Essays about: "intermediality"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the word intermediality.

  1. 11. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Andrea Minucci; [2018]
    Keywords : David; Foster; Wallace; Postmodernism; Literature; Infinite; Jest; Death of the Author; media studies; image-fiction; intermediality; transmediality; narrative; theory; narratology; heteroglossia; ekphrasis;

    Abstract : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. READ MORE

  3. 12. Oh, I feel like a woman! : A qualitative semiotic gender study through texts and images in the Swedish fashion remote commerce

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för modevetenskap

    Author : Emma Krysell; Jannie Somehagen; [2018]
    Keywords : fashion; advertisement; gender; stereotypes; remote commerce; mail-order catalogues; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Oh! I feel like a woman! – A qualitative semiotic gender study through texts and images in the Swedish fashion remote commerce is a bachelor thesis on how clothes are portrayed in illustrations and photographs of models and in texts in mail-order catalogues and websites in the Swedish fashion remote commerce. The thesis aims to compare how genders and fashion are connected and manifested in the fashion remote commerce by portraying different gender stereotypes. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Expanding Storyworld : An Intermedial Study of the Mass Effect novels

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Jessika Sundin; [2018]
    Keywords : Drew Karpyshyn; William C. Dietz; Mass Effect; BioWare; storyworld; video games; digital games; intermediality; transmediality; narratology; semiotics; multimodality; media modality;

    Abstract : This study investigates the previously neglected literary phenomenon of game novels, a genre that is part of the increasing significance that games are having in culture. Intermedial studies is one of the principal fields that examines these types of phenomena, which provides perspectives for understanding the interactions between media. READ MORE

  5. 14. Text, Image, and Nostalgia in Two Versions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy"

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Lara María Rodríguez Sieweke; [2018]
    Keywords : F. Scott Fitzgerald; “The Rich Boy”; F.R. Gruger; José Luis Ágreda; short stories; illustrations; advertisements; magazines; intermediality; word-image discussions; nostalgia;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis attempts to contribute to both intermedial studies and F. Scott Fitzgerald scholarship by studying the text-illustration interplay in two versions of “The Rich Boy”. READ MORE

  6. 15. Texting Sherlock - An intermedial analysis of visual intra-diegetic text in the TV-Series Sherlock

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Intermediala studier

    Author : Silja Wendt; [2015]
    Keywords : Intra-diegetic Text; Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock; Intermediality; Immersion; Genre; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay aims for a qualitative examination and discussion on the use of intra-diegetic text in the BBC-series Sherlock. With the purpose of identifying its impact on the viewer position and the presentation of genre, different theories from the area of intermediality and film studies, such as Lars Elleström and Agnes Pethö, are presented and applied to the examination of three selected scenes from the series. READ MORE