Essays about: "Women in fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words Women in fiction.

  1. 1. Messages from the deep: A reception study of Denis Villeneuve's Dune

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Sarah R. Kern; [2024-02-06]
    Keywords : Hegemony; Production Reception; Discourse; Dominant Negotiated Oppositional; Dune; Representation; Reception study; convergence culture; science fiction; participation culture; fandom;

    Abstract : This essay uses Pierre Bourdieus habitus, symbolic capital, Social fields, Stuart Halls representation theory and Encoding/Decoding system, as well as Henry Jenkins concept of convergence culture and media convergence, to conduct a reception study of Denis Villeneuves 2021 adaption of the science fiction movie Dune. The material collected for the reception study is collected in the form of reviews and features from experts in cinema, juxtaposed against material collected from YouTube in the form of reviews, reaction videos and video essays from social groups sectioned around cinephiles and science fiction fandom. READ MORE

  3. 2. Historical Reality in Modern Fiction : An analysis of Hedningarnas förgård

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Emilia Åkerman; [2023]
    Keywords : reception studies; early christianity; slaves; women; urbanism; historical reality; ancient lived experience;

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  4. 3. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  5. 4. Imitation and Protest: Two Case Studies of Depictions of Marriage in Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Jonatan Jönsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Literature has long been an effective vehicle for conveying women’s morals and opinions when they have otherwise been ignored and supressed. Fifty years apart, Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner wrote fiction critical of different aspects of marriage with noticeably different results and conclusions. READ MORE

  6. 5. She's not like other girls; she is a cool girl : A qualitative study on the portrayal of female characters as the cool girl in films

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Olivia Josefina Larsson Säberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Media; film studies; gender roles; stereotypes; representation; sexism;

    Abstract : Society's view on women is a long-debated topic, and there are several studies made to analyze where and how these attitudes toward gender roles arise. This thesis focuses on how women are portrayed and represented in media, especially as female characters in film fiction, to gain insight into what effect this can have on society's view of women. READ MORE