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From Revolutionary Dispositions to Aesthetic Ventures
(2024-04-22)The aim of this Bachelor’s thesis is to examine gentrification in Exarchia, Athens, through the perspective of new business owners along with how they experience gentrification in the neighborhood of Exarchia. A secondary ... -
“TOMMA HUS ALLAS HUS” - En studie om husockupationer
(2024-04-19)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between urban transformation and the occupation movement in Sweden, aiming to identify the movement's characteristics and comprehend its changes over time. By ... -
Att syna en Joker: En filmanalys av berättandets och musikens roll i Joker
(2024-04-16)This essay focuses on the film Joker (2019) directed by Todd Phillips. It examines the narration and the use of music as a narrative device to discuss questions about identification and perception through close textual ... -
”Film är ju ett sätt att kommunicera med människor.” En studie av Naomi Kawases porträttering av att vara kvinna i relation till en gemenskap.
(2024-04-16)By analysing Still the water (2014), Radiance (2017) and True Mothers (2020) by Naomi Kawase this essay will look at her work to see how she portrays the experience of being a woman in relation to her community. Looking ... -
Pilgrimsvandring som verktyg för förändring. Pilgrim’s Walk for Future’s aktualisering av pilgrimsteologin under nyliberala villkor
(2024-04-16)In the essay the author examines how pilgrimage can be used as a tool to radicalise democracy in a late modern society marked by neoliberalism. Applying a dialectic perspective on social movements the essay puts forward ... -
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: A Study of How Political Culture Wars Influence Reception in the Mainstream
(2024-04-15)This study discusses Barbie, (2023) and how its divided reception has been influenced by the current polarizing political landscape in the US, since the intended audience for the movie was supposed to be people from the ... -
Ett långt förflutet. En kvalitativ undersökning av debatten kring psykologin och psykoanalysen i Göteborg.
(2024-03-27)This essay is a qualitative study of the relationship between psychology and psychoanalysis pertaining to the debates in 2020 and 2022, with a focus on the Gothenburg context. This essay will through the use of a questionnaire ... -
#GIRLDINNER. En kvalitativ studie om tjejers kultur på sociala medier genom exemplet #girldinner
(2024-03-01)Under 2023 fanns det många tjejtrender och under sommaren 2023 blev #girldinner ett fenomen. #Girldinner är en TikTok trend som huvudsakligen syftar till att tjejer visar sina måltider de kallar för #girldinner. #Girldinner ... -
National Heroes, Digital Soldiers, Vulnerable Children and all the Others: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Videos Communicating the QAnon Conspiracy Theory
(2024-02-23)This thesis analyses the making of Us and Them in videos communicating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which have been circulating on online social forums. For this purpose, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis is used, ... -
Folk och minnen i Glaskogen - En analys av överlevnadsfaktorer hos sägner, folklore och folkminnen
(2024-02-09)This work is meant to show how memory can work within a smaller society when it comes to folklore and local history. What is remembered, how it is remembered and why it is remembered. Sprung from the older collections ... -
Crude Oils. Vilka budskap kan finnas i Banksys målningar?
(2024-02-08)Syftet med uppsatsen är dels att genom analys söka de budskap som finns i tre oljemålningar som ingår i en serie som Banksy kallat Crude Oils, dels att genom intervjuer undersöka hur ett antal betraktare uppfattar verken. ... -
Banbrytande formgivning i Sveriges textilindustri En studie om Astrid Sampes mönsterproduktion
(2024-02-07)The main focus of this study are the textile prints created by Astrid Sampe (1909-2002). Her fabrics can tell us more about her than a biography ever could. They can reveal how we experience patterns, why we are attracted ... -
FLYKTEN FRÅN VARDAGEN. Om fantasy, eskapism och verklighet
(2024-02-07)This paper investigates the relations between the fantasy genre and the phenomena of escapism. It also delves into the factors which motivates consumption of various fantasy mediums. This is done through interviews with ... -
"Vad f*n har jag valt för utbildning?" – en kvalitativ undersökning om kulturstudenters relation till sina studier
(2024-02-06)När jag påbörjade mina studier på kandidatprogrammet Kultur drog jag mig för att svara på frågor om vad jag gör om dagarna. Jag märkte att jag skämdes till följd av mitt studieval. Jag tyckte det var svårt att bemöta det ... -
Conjunction of the spheres. The struggle for hegemony in the English language online reception of Netflix adaption: The Witcher.
(2024-02-06)This essay uses the concepts of convergence culture, transmedia and hegemony, to understand the struggles within the English language reception to Netflix Tv production “The Witcher.” In order to help the reader, the essay ... -
Messages from the deep: A reception study of Denis Villeneuve's Dune
(2024-02-06)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, ... -
EXTREME, SPECTACULAR AND HORRIFIC A qualitative film analysis of affective strategies in extreme horror via Terrifier 2
(2023-12-20)During the year of 2022 the film Terrifier 2 was shown in theaters all over the western world. This film was not supported by any larger production companies, but was partly crowdfunded. The film combines elements from ... -
MED DENNA VISDOM BÖRJAR VI DENNA LÅT. Om mellansnackets diskursiva konstruktion av den svenska folkmusikgenren
(2023-10-04)”With this knowledge we begin this tune” – Stage talk as the discursive construction of Swedish folk music. Stage talk – i.e. the musicians’ talk on stage during concerts – is a given in an array of musical genres, although ... -
GarageBand eller Logic Pro? En studie i föreställningar om professionalitet och konsten att välja arbetsredskap inom digital musikproduktion
(2023-10-04)GarageBand and Logic Pro are Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) developed by Apple for recording and producing music. The former comes for free with every Mac, iPhone or iPad while the latter comes with a price tag and ... -
A GENDERED ANALYSIS OF HUMAN-AI RELATIONSHIPS AI - entities in Her and Ex Machina
(2023-09-12)AI representations in contemporary media provide interesting illustrative examples that show wider perspectives on the complex relationship between humans and AI. This study aims to analyze the portrayal of female AI ...