Essays about: "revival"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 72 essays containing the word revival.

  1. 16. Reconstructing Ancient Chinese Cultural Memory in the Context of Xianxia TV Drama

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Yujuan Jing; [2021]
    Keywords : Xianxia; Chinese culture; cultural memory; media memories; a ritual view of communication; culture industry; participatory culture; fandom; popular culture;

    Abstract : This study explores how Chinese ancient cultural memory is constructed, and specifically how it is reconstructed through Chinese Xianxia TV dramas during the past five years. Ancient Chinese culture has become a hit in Chinese popular culture today, in which Xianxia TV dramas draw the biggest audiences. READ MORE

  3. 17. Subverting Nostalgia in Twin Peaks: The Return - Resistance and the Television Revival

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Charlie Berggren; [2021]
    Keywords : Twin Peaks: The Return 2017 ; Resistant nostalgia; Revival television; Nostalgia film; Vera Dika; David Lynch; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Twin Peaks (2017), also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, has a problematic relationship to its predecessor Twin Peaks (1990-1991). In this thesis, I argue that The Return represents the past by undermining a sense of pacifying nostalgia, instead highlighting the incongruity of its ostensible return. READ MORE

  4. 18. On Nondomination : A comparative study on the distinctiveness and the preferability of freedom as nondomination vis-à-vis freedom as noninterference

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Amin Baledi; [2021]
    Keywords : neo-Roman republicanism; nondomination; arbitrary power; pure negative liberty; noninterference; overall liberty;

    Abstract : The recent years have seen the revival of neo-Roman republicanism through the works of Philip Pettit, who has replaced Isaiah Berlin’s taxonomy of positive/negative liberty with freedom as nondomination. This essay compares the neo-Roman conception of nondomination to the liberal conception of noninterference, with the purpose of clarifying whether nondomination is a distinct concept of liberty and preferable to that of noninterference. READ MORE

  5. 19. Vernacular Revival

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Quang Minh Do; [2021]
    Keywords : Vernacular Architecture; Contemporary Vernacular; Preservation; Arts and Architecture;

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  6. 20. Who is the Economista? : The Paradox of Feminism: Collectivism and Individualism Within an Online Group for Female Private Investors

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Nathalie Saller; [2021]
    Keywords : Fourth wave feminism; postfeminism; neoliberal feminism; social media; Facebook groups; separatism; women’s communities; economy; investing; consciousness raising; safe spaces online;

    Abstract : In the last few years, there has been an explosion of Facebook groups specifically directed at a female audience. One topic that seems to organize and interest Swedish women especially is money. READ MORE