Essays about: "film science"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 essays containing the words film science.

  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

  2. 2. Sustainable water treatment in the manufacturing industry : Investigation of the water treatment system at VCE, Hallsberg

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Energisystem

    Author : Johan Hagströmer; Forsberg Emma; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Transitioning to circular flows is essential to economize the planet’s resources. One of the most important resources on earth is water as it is vital for all living things. However, water purification methods have proven to be very energy intensive, and increasing the circular water flows is therefore challenging. READ MORE

  3. 3. Playing with the Third Reich: Conceptual Relocation from Nazi Film to WWII Game : An Experiment to measure Filmic concepts in Digital Games

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Laqi Li; [2023]
    Keywords : Nazi Germany; Propaganda Films; Science Fiction Trilogy; Industrial Films; WWII FPS Games; WWII Simulation Games; Fascist Aesthetic; Futuristic Utopianism; Steel-like Romanticism; History.;

    Abstract : Film produced by Nazi Germany has been a classic that has drawn scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as innumerable cineastes from various cultural backgrounds. The simultaneous rise in the number of players acting as observers and operators in digital games with a WWII theme has drawn recent scholarly attention since it is thought that this pattern is contributing to players' hazy understanding of historical events. READ MORE

  4. 4. A Study of Ayahuasca Documentary Film

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Gwendoline Nalvarte Nunez; [2023]
    Keywords : Keywords: Ayahuasca; Documentary film; Interdisciplinary; Western society; Sub-genre; Vine of the Soul; Aya-Awakenings; Culture; Consciousness; Ancient knowledge.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This master thesis invites the reader to acquire and examine new evidence about an emerging and growing sub-genre type of documentary film called Ayahuasca documentary. This study bases its definition of the Ayahuasca documentary sub-genre on a current work in the progress catalogue of over 50 documentary films, two of which were selected as case studies. READ MORE

  5. 5. Visions of the Future: An exploration of the visual and thematic worlds of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Elisabet Åberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Blade Runner; postmodernism; capitalist realism; cyberpunk; film science; filmvetenskap.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. READ MORE