Film is a tool frequently used by teachers, but it is often limited to showing students how historical time periods looked like, or as a way for students to search for historical inaccuracies. The aim of this essay is to study whether it is possible to use two films based on the legend of Robin Hood as a way to teach students how to contextualize gender history. Through the use of film analysis and gender analysis of two different versions of Robin Hood, The adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of thieves were analyzed. The study has shown that it is indeed possible to use film as a source material for the study of gender history, and that film can tell us a lot about the contemporary view of gender, masculinity and femininity. The didactical analysis concluded that there was no theoretical objection of using film as a source material; however, there are some things that a teacher should be aware of. Although film may be a good way to create a varied study environment and benefit students with reading- and writing disabilities, there is a risk that time-constraints and lack of knowledge of film and its methodology on, behalf of both teachers and students, may make it hard to implement.

I läroplanen och kursplanen för svenska finns underlag för att film ska finnas med i svenskundervisningen. Det är också viktigt med tanke på det mediasamhälle vi lever i idag. Att använda film i undervisningen är också ett sätt att närma sig elevernas kultur och det som ligger dem nära. Undersökningar som gjorts visar att undervisning om och med film bedrivs på ett annat sätt än när det gäller skönlitteratur. Skönlitteratur tas upp på ett mer seriöst sätt och undervisningen är mer genomarbetad.

The thesis examines ?intermediality? in Svenska Bios (Swedish Biograph) first fiction films. Värmlänningarne (1910), Fänrik Ståls Sägner (1910), Bröllopet på Ulfåsa (1910), Regina von Emmeritz och Konung Gustaf II Adolf (1910), Amuletten (1910), Emigranten (1910) and Järnbäraren (1911) are analysed in relation to theatre, literature, music and ?reality?. A detailed discussion of intermediality is combined with specific theories relating to pictorialism and literary presentation in film.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how the Swedish Film Institute?s arguments regarding file sharing, copyright and the Internet relates to the changes made in the Swedish copyright law during 2003 and 2007, using the current debate about surveillance versus liberty on the Internet as a backdrop. The theory used is based on Lawrence Lessig?s ideas about how a network such as the Internet can be controlled, and what regulating forces a government can use to constrain a certain behavior such as illegal file sharing. By examining referral statements made by the Swedish Film Institute to five different communications from the Swedish government regarding copyright and film politics an idea analysis is being used as a method to answer the following sub-questions: 1.) How has the Swedish copyright law evolved during the latest years? 2.) What arguments are being used by the Swedish Film Institute in issues regarding file sharing, copyright and the Internet? 3.) Are the arguments being used by the Swedish Film Institute regarding these issues changing during the examined period? The findings of the study show that the Swedish Film Institute has been eager to support a more powerful expansion of the copyright laws, often suggesting more powerful solutions than the Swedish government itself.

Syftet med denna studie är att granska hur barns handlingar i förskolans sociala miljö inramas, filmas och diskuteras av förskollärare genom filmdokumentation samt på vilket sätt barnen är delaktiga i användningen av film. Frågeställningarna i studien är: Hur inramas och diskuteras barns handlingar av förskollärare i användning av film som dokumentation? På vilket sätt är barnen delaktiga i att använda film? Studien är baserad på några förskollärares upplevelser av fenomenet i fråga och är en kvalitativ studie där personliga intervjuer har genomförts. I tidigare forskning redovisas hur barn påverkas av film i förskolans sociala miljö samt förskollärares kunskap om film och dess konsekvenser. Genom socialsemiotik framgår hur förskollärare ser på film och bilder på olika sätt beroende på hur vi ser på vår omvärld.

This thesis examines Swedish composers' modes of work and production within the Swedish film industry. It starts off with a historical overview treating live music in early silent film, the conversion to sound and the Swedish production climate until present time. The analysis consists of contemporary empirical studies; interviews with people writing music for film, TV and commercials. The musician's perspective is in focus but directors and other film workers are heard as well. The situation for female composers in a male-dominated industry is also discussed.

This study is a qualitative content analysis which sets out to examine the representation of stereotypic masculine traits amongst the main characters in two films from The Swedish Institute of Film's (Svenska Filminstitutets) selection for ?School Cinema? (Skolbio). The study is operationalised through the use of a scheme, constructed by Lorraine Evans and Kimberly Davies for their study No sissy boys here, which maps stereotypical masculine and feminine traits and originates from Sandra Lipsitz Bems ?Sex Role Inventory?. The masculine traits in the scheme are: aggressive, competitive, argumentative, decisive, assertive, risk-taking, self-reliant and adventurous, and the feminine are: affectionate, emotionally expressive, impetuous, nurturing, panicky, passive, tender, and understanding.

Namn: Film i undervisning ? pest eller fest? Ett elevperspektiv.Författare: Katsaras, M och Larsson, T (2007)Examensarbete på lärarprogrammet pedagogik B, 10pSyftet med arbetet är att undersöka och beskriva hur två grupper med gymnasielever uppfattar att film används och har använts i undervisning under sin skoltid. För att få svaren på frågorna skapades två stycken fokusgrupper där varje grupp bestod av fyra till fem elever i årskurs två och tre på gymnasiet. Fokusgrupper kan liknas vid ett gruppsamtal. En grupp kom från ett medieprogram och den andra från ett samhällsvetenskapligt program.

Ever since the birth of the film medium, stories about drugs and addiction have been produced. There is a fascination with the lifestyle, the effects of drugs and the ways in which it can be portrayed on the screen. The thesis starts off by giving an historical context, ranging from the late 19th Century and up until today, describing how the society and the public have treated the subject and how the narrative mirrors these attitudes. The purpose of the thesis is to take a closer look at this recurrent theme. Eleven fictional films produced between the 1980?s and 2000?s have been chosen and psychoanalytical film theory is used to analyze the ways in which the addict is represented; how filmic disgust and the abject makes the characters tread over physical and social boundaries and how the effect of the drug have the character tread over mental boundaries through dreams and hallucinations..

Möjligheten att ladda ner film från Internet är i dag både smidigt och enkelt för de som förstår sig på tekniken. Internet fungerar som en distributionskanal för illegala kopior av upphovsrättsskyddat material och internationella branschorganisationer tillsammans med en otydlig lagstiftning kämpar för att få bukt med problemet. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka betalningsviljan för en streamad bioaktuell film ser ut, samt vilka orsaker som gör att individer väljer att ladda ner en film olagligt. Undersökningen genomfördes som en kvantitativ enkätstudie och innan enkäterna delades ut gjordes en mindre kvalitativ förstudie i ämnet. Anledningen till att individer laddar ner film behöver inte endast bero på priset för dess alternativ, som i vår uppsats är att gå och se en bioaktuell film på bio.

The purpose with this study is to examine school-leaders?, school-librarians? and teachers? expectations and aims for their school-libraries at two different schools in the city of Växjö. The study is based on these five questions:· How do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers think about learning?· What function does the school-library have?· What roles do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers have in the school-library?· How do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers experience the co-operation in the school-library?· How would school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers wish that the co-operation should be?To be able to answer these questions I have done thirteen qualitative interviews and studied literature relevant to the subject. Three different theories are used as a theoretical framework; the traditional perspective, individual constructivism and social constructivism.

The focus of Broken Conventions is experimental cinema, that big body of film existing outside the limiting boundaries of the mainstream cinema industries. The goal is to provide a broad view of this abstract and hard-to-define area of film studies, by searching for an answer to the question; what is experimental cinema and can it be viewed as a genre of its own? In doing so, I will explore the theoretical discourse surrounding the topic, as well as provide case studies of several experimental films. I will also suggest a genre theory, as a way of determining whether or not experimental cinema can be seen as a genre, but more importantly to use it as a way of further examining the individual films and to deepen the understanding of this type of film. The topic at hand is however extremely subjective and there is no generally accepted definition, or term for that matter, concerning what experimental cinema really is.

Uppsatsen är en empirisk studie med en kvalitativ undersökning. Uppsatsen fokuserar på elevers audiovisuella förmåga. Dagens skola kräver andra redskap av dig som pedagog än vad gårdagens skola gjorde. En förändring som innebär många nya inlärningsmetoder som både kan vara positiva och negativa då kunskap om dessa kan vara bristfällig. Film är idag ett ledande medialt verktyg som kan användas till att öka elevers historiska kunskaper och intressen.

The purpose of this essay is to study the film culture in South Africa in a national cinema-context, focusing on the relationship between anti-apartheid film from 1974-1994 and the film in South Africa today. By pitching the South Africa-specific works of Lucia Saks and Jacqueline Maingard against the over-arching debate on national cinema as formulated by, amongst others, Stephen Crofts and Andrew Higson, this study aims to find whether or not a specific South African national cinema have existed, and exists today, or not. The study finds that an underground culture of documentaries and short films made by and for the black population has been in place since the apartheid, and the distribution method on video and television is still being used to reach the black population today. By re-examining the concepts of both the national, and of national cinema to also include film on video and television, the study shows that South Africa has indeed a film culture that can be called a national cinema..

This study is an attempt to shed light on problems and possibilities of the school library of the Swedish comprehensive school concerning library law and goals of the school and the school library. Many investigations about the role of the school library of the comprehensive school have been carried through. They have all more or less come to the same conclusions. In spite of Swedish library law and goal documents of the school library, the school libraries are often neglected, if not will and commitment are to be found among teachers. Using a model of the school organisation by Gunnar Berg, three cases of school libraries are presented and analysed in a larger organisational and political perspective.