Essays about: "Video essays"

Found 4 essays containing the words Video essays.

  1. 1. Messages from the deep: A reception study of Denis Villeneuve's Dune

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Sarah R. Kern; [2024-02-06]
    Keywords : Hegemony; Production Reception; Discourse; Dominant Negotiated Oppositional; Dune; Representation; Reception study; convergence culture; science fiction; participation culture; fandom;

    Abstract : This essay uses Pierre Bourdieus habitus, symbolic capital, Social fields, Stuart Halls representation theory and Encoding/Decoding system, as well as Henry Jenkins concept of convergence culture and media convergence, to conduct a reception study of Denis Villeneuves 2021 adaption of the science fiction movie Dune. The material collected for the reception study is collected in the form of reviews and features from experts in cinema, juxtaposed against material collected from YouTube in the form of reviews, reaction videos and video essays from social groups sectioned around cinephiles and science fiction fandom. READ MORE

  3. 2. English spelling errors in Swedish high school : An investigation of English spelling errors among Swedish high school students and their possible causes

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Gule Akman; [2019]
    Keywords : Spelling error; Swedish English learners; Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Transfer; Language Gender; Gender spelling mistakes; Program orientation; Uppsala Learner English Corpus ULEC ;

    Abstract : This study investigates spelling errors among Swedish students of English. The purpose of this research is to develop a better understanding of the causes of spelling errors and to investigate whether there are any differences between program orientation and gender. The participants are English A students from Swedish high schools in year 1. READ MORE

  4. 3. Occupied Peripheries: Rethinking Landscape in the Anthropocene Visuality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Lena Quelvennec; [2018]
    Keywords : Landscape; visuality; experimental geography; Anthropocene; The ZAD.; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Although landscape representations in the US-European culture have traditionally been acknowledged as a peaceful ordering of the world or the tool of imperialism, nationalism and private property (sometimes all simultaneously), a new shift in the landscape scopic regime seems to be happening. Produced by the current rise of concerns around climate change and environmental crisis, this shift seems to be related to a specific attention to land use and land value. READ MORE

  5. 4. The video essay as a persuasive genre: A qualitative genre analysis with a focus on evaluative and persuasive linguistic features

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Stefani Buco; [2018]
    Keywords : Video essays; genre; genre analysis; Appraisal; evaluative language; subjective language;

    Abstract : So called ‘video essays’ on films and cinema have gained substantial popularity on the video sharing internet site YouTube in the past years. This essay explores this relatively recent type of video production from the perspective of genre analysis in order to investigate whether a pattern of form, content and style can be identified, which would suggest the emergence of a new genre. READ MORE