Essays about: "New Cinema History"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words New Cinema History.

1. 1. Anita: The Story of a Bad Film : The cultural life of Torgny Wickman’s 1973 sex film

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Jason Carter; [2023]
   Keywords : Anita; Torgny Wickman; Swedish Sin; Cult Film; Sex Film; Pornography; Swedish film heritage;

   Abstract : Anita  (Torgny Wickman 1973) is a typical example of a film produced as part of a wave of Swedish softcore sex films created with an eye on the substantial overseas profits to be made in market curious to witness onscreen Swedish Sin.  Following an extremely brief and limited release in Sweden the film disappeared from popular cultural perception until resurfacing in the late 1990s as an object of nostalgic cult curiosity. READ MORE

3. 2. Edvard Persson and modernity

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Tevin Stakston; [2022]
   Keywords : Edvard Persson; modernity; modernisation; Swedish film; 1930s; urbanisation; gender; antisemitism; national identity; class; capitalism; machines;

   Abstract : In the field of Cinema studies recent and updated studies on Swedish 1930s cinema has been absent. The aim of this thesis is to provide new insights into the period by examining the films starring actor Edvard Persson released between 1930 and 1939. READ MORE

4. 3. Cars in Sweden's Cinema & Television : AI-Guided Research of Automobiles in Sweden’s Images from 1950-1980

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Maximilian Steck; [2021]
   Keywords : archive; AI; cars; cultural memory; digital humanities; film; New Cinema History; object detection; speech recognition; Swedish film; oil crisis; H-Day; Archiv; Künstliche Intelligenz; KI; Filmwissenschaft; Medienwissenschaft; Film; Schweden; Schwedischer Film; Auto; Repräsentation; Wilde Erdbeeren; arkiv; artificiell intelligens; svensk film; bil; minne; representation; oljekris; dagen H; Smultronstället; 映画学; スウェデン; スウェデンの映画; AI; 車; 歴史; オイルショック; 野いちご; ダゲン・H;

   Abstract : This research project centers around cinematic and societal representation of the automobile in post-war Swedish cinema and television. Due to political neutrality during World War II, Sweden’s economy benefited from an extensive surplus immediately after Germany’s capitulation in 1945. READ MORE

5. 4. 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

6. 5. Berga station; centrum i vårt lilla samhälle : en studie av stationens betydelse i Berga samhälle över tid

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Amanda Lövmo Svensson; [2016]
   Keywords : stationssamhälle; järnväg; station; platsspecifik landsbygdsutveckling; identitet; social organisering; varumärke;

   Abstract : Den här studien tar upp betydelsen av stationen i landsbygdssamhället Berga i Högsby kommun, Småland. Jag har fokuserat på vad stationen har betytt för invånarna historiskt samt vad den betyder idag. Jag har även undersökt hur stationen påverkar landsbygdsutvecklingen i Berga. READ MORE