Sökning: "the tourist gaze"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden the tourist gaze.

  1. 1. Att sälja världen: Omvärldsbilder i svensk utlandsturism

    Författare :Klas Grinell; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; modernity coloniality; Sweden; frames of reference; denial of coevalness; Swedish tourism industry; stereotypes; idea of Progress; the tourist gaze; marketing; worldliness; Edward Said; Walter Mignolo;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to analyse how the Swedish tourism industry has marketed the world outside Sweden. What images of the people who populate tourist destinations has the tourism industry used to lure customers abroad? Answers to this question are drawn from a body data comprised of prospecti and brochures put out by Swedish tourism agencies in the period between 1930 and 1990. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Amerikafantasier : kön, medier och visualitet i svenska reseskildringar från USA 1945-63

    Författare :Amanda Lagerkvist; Johan Fornäs; Madeleine Kleberg; Kirsten Drotner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; America in the Swedish imagination; visual culture studies; travel writing; media history; post-war era; mass culture debate; feminist media theory; representation; textual interpretation; urban theory; Reseskildringar; teman och motiv; historia; Förenta Staterna i litteraturen; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the construction of an imaginary America in Swedish travel writing from 1945 to 1963. By placing focus on the intersecting dimensions of gender, media, and visuality, the aim is to analyze Swedish notions of the US that surface both in the written word as well as in the illustrative material, by contextualizing these imaginings within the expanding media culture of the time. LÄS MER

  4. 3. See and Seen : Seeing Landscape through Artistic Practice

    Författare :Matts Leiderstam; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nicolas Poussin; landscape painting; Claude Lorrain; Art of painting; Måleri; Nicolas Poussin; Claude Lorrain;

    Sammanfattning : The point of departure for See and Seen text, website and exhibition) is the conventions of the Ideal Landscapes painted in Rome during the 17th century by artists such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. In 18th century England this translated into a particular gaze that became the fashion for how, and the parameters within which, the landscape was to be seen and that subsequently gave rise to landscaped parks, poetry and painting, and consequently had a significant role in shaping theories of the Picturesque. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Eyes on multimodal interaction

    Författare :Pernilla Qvarfordt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Advances in technology are making it possible for users to interact with computers by various modalities, often through speech and gesture. Such multimodal interaction is attractive because it mimics the patterns and skills in natural human-human communication. To date, research in this area has primarily focused on giving commands to computers. LÄS MER