The purpose of this essay is to study anthology films with a city as theme. The well-known Cities of Love-franchise is an example of these films but it has also been the subject of critique by Temenuga Trifonova (2013), who used the Cities of Love-films to create the term ”The Franchise City Film”. The aim with this essay is to compare three films to show signs of variation in the group ”anthology films with a city as theme”, beyond the franchise city film- term. Drawing from a combination of theories about the anthology film-concept (Deshpande, 2013) and ”City Films” (Archer 2011, Deleyto & López 2012) the films will be compared in three key aspects: how the films function as anthology films, their transnationality and how the city is shown. The study finds out that the films have a difference between them, which is highlighted in the key aspects. This shows that the films all differ in perspective while portraying their city, which places them either closer to or further from the franchise city film- term.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-64896 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Starsmark, Adam |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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