Essays about: "John Fiske"

Found 4 essays containing the words John Fiske.

  1. 1. Oh my god, she’s a boy! The online afterlife of Sleepaway Camp (1983, Robert Hiltzik)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Emma Bengtsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Sleepaway Camp; LGBTQ; queer; netnography; cult; camp; identity.; Social Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This study aims to examine the online afterlife of the slasher film Sleepaway Camp (1983, Robert Hiltzik) and how this afterlife relates to the queer elements in the film and its role as a cult film. By combining analytical perspectives and tools deriving from film studies and media studies, through applying film analysis as a method and using a netnographic approach, the fields complement each other without cancelling each other out. READ MORE

  3. 2. "The Sibyl was safe in her jar, no one could touch her, she wanted to die" : Possessing Culture and Passion in A.S. Byatt's Possession

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Maria Jackson; [2017]
    Keywords : social constructivism; gender identity development; romance novels; self-possession; reader-response theory; Pierre Bourdieu; John Fiske; A.S. Byatt; Possession: a Romance.;

    Abstract : The purpose of the essay is to discuss the power narration has over our gender roles. John Fiske and Pierre Bourdieu´s theoretical texts have been used to discuss the connection between power and culture in A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance. READ MORE

  4. 3. The straight guy who sleeps solely with men : A deep semiotic analysis of hegemonic parameters in the American television serial Empire

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Erik Welin; [2015]
    Keywords : homosubversity; representation; hegemony; ideology; homonormativity; heteronormativity; semiotics; discourse;

    Abstract : The study that follows is a deep semiotic analysis meant to shed a light on which ideologies the serial represents and communicates to its audience. In my analysis I have used the terms homonormativity and homosubversity to divide the different discursive codes and thus see if it was the former or the latter that the production of Empire preferred. READ MORE

  5. 4. Femininity & Masculinity : - A Reception study about the construction of gender in four relationships on the TV-series Buffy & Angel.

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

    Author : Karin Schill; [2008]
    Keywords : Gender media communications Buffy the vampire slayer Angel Willow Tara Spike Cordy fans; genus Buffy och vampyrerna Angel mkv c medie-och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Uppsatsens syfte är att analysera hur genus är konstruerat i fyra relationer i TV-serierna Buffy och vampyrerna och Angel. Målet är att ta reda på om karaktärerna har en traditionell, delad eller omvänd genuskonstruktion. READ MORE