Search for dissertations about: "entertainment culture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words entertainment culture.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia

   Author : Nadi Tofighian; John Fullerton; Charles Musser; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonial history; early cinema; film history; distribution; transnational networks; entertainment culture; Southeast Asia; Singapore; postcolonial theory; colonial discourse; ethnicity; race; whiteness; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. READ MORE

5. 3. Pretend that it is Real! Convergence Culture in Practice

   Author : Marie Denward; Jay Bolter; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : media convergence; alternate reality games; broadcast television; pervasive games; culture of production; ethnography; game design; game development; transmedia storytelling; pervasive live action role-playing; fiction; reality; participatory culture; audience; interactivity; public service broadcasting; media studies;

   Abstract : Mediekonvergens definieras och förklaras oftast som en teknisk och industriell företeelse, som den process där ny teknik anpassas till den befintliga medieindustrin och dess produktionskulturer. I dagens hybrida medielandskap kan mediekonvergens också beskrivas som den sociala process och de aktiviteter som medieanvändare deltar i när de rör sig mellan olika medier i jakt på underhållning och erfarenheter. READ MORE

6. 4. Colonizing Fever : Race and Media Cultures in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden

   Author : Åsa Bharathi Larsson; Pelle Snickars; Jan von Bonsdorff; Patrik Steorn; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; media cultures; race; late nineteenth century; visual representations of the colonial world; colonialism; Sweden; postcolonial theory; urban everyday life; scientific expeditions; entertainment; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

   Abstract : The dissertation focuses on visual representations of the colonial world in late nineteenth-century Sweden. Situated at the intersection between postcolonial studies, visual culture studies and cultural histories of media, the study has a threefold aim. READ MORE

7. 5. The construction of food and meal culture for political and commercial ends : EU-summits, rural businesses and World Exhibitions

   Author : Richard Tellström; Inga-Britt Gustafsson; Birgitta Svensson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : authenticity; commercial; cultural form; cultural value; food and meal culture; origin; political; professional; Culinary Arts and Meal Science; Måltidskunskap; Måltidskunskap; Culinary Arts and Meal Science;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how cultural values of food and meal culture were expressed and used by professional agents. The overall aim was to analyse and synthesise the interpretation and creation by professionals in commercial food and meal production of what they defined as a local, regional or national food and meal culture. READ MORE