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1. 1. Big Dyke Energy? : Commodification and Queer Female Meaning-Making in the Reception of Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018)

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Esmé Fransen; [2020]
   Keywords : Ocean’s 8; commodification; queer female reception; epiphenomena; popular Film; commodity lesbianism; Cate Blanchett;

   Abstract : In a media landscape that continues to be characterized by heteronormativity, queer female audiences are continuously finding ways to make popular texts their own. Previous scholarship on queer female reception has largely approached queer meaning-making as a text-audience relationship, a perspective which disregards the position of films as commodities surrounded by an extensive promotional network. READ MORE

3. 2. Theories of Nightmares in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Emilia Chamorro; [2015]
   Keywords : Adaptation; bad dream; dream; function; idiopathic nightmare; mood regulation theories; nightmare; post-traumatic nightmare; RAT random activation theories ; recurrent dream; TST threat simulation theory ;

   Abstract : Dreaming is a complex, multimodal and sequentially organized model of the waking world (Metzinger, 2003). Nightmares are a category of dreams involving threatening scenarios, anxiety and other negative emotions (Hartmann, 1998; Nielsen & Levin, 2007). READ MORE

4. 3. Jaws: Creating the Myth of the Man-Eating Machine

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén; [2012]
   Keywords : jaws; shark; new hollywood; steven spielberg; universal studios; high concept; epiphenomena; branding; new hollywood; marketing;

   Abstract : Jaws(Universal Studios, 1975) set a new standard for Hollywood film production byintroducing the concept of “summer blockbuster,” for a film that changed the way inwhich people thought about sharks. 37 years after the release of the movie, the idea of sharks as ferocious man-hunters still looms large in public opinion. READ MORE