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Fåhraeus, A. (2020). Cultural Materialism in the Production and Distribution of Exploitative Lesbian Film: A Historical Case Study of Children of Loneliness (1935). Nordic Journal of English Studies, 19(5), 121-154
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Cultural Materialism in the Production and Distribution of Exploitative Lesbian Film: A Historical Case Study of Children of Loneliness (1935)
2020 (English)In: Nordic Journal of English Studies, ISSN 1502-7694, E-ISSN 1654-6970, Vol. 19, no 5, p. 121-154Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Raymond Williams developed a vocabulary and framework for analyzing the ideological forces at work in literature and art, as objects, but also in terms of their production and distribution. This article looks back at his elaboration of cultural materialism and its relationship to film in Preface to Film (1954), written with Michael Orrin, as a way of understanding the media traces of the lost film Children of Loneliness (dir. Richard C. Kahn). The film was an early sex education about homosexuality and this article explores its connections to early exploitation films as a cinematic form, and the dominant and emergent discourses that were used to promote it, as a well as at structures of feeling that these discourses reflect.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet, 2020
Keywords
lesbian, film, structure of feeling, Children of Loneliness, homosexuality
National Category
Gender Studies Studies on Film
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-43658 (URN)10.35360/njes.618 (DOI)2-s2.0-85099112799 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2021-12-08Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2020). Fiction as a Means for Understanding the Dynamics of Empathy: A 3-year Empirical Study with Students. Educare (3), 46-76
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Fiction as a Means for Understanding the Dynamics of Empathy: A 3-year Empirical Study with Students
2020 (English)In: Educare, ISSN 1653-1868, E-ISSN 2004-5190, no 3, p. 46-76Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The current study investigated whether the reflective reading of fiction can provide an experiential definition of empathy to supplement more traditional concept analyses. A secondary aim was to look at the rates of absorption (loss of time and space) relative to the rate of reported empathic engagement. Based on earlier studies on reading fiction as an engagement in a social simulation, it was predicted that because fiction is a controlled experience, reading and talking about fiction could provide a forum in which to examine actual experiences of empathy elicitation in relation to an evolving situation. A survey was conducted with 210 student participants over a three-year period. The results show that the empathetic response to narrative is affected in a variety of ways by the presence or absence of an initial sense of affinity and by cognitive input over time, that is, the changing perception of characters and the situations with which they are confronted. Adept readers are more likely to experience absorption, and those who experience absorption are more likely to be empathetically responsive to input and changes in a situation. Empathetic emotions and cognitive empathy can be experienced for multiple objects simultaneously in one situation and relate to past events and potential futures, but they also shift from object to object.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Malmö universitet, 2020
Keywords
absorption, education, empathy, fiction, perspective-taking
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-43209 (URN)
Available from: 2020-10-05 Created: 2020-10-05 Last updated: 2023-03-28Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2020). Historicising Racialised Objects of Horror: The Black Renaissance Villain. In: Seaber, Luke (Ed.), Villains and Heroes, or Villains as Heroes?: Essays on the Relationship between Villainy and Evil (pp. 89-93). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Historicising Racialised Objects of Horror: The Black Renaissance Villain
2020 (English)In: Villains and Heroes, or Villains as Heroes?: Essays on the Relationship between Villainy and Evil / [ed] Seaber, Luke, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2020, p. 89-93Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper argues that black stereotypes are not ahistorical but rather should be studied in a longer historical perspective because the types change according to political and social contexts. It illustrates this by presenting the contrasts between the Renaissance black villain and its appropriation and adaptation in the Restoration period. © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2010.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2020
Keywords
Blackness, renaissance revenge tragedy, restoration revenge tragedy, villain
National Category
Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-51368 (URN)10.1163/9789004399341_012 (DOI)2-s2.0-85141074841 (Scopus ID)9789004399341 (ISBN)9781848881303 (ISBN)9004399348 (ISBN)1848881304 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-08-14 Created: 2023-08-14 Last updated: 2024-01-23Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2018). Litteraturvetenskap som demokratiprojekt (1ed.). In: Martin Berg, Vaike Fors, Martin Willim (Ed.), Samverkansformer: Nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (pp. 133-152). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Litteraturvetenskap som demokratiprojekt
2018 (Swedish)In: Samverkansformer: Nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap / [ed] Martin Berg, Vaike Fors, Martin Willim, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018, 1, p. 133-152Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018 Edition: 1
Keywords
litteraturvetenskap, extern samverkan, demokrati, läsfrämjande, bibliotek
National Category
Other Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38021 (URN)978-91-44-12138-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-09-19 Created: 2018-09-19 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2018). "So You Thought We Would Go Away?": Confronting Shaming in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1ed.). In: Subashish Bhattacharjee (Ed.), Queering Visual Cultures: Re-presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen (pp. 148-168). Montreal: Universitas Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"So You Thought We Would Go Away?": Confronting Shaming in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour
2018 (English)In: Queering Visual Cultures: Re-presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen / [ed] Subashish Bhattacharjee, Montreal: Universitas Press , 2018, 1, p. 148-168Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Montreal: Universitas Press, 2018 Edition: 1
Keywords
Sexuality, shame, drama, lesbian, Hellman
National Category
Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38020 (URN)978-0-9950291-3-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-09-19 Created: 2018-09-19 Last updated: 2019-10-04Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. & Asklund, J. (2017). Läsfrämjande, forskning och kompetensutveckling i Halland. Halmstad: Reprocentralen, Region Halland
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Läsfrämjande, forskning och kompetensutveckling i Halland
2017 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Hösten 2015 blev Regionbibliotek Halland kontaktad av två forskare från Halmstad högskola för en första diskussion om eventuella samarbeten. Och vi behövde inte sitta många minuter tillsammans förrän Anna Fåhraeus, lektor i engelska och litteraturvetenskap, Jonas Asklund, lektor i litteraturvetenskap och vi från regionbiblioteket insåg att vi hade många gemensamma frågor som vi ville studera och gå vidare med. Regionbibliotekets goda erfarenhet att samarbeta med forskare utanför professionen har varit en drivande kraft. Att låta någon som inte är färgad av biblioteksvärlden reflektera över vårt arbete har tidigare visat sig vara lyckosamt. Anna och Jonas förankring i lärarutbildningen var en annan god grund för samarbete; bibliotekarieyrket och läraryrket har överlappningar som vi fortfarande är dåliga på att ta tillvara.

Regionbiblioteket hade redan ett stort projekt på gång tillsammans med samtliga folkbibliotek i Halland. Folkbibliotekschefsgruppen hade initierat ett utbildningspaket för alla anställda kring litteratur och läsning – en insats som i synnerhet Eiler Jansson, utvecklingsledare på Regionbiblioteket höll samman. Vi bestämde nu att Halmstad högskola skulle gå in i denna satsning som föreläsare, följeforskare och samtalspartners.

Efter denna dag föreslog de båda forskarna att de skulle gå vidare med en enkät samt en del djupintervjuer för att bättre fånga hur biblioteksanställda arbetar med läsfrämjande i Halland men också att försöka fånga upp ytterligare insatser som behöver göras.

Det känns viktigt att påpeka att forskning utförd i sådan nära relation som i detta fall ändå är självständig. Detta är inte en uppdragsforskning där beställaren har en ungefärlig bild av vad som ska undersökas. Tvärtom, frågeställningen var ett gemensamt beslut, en färdriktning som skulle gynna både professionen och akademin. Anna Fåhraeus och Jonas Asklund presenterar här sina egna analyser och resultat. Regionbiblioteket har stått till tjänst med bakgrundsmaterial, samordning och utgivning.

Rapporten ger svar på hur bibliotekarier i Halland ser på sitt läsfrämjande arbete och förslag på insatser som behöver göras. Den har gett oss mycket att tänka på och folkbibliotekschefsgruppen kommer att tillsammans med regionbibliotekarien och Halmstad högskola bestämma hur vi ska gå vidare. För gå vidare vill vi. Tillsammans.

Maria Ehrenberg Avdelningschef, Regionbibliotekarie

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Halmstad: Reprocentralen, Region Halland, 2017. p. 59
Keywords
Läsfrämjande, empati, skönlitteratur, litteraturvetenskaplig forskning
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34727 (URN)978-91-980640-6-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-08-15 Created: 2017-08-15 Last updated: 2019-10-04Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2014). Proustian Desire and the Queering of Masculinity in Gay Cinematic Romance. Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture (1), 28-59
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Proustian Desire and the Queering of Masculinity in Gay Cinematic Romance
2014 (English)In: Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, ISSN 2148-3841, no 1, p. 28-59Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Twenty-five gay films produced from 1987 to 2011 in Europe, the US, Argentina and Israel form the basis for this study on masculinity in gay romantic drama. The shared plot motif is a self-assumed straight man realizing that he is homosexual or fluid in his sexuality. The narrative trope of awakening from the folk tale “Sleeping Beauty” (1657) by Charles Perrault, and its revision in late 19th century feminist literature, is the common dramatic component of these gay films. There are similarities with early feminist literature in the representation of the repressive nature of social structures and the fracturing of hetero-normative gender expectations. The article argues that even as some of the hetero-normative conventions of the romance as a genre are upheld, because two straight-looking men perform both roles, masculinity is problematized and a queering takes place at the level of temperament, 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Denizli: Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinity, 2014
Keywords
Narrative, film studies, gay romance, queer theory, Proust, desire
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24604 (URN)
Available from: 2014-02-16 Created: 2014-02-16 Last updated: 2019-10-04Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2013). Research Supports Learner-Centered Teaching [Review]. The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(4), 126-131
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Research Supports Learner-Centered Teaching
2013 (English)In: The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, ISSN 1527-9316, Vol. 13, no 4, p. 126-131Article, book review (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This is a review of the second edition of Maryellen Weimar's Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice(Jossey-Bass, 2013)

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Indianapolis, IN, United States: Indiana University * Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, 2013
Keywords
Attribution Theory, Transformative Learning, Active Learning, Motivation, Learner-Centered
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24144 (URN)
Available from: 2013-12-10 Created: 2013-12-10 Last updated: 2019-10-04Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. (2011). Historicizing Racial Objects of Horror: From the Black Renaissance Villain to the Voodoo Doer. In: Anna Fåhraeus & Dikmen Yakah Çamoğlu (Ed.), Villains and Villainy: Embodiments of Evil in Literature, Popular Culture and Media (pp. 135-148). Amsterdam: Rodopi
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Historicizing Racial Objects of Horror: From the Black Renaissance Villain to the Voodoo Doer
2011 (English)In: Villains and Villainy: Embodiments of Evil in Literature, Popular Culture and Media / [ed] Anna Fåhraeus & Dikmen Yakah Çamoğlu, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011, p. 135-148Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011
Series
At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, ISSN 1570-7113 ; 76
Keywords
blackness, Renaissance, revenge, voodoo, laughing black, blackface, stereotypes
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19422 (URN)978-90-420-3393-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2012-09-02 Created: 2012-09-02 Last updated: 2022-09-13Bibliographically approved
Fåhraeus, A. & Yakali Camoglu, D. (Eds.). (2011). Villains and Villainy: Embodiments of Evil in Literature, Popular Culture and Media. Amsterdam: Rodopi
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Villains and Villainy: Embodiments of Evil in Literature, Popular Culture and Media
2011 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This collection of essays explores the representations, incarnations and manifestations of evil when it is embodied in a particular villain or in an evil presence. All the essays contribute to showing how omnipresent yet vastly under-studied the phenomena of the villain and evil are. Together they confirm the importance of the continued study of villains and villainy in order to understand the premises behind the representations of evil, its internal localized logic, its historical contingency, and its specific conditions.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. p. 213
Series
At the interface/Probing the boundaries, Villains and Villainy, ISSN 1570-7113 ; vol. 76
Keywords
literature, popular culture, villain, evil, embodiment
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19409 (URN)978-90-420-3393-1 (ISBN)90-420-3393-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2012-09-01 Created: 2012-09-01 Last updated: 2022-09-13Bibliographically approved
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