Search for dissertations about: "Popular Film"
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79 swedish dissertations containing the words Popular Film.
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Author : Allan Burnett; Mediehistoria; []
Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media history; History; Media; History; 20th Century; Media analysis; media and communication studies; Media and democracy; media and political engagement; media and politics; media and power; media and social relations; Media ecology; media ethics; Deleuze and Guattari; McLuhan; Gender history; British history; Social history; Memory studies; Nationalism; Transnational; National Identity; Second World War; Cold War; Cold War culture; European history; African history; Television; television production; television and everyday life; television history; Film and history; film as historical source material; television culture; film analysis; film archives; film archive; Oral history; Media technology; broadcasting history; 1960- och 1970-tal; 1970s; Assemblage theory; Public history; Postcolonial; war history; Military history; Holocaust memory; memory culture; history culture; British Empire; Enoch Powell; Thatcher; New Left; history of class divisions; Women s movement; Women s history; postmodernity; generational relation; generational shift; Holocaust; postwar era; Journalism and New media; Journalistic culture; journalistic ideology; journalistic roles; journalistic practices; journalistic techniques; Anglo-american; European Community; Decolonisation; Decolonization; migrational history; National identity; Communities of belonging; Globalisation; nuclear age; atomic age; Apocalyptic narrative; Apocalyptic; documentary; Documentary film; documentaries; Filmmaking; Filmmakers; Soviet history; Nazi Germany;
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This thesis studies a period of intense crisis and creativity in British media, society, and culture, when the settled outcome of the Second World War (WW2) was perceived to be disintegrating. The post-world-war order was becoming an ‘order in ruins’. READ MORE
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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;
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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
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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;
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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
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Author : Gert Jan Harkema; Jan Olsson; John Fullerton; Tom Gunning; Stockholms universitet; []
Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film history; media history; early cinema; film experience; 19th century; aesthetics; presence; intermediality; phenomenology; the Netherlands; Chicago; modernity; fairground; vaudeville; Aladdin; Henri Grünkorn; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;
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This study investigates viewing experiences that came with the introduction of cinema. Merging (film) history with aesthetic theory, this dissertation entails historically informed theoretical reconstructions of viewing experiences between 1896 and 1898. READ MORE
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Author : Ylva Habel; Soveig Julich; Stockholms universitet; []
Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visuell kultur; urbanitet; kvinnor; mediehistoria; reception; välfärdsstaten; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;
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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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