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2. 1. Screen play : audiovisual narrative & viewer interaction

   Author : John Alexander; Erik Hedling; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : How does the viewer, interact, with the on-screen narratives of film, television and computer? What new forms of interaction can be realised with the emerging narratives of CD-ROM and Internet?This study considers screen play in terms of the game the viewer plays with audiovisual narrative, and how the viewer negotiates with a story to interpret, revise and reconstruct new stories of their own.Aspects of game and narrative theories, cognitive psychology and phenomenology, as well as recent research in the fields of cinema, television and computer studies, are incorporated within a screen play theory, which positions the viewer both as player and storyteller. READ MORE

4. 2. The Invisible Seen in French Cinema before 1917

   Author : Marina Dahlquist; Frank Kessler; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; trickfilm; vetenskaplig film; fransk tidig film; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : Since the inception of cinema, an important strand of the medium has focused on itself, on what it depicts, and its indexical relation to the profilmic. Such concerns were most conspicuously put forward by the trick-film genre which bypassed conventional realism in its toying with the photographic image as well as cinematic movement. READ MORE

5. 3. Framing the Feature Film : Multi-Reel Feature Film and American Film Culture in the 1910s

   Author : Joel Frykholm; Jan Olsson; Richard Abel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multi-reel feature film; cinema in the 1910s; early cinema; United States; film culture; Philadelphia; The Spoilers; transitional cinema; journalism; trade press; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation addresses the breakthrough of the multi-reel feature film in the United States, and the significance of this process within the wider context of the American film industry and culture in the 1910s. The purpose is to provide a new, and more comprehensive analytical framing of the topic, and to enhance our understanding of how a new central commodity, i. READ MORE

6. 4. Out of Site : Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974

   Author : Henrik Gustafsson; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Asbjørn Grønstad; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cultural identity; film analysis; film and nation; genre revisionism; intermediality; landscape in art; landscape in cinema; New Hollywood; new realism; nostalgia film; reflexivity; road movies; Film; Filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines landscape as a concept for analysis and interpretation in film studies by considering the New Hollywood cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Contextualized within the contested notion of nationhood at the time as well as the concern among filmmakers to probe the properties, practices and traditions of American cinema, this was also a period when landscape underwent widespread redefinition as a field of artistic and academic practice. READ MORE

7. 5. Modern Media, Modern Audiences : Mass Media and Social Engineering in the 1930s Swedish Welfare State

   Author : Ylva Habel; Soveig Julich; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visuell kultur; urbanitet; kvinnor; mediehistoria; reception; välfärdsstaten; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   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