Search for dissertations about: "Intermediality"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word Intermediality.

2. 6. We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Author : Henrik Christensen; Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre; Jørgen Bruhn; Susanna Witt; Frederick White; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biofiction; contemporary biofiction; Fyodor Dostoevsky; biopic; biographical novel; intermediality; transmediality; Zarkhi; Tsypkin; Coetzee; Vapnyar; Khotinenko; différance; ideology; gender; post-colonialism; hyperreality; phenomenology; ethics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : This thesis studies fictional representations of Fyodor Dostoevsky in contemporary biofiction. The aim of the study is to present an intermedial theoretical framework for biofiction, a genre defined as fictional biographical and often metafictional narratives in which a biographical subject serves as the focal point for the story or plays a role integral to the narrative. READ MORE

4. 7. Surprise between media, minds and world : A Peircean process semiotic approach

   Author : Pedro Atã; Lars Elleström; Kate Maxwell; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surprise; surprise in poetry; semiosis; cognitive niche construction; Peirce semiotics; process semiotics; distributed cognition; intermediality; Humaniora; Humanities;

   Abstract : The central idea of this thesis is that the relationship between cognition,media and environments is regulated by surprise. The relationship between cognition, media and environments is a foundational problem for studies of cognition, culture and/or communication. READ MORE

5. 8. Stroke Darkly the Strings : On Paul Celan and Music

   Author : Axel Englund; Anders Olsson; Jacob Derkert; Martin Zenck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Paul Celan; music; poetry; intermediality; metaphor; modernism; Jörg Birkenkötter; Harrison Birtwistle; György Kurtág; Erhard Karkoschka; Tilo Medek; Aribert Reimann; Wolfgang Rihm; Peter Ruzicka; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to disclose the oeuvre of the German-Romanian Holocaust survivor Paul Celan as a site of problematic yet productive encounters between poetry and music. It addresses, on the one hand, music as a thematic and structural element in Celan’s poetry and, on the other hand, contemporary musical works interacting with this poetry. READ MORE

6. 9. Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema : Origins, Functions, Meanings

   Author : Eirik Frisvold Hanssen; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Eva Jørholt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colour film; film history; film theory; film technology; film aesthetics; indexicality; intermediality; colour and sound; catalogue; Kinemacolor; Sergei M. Eisenstein; Film; Filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a historical and theoretical study of a number of discourses examining colour and cinema during the period 1909 to 1935 (trade press, film reviews, publications on film technology, manuals, catalogues and theoretical texts from the era). In this study, colour in cinema is considered as producing a number of aesthetic and representational questions which are contextualised historically; problems and qualities specifically associated with colour film are examined in terms of an interrelationship between historical, technical, industrial, and stylistic factors, as well as specific contemporary conceptions of cinema. READ MORE

7. 10. 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