Search for dissertations about: "Swedish film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 98 swedish dissertations containing the words Swedish film.

  2. 1. Extracting versatility : Films commissioned by the mining industry in postwar Sweden

    Author : Ole Johnny Fossås; Marina Dahlquist; Bo Florin; Zoë Druick; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film history; swedish film; sponsored film; industrial film; useful cinema; mining; Sápmi; non-theatrical film; public service television; film distribution; the Swedish Film Institute; Radio Sweden; documentary film; film policy; filmhistoria; beställningsfilm; svensk film; industrifilm; informationsfilm; Sápmi; gruvindustrin; Svenska Filminstitutet; Sveriges Radio; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study investigates how films commissioned by Swedish mining companies were employed for institutional use between 1945 and 1965. A central aspect of what gave these films their versatility stems from circumstances that allowed commissioned texts to pass as non-partisan audiovisual aids, as educational and informative instruments and as occasional examples of film art through intermediaries. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Most Delicate Subject : A History of Sex Education Films in Sweden

    Author : Elisabet Björklund; Erik Hedling; Sven-Axel Månsson; Mariah Larsson; Eric Schaefer; Filmvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sex education film; sexuality and Swedish cinema; censorship; genre; exploitation; pornography; gender; Swedish welfare state; Swedish sin ; Language of Love-films; school film; Film Studies; Filmvetenskap; Sex education film; sexuality and Swedish cinema; censorship; genre; exploitation; pornography; gender; Swedish welfare state; “Swedish sin”; Language of Love films; school film;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to present a history of sex education films in Sweden, from their beginnings until the late 1970s, relating the films to the changing historical context of the Swedish welfare society. Within this framework, the dissertation explores two main sets of questions. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. British Audiences and Approaches to European Cinema : Four Case Studies of French and Swedish Film in the UK Today

    Author : Ingrid Stigsdotter; Tim Bergfelder; Thomas Austin; University of Southampton; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film; Filmvetenskap;

    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

  7. 5. The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 : New and Old Technologies

    Author : Christopher Natzén; Maaret Koskinen; Bo Florin; Kevin Donnelly; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coming of sound film; formative music; cinema in the 1920s; Sweden; intermediality; cinema musicians; Svensk Filmindustri; trade press; cinema as event; internal logic of perception; external logic of perception; advertisement; Film; Filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    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