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This book is an introduction to the history and theory of video art. It charts the first artistic experiments with the specificity of the video medium, the political documentary video art and video art's incorporation of narrative and pictorial codes from cinema and television. The book also presents the various theoretizations of the video medium, from Rosalind Krauss's verdict upon video as in
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This thesis is a study of the moral, medical, and socioeconomic arguments in favor of a racial hygienic sterilization legislation carried out in conservative, social democratic and socialist newspapers in Denmark from 1911-1923. While the sterilization legislation did not come into effect until 1933, the question was heavily discussed publicly in the preceding years. The public belief in omniscien
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This study sets out to investigate the non-diegetic music in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) in order to highlight its implicit narrative functions and meanings. The theoretical approach consists of semiotic concepts such as ‘Cognitive denotative’ and ‘Cognitive connotative’ functions by Emilio Audissino, ‘Myth’ and ‘Anchorage’ by Barthes as well as Claudia Gorbman’s ‘Connotative Cueing’.
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The focus in this thesis is on how medical patient records have developed and changed due to the modernization processes in the Swedish health care system during the period 1900– 1986. The processes are followed and analyzed by the written means of communication in use. These are: handwritten text by the physician; type written text produced by a new profession (the medical secretary), and lastly
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Historians of the universities have not always belonged to the avantgarde of historical research. On the contrary, many studies of the universities have tended to be rather traditional and narrow-minded. In recent years, however, the surge in the history of knowledge has opened up novel perspectives and given new impulses to how to write the history of the universities. In this presentation, Johan
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This paper presents and discusses a recently digitized, dataset of strikes and lockouts in Sweden for the period 1859-1902. The dataset, which originally was collected by Axel Raphael by retrospectively browsing through newspapers, pre-dates the Swedish official statistics on work stoppages that began in 1903. Whereas Raphael’s data have been used to illustrate the long-run development of strikes,
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When restrictions and rationing took effect during the Second World War, home sewing became a necessity for many women. This paper presents and discusses the distribution of paper patterns for home sewing in Sweden during the war years, using the examples of three different pattern magazines. It shows how these magazines conveyed, interpreted, and adapted fashion to home sewers. Despite the fact t
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During the Second World War, neutral Sweden became a battleground for propaganda between warring nations, prominently displayed through window displays on Stockholm's streets. This chapter studies the overlooked realm of visual propaganda, particularly focusing on the strategic use of window displays by Germany, the US, the UK and the Soviet Union. By analysing archival material and newspaper sour
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This thesis explores office paper as a medium between 1920 and 1960 in Sweden. During this period, paper was muchdebated due to the number of standards that were implemented. These standardstransformed paper, making it a modern medium in many different ways. The aim ofthe present thesis is to analyze how office paper was reshaped to solveproblems regarding production, reproduction, circulation and
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Den här avhandlingen undersöker Stockholms boulevardpress under det sena 1800-talet. Studiens huvudsakliga empiriska material utgörs av de fyra boulevardveckotidningarna Figaro, Vikingen, Budkaflen och Hvad Nytt. Boulevardpressens största intresse var den lokala societeten och de teatrar och restauranger den frekventerade. Syftet med avhandlingen är att undersöka tidningstypen med särskild hänsyn