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  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

  3. 2. 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. 3. Every Body in its Place : The reproduction of inequality by way of education in Metropolis and Snowpiercer 

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Ebbe Bjelkendal; [2020]
    Keywords : Ideology; ideological state apparatuses; pedagogic action; pedagogic authority; science fiction; corporatism; neoliberalism;

    Abstract : With increasing inequality in the world, having knowledge about the apparatuses maintaining unequal social structures is important. Utopian and dystopian science fiction films are a good source for analysis of social structures, due to their inherent interest in social critique and the role of semiotics in the spreading of ideology. READ MORE

  5. 4. Reduced to an Image

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Mila Bolt; [2018]
    Keywords : Architecture; Science-Fiction Film; Visual Culture; Conjecture; Walter Benjamin; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the use of science-fiction film as a medium through which the collective understanding of future urban environments can be discussed. It poses the question of how images of architecture in science-fiction films influence our perceptions and understanding of the future of our lived environments. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Uncanny Thing : Paranoia and Claustrophobia in The Thing and “Who Goes There?”

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Jonatan Söderström; [2016]
    Keywords : Paranoia; Claustrophobia; The Thing; “Who Goes There?”; Adaptation; John W. Campbell; John Carpenter; Horror; Science Fiction; Cinema;

    Abstract : This essay examines the themes of paranoia and claustrophobia as elements of horror in John Campbell’s novella “Who Goes There?” (1938) and John Carpenter’s film-adaptation of said novella, called The Thing (1982). The novella and the film utilize the lack of trust and reliability in between the characters as elements of fear as well as supernatural elements in the form of a monster. READ MORE