Search for dissertations about: "popular culture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 240 swedish dissertations containing the words popular culture.
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1. Culture Unbound: Americanization and Everyday Life in Sweden
Abstract : This book investigates the significance processes of Americanization have had in shaping and influencing the form and content of everyday life in Sweden. However, rather than simply viewing Americanization as an irresistible homogenizing force, it is argued that to the extent that Swedish everyday life has been Americanized, it has been Americanized in a very Swedish way. READ MORE
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2. Unleashing Science Popularisation: Studies on Science as Popular Culture
Abstract : This thesis aims to broaden the concept of science popularisation. It argues that the conventional view of popularisation as the public communication of appropriately simplified versions of established facts to lay audiences fails to capture the multifaceted nature of popularisation practices through which science and popular culture are recombined. READ MORE
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3. Reconfiguring the Hero’s Journey – The Monomyth in Contemporary Popular Culture
Abstract : Den här avhandlingen analyserar hur den så kallade hjälteresan eller monomyten gestaltas i samtida texter och media. Det övergripande syftet är att undersöka vilken giltighet och relevans strukturen som skapades av Joseph Campbell i The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) har inom engelskspråkig populärkultur. READ MORE
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4. Comforting an orphaned nation : Representations of international adoption and adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture
Abstract : This is a study of popular cultural representations of international adoption and adopted Koreans in Western countries. The study is carried out from a postcolonial perspective and uses a cultural studies reading of four feature films and four popular songs as primary sources. READ MORE
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5. (Re)producing a periphery : popular representations of the Swedish North
Abstract : The discourse on Norrland (literally ‘North land’ in English) as essentially ‘different’ has been(re)produced in literature, politics and science for as long as the idea of ‘Norrland’ has existed. Thus,when investigating the discourse that constructs the identity of Norrland in opposition to a Swedishnational identity, it is important to connect these representations to their contemporary (andchanging) political-economic contexts. READ MORE