Online Film and Moving Image Studies PhD Theses

Last updated October 2, 2010

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  1. Aguilera Skvirsky, Salomé, The Price of Heaven: Remaking Politics in All That Heaven Allows, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Far From Heaven’, in The Ethnic Turn: Studies in Political Cinema from Brazil and the United States, 1960-2002, PhD Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
  2. Ahn, SooJeong, The Pusan International Film Festival 1996-2005: South Korean cinema in local, regional, and global context, PhD Thesis,  University of Nottingham, 2008
  3. Al-Qasimi, Noor,The codes of modesty: reconfiguring the Muslim female subject, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007
  4. Allen, Steven William, A pleasure in pain: contemporary mainstream cinema’s fascination with the aestheticized spectacle of the controlled body, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003
  5. Bakola, Emilia, The Paranoiacs Who Knew Too Much: Postmodern Knowledge and Hollywood Cinema, PhD Thesis, Stony Brook University, 2007
  6. Ball, Victoria, ‘Female identity and the British female ensemble drama 1995-1998′, PhD thesis. Queen Margaret University, 2007
  7. Bane, Charles, ‘Viewing Novels, Reading Films: Stanley Kubrick and the art of adaptation as interpretation, PhD e-thesis, Louisiana State University 2006 
  8. Barber, Bruce Alistair, Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death, PhD Thesis, European Graduate School, August 2005
  9. Barber, Matthew David, ‘Shooting the President: The Depiction of the American Presidency on Film and Television from John F. Kennedy to Josiah Bartlet’, PhD Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009
  10. Barron, Alexandra Lynn, ‘Postcolonial Unions: The Queer National Romance in Film and Literature’, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2005
  11. Basu, Anustup, Mantras of the Metropole: Geo-televisuality and Contemporary Indian Cinema, PhD e-thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
  12. Baumgartner, Holly Lynn, ‘Visualizing Levinas: Existence and Existents through Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Vanilla Sky’, PhD Thesis, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University, May 2005  
  13. Behlil, Melis, Home away from home: global directors of new Hollywood, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2007
  14. Biermann, B.C., Travelling philosophy: from literature to film [on A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Solaris], PhD Thesis, UvA, 2006
  15. Birchall, Bridget, ‘Patrick Dewaere and gender identity in Giscardian France (1974-1981)’, PhD thesis, University of Exeter, February 2009
  16. Birdsall, C.J., Between Noise and Silence: Sound, Technology and Urban Space during Nazi Germany, PhD Thesis, UvA (2010)
  17. Boyce, Michael William, ‘Re-imagining the War in British Film, 1945-155′, PhD Thesis, University of Manitoba, April 2007  
  18. Brown, Stuart Duncan,  ‘Uses of Laughter in the Cinematic Representation of the British Working-Class’, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, December 2007
  19. Brown, Tom, From intimate pleasures to spectacular vistas: musicality and historicity in French and American ‘classical’ cinema of the 1930s, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007
  20. Brownrigg, Mark, ‘Chapter 4: Music and the Western’, Film Music and Film Genre, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 2003
  21. Bruce, Jean Marietta, A melodramatic imagined nation : the unruly subject of Canadian cinemas, PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2003
  22. Burton, Aaron V., Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004, PhD Thesis, Bowling Green State University, May 2008
  23. Burton, James Amos, Film, History and Cultural Memory: Cinematic Representations of Vietnam-Era America during the Culture Wars, 1987-1995, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007
  24. Chan, Felicia, In Search of a Comparative Poetics: Cultural Translatability in Transnational Chinese Cinemas, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007
  25. Cherry, Brigid S. G., The female horror film audience : viewing pleasures and fan practices, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999
  26. Chong, Stephanie Chieh-Ying, The Anthropomorphization of Law: Fictional Judges and Lawyers in Contemporary North American and European Settings, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2009 
  27. Copier, L.T., Preposterous revelations: visions of apocalypse and martyrdom in Hollywood cinema 1980 – 2000, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2009
  28. Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy, Chantal, ‘Filmic Representations of the British Raj in the 1980s: Cultural Identity, Otherness and Hybridity’, PhD Thesis, Universidad de Zaragoza, March 2009
  29. Cousins, Jennie, ‘Unstitching the 1950s film à costumes: Hidden Designers, Hidden Meanings.”, PhD thesis, University of Exeter, October 2008 
  30. Cvek, Sven, 9/11: Event, Trauma, Nation, Globalization, PhD Thesis, University of Zagreb, 2009
  31. Dawson, Rebecca, And Staring as Jesus Himself: Cultural Context and Images of Christ in North American film, PhD Thesis, Bowling Green State University, August 2007  
  32. De B’béri, Boulou Ebanda, Africanicity in Black cinema : a horizontal labyrinth of trans-geographical practices of identity. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2003
  33. Dorland, Michael, The discursive economy of the emergence of the Canadian feature film : discourses of dependency and the governmentalization of a displaced national cinema, 1957-1968. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1991
  34. Drake, Philip J., Stardom after the star system: economics of performance in contemporary Hollywod cinema. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
  35. Driel, K. van, Psychology of entertainment, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2003  
  36. Ebbers, J.J., Organizational dynamics in social networks : contracts and reputations in the film industry, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2009 
  37. Edmondstone, Robert J., ‘Beyond “Brutality”: Understanding the Italian Filone’s Violent Excesses’, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
  38. Emerson, John James, The Representation of the Colonial Past in French and Australian Cinema, from 1970 to 2000, PhD Thesis, Department of French Studies and Centre for European Studies and General Linguistics, University of Adelaide, South Australia, July 2002 
  39. Farrugia, Marisa, The plight of women in Egyptian cinema (1940s 1960s), PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 2002 
  40. Felschow, Laura E., Todd Haynes: the Public, the Private, and the Performative, PhD Thesis, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, February 1, 2009
  41. Feng, Dongning, Text, politics and society : literature as political philosophy in post-Mao China, PhD Thesis,  University of Stirling, 1997
  42. Field, Emma, Only a Trickle? Blood in Detail and Three Women’s Films, PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003
  43. Flanagan, Michael, True sons of Erin: catholic/nationalist ideology and the politics of adventure in Our Boys 1914-32, PhD Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2006
  44. Forscher, Helen, Animals in the landscape :an analysis of the role of the animal image in representations of identity in selected Australian feature films from 1971 to 2001, PhD Thesis, Bond University, 2008 
  45. Fruth, Bryan Ray, Media Reception, Sexual Identity and Public Space, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, August 2007 
  46. Garel, Stefan Jack, ‘QUEER BODIES AND SETTLEMENTS: the pertinence of queer theory in the fields of queer history and trans politics, disability and ‘curative education’, quantum physics and experimental art – an interdisciplinary and transnational account of three socio-cultural and filmic research projects.’, PhD thesis, University of Exeter, March 2009
  47. Gasher, Mike, The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  48. Gillan, Mary, In the shadow of the church: Irish and Quebec cinema, PhD Thesis, Dublin City University, 2009
  49. Graham III, Paul E., Violence and the Scapegoat in American Film: 1967-1999, PhD Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, December 2002 
  50. Grist, Leighton, Authorship and context: the films of Martin Scorsese 1963-1977, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
  51. Gustafsson, Henrik, Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2007 and errata
  52. Hagener, Malte, Avant-garde culture and media strategies: the networks and discourses of the European film avant-garde, 1919-39, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2005
  53. Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold, Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema : Origins, Functions, Meanings, PhD Thesis,  Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006
  54. Hollins, Timothy John, The presentation of politics : the place of party publicity, broadcasting and film in British politics, 1918-1939, PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 1981, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
  55. Homewood, Christopher James, From Baader to Prada The Representation of Urban Terrorism in German-Language Film, PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2008
  56. Hui, Luo, ‘Chapter Four: Minor Discourses in New Peripheries’, The Ghost of Liaozhai: Pu Songling’s Ghostlore and its History of Reception, PhD Thesis,University of Toronto, 2009
  57. Isaacs, Bruce, ‘Film Cool: Towards a New Film Aesthetic’, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 2006
  58. Ivins, Jerry R., ‘The Training of Stage Actors in Film/Video Acting Techniques: An Interdisciplinary Approach’, PhD thesis, Texas Tech University, August 1993 
  59. Jeffers, Tamar, “Should I surrender?”: performing and interrogating female virginity in Hollywood films 1957-64′, PhD thesis, University of Warwick 
  60. Jenkins, Claire, Family entertainment: representations of the American family in contemporary Hollywood cinema,   PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
  61. Johnson , Catherine, Histories of telefantasy: the representation of the fantastic and the aesthetics of television. PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. 
  62. Jozajtis, Krysztof, Religion and film in American culture: the birth of a nation, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001 
  63. Kang, Kathryn Muriel, Agnostic democracy : the decentred “I” of the 1990s, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 2006
  64. Kedem, EM, The kibbutz and Israeli cinema : deterritorializing representation and ideology, PhD Thesis, UvA 2007  
  65. Keightley, Keir, Frank Sinatra, hi-fi, and formations of adult culture : gender, technology, and celebrity, 1948-62. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1996 
  66. Kim, Ju Young, Rethinking media flow under globalisation: rising Korean wave and Korean TV and film policy since 1980s. PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 2007
  67. Kristmanson, Mark, Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  68. Knuuttila, Sirkka, ‘Fictionalising Trauma: The Aesthetics of Marguerite Duras’s India Cycle’, PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2009
  69. Larbi, Addelrhaffar Bourkiba, Parody and ideology: The case of Othello, PhD Thesis, Universitat de València, 2005
  70. Lavik, Erlend, “Changing Narratives: Five Essays on Hollywood History”, PhD Thesis, University of Bergen, 2007
  71. Lee, Christina, Beyond the Pink: (Post) Youth Iconography in Cinema, PhD Thesis, Murdoch University, 2005
  72. Lehin, Barbara, Cinema and society: Thatcher’s Britain and Mitterand’s France, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003
  73. Lennon, Elaine, The screenplays of Robert Towne 1960-2000, PhD Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2009
  74. Mari, Maasilta, African Carmen. Transnational Cinema as an Arena for Cultural Contradictions, PhD Thesis, University of Tampere, 2007
  75. Marie, Laurent, The French Communist Party and French cinema 1944-1999, PhD Thesis,  University of Warwick, 2000
  76. Martin Alegre, Sara, More human than human: aspects of monstrosity in the films and novels in english of the 1980s and 1990s, PhD Thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1996, (chapters are: 1 Fascinating Bodies: The New Iconography of Monstrosity; 2 Old Monsters, New Monsters: Vision and Re-Vision From Screen Adaptation to Novelization; 3 Nostalgia for the Monster: Mythical Monsters and Freaks; 4 Evil and Monstrosity: The Moral Monster, 5 The Politics of Monstrosity: The Monsters of Power; 6: Frankenstein’s Capitalist Heirs: The Uses of Making Monsters; 7 Gendered Monstrosity: The Monstrous-Feminine and the New Woman Saviour and 8 Little Monsters?: Children and Monsters)
  77. McGill, Amy,  ‘The Contemporary Hollywood Film Soundtrack: Professional Practices and Sonic Styles Since the 1970s’, PhD thesis, University of Exeter, November 2008
  78. McKenna, Anthony T., Joseph E. Levine: showmanship, reputation and industrial practice 1945-1977, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008
  79. Meir, Christopher, Underwriting national sovereignty?: policy, the market and Scottish cinema, 1982- present, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007
  80. Morrey, Douglas, Jean-Luc Godard and the other history of cinema, PhD Thesis,  University of Warwick, 2002
  81. Murphy, Robin Marie Merrick, ‘Post-9/11 Rhetorical Theory and Composition Pedagogy: Fostering Trauma Rhetorics as Public Space, PhD Thesis, Bowling Green State University, August 2007
  82. Nagayama, Chikako, Fantasy of Empire: RI KŌRAN, Subject Positioning and the cinematic construction of space, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2009
  83. Neely, Sarah, Adapting to change in contemporary Irish and Scottish culture: fiction to film. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003
  84. Newman, Michael Z. Characterization in American Independent Cinema (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
  85. Owczarski, Kimberly Ann, ‘Batman, Time Warner, and Franchise Filmmaking in the Conglomerate Era’, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2008 
  86. Paneva, Iva, A study of female aggression as represented in Patty Jenkins’ fiction film Monster, e–PhD Thesis, University of Witswatersrand, December 2008 
  87. Parasecoli, Fabio, Food and men in cinema: an exploration of gender in blockbuster movies, Universität Hohenheim, 2009
  88. Parsons, Louise Ann, An analysis of ‘The Gold Diggers’ (1983) by Sally Potter: feminist film, Julia Kristeva and revolutionary poetics, PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 1994, Vol. 1 and Vol 2
  89. Pascoe, Caroline M., Screening Mothers: Representations of motherhood in Australian films from 1900 to 1988, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, September 1998
  90. Patrick, Martin Luther, The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities, PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009
  91. Penney, Renee, Desperately Seeking Redundancy? Queer Romantic Comedy and the Festival Audience, PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010
  92. Pidduck, Julianne, Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1997
  93. Pinsonneault, Michael, Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  94. Plessis, Judith Marie, Femininity and Authorship: Deren, Duras and Von Trotta, PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1995   
  95. Punt, M.J., Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2000
  96. Rassos, Effie, ‘Everyday Narratives: Reconsidering Filmic Temporality and Spectatorial Affect Through the Quotidian,’ PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, 2005
  97. Rauma, Sara I., ‘Reinventing the Story: Inventions in the film adaptation The Green Mile by Frank Darabont’, PhD Thesis, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLA, 2006 
  98. Rehling, Nicola, ”White Masculinity in Cross-Dressing Comedies’, All or Nothing: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Cinema, PhD Thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2005 (pp. 228-233) 
  99. Rodríguez, Juan Carlos, The Postdictatorial Documentaries of Patricio Guzmán: Chile, Obstinate Memory, The Pinochet Case, and Island of Robinson Crusoe, PhD Thesis, Duke University 2007
  100. Rossholm, Anna Sofia, Reproducing Languages, Translating Bodies : Approaches to Speech, Translation and Cultural Identity in Early European Sound Film, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006
  101. Russell, D.W., A multifaceted multi-methodological examination of the global movie industry, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2006
  102. Ryan, Trevor, Labour and the media in Britain 1929-1939: a study of the attitudes of the Labour movement towards the new media, film and radio, and of its attempts to use them for political purposes,  PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
  103. Sachdeva,Vivek, A Study of Narratology in Fiction and Film with Special Reference to The Householder and Heat and Dust, PhD Thesis, Panjab University, Chandigargh, 2007  
  104. Schilt, Thibaut, ‘Marginal Pleasure and Auteurist Cinema: the Sexual Politics of Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Breillat and François Ozon’, PhD e-thesis, Ohio State University 2005
  105. Simon, Cheryl Inez, Gender, genre and globalization: discourses of “Femininity” in the popular culture of the 1990′s. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1998
  106. Slack, Neil Graham, A cinema of white masculine crisis: race and gender in contemporary British film. PhD thesis, University of Sussex, 2010 
  107. Smith, Tim J., ‘An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing’, PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005 (see also descriptive statement here)
  108. Soles, Carter, Falling Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith, Queerness, and Contemporary Independent Film. PhD Thesis, University of Oregon, September 2008 
  109. Stanley, Alice, Representations of sexuality in the films of Francois Ozon, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
  110. Stoianova, Christina, The Eastern European crisis of self-knowledge (1948-1989) : the relationship between state and society as reflected in Eastern European film : a genre approach. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  111. Tasker, Yvonne, Spectacular bodies: gender, genre and the action cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995
  112. Thanouli, Eleftheria, Post-classical narration: a new paradigm in contemporary world cinema, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2005
  113. Thomas, David, Extraordinary Undercurrents: Australian Cinema, Genre and the Everyday. PhD Thesis, School of Media, Communication and Culture Murdoch University 2006  
  114. Tickell, Gewain Francis Henry, Homelands and the representation of cultural and political identity in selected South-Asian texts, 1857 to the present, PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 1998
  115. Tiso, Giovanni, ‘Impossible Recollections: the Troubled Imaginary of Mediated Memory’, PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006
  116. Totaro, Donato, Time and the long take in The Magnificent Ambersons, Ugetsu and Stalker, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001
  117. Vassiliou, Andrew, Analysing Film Content: A Text-Based Approach, PhD Thesis, University of Surrey, 2006
  118. Vitor Bueno, Fernanda, ‘The Myth of Camila O’Gorman in the Works of Juana Manuela Gorriti, María Luisa Bemberg and Enrique Molina’, PhD e-thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, December 2007
  119. Vojkovic, S., Subjectivity in the New Hollywood Cinema: Fathers, Sons and Other Ghosts, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2001
  120. Williams, Louise Ann, Masculinity on the run: history, nation and subjectivity in contemporary mainland Chinese cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004
  121. Williamson, Lisa E., Contentious Comedy: Negotiating Issues of Form, Content, and Representation in American Sitcoms of the Post-Network Era, PhD Thesis, The University of Glasgow
  122. Wilson, Scott A., The Politics of Insects: Discipline and Resistance in the Cinema of David Cronenberg, PhD Thesis, University of Auckland, 2007
  123. Wimmer, Leila, The French reception of British cinema, PhD Thesis,  University of Warwick, 2006
  124. Wright, Neelam Sidhar, Bollywood eclipsed : the postmodern aesthetics, scholarly appeal, and remaking of contemporary popular Indian cinema. PhD thesis, University of Sussex, 2010
  125. Yung Adam Lam, Identity, tradition and globalism in post-Cultural Revolution Chinese feature films, PhD e-thesis, The University of Auckland, 2000

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