Sökning: "sick-lit"
Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade ordet sick-lit.
1. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierSammanfattning : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. LÄS MER
2. The Young & The Dying : The Continued Romanticization of Terminally Ill Adolescents in Contemporary American Cinema
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierSammanfattning : This essay examines how the past decade’s wave of young adult films portraying termi-nal illnesses compare and contrast with similar works from both film as well as literary works commonly referred to as “sick-lit”. By viewing three prominent films released be-tween 2014 and 2019 and applying both literature dealing with sick-lit as well as texts fo-cused on how cinema tends to portray serious illnesses such as cancer, I attempt to dis-cern whether significant change in the way which contemporary film handles severe ill-nesses has occurred. LÄS MER
3. Är sick-lit en genre? : en analys av paratexter
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Förlags- och bokmarknadskunskapSammanfattning : Syftet med uppsatsen är att granska sick-lit och dess funktion på bokmarknaden genom att undersöka marknadsföringen av böcker som kan benämnas som sick-lit. Detta görs främst genom en analys av paketeringen av bästsäljande verk inom Young Adult (YA) och crossover. LÄS MER
