Essays about: "TV-series"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 76 essays containing the word TV-series.

  1. 6. How Ramy Challenges Arab Stereotypes in American Media : A study of an Arab-American comedy drama

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Peregrin Frost; [2023]
    Keywords : Hollywood; TV; Arabs; Stereotypes; Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : The portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in American film and television has been a lopsided affair since the beginnings of Hollywood movie production. Over the course of film and TV production during the twentieth century, and later, Hollywood and TV production companies has used the Arab as a negative trope to negatively stereotype them, or to elevate the perception of American characters in contrast to the presentation of the baser character of the Arab. READ MORE

  3. 7. Western Esotericism references in Dario Argento’s triology The Three Mothers

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Emilie Spagnoli; [2023]
    Keywords : Occultism; Esotericism; film critic; Steiner; feminine power; gender; Dario Argento; horror cinema; Suspiria; Inferno; The Mother of Tears;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the influences and references, with a particular focus from occultism and western esotericism, found in the film trilogy of The Three Mothers directed by Dario Argento. The trilogy composed of Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of Tears was produced in a timeframe of thirty years from 1977 to 2007, so it embeds three decades, it also reflects the willingness from the director to disconnect himself from the usual representation of supernatural and horror films of witches and power. READ MORE

  4. 8. On the Quest for Alternative Ways of Becoming : Multifaceted Means of Maturation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Martin Ahlberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Green Knight; Failure; The Hero’s Journey; David Lowery; Christopher Vogler; Coming of Age;

    Abstract : Living in an era where success is embraced as a life style, raises concerns that the alternatives to become, to grow and mature have been limited to a single variety – one where only triumph matters. This is a view that is spread through contemporary popular culture, whether it be in social media, video games, tv-series, films or books. READ MORE

  5. 9. THE COMMONS : Exploring power relations in climate fiction TV series from an Ecofeminist perspective

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Jannika Katharina Nowak; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Patriarchal and masculinist ideologies have facilitated the global climate crisis and need to be transformed to address climate change successfully and achieve climate justice (Gaard, 2015). Climate fiction stories can envision future states of society (Robinson, 2016) and can thus challenge these ideologies and disrupt binary concepts of domination (Anglin, 2015). READ MORE

  6. 10. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power : Exploring Character Development and Queer Representation

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    Author : Emelie Conrad; Fanny Malmsten; [2022]
    Keywords : character development; visual analysis; queer representation; animated series; narrative theory; character theory; She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; queer theory; visuell analys; queer representation; karaktärsutveckling; narrative theory; character theory;

    Abstract : In this thesis the animated tv series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and the representation and the character development within it is researched and analyzed.  In television and media, representation has a history of being narrow. READ MORE