Essays about: "Christian Gregory"
Found 3 essays containing the words Christian Gregory.
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1. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierAbstract : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. READ MORE
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2. Nature Will Not Be Ignored : Ecology and Neoliberalism in the Cinema of Bong Joon-ho
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för koreanskaAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the filmography of Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho [Pong Chun-ho], and to provide a limited textual analysis of each film divided across two categories: the “explicitly ecological” and “implicitly ecological”. The intent is to, by viewing all of Bong’s films leading up to his critical and commercial success Parasite, argue that Parasite is as much an environmental film as it is critical of neoliberalism and globalization, both of which are common readings of not only Parasite, but all of Bong’s work. READ MORE
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3. The Young & The Dying : The Continued Romanticization of Terminally Ill Adolescents in Contemporary American Cinema
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierAbstract : This essay examines how the past decade’s wave of young adult films portraying termi-nal illnesses compare and contrast with similar works from both film as well as literary works commonly referred to as “sick-lit”. By viewing three prominent films released be-tween 2014 and 2019 and applying both literature dealing with sick-lit as well as texts fo-cused on how cinema tends to portray serious illnesses such as cancer, I attempt to dis-cern whether significant change in the way which contemporary film handles severe ill-nesses has occurred. READ MORE
