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Thesis topic proposal
 
The narratives of mass culture understood as media culture

THESIS TOPIC PROPOSAL

Institute: University of Debrecen
literature
Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies

Thesis supervisor: Péter Fodor
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Location of studies: University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1. Main Building (University Square Campus), Ground floor, Room 15 (Tudományos Igazgatóság)
Abbreviation of location of studies: DEBTK


Description of the research topic:

Areas of research for the dissertation could include the analysis of those narratives of medium that came into being in the context of mass culture (gathering ground from the mid-19th century), and which may be analyzed from the following aspects: the formative effect of the medium on the message and the narrative; the primacy of the narrative model; transmediality; the interpretation of hybrid semiological forms and seriality; the growing irrelevance of the authorial function; the various models of diffusion besides production and consumption; the interpretation of the role of agents who, besides creators, play an important part in cultural production and dissemination (translators, publishers, distributors, mediators); the collective, and in some cases international dimensions of the establishment of cultural products; the questioning of the aesthetic/ ideological/ economical stakes of culture industry; active acquirement of reception.

Number of students who can be accepted: 2

Deadline for application: 2018-05-15


2024. IV. 17.
ODT ülés
Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).

 
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