Essays about: "contemporary film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 essays containing the words contemporary film.

  1. 1. Sweden´s representation in Utvandrarna and its adaptations : The image of Sweden in the Utvandrar-series

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : André Gustafsson; [2024]
    Keywords : Adaption; Vilhelm Moberg; Sverige; Jan Troell; Erik Poppe; Utvandrarna; adaptionsanalys;

    Abstract : This study is an adaptation analysis focusing on the portrayal of Sweden in Jan Troell´s film The Emigrants (1971) and Eric Poppe´s film The Emigrants (2021), which is based on the book by the same name, written by Vilhelm Moberg. Both the films and book are discussed and analyzed to find similarities and differences between them. READ MORE

  3. 2. CURSED HORROR FILMS - A film analysis of ‘dangerous’ films within moving media

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Iris Landar Lygren; [2023-04-26]
    Keywords : Horror; film studies; spectatorship; moral panics;

    Abstract : Within the field of horror films there is a subcategory of films and videos revolving around fictional horror films claimed to be ‘dangerous’ to the public. These works often relate to discussions around moral panics and spectatorship as well as historical viewpoints on the horror genre. READ MORE

  4. 3. Unsettling Norms : Negotiating Dominant Culture in 'The Addams Family'

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Madelina Barve; [2023]
    Keywords : Popular Culture; Counter-Hegemony; The Addams Family; Genre; Aesthetics;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the three most popular and acclaimed live-action versions of The AddamsFamily, those being the 1964-1966 sitcom The Addams Family, the 1993 film Addams FamilyValues, and Netflix’s 2022 series Wednesday, to understand how these popular culture textsnegotiate dominant norms and culture in American society. These iterations cover sixty years of cultural negotiation on non-conformity and each attend to a specific politics of conformity in their time. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Christian Gregory; [2023]
    Keywords : Cancer; Sick-Lit; Sick-Flicks; Cystic Fibrosis; CF; SCID; YA Literature; YA Films; The Fault in Our Stars; Five Feet Apart; Midnight Sun; Love Story; John Green;

    Abstract : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Aesthetics of Assault

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Norah Jonsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Intersectional Film Studies; Sexual Assault in Film; Swedish film; Teen Film; Rape; Harassment; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Comparing contemporary legislation and social debates to films and TV-shows from the 2000s and 2010s, this study shows a change in approach to the subject of sexual assault from an intersectional angle. The analysis describes a more individual, neo-liberal angle in the early 2000s, and a more holistic and societal angle in the 2010s. READ MORE