Search for dissertations about: "perception film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words perception film.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. 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

5. 3. Picturing Dissolving Views : August Strindberg and the Visual Media of His Age

   Author : Vreni Hockenjos; Astrid Söderbergh-Widding; Stephan Michael Schröder; Sara Danius; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; August Strindberg; media history; 1870–1912; visual culture; media in literature; Sweden; early cinema; magic lantern; panorama; instantaneous photography; graphic reproduction; theatre; science; perception; Film; Filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : The subject of this study is August Strindberg’s interaction with the visual media of his day. Its dual aim is to examine Strindberg’s work in the light of media history and to allow Strindberg’s work in turn to illuminate the media history of the fin de siècle. READ MORE

6. 4. 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

7. 5. 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