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1. 1. EXTREME, SPECTACULAR AND HORRIFIC A qualitative film analysis of affective strategies in extreme horror via Terrifier 2

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Iris Landar Lygren; [2023-12-20]
   Keywords : Horror; film studies; spectatorship; extreme cinema; Terrifier 2; extreme horror;

   Abstract : During the year of 2022 the film Terrifier 2 was shown in theaters all over the western world. This film was not supported by any larger production companies, but was partly crowdfunded. The film combines elements from the 1980s slashers and the Extreme Cinema tradition and contains 2 hours and 18 minutes packed with gore. READ MORE

3. 2. The Femme Fatale: An Analysis of the Archetype’s Remediation From Visual Arts to TikTok

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Elias Wilmenius Hillman; Rebecka Linde Wåhlberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Femme Fatale; Remediation; TikTok; Visual Arts; Archetypes; Male Gaze; Performativity;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate how cultural symbols are influenced during their remediation to social media platforms. As a case to explore this, this study delves into an examination of the remediation of the Femme Fatale archetype from the visual art tradition to the social media platform TikTok. READ MORE

4. 3. Visualizing the Invisible: An Exploration of the Radioactive Image within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Fannie Frederikke Baden; [2020]
   Keywords : Radioactive Image; Nuclear Disaster; Nuclear power; Chernobyl; Disaster Tourism; Visual tropes; radioactivity; semiotics; visualized natural phenomena; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the radioactive image and poses the multi-layered question: ‘(how) can radioactivity exist as an image, when it cannot be seen, heard or felt?’. By having no sensorial qualities, radioactivity is often narrated in popular media by metaphoric association. READ MORE

5. 4. Men as victims and invisible women : The link between destructive male norms and violence. A discourse analysis of Machofabriken 2.0

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

   Author : Ann Birging; [2020]
   Keywords : violence prevention; men’s violence against women; men as victims; triad of men’s violence; destructive masculinities; invisible women; Women’s Human Rights; Istanbul convention; gender equality;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine Machofabriken 2.0 through discourse analysis.Examine how concepts are filled with meaning and what alternative meanings that are excluded. Ialso scrutinized what pedagogic tools and strategies put forward to achieve change and discuss ifit is possible to approach ordinary men as violent. READ MORE

6. 5. “Thanks to a good fairy you were born” : An intersectional feminist analysis of ovum donation advertising found in the public space in Barcelona

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Elisabet Tasa-Vinyals; [2017]
   Keywords : Ovum donation; Egg donation; Assisted reproduction; New Reproductive Technologies NRT ; In Vitro Fertilisation IVF ; Politics of reproduction; Economy of cells and tissues;

   Abstract : Gamete donors are actively searched by companies dedicated to assisted reproduction in the Spanish State, and advertising is not only legal but rather common. This thesis provides an overview of the main themes that arise from the analysis of mostly visual materials used to promote ovum donation in public spaces in Barcelona, and critically links them to current debates in intersectional feminist cultural studies of technoscience, bodily theory and visual studies. READ MORE