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1. 1. The Dispersal of Gold : Material and Figural Traits of the Gold Foil Figures from Västra Vång

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Arkeologi

   Author : Axel Löfving; [2020]
   Keywords : Gold Foil Figures; Guldgubbar; Västra Vång; Blekinge; Scandinavian Late Iron Age; Vendel Period; Animal Style Ornamentation; Precious Metal Crafts Gold ; Metalworking sites; Figural Art; Chaîne Opératoire; Neomaterialism; Deleuze; Guattari; Worringer;

   Abstract : Gold Foil Figures or guldgubbar (henceforth GFFs) are precious metal artefacts from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age. This master's essay offers a new approach to GFFs. READ MORE

3. 2. Digital Figurations : The Human Figure as Cinematic Concept

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Tilde Fredholm; [2016]
   Keywords : The human figure; figuration; digital technology; body; film-theory; figural; visuality; dispositif; anthropocentrism; motion-capture; materiality; Gravity; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes;

   Abstract : Mainstream cinema is to an ever-increasing degree deploying digital imaging technologies to work with the human form; expanding on it, morphing its features, or providing new ways of presenting it. This has prompted theories of simulation and virtualisation to explore the cultural and aesthetic implications, anxieties, and possibilities of a loss of the ‘real’ – in turn often defined in terms of the photographic trace. READ MORE

4. 3. Prometheus Abandoned : Figural Eddies as an Alternative Method of Reading Out 1: Noli me tangere

   University essay from Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation

   Author : Martin Andersson; [2014]
   Keywords : Film; Semiotic theory; Jacques Rivette; Out 1: Noli me tangere; Figural activity; Thierry Kuntzel; Roland Barthes; Prometheus;

   Abstract : The thesis combines D.N. READ MORE