Essays about: "Essay Film"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 112 essays containing the words Essay Film.

  1. 11. Frighteningly Female - Subversion of horror film tropes in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Sofia Lövgren Hansson; [2022-04-13]
    Keywords : Feminism; Horror; Gretel Hansel; Subversive; Women;

    Abstract : This essay aims to examine the portrayal of the reproductive and aging female body as horrific in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel (2020). It proposes that the reinterpretation of the Grimm brothers' classical fairytale as a feminist coming of age story, centering Gretel as the protagonist and the witch as a mentor, allows for a subversion of horror film tropes pertaining to the reproductive female body. READ MORE

  3. 12. Visions of the Future: An exploration of the visual and thematic worlds of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Elisabet Åberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Blade Runner; postmodernism; capitalist realism; cyberpunk; film science; filmvetenskap.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. READ MORE

  4. 13. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  5. 14. Gazing at Beverly Marsh : A Comparative Study of Stephen King’s It and Andy Muschietti’s 2017 Film Adaptation

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

    Author : Freja Lindqwister Viker; [2022]
    Keywords : Stephen King; Andy Muschietti; It ; the Male Gaze; sexual objectification; abjection;

    Abstract : This essay explores and compares the depiction of the character Beverly Marsh in Stephen King’s novel IT and Andy Muschietti’s 2017 film adaptation. The literary analysis uses the theoretical concepts of Mulvey’s the Male Gaze, Bartky’s sexual objectification theory, and Kristeva’s abjection. READ MORE

  6. 15. Curiouser and Curiouser : How To Use Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Multimodal Teaching

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

    Author : Nicolina Ljungqvist; [2022]
    Keywords : multimodality; teaching; multimodal literacy; Alice s Adventures in Wonderland; literacy; ESL;

    Abstract : Working with different media in language teaching is increasingly popular. Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland originally used two different media: text and images. READ MORE