Essays about: "Essay Film"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 112 essays containing the words Essay Film.

  1. 16. Wandering Through Intellectual Ashes : National Identity and the Southern Question in Postwar Marxist Italian Film. A Postcolonial Visual Ontology

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Matilde Veglia; [2022]
    Keywords : Pasolini; Gramsci; Bauman; Neorealism; Commedia all Italiana; Cinema; Italian Maxism; Postmodernity; Postcolonial Studies; The Wanderer; The Nomad;

    Abstract : This thesis is crafted as an explorative theoretical essay, which aims to disclose the continuities and shifts in constructions of Italian post-war identity through the lenses of Marxist theory and postcolonial film analysis. The research will attempt to locate three paradigmatic cases of post-war Italian cinema and their authors in relation to the historical context, as well as coeval political and theoretical developments in the country. READ MORE

  3. 17. THE SHINING: A SEPARATION A Fundamental Flaw in Adaptation Studies

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Nicola Camoglio; [2021-02-16]
    Keywords : The Shining; Stanley Kubrick; Stephen King; metafiction;

    Abstract : In recent years, the academic field of adaptation studies has started questioning the fidelityled approach to adaptation that was long its guiding principle. This essay builds upon this novel approach by focusing on the conflictual relationship between Stephen King’s novel The Shining (1977) and the film version (1980) directed by Stanley Kubrick. READ MORE

  4. 18. Effect of image in the time of covid-19 and climate change

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Armand Tamboly; [2021-01-15]
    Keywords : Covid-19; Photography;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to discuss and try to understand the role of image it’s effect on forming our way of thinking and ideology, specifically in relation to nature crisis and pandemics. On the other side I’m also willing to bring attention to our our cosuming lifestyle and it’s impact on the climate. READ MORE

  5. 19. Family in crisis : A narrative analysis of gender roles and family hierarchy in the movie Turist

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : Emil Andersson; [2021]
    Keywords : feminist theory; masculinity; film theory; narrative analysis; family hierarchy;

    Abstract : This study conducts a narrative analysis of the film Turist, in order to explore how its portrayal of a contemporary Scandinavian family could provide insight into how gender roles are constructed. Drawing on classical feminist theory, film theory and giving special focus to explore how masculinity and the father’s role is portrayed in relation to femininity this essay uses a theoretical angle that is less explored than others. READ MORE

  6. 20. What Society Feeds Us : Immersion, racism and police violence in the novel and film version of The Hate U Give in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Carl Waldmann Bergvall; [2021]
    Keywords : The Hate U Give; immersion; film adaptation; young adult fiction; EFL classroom; racism; police violence; upper secondary school;

    Abstract : Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give is a young adult novel that covers controversial topics such as racism and police violence. In this essay, the concept of immersion is used to examine how the novel and its 2018 film counterpart adaptation differ in examining these topics. READ MORE