Film and Television Studies Theses from the University of East Anglia

Image from Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987). You can read about this film in “There are a lot of things about me that aren’t what you thought”: Dirty Dancing and Women’s Liberation, Chapter Two in Oliver Gruners 2010 PhD thesis: Public politics/personal authenticity: a tale of two sixties in Hollywood cinema, 1986-1994

A quickie entry from Film Studies For Free today: a list of links to eight, excellent quality, PhD theses in film and television studies (plus a related journal article) from the University of East Anglia Digital Repository.

These links have been added to FSFFs permanent listing of links to openly accessible, English-language, online film and moving studies PhD and MPhil from repositories all over the world. The list now exceeds 200 items.

PhD Theses:

• Fitzgerald, Louise, Negotiating lone motherhood : gender, politics and family values in contemporary popular cinema, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009
• Ganjaei, Sara, Representations of Iran in British documentary, 1920s–2006, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
• Godfrey, Sarah, Nowhere Men: Representations of Masculinity in Nineties British Cinema, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
• Gruner, Oliver, Public politics/personal authenticity: a tale of two sixties in Hollywood cinema, 1986-1994, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
• Horvath, Gyongyver, From Sequence to Scenario : The Historiography and Theory of Visual Narration, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
• Johnston, Derek, Genre, taste and the BBC : the origins of British television science fiction, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009
• Moses, Antoinette, Constructing the real: an examination of authorship and ownership in contemporary verbatim theatre, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009
• Warner, Helen, ‘Perfect Fit’: Industrial Strategies, Textual Negotiations and Celebrity Culture in Fashion Television, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010

Other items:

• Snelson, Tim (2009) From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers: prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946). New Review of Film and Television Studies, 7

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Forty more film and moving image studies theses online

Frame grab from Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951), a film discussed in Andrew Klevans PhD thesis Disclosure of the Everyday

Film Studies For Free brings you its latest roundup of links to online and openly accessible film and moving image studies theses. These links (all of them to theses stored in European research repositories) will very shortly be added to FSFFs permanent listing of already more than 150 theses (the vast majority of them at PhD level, though one or two high quality MPhils are also included).

Particular highlights in this roundup, in FSFFs view, are the recent online publication of Andrew Klevans 1996 thesis Disclosure of the everyday, Catherine Fowlers The films of Chantal Akerman (1995), Martin Stollerys 1994 Alternative empires on Soviet montage cinema, the British documentary movement and colonialism, Ximena Triquells 2000 socio-semiotic approach to cinematic representations of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983),  and David Martin-Jones 2002 Becoming-other in time: the Deleuzian subject in cinema.

If any of FSFFs esteemed readers know that their own thesis is available online but not yet added to these listings, please email this blog with a link.

1. Aaltonen, Minna-Ella, Touch, taste and devour: phenomenology of film and the film experiencer in the cinema of sensations, MPhil Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011
2. Archibald, David, The Spanish Civil War in cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004
3. Baker, Rosemari Elizabeth, Shklovsky in the Cinema, 1926-1932, PhD Thesis, Durham University, 2010
4. Berridge, Susan, Serialised sexual violence in teen television drama series, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010
5. Bissell, Laura, The female body, technology and performance: performing a feminist praxis. PhD thesis University of Glasgow, 2011
6. Bourkiba Larbi, Abdelrhaffar, Parody and ideology: The case of Othello, PhD Thesis, Universitat de València, 2005
7. Carrasco, Rocio, Of men and cyborgs: the construction of masculinity in contemporary U.S. science fiction cinema, PhD Thesis, Universidad de Huelva, 2010
8. Chalkou, Maria, Towards the creation of quality Greek national cinema in the 1960s, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
9. Copsey, Dickon, Race, gender and nation : the cultural construction of identity within 1990s German cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004 
10. Dymek, Mikolaj, Industrial Phantasmagoria : Subcultural Interactive Cinema Meets Mass-Cultural Media of Simulation, PhD Thesis, KTH, Sweden, 2010
11. Ferguson, Laura E., Kicking the Vietnam syndrome? Collective memory of the Vietnam War in fictional American cinema following the 1991 Gulf War, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011 
12. Fowler, Catherine, The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995
13. Goode, Ian, Voices of inheritance: aspects of British film and television in the 1980s and 1990s, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000
14. Heeren, Catherine Quirine van, Contemporary Indonesian film : spirits of reform and ghosts from the past, PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 2009
15. Hibberd, Lynne A., Creative industries policy and practice. a study of BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009
16. Hinchliffe, Alexander, Contamination and containment: representing the pathologised other in 1950s American cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010
17. Johnston, Cristina, The use of the spoken word in contemporary French minority cinema, with specific reference to banlieue and gay cinema (1990-2000), PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005
18. Joo, Chang-Yun, The interpretative positions of the audience and the invitations of television drama, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997 
19. King, Martin S., "Running like big daft girls." A multi-method study of representations of and reflections on men and masculinities through "The Beatles", PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield 2009
20. Kiss, Robert James, The Doppelganger in Wilhelmine cinema (1895-1914) : modernity, audiences and identity in turn-of-the-century Germany, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000 
21. Klevan, Andrew, Disclosure of the everyday : the undramatic achievements in narrative film, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
22. Lehin, Barbara, Cinema and society: Thatchers Britain and Mitterands France, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003 
23. Martin-Jones, David, Becoming-other in time: the Deleuzian subject in cinema, PhD Thesis,  University of Glasgow, 2002 
24. Morris, Julia, An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema, PhD Thesis,  University of Birmingham, 2010
25. Natzén, Christopher, The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 : New and Old Technologies, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, 2010 
26. Newsinger, Jack, From the grassroots: regional film policy and practice in England, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010
27. Pescetelli, M., The art of not forgetting: towards a practical hermeneutics of film restoration, PhD Thesis, University College London, 2011 
28. Pigott, Michael, Time and film style, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
29. Ragazzi, Rossella, Walking on uneven paths : the transcultural experience of migrant children in France and Ireland, PhD Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2005
30. Robinson, Rebecca Grace, Scottish television comedy audiences, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
31. Shand, Ryan John, Amateur cinema: history, theory and genre (1930-80), PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007  
32. Shields, Ryan John, Amateur cinema: history, theory and genre (1930-80), PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007
33. Smit, Alexia Jayne, Broadcasting the body: affect, embodiment and bodily excess on contemporary television, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010
    
34. Smith, Sarah, A complicitous critique: parodic transformations of cinema in moving image art,  PhD thesis, University of Glasgow 2007
35. Sorrentino, Giuseppe, The Disappearance of the Real - Mass Media in Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy, PhD Thesis, Università degli studi Roma, 2008
36. Stollery, Martin, Alternative empires : Soviet montage cinema, the British documentary movement and colonialism, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick 1994
37. Thomas, Sarah, Face-maker : the negotiation between screen performance, extra-filmic persona and conditions of employment within the career of Peter Lorre, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008
38. Triquell, Ximena, Projecting history: a socio-semiotic approach to the representations of the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in the cinematic discourses of Argentine democracy, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000
39. Walsh, John, A Space and Time Machine: Actuality Cinema in New York City, 1890s to c. 1905, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005
40. Yam, Chi-Keung, Study of popular Hong Kong cinema from 2001 to 2004 as resource for a contextual approach to expressions of christian faith in the public realm after the reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008

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Great Film Studies Theses from Texas Universities

Image from Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982). You can read about this film in Chi Hyun Parks 2008 PhD thesis: Orientalism in U.S. cyberpunk cinema from Blade Runner to the Matrix

Film Studies For Free brings you one of its regular reports from eRepositories. This time its the turn of the institutes of higher learning located in the largest state of the contiguous U.S.A., the online theses of which are kindly and neatly hosted by the wonderful folks at the Texas Digital Repository.

Seek, and ye shall find, and FSFF did indeed seek and find some graduate work of excellent quality, and on an incredibly wide range of topics. Ye can find it linked to below.

The PhD theses, in particular, will shortly be added to FSFFs permanent listing of Online Film and Moving Image Studies PhD and MPhil Theses.

Ye all come back now! 

• Identity, place, and subversion in contemporary Mizrahi cinema in Israel by Yaron Shemer, PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2008
• The rhetoric of postcolonialism : Indian middle cinema and the middle class in the 1990s by Radharani Ray, PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2011
• Globalization and hybridity of Korean cinema : critical analysis of Korean blockbuster films by Se Hee Han, MA Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• Re-charting French space : transnationalism, travel and identity from the postcolonial banlieue to post-Wall Europe by Michael Robert Gott, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• DEFA and East European cinemas : co-productions, transnational exchange and artistic collaborations by Mariana Zaharieva Ivanova, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• The children are always watching : violence, distressed children, and signs of hope in the cinema of Michael Haneke by Adam Wyatt Tate, MA, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• Orientalism in U.S. cyberpunk cinema from Blade Runner to the Matrix by Chi Hyun Park, PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2008
• Challenging European borders : Fatih Akıns filmic visions of Europe by Berna Gueneli, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• The second wave of Chinese art film : film system, film style, and alternative film culture of the 1990s by Li Yang, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, August 2010
• Cine-animé: adaptations of realistic lighting styles by Ellen Man Ngoc Trinh, M. S. Thesis, Texas AM University, November 2005
• Prestige and prurience : the decline of the American art house and the emergence of sexploitation, 1957-1972 by Daniel Curran Metz, MA Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• Cold cuts : visions of refrigerators in United States media, 1942-1968 by Paul Alton Gansky, MA Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011
• Once upon a time in South Central Los Angeles : race, gender and narrative in John Singletons Hood trilogy by Mark Douglas Cunningham, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2010
• Sensational genres : experiencing science fiction, fantasy and horror by Lisa Marie Schmidt, PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, October 2010
• Teen films of the 1980s : genre, new Hollywood, and generation X by Elissa Helen Nelson, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011

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Glasgows Finest work by Caughie Geraghty and great e theses too

Image from The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972), a film studied in Philip Drakes PhD thesis on Hollywood performance

Its been a busy month here at Film Studies For Free, but lets end it on a high note. Todays little film and media studies links list is of salient items from Enlighten, the e-prints archive at the University of Glasgow, an institution of which FSFFs author is personally very fond, given its wonderful department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies.

This research repository houses some true Open-Access treasures by very important authorities in these disciplines, such as a recent item on film authorship by John Caughie, editor (and author of much) of Theories of Authorship, and four articles by Christine Geraghty, one of the most significant figures in British cinema and television studies. There are also some further excellent items by great, younger scholars, like Philip Drake (now a lecturer in the Film, Media, and Journalism Department at the University of Stirling).

• Stuart Duncan Brown, The subversion of sympathy in British social realism: uses of laughter in the cinematic representation of the British working-class. MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
  

• John Caughie, Authors and auteurs: the uses of theory, In: Donald, J. and Renov, M. (eds.) Handbook of Film Studies. Sage, 2007

• Philip J. Drake, Stardom after the star system: economics of performance in contemporary Hollywod cinema. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002

• Robert J. Edmonstone, Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008

• B. Franks, Constructing "The Wicker Man", Chapter 3. In Murray, J. and Stevenson, L. and Harper, S. and Franks, B. (Eds) Constructing "The Wicker Man": Film and Cultural Studies perspectives, pp. 63-78: Glasgow: University of Glasgow, Crichton Publications, 2005
  

• Christine Geraghty, Classic television: a matter of time. In: The Making and Remaking of Classic Television, 19 Mar 2009, University of Warwick.
  

• Christine Geraghty, Paris, Hollywood and Kay Kendall. In: Moseley., R. (ed.) Fashioning Film Stars : Dress, Culture, Identity. London: BFI, 2005, pp. 121-133.
  

• Christine Geraghty, The study of the soap opera. In: Wasko, J. (ed.) Companion to Television. Blackwell companions in cultural studies . Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 308-323
  

• Christine Geraghty, Continuous serial - a definition. In: Dyer, R. (ed.) Coronation Street. Television monographs (British Film Institute), 13 . London: BFI, 1981, pp. 9-26.
  

• Sarah Neely, Adapting to change in contemporary Irish and Scottish culture: fiction to film. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003
  

• L. Smith, Making history: post-historical commemorations of the past in British television, Groundings 1, 2007

• Lisa E. Williamson, Contentious Comedy: Negotiating Issues of Form, Content, and Representation in American Sitcoms of the Post-Network Era, PhD Thesis, The University of Glasgow Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies 2008
  

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Online theses on the work of Jean Luc Godard

Image from Vivre sa vie/My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

Film Studies For Free was delighted to discover that Douglas Morreys wonderful PhD thesis on the work of Jean-Luc Godard was now openly accessible online. Then, ecstatic, it found two more, highly worthwhile pieces of graduate research work on that filmmaker. The direct links are given below for your own delectation, delight, and film-educational betterment....

• Gary Elshaw, The Depiction of late 1960s Counter Culture in the 1968 Films of Jean-Luc Godard, MA e-thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, November 2000
• Douglas Morrey, Jean-Luc Godard and the other history of cinema. PhD e-thesis, University of Warwick, 2002
• Thibaut Schilt, 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
  

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