Essays about: "Visuality"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 31 essays containing the word Visuality.

1. 16. When girls read : A study about women and lifestyle media in the Nordic region

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

   Author : Patricia Svensson; [2019]
   Keywords : Lifestyle media; Lifestyle magazines; Visual text; Women; Meaning;

   Abstract : This study sought for the importance and influence of visual text in Lifestyle magazines. The aim was to see the importance of visual text for middle-aged women as well as for the magazines. It also aimed to understand how the reading of these magazines can affect women´s daily life. READ MORE

3. 17. The Stories Need to be Told : The politics of visibility/invisibility: Museum representations and participation of migrants, refugees, and ethnic minorities

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

   Author : Samineh Asri; [2019]
   Keywords : Museum; Representation; Visibility; Decoloniality; Complexity; Migrant; Assemblage;

   Abstract : International migration and the refugee crisis have sparked a number of debates within the public policy circle. This issue also has profound social and cultural implications, even in the museum sector. READ MORE

4. 18. The Confessional Voice of The Female Poet and The Rise of Insta-Poetry

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Yara Gawrieh; [2019]
   Keywords : Insta-Poetry; Instagram; Rupi Kaur; Alicia Cook; Confessional Poetry; digital media; visuality; social activism;

   Abstract : This essay investigates the prospect of confessionalism’s potential resurgence in contemporary poetics through female poets on Instagram and discusses its relevance and likeness to mid 20th century confessional poetry. Two case studies of highly popular Insta- poets Rupi Kaur and Alicia Cook are presented and a close reading of a few of their poems is introduced in order to investigate their adaptation of what I call an over-confessional style that addresses issues such as mental health, family, sexuality, and the perception of the female body. READ MORE

5. 19. A "Sensuous" Approach to the Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan : Principles of Embodied Film Experience

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Ali Aydin; [2018]
   Keywords : Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Cocoon; The Small Town; Clouds of May; Distant; phenomenology; haptic visuality; embodied film experience; senses; sensual sensuous; body; skin; tactile; mimesis; interpretation; erotics; play game.;

   Abstract : Over the last decades, film theories with their focus on the mere audiovisual quality of cinema have been questioned by film scholars with a phenomenological interest. According to these critical approaches, the film experience cannot be understood through a mere involvement of the eye (and the ear). READ MORE

6. 20. Seeing and Sinners : Spatial Stratification and the Medieval Hagioscopes of Gotland

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Karl Pettersson; [2018]
   Keywords : Hagioscope; Peter of Limoges; Visuality; Perspectiva; Anchorite; Recluse; Gotland; Purgatory; Leprosy; Penance; Sword Brethren; Teutonic Order; Pilgrims; Hagioskop; Peter Limoges; Visualitet; Perspectiva; Anakoret; Reclus; Gotland; Skärselden; Spetälska; Botgöring; Svärdsbrödraorden. Tyska Orden; Pilgrim;

   Abstract : The hagioscope—a small tunnel or opening usually set at eye-level in a church wall—is a complex and multifaceted device that appears in Europe during the late medieval period. Despite an increased interest in the  history of the senses, the hagioscope has been overlooked until now. READ MORE