Sökning: "coming-of-age"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 31 uppsatser innehållade ordet coming-of-age.

  1. 1. “I just wanna go to the rooftops and scream, "-I love my best friend, Evan.” : - Om maskulinitet, homosocialitet, manlig vänskap och komedi i Supersugen (2007)

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Författare :Simone Hägred; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Maskulinitet; homosocialitet; manlig vänskap; komedi; populärkultur; supersugen;

    Sammanfattning : Denna uppsats undersöker hur maskulinitet, homosocialitet och vänskap representeras i den amerikanska, coming-of-age komedifilmen Supersugen (2007). Med hjälp av en diskursanalys tittar jag på hur filmens två huvudkaraktärer Seth och Evan representeras samt analyserar hur detta förhåller sig till teorier om maskulinitet, homosocialitet och vänskap. LÄS MER

  3. 2. "You just have to belong. Long to be" : Narrativ, identitet och trauma i Melina Marchettas On the Jellicoe Road

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Sofie Ek; [2023]
    Nyckelord :On the Jellicoe Road; Melina Marchetta; Perry Nodelman; Maria Nikolajeva; Narrative; Alternating Narratives; Unreliable narrator; Literary devices; Storytelling; Plot; Puzzle; Reader; YA fiction; Orphan; Bildungsroman; Identity; Trauma; Memory; On the Jellicoe Road; Melina Marchetta; Perry Nodelman; Maria Nikolajeva; Narrativ; Växlande narrativ; Opålitlig berättare; Litterära verkningsmedel; Berättande; Handling; Pussel; Läsaren; Fiktion för unga vuxna; Föräldralösa; Bildningsroman; Identitet; Trauma; Minne;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines how narrative structures such as: alternating narratives, unreliable narrators, and literary devices affect the predominant storyline in fiction targeted at young adults. Because On the Jellicoe Road depicts an orphan character’s coming of age, attention is additionally brought to the novel’s portrayal of how identity and identities are displayed in relation to the overall mystery that finding one’s family creates. LÄS MER

  4. 3. On the Quest for Alternative Ways of Becoming : Multifaceted Means of Maturation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Martin Ahlberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Green Knight; Failure; The Hero’s Journey; David Lowery; Christopher Vogler; Coming of Age;

    Sammanfattning : Living in an era where success is embraced as a life style, raises concerns that the alternatives to become, to grow and mature have been limited to a single variety – one where only triumph matters. This is a view that is spread through contemporary popular culture, whether it be in social media, video games, tv-series, films or books. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Frighteningly Female - Subversion of horror film tropes in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Sofia Lövgren Hansson; [2022-04-13]
    Nyckelord :Feminism; Horror; Gretel Hansel; Subversive; Women;

    Sammanfattning : This essay aims to examine the portrayal of the reproductive and aging female body as horrific in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel (2020). It proposes that the reinterpretation of the Grimm brothers' classical fairytale as a feminist coming of age story, centering Gretel as the protagonist and the witch as a mentor, allows for a subversion of horror film tropes pertaining to the reproductive female body. LÄS MER

  7. 5. ”I’m not your baby anymore!”: En studie av den unga kvinnans frigörelse från sin moder i filmerna Real Women Have Curves och The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Louise Bergwall; [2022-03-16]
    Nyckelord :Den unga kvinnan; Mor- och dotter-relationen; Coming of age-filmer; Frigörelse; Självständighet; Feministiska maktperspektiv; Latin-amerikansk kultur; Sexualitet; Filmvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This essay will delve into the two films Real Women Have Curves (2002) and The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) and analyze the ways the young women as protagonists can liberate themselves from their mothers and find their path towards independence. The main purpose of this essay is to look into the aspects that allows and denies this liberation, by focusing on the mother-daughter relationship and exploring the nuances of it, through psychoanalytical and sociological perspectives, and a feminist analysis of the power relations. LÄS MER