Sökning: "Film and history"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 111 avhandlingar innehållade orden Film and history.

1. 21. Hellraiser : om Clive Barkers film

   Författare :Anna Arnman; Lars Gustaf Andersson; Bo Florin; Filmvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Monstrous; Aesthetics; Cenobites; Sexuality; Family; House; Religion; 80´s horror films; Humanities; Humaniora; Konstvetenskap; Art History; Allmän och jämförande litteraturvetenskap; Genre; General and comparative literature; Horror; Body; Horror; Film; Film Studies;

   Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I will discuss horror film as a genre and study how Hellraiser relates to its themes and problems. First I describe the production of the film and after that I present Clive Barker - his background, authorship, film-making and artwork. Next I study the problems of the genre and the different ways in which this genre is defined. LÄS MER

3. 22. The Untimely-Image : On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking

   Författare :Jakob Nilsson; Astrid Söderbergh-Widding; Tom Conley; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film-thinking; film-philosophy; political film; the untimely; Deleuze; The Wire; Badiou; Jameson; the new; novelty; advanced capitalism; cognitive mapping; blackness; Greek tragedy; aesthetics; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of “potential” in thought in the form of moving-images. LÄS MER

4. 23. A Poetics of Virtuality

   Författare :Thommy Eriksson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; computer games; movie making; augmented reality; virtuality; computer graphics; Stephen Baxter; William Gibson; virtual worlds; science fiction; production culture; virtual reality;

   Sammanfattning : How is virtuality represented in fiction, and what does that say about our anticipations and fears about what the virtual is and will be? This text, a poetics of virtuality, explores fictional representations of virtuality, primarily in movies and literature, but also in media productions done by the author. The aim is to study the dream of virtuality. LÄS MER

5. 24. Locating Inter-Scandinavian Silent Film Culture : Connections, Contentions, Configurations

   Författare :Anne Bachmann; Jan Olsson; Mark Sandberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film history; silent film; Scandinavia; transnational film; film discourse; location; censorship; film adaptation; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis revisits film and film-culture history in Sweden, Denmark and Norway with a view to discourses and practices of the inter- and trans-Scandinavian in the silent era. Excluding the earliest films, but including the transition to synchronised sound, it covers the period of the 1900s to 1930 with emphasis on the 1910s and 1920s. LÄS MER

7. 25. Chinatown Film Culture : The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood, 1906-1915

   Författare :Kim Khavar Fahlstedt; Jan Olsson; Gregory Waller; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :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;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER