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  2. 1. Figures of time : on the phenomenology of cinema and temporality

    Author : Malin Wahlberg; Michael Renov; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film theory; phenomenology; aesthetic theory; temporality; duration; speed; photography; city film; documentary; experimental cinema; Film; Filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : Image and time represent a favored issue among theorists and practitioners in the history of cinema, where discussion is related to the ingenious machine, the new art, as well as the experience of film. Looking back on this debate, and considering recent accounts of 'time-images,' it is striking to note how the problem has always oscillated between issues of the medium specific and issues of film experience; that is, the ontology of cinema as a time-bound medium, the quality of rhythm, duration, and recorded views, and, not least, the sensory and affective impact of mediated sound-images. READ MORE

  4. 2. Gallery Experience : Viewers, Screens and the Space In-Between in Contemporary Installation Art

    Author : Olivia Eriksson; Malin Wahlberg; Anu Koivunen; Ilona Hongisto; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gallery film; film installation; artists film; archival art; film experience; film phenomenology; embodied experience; relational aesthetics; participation; site specificity; Olafur Eliasson; Fiona Tan; Akram Zaatari; Richard Mosse; Jesper Just; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores gallery experience as an embodied and site-specific occurrence. Using an interdisciplinary approach that bridges art historical research with film theoretical perspectives, it offers contextualized, in-depth analyses of a limited number of contemporary installation works exhibited in Scandinavia during 2014–2016. READ MORE

  5. 3. Aesthetic Experiences of Presence : Case Studies in Film Exhibition, 1896-1898

    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;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 4. Screen play : audiovisual narrative & viewer interaction

    Author : John Alexander; Erik Hedling; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : How does the viewer, interact, with the on-screen narratives of film, television and computer? What new forms of interaction can be realised with the emerging narratives of CD-ROM and Internet?This study considers screen play in terms of the game the viewer plays with audiovisual narrative, and how the viewer negotiates with a story to interpret, revise and reconstruct new stories of their own.Aspects of game and narrative theories, cognitive psychology and phenomenology, as well as recent research in the fields of cinema, television and computer studies, are incorporated within a screen play theory, which positions the viewer both as player and storyteller. READ MORE

  7. 5. 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