Vår samtid genomgår stora förändring i allt från digitalisering till klimatpåverkan och ett resultat av detta är vår längtan efter att få uppleva och ta del av innehåll som påminner oss om en svunnen tid. Nostalgiska inslag finns i många delar av vårt samhälle och denna uppsats undersöker hur ett tidigare decennium representeras i en samtida medieprodukt och bidrar till en nostalgisk upplevelse. Idag finns det en förkärlek till en 80-talsnostalgi vilket blir synligt i många nyproducerade filmer och serier. I uppsatsen analyseras hur man i serien Sex Education (2019-2020) har valt att representera 80-talet i en samtida kontext för att skapa en nostalgisk effekt hos mottagaren. Vidare blir effekten av att blanda ett nostalgiskt grepp (nostalgisk mise-en-scene, musik och genrerefenser) med ett nutidsgrepp (den moderna gestaltningen av tematiken) att dessa kontraster skapar en friktion som väcker tittarens intresse. I uppsatsen tillämpas kvalitativ filmanalys, baserad på en kategoriserande modell, på estetik och tematik i serien Sex Education. Syftet är påvisa seriens nostalgiska inslag och belysa hur de skapas. / Our present time is experiencing a major change in everything from digitalisation to climate change, and one result of this is our longing to experience and share content that reminds us of another time. Nostalgic elements can be seen in many parts of our society and this essay examines how a past decade is represented in a modern media product and the nostalgic experience it generates. Today, there is a love for '80s nostalgia, which becomes visible in many newly produced films and series. The thesis is based on analyzing how the series Sex Education (2019-2020) has chosen to represent the 80s in a contemporary context to create a nostalgic effect on the recipient. Furthermore, the effect of mixing a nostalgic grip (nostalgic mise-en-scene, music and genre references) with a contemporary grip (the modern form of the theme) is that it creates contrasts which causes a friction that arouses the viewer's interest. The thesis applies qualitative film analysis, based on a categorizing model, to aesthetics and themes in the series Sex Education. The purpose is to demonstrate the series' nostalgic features and highlight how they are created.

The aim of this study is to analyze how the depiction of a young male and female protagonist who persistently seek success differs and which film techniques are used to depict male and female perfectionism. Since 1989, young people, especially in the cultural sphere, have stated that they feel an increasing pressure from their surroundings and from themselves compared to previous generations. The strive to be successful causes anxiety, depression, and perfectionism, where the latter has been linked to narcissism. Previous studies have found that media, especially film, has a crucial impact on how viewers perceive people with mental illnesses and stereotypes concerning gender, and the exposure to gender stereotypes may influence the viewers’ physical states and attitudes. This study adopts a qualitative comparative textual analysis using case studies, with an approach called neoformalism focusing on three formal levels: narrative, stylistic and thematic. The study also includes theories from feminist film studies. The films used as case studies are Black Swan (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky and Whiplash (2014) directed by Damien Chazelle. The result show that differences between male and female are prominent on all three levels of the film form. Nina in Black Swan needs to rely on sex to succeed and she gets punished in the end for the transgression, while Andrew in Whiplash simply practices to reach perfection. The film techniques used show more pictures of Nina's body and female props like mirrors while Andrew is shown solely around musical instruments. They are also both perfectionists and narcissists, but overall, Nina is shown to be more irrational and paranoid than Andrew and these psychological qualities are reflected in and communicated by the formal system of the films.

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Le présent mémoire consiste en une analyse thématique des représentations féminines dans l’œuvre de Satoshi Kon, de Perfect Blue à Paprika. L’objectif de ce travail est de démontrer que ces images de la femme reflètent la place des femmes dans la société japonaise contemporaine. À cet effet, nous avons examiné les films du réalisateur selon l’approche des études féministes du cinéma. Nous avons divisé notre analyse en trois thèmes : la violence, la sexualité et le double. Il apparaît que les représentations féminines des longs-métrages de Kon possèdent effectivement des parallèles au sein la société nippone actuelle. Le réalisateur emploie des figures et des motifs narratifs communs au Japon et l’anime afin de produire et reproduire les stéréotypes de genre. Par ailleurs, il utilise les éléments filmiques et les particularités du médium de l’anime pour appuyer ces définitions des rôles sexuels. Cette étude est originale par son angle d’approche féministe et psychanalytique qui est rarement adopté par les théoriciens de l’anime. Les études portant sur ce médium sont d’ailleurs récentes et s’intéressent généralement à l’esthétique de l’anime ou à la formation d’une identité nationale japonaise plutôt qu’à la construction du genre dans un média de culture populaire. / The present thesis consists of a thematic analysis of the feminine representations in Satoshi Kon’s work, from Perfect Blue to Paprika. Our objective is to demonstrate that these female depictions reflect the status of women in contemporary japanese society. To this end, we examined the director’s movies according to feminist film theory. Also, we separated our analysis in three themes : violence, sexuality and the double. It seems that Kon’s feminine representations possess parallels to the present Japanese society. Indeed, the director uses figures and narrative motifs common to Japan and anime in order to produce and reproduce gender stereotypes. In addition, he utilizes filmic elements and the particularities of the anime medium to support these definitions of sexual roles. This study is original in its feminist and psychoanalytic approach which is rarely employed by anime theorists. Furthermore, the studies regarding this medium are fairly new and usually focus on the anime easthetic and the establishment of a Japanese national identity rather than the construction of gender in a popular culture media.

This essay deals with the idea of women as the ”the other sex” within the field of authorship, and aims to bring to together feminist, film and auteur theory with analysis of historic documentations of reception as well as context for academic treatments of Mai Zetterling as an auteur/director. This, in attempt to, through intertwined discussion, catch a glimpse of better understanding how gender specificity may have influenced and continue to influnce perceptions of auteurs of female gender and their works, yet keeping focus on the case of Mai Zetterling and hers in specific.

Nous partons du constat de l’importance de l’image dans le processus d’anthropogénèse, car la fixité de l’image se dévoile comme une médiation temporelle, c’est-à-dire, comme la création d’un temps rapporté médiatisant notre rapport au réel et transgressant par là notre champ perceptif. À ce titre, l’histoire de l’image apparaît comme le développement de divers modèles eidétiques statiques qui vont être en négociation et relation permanente avec les modèles eidétiques dynamiques : le langage, les gestes, l’outillage, la musique, la danse, l’habitat ; modèles qui en contrepartie sont des médiations nous permettant d’investir l’espace et de le délimiter. L’interpénétration des deux types de modèles, dynamiques et statiques, constituerait, dans la pléthore et la diversité d’éléments composant chaque culture, le caractère définissant l’homme comme animal politique. C’est ainsi que l’on a pu discerner une différence ontologique lors de l’apparition de la trace photographique, trace résultant, non d’une idéalisation formelle et symbolique, mais de l’idéalisation d’une distance, à partir de laquelle se matérialise l’écran en articulant le regard depuis une nouvelle échelle opératoire. L’apport essentiel de l’image serait entré donc dans une nouvelle phase qui, au bout de presque deux siècles, aurait transformé l’homme en animal médiatique. C’est là que l’histoire de la nouvelle trace, sous l’essor de la technologie numérique, centre tout enjeu politique dans sa manifestation la plus conséquente, celle de l’expression cinématographique.Dans ce cadre nous avons abordé et privilégié une histoire du cinéma à des moments où celle-ci développe des enjeux spécifiques dans son rapport au réel, comme notamment dans l’exemple de l’œuvre du cinéaste mexicain Téo Hernández, réalisée pour l’essentiel en Europe entre 1968 et 1992. Sa forte dimension phénoménologique, l’importance du corps dans l’acte de filmer, tout autant que sa fine réflexion sur le médium et son rapport au réel, nous ont fournit une clé de voûte nous permettant de comprendre les grands changements médiatiques qui sont survenus dans les années 80, et qui ont déterminé le regard politique du monde actuel. / We begin by observing the importance of the image in the anthropogenesis’ process because the fixed image reveals temporal mediation, namely, the creation of reported time, mediatizing our relation to the real and thus, transgressing our fields of the perceptual. On this basis, the image’s history appears as a development of various static eidetic models that are going to be in a negotiation and permanent relationship with dynamic eidetic models: language, gestures, equipment, music, dance, the habitat; models that, in return, are mediations enabling us to invest the space and divide it up. The intermingling of the dynamic and static models would constitute the character defining man as a political animal, in the myriad and diversity of the elements that are components for each culture. That is how we are able to detect an ontological difference at the time when the photographic trace appears, a trace not resulting from a formal, symbolic idealization but from an idealization of distance, from which the screen materializes by articulating the eye from a new operative scale. The image’s essential contribution would thus have entered a new phase that would have transformed man into a media animal after almost two centuries. That is where the history of the new trace becomes the core of all political issues in its most consistent manifestation, under the surge of digital technology, that of cinematographic expression.In doing so, we have addressed and favoured one of cinema’s histories at a time when there was a development of specific issues in relation to the real, notably using the work of a Mexican filmmaker, Téo Hernández, mainly done in Europe between 1968 and 1992 as an example. Its powerful phenomenological dimensions — the importance of the body while filming — and also the deep reflexion on the medium and its relation to the real, have provided us with a keystone that enables us to understand the major changes in media that happened during the 1980s and determined the political outlook of the world today.

本篇論文旨在探究列寧與史達林統治期間，蘇聯電影之濫觴與發展。文中首先詳論蘇聯電影形成之時代背景與特殊使命，說明電影傳入俄國之初，正值布黨握權未久，民心浮動之際，列寧與史達林如何善用電影高可塑性及易於大量複製之特色，進行政策宣導與掃盲教育，不僅積極為共黨樹立領導威信，更塑造政權繼承之合法性。 1917年十月革命之後，蘇聯共黨首重電影工業之管理，從1919年列寧將電影工業收歸國有起，至1953年史達林去世為止，蘇聯電影機構與管理階層不斷改組，權力集中。與其他各國娛樂商業影片相較，蘇聯電影濃厚之政治色彩與實用功能，風格自異。 蘇聯電影在歷經戰時共產主義、新經濟政策、社會主義寫實主義、二次世界大戰等不同階段的政策洗禮後，除呈現一系列歌功頌德的樣板影片外，亦在重重監檢制度與狹窄創作空間下迸發令人驚嘆的藝術成就，如庫列雪夫、愛森斯坦、普多夫金、杜甫仁科等大師的電影蒙太奇理論，又如他們結合政治現實與藝術理想之社會寫實創作。蘇聯電影不僅成功整合政治宣傳，鼓舞民心士氣，更於拍攝技巧和視覺美學上，創造出彌足珍貴的藝術語言，為本論文提供豐富且堅實之藝術佐證。 / This dissertation mainly discussed the development of Soviet Cinema under Soviet Socialist ideology during Lenin & Stalin period from 1917 to 1953. First came into its historical background and special mission: cinema came into Russia in early 20th century while Revolutionaries just grabbed power, Lenin and Stalin wisely used the characteristics of high plasticity and massive reproduction in films to propagandize their political policy and to educate the overwhelmingly illiterate peasant masses. Not only did Soviet Cinema build reputation for Soviet Communists, it also helped to legalize the regime of Bolsheviks. After the 1917 Revolution, Bolsheviks first pay their attention to the management of film industry. From 1919 Lenin took over the whole Soviet film industry and made it nationalized to 1953 Stalin passed away, Soviet film department had been gone through process of constant reshuffles and power centralization. To compare with the entertaining and commercial film industry in other countries, Soviet Cinema is unique for its strong political color as well as its pronounced pragmatic function. After baptizing itself through the policy changes during the different political Stages in Wartime Communism, New Economic Policy, Socialist Realism, plus Second World War, in addition to a series of complimentary stereotype films, Soviet Cinema, under layer upon layer censorship and cramped creative room, still spurted its astonishing artistic achievements to the world: the Montage film theory developed by Kuleshev, Eisenstien, Pudovkin and Dovzhenko, the masterpieces of social and realistic creation which demonstrate sophisticate combination of political reality and artistic idealism. Soviet cinema played a successful role in integrating the political propaganda with encouraging the massed; furthermore, it also create the precious artistic languages in the shooting skills and visual aesthetics, all these apply the rich and profound artistic evidences for this dissertation.

Le présent mémoire consiste en une analyse thématique des représentations féminines dans l’œuvre de Satoshi Kon, de Perfect Blue à Paprika. L’objectif de ce travail est de démontrer que ces images de la femme reflètent la place des femmes dans la société japonaise contemporaine. À cet effet, nous avons examiné les films du réalisateur selon l’approche des études féministes du cinéma. Nous avons divisé notre analyse en trois thèmes : la violence, la sexualité et le double. Il apparaît que les représentations féminines des longs-métrages de Kon possèdent effectivement des parallèles au sein la société nippone actuelle. Le réalisateur emploie des figures et des motifs narratifs communs au Japon et l’anime afin de produire et reproduire les stéréotypes de genre. Par ailleurs, il utilise les éléments filmiques et les particularités du médium de l’anime pour appuyer ces définitions des rôles sexuels. Cette étude est originale par son angle d’approche féministe et psychanalytique qui est rarement adopté par les théoriciens de l’anime. Les études portant sur ce médium sont d’ailleurs récentes et s’intéressent généralement à l’esthétique de l’anime ou à la formation d’une identité nationale japonaise plutôt qu’à la construction du genre dans un média de culture populaire. / The present thesis consists of a thematic analysis of the feminine representations in Satoshi Kon’s work, from Perfect Blue to Paprika. Our objective is to demonstrate that these female depictions reflect the status of women in contemporary japanese society. To this end, we examined the director’s movies according to feminist film theory. Also, we separated our analysis in three themes : violence, sexuality and the double. It seems that Kon’s feminine representations possess parallels to the present Japanese society. Indeed, the director uses figures and narrative motifs common to Japan and anime in order to produce and reproduce gender stereotypes. In addition, he utilizes filmic elements and the particularities of the anime medium to support these definitions of sexual roles. This study is original in its feminist and psychoanalytic approach which is rarely employed by anime theorists. Furthermore, the studies regarding this medium are fairly new and usually focus on the anime easthetic and the establishment of a Japanese national identity rather than the construction of gender in a popular culture media.

An interpretative methodology for understanding meaning in cinema since the 1950s, auteur analysis is an approach to film studies in which an individual, usually the director, is studied as the author of her or his films. The principal argument of this thesis is that proponents of auteurism have privileged examination of the visual components in a film-maker’s body of work, neglecting the potentially significant role played by sound. The thesis seeks to address this problematic imbalance by interrogating the creative use of sound in the films written and directed by Rolf de Heer, asking the question, “Does his use of sound make Rolf de Heer an aural auteur?” In so far as the term ‘aural’ encompasses everything in the film that is heard by the audience, the analysis seeks to discover if de Heer has, as Peter Wollen suggests of the auteur and her or his directing of the visual components (1968, 1972 and 1998), unconsciously left a detectable aural signature on his films. The thesis delivers an innovative outcome by demonstrating that auteur analysis that goes beyond the mise-en-scène (i.e. visuals) is productive and worthwhile as an interpretive response to film. De Heer’s use of the aural point of view and binaural sound recording, his interest in providing a ‘voice’ for marginalised people, his self-penned song lyrics, his close and early collaboration with composer Graham Tardif and sound designer Jim Currie, his ‘hands-on’ approach to sound recording and sound editing and his predilection for making films about sound are all shown to be examples of de Heer’s aural auteurism. As well as the three published (or accepted for publication) interviews with de Heer, Tardif and Currie, the dissertation consists of seven papers refereed and published (or accepted for publication) in journals and international conference proceedings, a literature review and a unifying essay. The papers presented are close textual analyses of de Heer’s films which, when considered as a whole, support the thesis’ overall argument and serve as a comprehensive auteur analysis, the first such sustained study of his work, and the first with an emphasis on the aural.