In his fiction James Joyce plays unabashedly with names and naming. His attention to women's names is revealing, since he nicknames female characters differently from the way that he nicknames male characters, and he allows the females to generate names for themselves. Though historically a legacy...
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Is it all in the name? Using names as insight into characters’ inner motives is risky territory. There are loads of examples, like the Starks from bleak Winterfell, and the twisted-but-pretty Bellatrix Lestrange. But it’s been done – and if you’re to do it, remember to do it with...
Computers, robots and other artifial intelligence characters from science-fiction: Abulafia ("Foucault pendulum" by Umberto Eco, named after a medieval jewish philosopher) ADA (Ingress [A Detection Algorithm / Detection Agorithm "A"]) Alfie (Barbarella 1968) ...
The concept of the name "Lolita" in Japanese culture called 'Lolicon' (ロリコン) or 'Rorikon' is a fictional media genre in which female characters are brought in age (young) as actors in a sexual context. The naming of 'lolita' as a young girl in Japanese art underwent a shift ...
Call your characters by their right names. This book will help you. Now you won't have to use baby name books or your teelphone directory for ideas for character names. More than 20,000 character names are included right here, along with valuable instruction for selecting names, and how ...
American culture may not place the same value on the naming rite as some others. If you watched the movie Pulp Fiction, you may remember what one of the characters says about the meaninglessness of American names. Nevertheless I was astounded to read that in 1994 in New York City, 2,516...
CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): We investigate the problem of automatically labelling appearances of characters in TV or film material. This is tremendously challenging due to the huge variation in imaged appearance of each character and the weakness and...
films, and have trouble matching the title to the movie. Familiar though these phrases may be, the abstractions don’t provide much glue for sticking the title to the remembered scenes. It’s much easier to attach a nice concrete title such asSteel Magnoliasto remembered characters or scenes....
In addition, both legitimate protesters and those on the side of lunacy are expected to make their various presences known. Some strange characters emerge from the crowd, as do former hippie types like Siobhan's parents who find themselves in the middle of a melee. They have made friends wi...