Sökning: "film and nation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden film and nation.
1. Out of Site : Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines landscape as a concept for analysis and interpretation in film studies by considering the New Hollywood cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Contextualized within the contested notion of nationhood at the time as well as the concern among filmmakers to probe the properties, practices and traditions of American cinema, this was also a period when landscape underwent widespread redefinition as a field of artistic and academic practice. LÄS MER
2. Vithet i svensk spelfilm 1989-2010
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes whiteness in Swedish fiction films between 1989 and 2010. It examines the relationship between whiteness and nation in Sweden, and whiteness as a national Swedish symbol and how this is reformulated at different times in history. LÄS MER
3. Snuten i skymningslandet : svenska polisberättelser i roman och film 1965–2010
Sammanfattning : The dissertation "The Cop in the Twilight Land: Swedish Police Narratives 1965-2010" considers Swedish culture and ideas in the period 1965-2010 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It takes the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture; a history that necessarily comprises America, by extension a European colonial power, which in the process of constructing its national identity eradicated its native population. LÄS MER
4. Images of Work and Love : The Dynamics of Economy and Emotions on the Big Screen in Sweden and Mexico 1930–1955
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the intertwinement of economy and emotions within the context of modernity. By investigating how work and romantic love interact in fiction films from the period 1930 to 1955, I seek to shed light on how two cultural practices that might normally be assumed to belong to separate dimensions of life – the economic and the emotional – are actually closely connected to each other. LÄS MER
5. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. LÄS MER
