Essays about: "popular Film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 essays containing the words popular Film.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Direct writing metal-freebio-organic piezoelectricenergyharvester

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Zhuo Zheng; [2023]
    Keywords : Piezoelectric effect; metal-free; bio-organic material; γ-glycine; direct writing; energy harvester; Piezoelektrisk effekt; metallfritt; bioorganiskt material; γ -glycin; 3D-utskrift; energiskördare;

    Abstract : The project is about piezoelectric energy harvesters and piezoelectric bio-organic materials.Nowadays, various kinds of energy harvesters based on micro or nano materials are appliedinmanyelectronic applications, such as wearable devices and electricity generators. READ MORE

  4. 3. Anita: The Story of a Bad Film : The cultural life of Torgny Wickman’s 1973 sex film

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Jason Carter; [2023]
    Keywords : Anita; Torgny Wickman; Swedish Sin; Cult Film; Sex Film; Pornography; Swedish film heritage;

    Abstract : Anita  (Torgny Wickman 1973) is a typical example of a film produced as part of a wave of Swedish softcore sex films created with an eye on the substantial overseas profits to be made in market curious to witness onscreen Swedish Sin.  Following an extremely brief and limited release in Sweden the film disappeared from popular cultural perception until resurfacing in the late 1990s as an object of nostalgic cult curiosity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Western Esotericism references in Dario Argento’s triology The Three Mothers

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Emilie Spagnoli; [2023]
    Keywords : Occultism; Esotericism; film critic; Steiner; feminine power; gender; Dario Argento; horror cinema; Suspiria; Inferno; The Mother of Tears;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the influences and references, with a particular focus from occultism and western esotericism, found in the film trilogy of The Three Mothers directed by Dario Argento. The trilogy composed of Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of Tears was produced in a timeframe of thirty years from 1977 to 2007, so it embeds three decades, it also reflects the willingness from the director to disconnect himself from the usual representation of supernatural and horror films of witches and power. READ MORE

  6. 5. On the Quest for Alternative Ways of Becoming : Multifaceted Means of Maturation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Martin Ahlberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Green Knight; Failure; The Hero’s Journey; David Lowery; Christopher Vogler; Coming of Age;

    Abstract : Living in an era where success is embraced as a life style, raises concerns that the alternatives to become, to grow and mature have been limited to a single variety – one where only triumph matters. This is a view that is spread through contemporary popular culture, whether it be in social media, video games, tv-series, films or books. READ MORE