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  1. 1. Time to Love: Romantic comedies and narratives of LOVE – from a Swedish context

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Marianne Gabrielsson; [2022-08-23]
    Keywords : love; romcoms; masculine domination; doxa; embodiment; escapism;

    Abstract : This study explores the relation between love and romantic comedies, (aka romcoms), among people living in Sweden. Romcoms, being one of the most popular film genres ever, has often been subject to critique of not being serious enough and to derange people’s perceptions love. READ MORE

  3. 2. Stuck in the Truck: Oil Dependency, Acceleration, and the Nature of Catastrophe : An Ecocritical Reading of The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Sonya Helgesson Ralevic; [2020]
    Keywords : The Wages of Fear; Le Salaire de la Peur; Henri-Georges Clouzot; ecocriticism; petro-fiction; Anthropocene; oil film; film noir; ethnographic film; spectacle;

    Abstract : As a medium of modernity, film has always been entwined with the energy regime sustaining it. This thesis is interested in the interrelation between film and oil, and approached as a piece of petro-fiction, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film The Wages of Fear (1953) is subject to a close, ecocritical analysis. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sync Event : The Ethnographic Allegory of Unsere Afrikareise

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Erik Rosshagen; [2016]
    Keywords : Experimental Ethnography; Film Sound; Audio-Vision; Experimental Cinema; Documentary; Ethnographic Film;

    Abstract : The thesis aims at a critical reflexion on experimental ethnography with a special focus on the role of sound. A reassessment of its predominant discourse, as conceptualized by Cathrine Russell, is paired with a conceptual approach to film sound and audiovision. READ MORE

  5. 4. Like Sámis do : A postcolonial and intersectional analysis of the contemporary film representations and self-representations of the Sámi people

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Mónica Hernández Rejón; [2016]
    Keywords : Sámi; Swedish; documentary; road movies; postcolonial; intersectional; identity; representation; ethnicity; gender; class; nationality;

    Abstract : The film representation of the Sámi people has evolved during the last century from the ethnographic portrayals that reproduce a romantic stereotype of the good savages, to feature and documentary films that discuss the Sámi identity and its colonial history. In recent years a new generation of Sámi and Swedish documentary directors have focused their work on analysing the impact that multiple structures of power actually have in the production of the Sámi identity and culture. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sync Event : The Ethnographic Allegory of Unsere Afrikareise

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Rosshagen Erik; [2016]
    Keywords : Experimental Ethnography; Film Sound; Audio-Vision; Experimental Cinema; Documentary; Ethnographic Film;

    Abstract : The thesis aims at a critical reflexion on experimental ethnography with a special focus on the role of sound. A reassessment of its predominant discourse, as conceptualized by Cathrine Russell, is paired with a conceptual approach to film sound and audio-vision. READ MORE