Essays about: "Visual Identities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 essays containing the words Visual Identities.

  1. 1. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

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

    Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

  3. 2. A narration of landscape identity with focus on people’s activities in Uppsala : case study: Luthagen, Uppsala

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

    Author : Hadis D. Heirati; [2023]
    Keywords : landscape identity; Uppsala; urban environments; machine learning; conceptual framework; landscape architecture; landscape elements; landscape attachment; Identity Weight Matrix;

    Abstract : Understanding landscape identity. Through understanding the landscape identities and how residents identify their landscape, future plans can be considerably sustainable by preserving and promoting the characteristics of identity of the landscape and conducting the planned changes towards sustaining those values, meanings, and identities that are important for an integrated society. READ MORE

  4. 3. Beyond Pixels: Unveiling the Dangers of Feminized Virtual Avatars in Fashion : A Critical Visual Analysis of Shudu Gram and Miquela Sousa

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Robin Naomi van Halteren; [2023]
    Keywords : feminized virtual avatars; postcolonial theory; intersectionality; critical visual analysis; the Exotic Other;

    Abstract : This research focuses on the use of feminized virtual avatars (FVAs) in the fashion industry and explores the risk of using FVAs for the appropriation and exploitation of marginalized communities and identities. Through a critical visual analysis of the virtual avatars Shudu Gram and Miquela Sousa, this study analyzes how they are made to represent gendered and racialized women’s bodies. READ MORE

  5. 4. Women as Agents of Change : a Critical Visual Analysis of the Representation of Brazilian Indigenous Women Activists

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Emanuela Gualersi; [2023]
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    Abstract : The Brazilian climate crisis has become a frequent topic in both international and national media. During Bolsonaro's presidency, Brazil prioritised economic development over protecting Indigenous Peoples and the environment, resulting in backlash from Indigenous Peoples and their organisations. READ MORE

  6. 5. Images and International Relations : Analysing the images of children in the Syrian war

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Mattis Bodvill; [2023]
    Keywords : International Relations; Images; Visual Global Politics; Poststructuralism; Children; Syrian War;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the study of images in International Relations (IR). Even though images play an important role in global politics, images have received little attention by IR scholars. In this thesis I aim to answer how images can be studied. READ MORE