Essays about: "Rasmus Carlsson"

Found 4 essays containing the words Rasmus Carlsson.

  1. 1. Non-diegetic film music as a narrative agency in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Rasmus Carlsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Interstellar; non-diegetic music; Christopher Nolan; Hans Zimmer; implicit narrative functions; semiotic concepts; leitmotif; denotation; connotation; film and media history; film music; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study sets out to investigate the non-diegetic music in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) in order to highlight its implicit narrative functions and meanings. The theoretical approach consists of semiotic concepts such as ‘Cognitive denotative’ and ‘Cognitive connotative’ functions by Emilio Audissino, ‘Myth’ and ‘Anchorage’ by Barthes as well as Claudia Gorbman’s ‘Connotative Cueing’. READ MORE

  3. 2. The narrative functions of props. Portable communication devices in Die Hard (1988) & Die Hard2: Die Harder (1990)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Rasmus Carlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Die Hard; Die Hard 2; Die Harder; Bruce Willis; Portable Communication Devices; Props; Narrative Functions; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The current study sets out to investigate the narrative functions of props that take the particular form of portable communication devices (more specifically walkie-talkies and airplane phones) in Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990). The methodology used is the semiotic concepts of denotation and connotation with a supporting theoretical framework based on two principal forms of props called Instrumental and Contextualized together with Antoni Smuszkiewiez’ definition of the concept. READ MORE

  4. 3. Teaching Climate change : Reading the Symbiosis Between Mankind and Nature in Ballard’s The Drowned World

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Rasmus Carlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : The Drowned World; Humanity; Nature; Ecocriticism; Didactics; Climate change;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World to investigate how the relationship between humans and nature affects humanity, and whether humanity is indestructible. READ MORE

  5. 4. "We are waiting to receive, to give” : A case study of the organizational sustainability of Local Non-Governmental Development Organizations in peri-urban Lusaka & Kitwe, Zambia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Anna Josephine Beran; Rasmus Carlsson; [2010]
    Keywords : social entrepreneurship; civic innovation; donor dependence; NGDO; CBO; NGO; Lusaka; Zambia; sustainability; organizational sustainability; funding; loca non-governmental organizations; development; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explored the alternative visions and innovative strategies of Zambian local non-governmental development organizations (LNGDO) in their attempt to improve their organizational sustainability with the purpose to understand and analyze the organizational sustainability of LNGDOs in peri-urban Lusaka and Kitwe, Zambia. A case study approach was used to both delimit the scope of the study and acquire an in-depth, practical and context-specific understanding of the “why and how” of sustainability. READ MORE