Search for dissertations about: "american film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words american film.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. Chinatown Film Culture : The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood, 1906-1915

    Author : Kim Khavar Fahlstedt; Jan Olsson; Gregory Waller; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film history; early cinema; local film history; Chinese-American history; transnational cinema; orientalism; urban studies; San Francisco; Chinatown; Sid Grauman; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This study investigates film culture in San Francisco's Chinatown between the years 1906 and 1915. While Chinatowns have figured in several studies of representation in classical Hollywood cinema, it has rarely been approached as a place where film culture actually happened. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. Hollywood subversion : American film satire in the 1990s

    Author : Johan Nilsson; Mats Ekström; Mats Jönsson; Erik Hedling; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film studies; Filmvetenskap;

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  7. 5. The Archival Life of Home Movies : Regional Reflections and Negotiated Visions of a Shared Past

    Author : Ashley Smith; Malin Wahlberg; Patrick Vonderau; Patricia R. Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Home movies; amateur film; non-theatrical film; moving images; archiving; film archives; American South; Mississippi; Jim Crow; race; whiteness; witnessing; ordinary; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This study investigates the ways in which private home movies are transformed into curated archival objects. Through the concept of the archival home movie, it explores the impact of preservation and content description on access, use, and, thus, regional historiography. READ MORE