Sökning: "media archaeology"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 79 avhandlingar innehållade orden media archaeology.
11. Oscar Night in Hollywood : Fashioning the Red-Carpet from the Roosevelt Hotel to International Media
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the red-carpet phenomenon from a historical perspective, seeking to understand how the Academy Awards’ red-carpet became the most prominent fashion show in media culture. The connections between Hollywood and the fashion industry predate the inception of the ceremony, and so does the role of Hollywood actresses as trendsetters. LÄS MER
12. A globolo gems. Late Etrusco-Italic scarab intaglios
Sammanfattning : The study treats a class of engraved scarab gems commonly known by the name of a globolo, produced in Central Italy in the Late Classical to Early Hellenistic periods. The point of departure is a newly developed database of all known specimens, which amount to 1,470, covering a wide range of information categories, which have guided the structure of the presentation. LÄS MER
13. En förbindelse med en större värld : Postorder i Sverige under tidigt 1900-tal
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines mail order in early 20th-century Sweden from the perspective of media history. Its aim is to study the mediated encounter between the foremost mail-order company in Sweden, Åhlén & Holm, and its audience, in order to answer the question of what this mediated link meant for the living conditions and conceptual worlds of the contemporary audience, as well as for the advancement of a Swedish consumer society. LÄS MER
14. Worse than Complex
Sammanfattning : This thesis engages with questions on the boundary between what has traditionally been understood as social and natural. The introductory essay contextualizes the specific contributions of the included papers, by noting and exploring a reinvigoration of "naturalism" (the notion of a continuity between the human realm and the rest of natural phenomena) under the banner of Complexity Science. LÄS MER
15. Electronic Labyrinths : An Archaeology of Videographic Cinema
Sammanfattning : This study scans six decades of film history in search for video images, the imaginaries within which they are framed, and (taking cues from the archaeological methods of Friedrich Kittler and Michel Foucault) their technical, historical, and institutional conditions of existence. The British experimental science fiction film Anti-Clock (Jane Arden and Jack Bond, 1979) revolves around a video device with the capacity to confront subjects with their own repressed memory images. LÄS MER
