Essays about: "Horrors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word Horrors.

  1. 1. “Affected Indifference, or Momentary Shame” : Gothic Awareness in Northanger Abbey and Mexican Gothic

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

    Author : Andrea Johansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Gothic awareness; female sexuality; sexual violence; domestic entrapment; exploitation;

    Abstract : Feminist scholars have focused on the Gothic as a medium for expressing the horrors of female experience in a patriarchal society. This study examines Gothic awareness in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic. READ MORE

  3. 2. A visual representation of the Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Perspective of Ukrainian and Russian Milbloggers on Telegram

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Julia Mazur; [2023]
    Keywords : Russo-Ukrainian War; Russia; Ukraine; Telegram; Mediatization; Media; Visual representation;

    Abstract : The theory of mediatized war implies that any study of conflict that takes place in modern times must also consider the impact of the media within that conflict, especially including new media and communication technologies. Images as visual representations of war have become a part of the information warfare and used to create narratives rooted in the culture of media witnessing (Mortensen) but sometimes entirely divorced from reality (Baudrillard’s simulacrum). READ MORE

  4. 3. Digitizing a minority and its history : A study in accessibility and digitization in Jewish cultural heritage collections and Holocaust memory

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Jacob Leimar; [2023]
    Keywords : Digital cultural heritage; Jewish history; Holocaust memory; vulnerability; institutional digitization; GLAM;

    Abstract : For the last thirty years Swedish institutions, both on governmental and foundational level, have seeked to illuminate the horrors of the Holocaust and antisemitism. A part in this was collection of testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust as to save first-hand accounts from an aging population of survivors. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Haunting of Hill House: The Heterosexual Horror of the Home

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Fanny Berg; [2023]
    Keywords : Shirley Jackson; queer reading; internalization; self-surveillance; heteronormativity;

    Abstract : The female gothic as a genre, with its emergence in the 19th century, has a history of critiquing women’s place in the domestic sphere by showcasing the horrors of the home. When The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson was first published in 1959, it did so with both this historical genre background, as well as with a resurgence of traditional gender roles as an ideal. READ MORE

  6. 5. Strangers on the British soil : Horrors and hopes of asylum seekers in the film His House

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Henna Paananen; [2022]
    Keywords : asylum seeker; horror film; emotion; feeling; close reading;

    Abstract : This thesis is a close reading of the horror film His House (2020) and has its theoretical base in the works of Sara Ahmed. It focuses on the emotional experience of the film’s lead characters who are South Sudanese asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. READ MORE