From 1972 until 1989, the artist trio General Idea produced FILE Megazine. The first eight issues of FILE, published from 1972 – 1975, are the focus of this thesis. They stand apart from the later issues because their covers hijacked the look and iconic logo of Life magazine. The red rectangle with white block letters attracted the attention of Time Inc. and resulted in a lawsuit. Rather than fight the corporate giant, General Idea changed their logo after the autumn 1975 issue. FILE, like many artists’ magazines, is typically discussed in idealistic language that privileges the subversive or democratic intentions of the publication while neglecting its significance as a device for the promotion of community and collaboration. I argue that General Idea envisioned FILE as a utopian project intended to produce the world they sought to live in. Authors frequently employ FILE as a tool to discuss General Idea’s work, focusing on it as a mirror or archive of a larger project and emphasizing FILE’s humorous, bawdy, and irreverent aspects. In this thesis, I situate FILE in terms of its historical, art historical, and theoretical frameworks. I pay particular attention to General Idea’s early involvement in the mail art network, FILE’s relationship to 1960s and 1970s artists’ magazines and magazine art, the contemporaneous social and political climate in Canada, and General Idea’s investigation and employment of theoretical frameworks culled from Marshall McLuhan’s text The Medium is the Message and Roland Barthes’ book Mythologies. / text

I denna uppsats studeras vilka teman, samt vilka formala och estetiska likheter och skillnader som förekommer i tävlingen Årets Bild, med fokus på vinnarbilderna under åren 2004-2014 i kategorin med samma namn. En innehållsanalys har gjorts på de elva bilderna och även en mer djupgående semiotisk och formal analys på fyra av dessa. Materialet blir belyst utifrån Susan Sontags teorier om att se andras lidande, Greenwood och Smiths undersökning av tävlingen Picture of the Year, samt Roland Barthes teorier om text och bild. Resultatet av studien visar att de teman som främst förekommer inom tävlingen är brott/terrorism och att bilderna nästan uteslutande avbildar en händelse efter att de ägt rum. Resultatet visar att text och bild hör ihop och att bilderna i många fall förlorar sin betydelse utan en beskrivande text. Tolkningen av bilderna är beroende av texter som placerar dem i en kontext. Över lag visar bilderna på lidande av olika slag. Det kan vara långvarigt lidande, framtida lidande eller direkt lidande- som direkt visar på döda eller skadade människor. De bilder som är mest brutala är de bilder som visar på händelser nära eller i Sverige.

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A new class of photographs that relies on digital processes, best exemplified by the works of Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall all exhibit a ‘not quite right’ quality that calls into question some of the most closely held truisms of photographic thought. Through novel technological processes combined with the elements of the new photography—new scale, fabulist imagery, and implied narrative—these images challenge the nature of photography as a documentary process and, beyond that, the nature of what we understand to be ‘the real’ that is supposedly documented. A visual analysis of these images through the lens of Roland Barthes’ and Susan Stewart’s scholarship reveals truths about these images and about photography as a medium. What these elements, this ‘lack of rightness’, can tell us about photography and its position as documentary medium can help us better understand the nature of contemporary photography as a truly creative medium rather than a documentation of the real. These artists are engaging in a discourse of artifice, questioning the position of photographs as documents of how it was, revealing that not only is their work not a documentation of the world as it is, but that photography never was.

The aim this thesis is to analyse the narrative structure of the novel, The Portrait of A Lady, with the aim of revealing how meaning is made and to show how certain elements are transferred to the film version and the consequent changes in meaning and emphasis. The structural analysis of The Portrait will chiefly rely on Shlomith Rimmon- Kenan&rsquo / s scheme she draws in her book Narrative Fiction. The functional analysis to show the consequent changes in meaning and emphasis, on the other hand, will rely on Roland Barthes&rsquo / s theory of functions he discusses in his article &ldquo / Structural Analysis of Narratives&rdquo / . In order to explore the narrative structure of The Portrait of A Lady, this thesis will examine story, characterization, time and focalization and demonstrate the techniques Henry James uses in narration. In the functional analysis of the novel, on the other hand, the functions of the units discussed in the story and the characterization will be compared to the functions of the same units that are transferred to the adaptation of the novel to reveal how the meaning and emphasis of the novel changes.

Zugl.: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2005

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-53).

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 70 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-70).

A lombalgia é conhecida como uma doença que interfere na vida de várias pessoas, causando dor, limitação funcional e custos elevados com cuidados em saúde. Embora alguns estudos abordem a clínica da lombalgia com programas educativos, não são encontradas na literatura utilizações de instrumentos que possam caracterizar, analisar e correlacionar a dor com exercício físico (flexibilidade). Este estudo de intervenção teve como objetivo principal estudar as condições de saúde e trabalho de militares do Exército Brasileiro, avaliando a eficácia de um programa educativo associado a exercícios de flexibilidade como modificadores da funcionalidade de sujeitos portadores de lombalgia crônica inespecífica, através dos instrumentos Roland-Morris, escala numérica de dor e flexímeter. Um total de 12 militares na cidade de Ponta Grossa-Paraná, participaram de um programa ao longo de três meses. Os resultados permitiram constatar a diminuição da dor e restrições do cotidiano das pessoas. Observou-se correlação positiva entre melhora dos itens pertinentes à atividade de vida diária, redução da intensidade e freqüência da dor nas costas e a flexibilidade. No estudo comparativo entre os sujeitos foi encontrada diferença significativa nos escores do Questionário de Roland-Morris e escala numérica. Com base nestes dados conclui-se que os resultados obtidos neste estudo possibilitaram maior conhecimento acerca da população avaliada, possibilitando no futuro o desenvolvimento de uma estratégia mais ampla de um programa de intervenção para sujeitos com lombalgia crônica inespecífica. / Low back–pain is known as an illness that intervenes the life of some people, causing pain, functional limitation and elevated costs with health cares. Although some studies approach the clinic of the low back-pain with educative programs, uses of instruments are not found in literature that can characterize, analyze and correlate pain with physical exercise (flexibility). This study of intervention it had as main objective to study the health conditions and work of military of the Brazilian Army, evaluating the effectiveness of an educative program associate the flexibility exercises as modifiers of the functionality of carrying citizens of chronic unspecific low back-pain, through the instrument Roland-Morris, scales numerical of pain and to flexímeter. A total of 12 military in the city of Ponta Grossa-Parana, had participated of a program throughout three months. The results had allowed to affirm the reduction of pain and restrictions of the quotidian of the people. Positive correlation was observed the pertinent improvement of items of the activity of daily life reduction of the intensity and frequency of low back-pain and flexibility. In the comparative study between the citizens was found a estatisticment significant difference in scores of the Questionnaire of Roland-Morris and scales numerical. With base in these data one concludes that the results gotten in this study make possible greater knowledge concerning the evaluated population, making possible in the future the development of a ampler strategy of a intervention program for citizens with chronic unspecific low back-pain.