Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-174). Also available on the World Wide Web.

<p> </p><p>This thesis examines the subprime crisis in a Kindleberger framework as well as how the major banks in Sweden were affected. The thesis ties different events to the framework of Kindleberger and follows the stages he sees in a financial crisis, from the origination of the crisis due to speculation to suggested structural changes in the financial market. The effects upon Swedish banks are followed through the crisis and the effects upon the banks. Conclusions drawn are that the Kindleberger model is applicable to the subprime crisis in terms of components and not always chronologically. Swedish banks have regarding the magnitude of the crisis faired well, the problems causing the crisis are related to Moral hazard problems, regulators and rating institution.</p><p> </p>

This thesis examines the subprime crisis in a Kindleberger framework as well as how the major banks in Sweden were affected. The thesis ties different events to the framework of Kindleberger and follows the stages he sees in a financial crisis, from the origination of the crisis due to speculation to suggested structural changes in the financial market. The effects upon Swedish banks are followed through the crisis and the effects upon the banks. Conclusions drawn are that the Kindleberger model is applicable to the subprime crisis in terms of components and not always chronologically. Swedish banks have regarding the magnitude of the crisis faired well, the problems causing the crisis are related to Moral hazard problems, regulators and rating institution.

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Denna uppsats undersöker hur det färgade ljuset i tv-serien Euphoria (2019) kan haen narrativ funktion för att framställa och förstärka speglingen av karaktärerskänsloliv. I undersökningen analyseras sex utvalda scener från första säsongen avEuphoria där det förekommer en tydligt intensiv färgad ljussättning. Vi analyseradesekvenserna utifrån de möjliga känslorna karaktärerna kunde tänkas uppleva ochhur dessa känslor kunde kopplas till ljussättningens färger och kontraster. Detframkom i undersökningen att fanns flera tydliga kopplingar mellan karaktärernaskänslor och ljussättningens färger och kontraster, såväl ur ett nyktert somdrogpåverkat perspektiv.

The aim of this paper is to understand how trans people who write and read fanfiction about gender euphoria create meaningful writing processes, contextualize community, and orientate themselves in the world by telling stories about gender euphoria and related emotional experiences. I have conducted interactive chat interviews with four study participants and have, as a way of using an autoethnographic research method, included my own narratives as part of the material. Thus, the material used in this study consists of transcripts of collective sensemaking and discussions about differences and similarities in the experiences that the study participants and I tell each other about. I have analyzed the material using queer phenomenology and affect theory. I have found that the study participants have both varied and similar experiences of finding representation, of translating their emotions into actions, and of (re)shaping what it is that they, as trans people, can do and what narratives they can tell and experience.

L'ampleur des séries ne fait qu'augmenter, à l'ère où l'image s'érige en maître de la communication. Par l'analyse de trois « focus groups » et au moyen d'une méthodologie « bricolée », empruntant des concepts issus de la théorisation ancrée et de la démarche hypothético-déductive, l'auteure tente de mettre en lumière les différents mécanismes qui expliquent le succès de la série Euphoria malgré la violence de ses images. À la lumière de différents concepts issus de la criminologie culturelle visuelle, des théories féministes et des réflexions sociologiques autour du concept de déni, cinq thèmes émergent des discussions de groupe. Depuis le male gaze appuyant l'hégémonie patriarcale et la Loi du silence; par le queerbaiting, le pinkwashing et l'idéologie transactiviste, ou comment des idées "progressistes" permettent d'obtenir l'assentiment du public pour maintenir les représentations sexistes dans l'ombre; avec la forme de la série, qui par sa mise en scène et son esthétique contribue à maintenir le spectateur dans une forme de déni; ainsi que la création d'un fossé cognitif et des narrations qui entravent l'identification et l'empathie; pour finir par l'éducation au cinéma, ou comment les réflexions collectives offrent une perspective de changement des représentations.

Denna uppsats har gjorts i syftet att undersöka den visuella och narrativa gestaltningen avdroganvändning i Euphoria och hur olika tolkningar kan förstås utifrån teorier kringrepresentation med kodning/avkodning som centrala begrepp. Genom denotativa teckentas åskådarnas möjliga konnotationer upp i en kvalitativ analys för att kunna svara påfrågeställningen ”Hur gestaltas droganvändning i serien Euphoria och vilka möjligatolkningar kan göras utifrån ett representationsteoretiskt perspektiv?”. Regissören SamLevinsons sätt att gestalta både det positiva och negativa med droganvändning somdiskuterar det globala problemet gällande droger och missbruk har skapat delade åsikterkring serien. Resultatet blev att de visuella och narrativa tecknens konnotationer påverkasav individers konceptuella kartor och att vilken konnotation som följer föregåendekonnotation påverkar helhetskonnotationen. / The purpose of this essay is to analyze the visual and narrative visualization of drug use inEuphoria and how different interpretations can be understood through theories aboutrepresentation with coding/decoding as key concepts. Through denotative signs, thespectators' possible connotations are addressed in a qualitative analysis in order to answerthe question, "How is drug use in the Euphoria series visualized and what possibleinterpretations can be made from a representation-theoretical perspective?". The directorSam Levinson's way of visualizing both the positive and the negatives of drug use whichdiscusses the global problem of drugs and addiction has created divided opinions about theseries. The result was that the visual and narrative sign connotations are affected byindividuals' conceptual maps and that the connotation that follows the previousconnotation affects the overall connotation.

Euphoria is a popular tv-series that has become a part of popular culture with its dark imagery and strong characters. The characters became a big discussion in social media and mantras that people are taking inspiration from. The series has become a phenomenon in social media where people recreate the characters makeup and outfits. This study looked at how female characters are portrayed in Euphoria from a female stereotypic and gender identity perspective. And we wanted to see if the female characters are challenging heteronormativity that is reflected in our society. We used a narrative analysis and mise-en-scéne to analyze the chosen scenes, the theories we used were gender theory, gender role theory and queer theory. The result showed that three of the characters are shown as the typical female stereotype and two of them are not. The three females that are more like the stereotypes are portrayed in a sexualized way and their bodies are shown for entertainment and selling purposes. Meanwhile the two female characters that challenge heteronormativity are portrayed as norm breaking and they are not sexualized. The gender roles are shining through when some of the feminine women are acting from what is expected of a woman. They are seeking after what the ideals are and how they can be their most beautiful selves based on the stereotypes while some of them do not.

Global alcohol- and drug consumption is a big health problem, despite the fact that the amount of usage has decreased throughout the years. Our interest for this study arose because earlier research showed that films, series and television can affect viewers' perceptions regarding alcohol- and drug use. Thus we were interested in examining how alcohol- and drug use is constructed in the teen dramas Skins UK and Euphoria, considering that these series manage subjects such as drugs, alcohol and addiction. The method this study conducted was multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) because this method is used to analyze audiovisual materials. The theoretical framework for this study consists of poststructuralism, socialsemiotics and filmsemiotics to analyze and identify discourses in our empirical material. Our empirical material was analyzed by looking at poses, facial expressions, lexical choices, distance, sound and music. The results showed that the construction of alcohol- and drug use in the respective series was more negative than positive. Four discourses were identified from the results: escapism, anxiety management, connection and self-destructiveness.