Essays about: "Violence in film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Violence in film.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Agency and Tradition : Women in 1920s China through the Lens of Film

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Natacha Rojrung; [2023]
    Keywords : Keywords: Agency; China; Raise the Red Lantern; film; female characters;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is an attempt to provide examples of how women’s roles have been portrayed in Chinese film made in modern time about women in the 1920s through examination and analysis of the film Raise the Red Lantern《大红灯笼高高挂》by Zhang Yimo by using agency theory. The study delves into the portrayal of female characters' actions within traditional marriage and family dynamics as depicted in the film. READ MORE

  4. 3. Strategies of counter Image-Making of Arabs' portrayals in Swedish films through a Decolonial Approach

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Yaser Kassab; [2022-06-01]
    Keywords : Representation; Otherness; Eurocentrism; Stereotypification; Arab portrayals in films; Power structures; Symbolic violence;

    Abstract : Many groups and marginalized communities have been struggling for better representation in the media and film in different countries for many reasons. One of them is the direct effects of stereotypification on their lives. READ MORE

  5. 4. What Society Feeds Us : Immersion, racism and police violence in the novel and film version of The Hate U Give in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Carl Waldmann Bergvall; [2021]
    Keywords : The Hate U Give; immersion; film adaptation; young adult fiction; EFL classroom; racism; police violence; upper secondary school;

    Abstract : Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give is a young adult novel that covers controversial topics such as racism and police violence. In this essay, the concept of immersion is used to examine how the novel and its 2018 film counterpart adaptation differ in examining these topics. READ MORE

  6. 5. An Alien discussion : Using the film Alien to highlight and discuss sexual violence and gender roles in the Swedish upper secondary EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Johannes Nordgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender norms; sexual violence; EFL classroom; social issues; film analysis;

    Abstract : The essay attempts to analys the film Alien directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1979 to see if the film’s themes and iconography can be interpretedas metaphors forsexual violence and gender norms. investigates if the film can be used in a Swedish upper secondary EFL classroom as a basis for discussing the societal problems of sexual violence and oppressive gender norms. READ MORE