Sökning: "Monster Studies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden Monster Studies.

  1. 1. In the Company of Ghosts : Hauntology, Ethics, Digital Monsters

    Författare :Line Henriksen; Margrit Shildrick; Nina Lykke; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Hauntology; monster; ghost; spectralities; Monster Studies; feminist theory; ethics; digital media; internet; Welcome to Night Vale; Mushroom Land TV; creepypasta; Hauntologi; monster; spöke; spectralities; monster studier; feministisk teori; etik; digitala medier; internet; Welcome to Night Vale; Mushroom Land TV; creepypasta;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s ’hauntology’ through the lens of digital monsters and feminist theory.Hauntology – a pun on ‘ontology’ and ‘haunting’ – offers an ethics based on responsibility towards that which cannot be said to fully exist, yet has an effect on our everyday lives nonetheless. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Monsterkroppar : Transformation, transmedialitet och makeoverkultur

    Författare :Kristina Stenström; Anja Hirdman; Kristina Riegert; Thomas Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transmedia; audience; television; embodied spectatorship; makeover culture; late modernity; monstrosity; monster; vampire; zombie; transmedia; publik; television; förkroppsligat åskådarskap; makeoverkultur; senmodernitet; monstrositet; monster; vampyr; zombie; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study offers insights into the motif of monstrous corporality in a transmedia environment, through the vampire and zombie characters. Different narratives of corporeal transformation surround us constantly. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film

    Författare :Valeria Alejandra Villegas Lindvall; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; feminist philosophy; decolonial thought; monstrosity; Latin America; horror cinema; Mexico; Argentina; La Llorona; witch; monster;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster in relation to Mexican and Argentinian national identity discourses. The thesis looks at two distinct iterations of gendered monstrosity in Mexican and Argentinian visual culture: La Llorona and the bruja (witch), respectively. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Den ensamma sjöjungfrun : Om Carina Rydbergs jagberättande ur ett genreperspektiv

    Författare :Tamara Andersson; Maria Jönsson; Elisabeth Hästbacka; Annelie Bränström Öhman; Anna Forssberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carina Rydberg; autofiction; autobiography; identity narrative; the Gothic; female Gothic; genre; Swedish literature; identity; gender; sex; femininity; monstrosity; female authors; transgression; the uncanny; intelligibility; Carina Rydberg; autofiktion; självbiografi; jagberättande; gotik; genre; svensk litteratur; identitet; genus; kön; femininitet; monster; kvinnliga författare; författarroll; transgression; det kusliga; das Unheimliche; begriplighet; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; gender studies; genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the two autobiographical novels Den högsta kasten (1997) and Djävulsformeln (2000) by Swedish author Carina Rydberg. Both novels generated lively public debate regarding how they ought to be read and understood, what genre they belonged to, and the ontological status of the narrating “I”. LÄS MER

  7. 5. De mörka labyrinterna : Gotiken i litteratur, film, musik och rollspel

    Författare :Mattias Fyhr; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gotik; gotisk roman; gotisk litteratur; skräckromantik; skräck; Inger Edelfeldt; Mare Kandre; Per Hagman; Alexander Ahndoril; Nikanor Teratologen; Magnus Dahlström; Bruno K Öijer; Åsa Grennvall; Horace Walpole; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Gregory Lewis; Mary Shelley; Charles Maturin; Edgar Allan Poe; Lovecraft; Bret Easton Ellis; Neil Gaiman; Lovecraft; The Cure; Cortex; The Damned; Emperor; Fields of the Nephilim; Freddie Wadling; Joy Division; Sisters of Mercy; Lucio Fulci goth; vampyrer; monster; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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