Thepaper is based on an interdisciplinary empirical research project on theuse of fiction. Reader response/reception theories and discursive psychology (Edwards & Potter, 1992) are combined in theproject. The approach, called discursive reception studies (Eriksson Barajas& Aronsson, 2009), provides possibilities to analyse the role of socialinteraction in the co-construction of the experience of, in this case, a filmor a play. Thepaper deals with methodological issues: i) how to get access to ‘naturally’occurring practices around fiction – when people went to cafés after seeing afilm together and in the pause at the theatre; ii) how to record data in suchpractices; iii) how to use data collection methods and analysis methods adaptedto the type of data collected. One advantage with the used method for datacollection is that I have come across “dream participants” – that is correctmatch between participants and film content.
The Swedish educational system states that work in schools should depict and mediate equality. One way of achieving this is through fiction, which according to the syllabus provides students with knowledge about the living conditions of women and men during different epochs and places. An arena for unveiling gendered power patterns is heterosexual love relations. School may fear that feature films transmit gender stereotypes and unrealistic romantic images of heterosexual love. However, researchers such as Radway (1984) and Walkerdine (1990, 2007) stress the importance of not only studying the text itself (be it a book, a film or a video game), but also the use and the reception of it, in the analysis of fiction as a meaning-making artefact. The present paper examines pupils- constructions of heterosexual love analysing the use of film as an educational tool, from a discursive approach. The data consist of pupil-produced film manuscript and essays and video-recordings of pupils- group conversations, after watching one of the film About a Boy during school hours in Year 9 and 10. The pupils discussed the protagonists whereabouts- putting leading a calm fulfilling life alone (-an island-) against a meaningful life together with a partner and children - necessarily your own biological ones - (-a family- or an -archipelago-). The present paper contributes new empirical knowledge about how young people are -doing gender- (West and Zimmerman 1987) in a natural setting - an educational context - that celebrates equality values.
The overarching aim of the paper is to contribute knowledge on fiction in use. The paper deals with the temporal relations between fictional duration and experienced duration (cf. Genette, 1988). More specifically, the paper gives insight in how cinema- and theatregoers use pace as a value measure. The analysed empirical material consists of recordings of naturally-occurring conversations in theatre pauses and at cafés after seeing a movie. In the study, discursive psychology (Edwards & Potter, 1992) is used on reader-reception data. This approach is called discursive reception studies (Eriksson Barajas & Aronsson, 2009). Such approach provides possibilities to analyse the role of social interaction in the co-construction of the “reading” of a fictional oeuvre. An initial result is that cinema- and theatregoers orient towards emotions, temporalities and narrative pace. Examples of how a long film can be experienced as having had a short duration and vice versa will be presented.
Eros manifests itself in multiple ways: as tragic eros and philosophical eros, as love, sexuality, seduction, care, desire, and friendship. Eros both defines us as beings and dislocates our existence. It breaks down our certitudes about selfhood and otherness, familiarity and strangeness. This volume gathers together contributions toward a phenomenological understanding of eros. The first part examines eros in relation to ancient philosophy and religion, the second part examines eros in relation to modern phenomenology. The analyses presented show how the question of eros brings us to the core of philosophy. Questions of time, desire, embodiment, intersubjectivity, and perception are all implicated in the phenomenology of eros.
Filmbolaget Pixar har under de senaste femton åren legat först med att producera datoranimerad film. Bakom utvecklingen av den animerade filmen finns en tro på att kunna förändra. Jag vill i min uppsats se om idéer som dessa framträder i filmerna. Som utgångspunkt har jag använt Karin Johannissons bok Nostalgia, där begrepp såsom nostalgi och modernitet diskuteras. Dessa begrepp har jag sedan använt i min undersökning. Vill deras filmer föra vidare värderingar om utveckling eller representerar de något som de själva inte står för?
Kritisk diskussion av dokumentärfilmen /valfilmen "Ett folk, ett land" (2018), som behandlar delar av den svenska socialdemokratins historia.
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur katastroffilmer gestaltar och tolkar aktuella miljöproblem, samt hur forskningen representeras i filmerna. För att få en bild av relationen mellan forskningen och samhället som gestaltas, har vi även tittat närmare på hur vetenskapsmännen representeras. Denna studie är viktig därför att mediala representationer inte bara handlar om nyhetsrapportering som förmedlas världen över; även underhållning kan vara en del av de debatter som förs i media och därmed nå en stor publik.
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Podcast is an unregulated form of media that has grown in popularity over the past decade. Especially in the true crime genre. This type of podcast has attracted people's interest, but also criticism regarding the use of other people's suffering to create content. The purpose of this essay is to highlight how criticism towards true crime podcasts and documentary films is expressed and whether there is any difference depending on the type of media portraying the various criminal cases using discourse analysis as theory and method. The essay depicts two cases, the Engla case and the Arboga murders. With the help of three articles about each case, I have analyzed the discourse surrounding the producers' use of legal cases and the possible consequences this has on the victim's relatives. The criticism usually stems from the fact that the relatives have not been informed or given consent to a production about the murder of their relatives. The study concludes that the documentaries do not do anything wrong in using, for example, recordings from trials in their productions as it is a public document. However, some producers and publishers choose to take down episodes where relatives have been critical of them, while others leave the production available for everyone to see and listen to. In the essay, however, you get to see what it can look like when the relatives are informed and involved in various productions about their relatives. Then they get to tell about their experience and set the narrative around the case.
As the central character in contemporary crime drama has shifted from the forensic scientist to the consultant, this puts the representation of knowledge in television in a new light. Basing the analysis in a comparative analysis of traditional crime drama like CSI: Crime Scene Investigationand consultant crime dramas such as Elementary or Sherlock, this article investigates how the representation of knowledge has changed.
From being based on formal science education, towards a situation where knowledge is tied to a specific character thus making it personal and accessible. By using examples from CSI, Elementary and Sherlock, this article suggests that the scientific attitude is replaced by the legitimization of internet as a contemporary source of knowledge, in the series and in the character of Sherlock Holmes himself.
Parallels are then drawn between the modern-day use of internet and how some of the different characters of the consultant crime dramas are seen as metaphors for the World Wide Web.
Laura Mulvey was the first to suggest that women and men have different positions on the screen; men drives the plot forward, and the women are objects of masculine desire and lust.
The purpose of this report was to look at and compare the two characters from the 70’s - and 80's with two characters from the 00’s - and 2010’s to gain a deeper understanding and insight into how female action heroes are presented. This will be done with the help of the questions; How is the female action heroes that are analyzed in the paper?
What are the differences and similarities between the past and the present-day action heroes? Just how stereotypical are the women in their genre? The four female action heroes that were analyzed were; Princess Leia Star Wars, Sarah Connor Terminator and Lisbeth Salander Men Who Hates Women and Katniss Everdeen The Hunger Games.
The four female action heroes were analyzed based on Rikke Schubarts categories (Moderarketypen, Amazon, Dotterarketypen, Hämnerskan and Dominatrix), the character's personal development, the character's violence and the reason for the character's.
Characters from the past were more often presented as more uncertain and fragile than the modern confident characters. The female action heroes of modern times was more independent, strong, and in no need of a man in comparison with contemporary female action heroes. The older films' characters were more stereotypical than the newer films.
This chapter explores fatherhood and adult masculinity in the Swedish children’s film series about Sune (1993–2021). The Sune films showcase a cultural shift towards child-centredness, where men are increasingly expected to be involved, emotionally present, and spend time with their children. However, fathers in the Sune films are depicted as foolish as they try to portray themselves as more involved fathers than they actually are. The foolishness of the fathers also reflects class dynamics, as fatherhood is enacted in terms of attempts to attain upper middle-class status, where fathers present themselves as financially successful. However, these performances lack substance and consistently fail, or are at risk of failing. As a result, adult masculinity in the Sune films becomes a ridiculous spectacle that evokes laughter. The films exemplify how financial challenges in a neoliberal culture are individualised, turning the struggles of meeting the standards of middle-class fatherhood into personal flaws or failures.
Denna studie grundas i tankar kring vilka individer som ligger bakom en filmproduktion. Dådet i en filmproduktion arbetar en stor skara människor blev det intressant att undersöka ochlyfta fram diskussion om hur dessa samverkar för att slutföra en produkt som baseras på envision. Studien visar också på vad som ligger bakom samverkan och hur den hierarkiskastrukturen påverkar filmarbetarnas yrkesroll. En observation har gjorts på enlångfilmsinspelning. För att fördjupa observationen har även två intervjuer gjorts medfilmarbetare. Användningen av både intervjuer och observation har gett en större inblick ifilmarbetarnas vardag.
Vision has often been a central concern of feminist studies of science, medicine and technology. In cultural or social feminist analysis, the male gaze and the ways in which technoscience accommodates, and in effect organizes the watching of women, has been an important part of the feminist interrogation of the gender and power relations that produce the subjects and the objects of science. This attention is due to the intimate, and power-saturated, merge of processes of seeing and processes of knowing. Inherent in the notion of vision, there is always a politics to ways of seeing, ordering and observing, of organising the knowledge of the world. Historically, this can be exemplified by the eighteen-century Swedish “father” of biological classification, Linnaeus. Taking a leap away from Christian assumptions, Linnaeus placed human beings in a taxonomic order of nature together with other animals.