Search for dissertations about: "FILM AUDIENCES"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words FILM AUDIENCES.
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1. Chinatown Film Culture : The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood, 1906-1915
Abstract : This study investigates film culture in San Francisco's Chinatown between the years 1906 and 1915. While Chinatowns have figured in several studies of representation in classical Hollywood cinema, it has rarely been approached as a place where film culture actually happened. READ MORE
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2. Musicalized Characters : A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation
Abstract : This thesis is an audience reception study of film music and animation film. It focuses on the musical construction of characters, looking at how music becomes meaningful in film and how this meaning becomes part of child audiences' interpretation of filmic characters. READ MORE
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3. Modern Media, Modern Audiences : Mass Media and Social Engineering in the 1930s Swedish Welfare State
Abstract : The dissertation straddles the interface of mass media, social engineering and advertising in 1930s Stockholm. Its twofold objective is firstly to outline their cultural output, targeting predominantly feminine audiences. READ MORE
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4. British Audiences and Approaches to European Cinema : Four Case Studies of French and Swedish Film in the UK Today
Abstract : This thesis provides an analysis of audience responses to four case study films, Amélie (Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, 2001), The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rêvée des anges, 1998), Faithless (Trolösa, 2000) and Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål, 1998). The empirical data was collected at screenings in Hampshire and West Sussex in 2005. READ MORE
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5. The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 : New and Old Technologies
Abstract : This dissertation examines the coming of sound film in Sweden during the years 1928–1932, and the reception of mechanically recorded sounds both in the trade press and among audiences. The novelty of sound film opened up for a negotiation of the perception of sound and image, as it made visible the film medium’s technological construction, before this visibility was once more absorbed by the cinematic discourse. READ MORE