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Fembots have feelings too : En studie om fetischeringen av kvinnokroppen och teknik / Fembots have feelings too: : A study about fetishizing the female body interlinked with technologyEngelbertsen, Mikael January 2017 (has links)
Abstrakt Denna uppsatsen är en jämförande studie med två gestaltningar av skådespelerskan Alicia Vikander. Jämförelsen är föranledd av forskning som menar att sammansmältningen mellan sexualitet och teknik i samtida action/thriller och science fictionfilmer är pervers. Kvinnokroppen fetischeras i samband med att den är hoplänkad med tekniska prylar och med hjälp av reklamfilmsestetik. Estetiken gör således att prylarna försöker säljas genom att sexualisera kvinnokroppen. Den här studien försöker finna utvägar för fetischeringen genom att framhäva skådespelerskans insats och hur hon kan förändra bilden som sammanlänkningen strävar efter. Filmerna jag använder för att undersöka detta är Ex Machina och Jason Bourne där Vikander figurerar i två biroller. Jag undersöker hennes roll för att titta noggrannare på fetischeringens utsträckning och vad som krävs av henne samt estetiken inom de filmerna för att möjliggöra andra synvinklar inom action/thriller och science fiction genren. / Abstract This paper compares two of Alicia Vikander's roles and treats research that says sexuality and technology are interlinked and fetishized about in contemporary action/thriller and science fiction movies. The two films the paper talks about are Jason Bourne and Ex Machina where Alicia plays an important figure. The female body is beeing fetishized in connection to technology that the characters use and that support the movie. Toghether with advertising aestetics such films are beeing selled through the sexualisation of the female body. This study is trying to find expedients from the fetischizing elements by highlighting the actress performance and how she can change the image that the interlinked elements strive to feature. My objective is to study how far the fetischizing have gone and how or if Alicia can break the perversion that the advertisment aestetics and interlinked elements of such film highlight. Also what features within such film, in that genre, require us to see beyond those fetishizing elements.
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...And Reconcile Us With Evil : A Critical Investigation of the Imagery of Good and Evil in Western Religion, Film and PoliticsGellrich, Arne L January 2016 (has links)
With an eye on the current social and political situation in Europe, and with regards to the so-termed refugee crisis, this study aims to map the discourse on assumed good and evil shared among Western cultures, as represented by Sweden, Germany and the United States. The thesis takes its point of departure from essayistic reflections of the philosophical tradition and theological and religious analytical positions respectively. These are then followed by two investigative main chapters, designed along the lines of Norman Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA). The first of these chapters studies the narratives of good and evil employed in the mainstream cinema of the past ten years in the mentioned countries. The second analysis is made up of three case studies, in turn looking at similar narratives in the campaigns of the two main competitors in the 2016 presidential race, a German protest movement against free trade agreements, and the everyday political communication of Swedish Facebook users. In a final chapter, findings from all four preceding chapters are brought together in an attempt to sketch an image of the congruences and discrepancies of narratives on good and evil in the overall discursive field. The thesis finds that the discursive field shared by the three investigated societies is largely homogenous, with certain imagery permeating all analysed orders of discourse. Many of the reoccurring images are however likely rooted in the human psyche and therefore less dependent on discourse practice. Furthermore, certain principles are agreed upon in theory while not reproduced in social practice. Themes assigned to either good or evil often seem to take on secondary functions next to assumed fixed identities of in- and out-groups. Being a qualitative study, this thesis aims at giving an overview and delivering a base for further investigations rather than providing definitive answers.
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