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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 172 avhandlingar innehållade orden mass culture.

1. 6. On the Good Faith : A Fourfold Discursive Construction of Zoroastrianism in Contemporary Russia

   Författare :Anna Tessmann; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Zoroastrianism; Russia; new religious movement; mass culture; esotericism; discourse; science; new mass media; literature;

   Sammanfattning : Zoroastrianism, a religion originating in the ancient East and having survived to the present day, is currently being practiced on a very small scale throughout the whole world. Since the early 1990s there has been a gradually increasing public interest in Zoroastrianism in Russia and some of the former Soviet republics where small pockets of new non-ethnic Zoroastrians have sprung up. LÄS MER

3. 7. Skuggor av sanning : Tidig svensk radiologi och visuell kultur

   Författare :Solveig Jülich; Boel Berner; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; science studies; visual culture; history of Swedish radiology; professionalization; scientific images; scientific observation; objectivity; subjectivity; judgment; röntgenfotografi; medicinhistoria; radiologi historia; visuell perception; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN; HUMANITIES and RELIGION;

   Sammanfattning : The present study deals with the introduction and reception of x-ray images in Sweden around 1900. The general aim is to investigate two cultural contexts of the early x-ray image. It is shown that during the initial years x-ray images were wedded with photographs and film in an expanding mass visual culture. LÄS MER

4. 8. Rationell arkitektur : Företagskontor för massproduktion och masskommunikation

   Författare :Helena Kåberg; Ulf Sandström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; Addo; Asea; Bulten; Corporate Image; House Style; New Monumentality; Scientific Management; Swedish Modern; Ladislav Sutnar; Oscar Nitzchke; Sven Ahlbom; von Kantzow; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; History Of Art; konstvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Modern architecture, which can be perceived as representational, metaphoric or symbolic, has often been excluded in Swedish architectural debate and writing. Ideological perspectives dominate, and the focus has been on housing and infrastructure. Frequently, architecture of the mid twentieth century has been characterized as neutral. LÄS MER

5. 9. 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

7. 10. Om betydelsen av böckers utseende : det svenska förlagsbandets framväxt och etablering under perioden 1840–1914 med särskild hänsyn till dekorerade klotband : en studie av bokbandens formgivning, teknik och relation till frågor om modernitet och materiell kultur

   Författare :Kristina Lundblad; digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap Avdelningen för ABM; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bookbinding; Book Design; Book History; Publishers’ bindings; Publishers’ Cloth; Material Culture; Form; Modernity; Materiality; Mass Individualism; Edition Binding; 19th Century; Book Binding Machines; Industrialization; Title Specific Binding; Binding Practise; Tactility; Haptic Vision; Simmel; Aesthetics and Economy; Aesthetics and Tecnique; Interaction; Book Market; Cultural History; Cloth; Book Trade; The History of the Book; Mechanization; Production of Meaning; Peder Herzog; Blocking Press; Book Case; Book Porduction; Book Production History; Consumer Society; History of Consumer Society; History of Book Design; Ornament; 19th Century Interior Decoration; Reading and the Book; Bookbindings of Bonnier; the Physical Aspects of Books and Reading;

   Sammanfattning : This study traces the history of publishers’ cloth-bindings in Sweden, and places them in relation to the emergence of modernity. The interaction between techno-logy, economics and aesthetics is central to the analysis, in which a sociological approach is combined with per-spectives of book history and material culture studies. LÄS MER