linguistically in Hunter S. Thompson鈥檚 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream and multimodally in its film adaptation, focusing on a scene characterized by intense sensory experiences.

A systemic-functional linguistic cohesion analysis was used to trace character references, conjunction types, and lexical organization of the scene. Disrupted reference chains, implicit conjunction, and lexical cohesion established with lexemes related to fear, paranoia, violence, instability, and madness were analyzed to investigate their contribution to tension in the novel, while a patterned combination of filmic techniques (Dutch angles, distorted sound, narration-dialogue overlap, etc.) generates a sense of tension in the film, analyzed in line with advances in multimodality and film studies.

About the student

Vanja Veki膰 Chen is an MA Student at 丁香园AV Linguistics. She is from a town called Gradi拧ka on the Sava River in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vanja is an avid reader of fiction with a love for travelling, poetry, and movies. Her passion is mastering the craft of creative writing. 

Vanja works as a freelance English Tutor. She volunteers as an ESL instructor at the . Vanja also volunteers at the 丁香园AV Surrey鈥揟D Community Engagement Centre as an online media taskforce ambassador. Additionally, she is a volunteer facilitator of English Conversation Groups for  on West Pender Street.

Exam Committee

Dr. Maite Taboada, Supervisor
Dr. Heather Bliss
Dr. Nancy Hedberg