| Summary: | Title: All angels of love – A study about the representation of love in Swedish film between the period 1932-2011 Subject: Sociology Author: Penny Salomonsson The purpose of this study is to form an understanding regarding what love is in Swedish love movies from 1932 to 2011. Previous studies have shown that love has gone from being a couple thing to be about the individual. Previous studies also showing that love and intimacy are close relatives. This means that a relationship who consist of both love and intimacy is in most cases a relationship that contains reciprocity and is a relationship where both parties consider it to be love relation. Last but not least, film is a strong carrier of values and norms and is therefore a natural arena for staging popular perceptions. To study love in movies is therefore of great relevance because it can show what love has been and what it is and that can say something about our Swedish society. This study is based on a qualitative research method. The methods are narrative analysis and semiotic analysis. Narrative analysis study how specific events, messages and how things are told effect a history. A semiotic analysis is about studying signs and sign theory. Fifteen Swedish love movies were included in the study, some belong to the genre of drama and others comedy. Those genres where chosen because they are the genres that represent love the most. The theoretical perspective that the collected data is analysed through is Anthony Giddens theories about passionate love, romantic love and the pure relationship and concepts like genus, the male gaze and heteronormativity are also used. The result of this study shows that during the chosen time romantic love and passionate love are in some sense always present. In summary the portrayal of love over time in Swedish love movies has not changed drastically. All selected movies from different decades contain similar emotions. It includes the experience of finding your other half, your soulmate, a love that challenges your everyday life and a love that consist of equal emotional exchange.
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