Tag Archives: Genre

PhD viva examination

By Steen | December 15, 2006

Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.

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Genre and Audience

By Steen | December 2, 2006

One aspect of genre that I have dealt less with, is the relationship between genre works and the genre audience. Not just as a matter of reception, but also as a matter of purpose for the audience. Why read a specific genre? What purpose does a genre fulfill for the reader, especially when we take [...]

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Genre as a Space of Possibles

By Steen | November 30, 2006

The first snippet from my preparation for my dissertation defense, I here investigate some of the potential worth of combining Genette’s concept of transtextuality with that of Bourdieu’s space of possibles.
One of the problems when working with genre, is how to draw up a boundary not just for which works belong within the genre, but [...]

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The Dissemination of Science Fiction

By Steen | November 9, 2004

Borders and Frames
Doctoral course
Tromsø and Sommarøy, 8-13 November 2004
Humanities Faculty, University of Tromsø
This essay is a methodological and theoretical positioning of my research project. I will elaborate on the theories of genre as they pertain to my use of them, specifically dealing with border-crossing generic texts; in this case of the science fiction genre (sf). [...]

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Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ as the ultimate action film

By Steen | October 2, 2004

Action films have since their inception been full of Christ-like imagery. This use of the action hero as a symbolic Christ suffering for the people he rescues was consolidated and emphasised during the 1970s and 80s, particular with films such as Dirty Harry and the ‘muscular movies’ such as First Blood, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, [...]

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