Search for dissertations about: "Film Studies"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 678 swedish dissertations containing the words Film Studies.

  2. 11. Dreams of a subversive future : sexuality, (hetero)normativity, and queer potential in science fiction film and television

    Author : Josefine Wälivaara; Per Ringby; Christina Svens; Stacey Abbott; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Science fiction; film; television; genre; sexuality; queer; storytelling; gender; subversive; intelligibility; Torchwood; Firefly; Star Wars; Star Trek; adult turn; Star’verses; dramaturgy; heteronormativity; film history; Hollywood; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to explore depictions of sexuality in popular science fiction film and television through a focus on storytelling, narrative, characters and genre. The thesis analyses science fiction as a film and television genre with a focus on the conventions, interpretations, and definitions of genre as part of larger contexts. READ MORE

  4. 12. Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes : A Transfeminist Reading of Utopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film

    Author : Wibke Straube; Cecilia Åsberg; Nina Lykke; Lann Hornscheidt; Susan Stryker; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Transgender studies; transfeminism; queer; gender; feminism; multisensorial cinema; haptic spectatorship; touch; hearing; seeing; exit scapes; sensible cinematic intra-activity; Trans Cinema; visual cultural studies; film theory; Transstudier; transfeminism; queer; genus; feminism; multisensorisk film; haptic spectatorship; beröring känsel; hörsel; seende; exit scapes; sensible cinematic intra-activity; trans cinema; visuella kulturstudier; filmteori;

    Abstract : Trans Cinema and its Exit Scapes offers a critical and creative intervention into cultural representations of gendered body dissidence in contemporary film. The study argues for the possibility of finding spaces of “disidentification”, so-called “exit scapes” within the films. READ MORE

  5. 13. Gallery Experience : Viewers, Screens and the Space In-Between in Contemporary Installation Art

    Author : Olivia Eriksson; Malin Wahlberg; Anu Koivunen; Ilona Hongisto; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gallery film; film installation; artists film; archival art; film experience; film phenomenology; embodied experience; relational aesthetics; participation; site specificity; Olafur Eliasson; Fiona Tan; Akram Zaatari; Richard Mosse; Jesper Just; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores gallery experience as an embodied and site-specific occurrence. Using an interdisciplinary approach that bridges art historical research with film theoretical perspectives, it offers contextualized, in-depth analyses of a limited number of contemporary installation works exhibited in Scandinavia during 2014–2016. READ MORE

  6. 14. Reproducing Languages, Translating Bodies : Approaches to Speech, Translation and Cultural Identity in Early European Sound Film

    Author : Anna Sofia Rossholm; Jan Olsson; Thomas Elsaesser; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sound Theory; Translation; Intermediality; Film Speech; European Cinema; Writing in Film; Stardom; Transition to Sound; Film and Theatre; Film; Filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study discusses and analyses recorded/filmed speech, translation, and cultural identity in film discourses in early European sound film. The purpose is to frame these issues from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to highlight relations between media, speech and translation. The points of departure are 1. READ MORE

  7. 15. The Untimely-Image : On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking

    Author : Jakob Nilsson; Astrid Söderbergh-Widding; Tom Conley; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film-thinking; film-philosophy; political film; the untimely; Deleuze; The Wire; Badiou; Jameson; the new; novelty; advanced capitalism; cognitive mapping; blackness; Greek tragedy; aesthetics; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of “potential” in thought in the form of moving-images. READ MORE