Essays about: "History and Fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 53 essays containing the words History and Fiction.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Playing with the Third Reich: Conceptual Relocation from Nazi Film to WWII Game : An Experiment to measure Filmic concepts in Digital Games

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Laqi Li; [2023]
    Keywords : Nazi Germany; Propaganda Films; Science Fiction Trilogy; Industrial Films; WWII FPS Games; WWII Simulation Games; Fascist Aesthetic; Futuristic Utopianism; Steel-like Romanticism; History.;

    Abstract : Film produced by Nazi Germany has been a classic that has drawn scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as innumerable cineastes from various cultural backgrounds. The simultaneous rise in the number of players acting as observers and operators in digital games with a WWII theme has drawn recent scholarly attention since it is thought that this pattern is contributing to players' hazy understanding of historical events. READ MORE

  4. 3. Close Encounters and the Role of Information and Communication Technology in Science Fiction Cinema

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för samhälle, kultur och identitet (SKI)

    Author : Christian Paredes Guzman; [2023]
    Keywords : Technology; History; Science Fiction; ICT; Aliens; Actor-Network Theory;

    Abstract : Science Fiction movies have in recent decades become sources of information and interpretation, in other words, a window that reflects the time period in which they were made. While the role of technology has been researched in science fiction material, not much focus has been put into researching specific types of technology. READ MORE

  5. 4. Imitation and Protest: Two Case Studies of Depictions of Marriage in Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Jonatan Jönsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Literature has long been an effective vehicle for conveying women’s morals and opinions when they have otherwise been ignored and supressed. Fifty years apart, Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner wrote fiction critical of different aspects of marriage with noticeably different results and conclusions. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Framing of Evil in Oppressive Systems : Barbara, Phoenix, and Transit by Christian Petzold

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Anna Aschenbrenner; [2022]
    Keywords : Evil; oppressive system; Christian Petzold; Barbara; Phoenix; Transit; Hannah Arendt; Banality of Evil;

    Abstract : The present study aims to create a deeper understanding of the cinematic representation of “evil”. Therefore, a special focus lies on contemporary historical fiction films whose stories are set in totalitarian systems with direct or indirect references to German history. READ MORE