Online Film and Moving Image Studies PhD and MPhil Theses

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  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. 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
  3. Ahn, SooJeong, The Pusan International Film Festival 1996-2005: South Korean cinema in local, regional, and global context, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008
  4. Al-Qasimi, Noor,The codes of modesty: reconfiguring the Muslim female subject, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007
  5. 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
  6. Archibald, David, The Spanish Civil War in cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004
  7. Arslan, Savas, Hollywood alla Turca: A history of popular cinema in Turkey, PhD, Ohio State University, 2005
  8. Ashton, Dyrk, Using Deleuze: The Cinema Books, Film Studies and Effect, PhD, Ohio State University, 2006
  9. Bagnole, Rihab Kassatly, Imaging the Almeh : Transformation and Multiculturalization of the Eastern Dancer in Painting, Theatre, and Film, 1850-1950, PhD, Ohio State University, 2005
  10. Baker, Rosemari Elizabeth, Shklovsky in the Cinema, 1926-1932, PhD Thesis, Durham University, 2010
  11. Bakola, Emilia, The Paranoiacs Who Knew Too Much: Postmodern Knowledge and Hollywood Cinema, PhD Thesis, Stony Brook University, 2007
  12. Ball, Victoria, 'Female identity and the British female ensemble drama 1995-1998', PhD thesis. Queen Margaret University, 2007
  13. Bane, Charles, 'Viewing Novels, Reading Films: Stanley Kubrick and the art of adaptation as interpretation, PhD e-thesis, Louisiana State University 2006
  14. Barber, Bruce Alistair, Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death, PhD Thesis, European Graduate School, August 2005
  15. 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
  16. Barron, Alexandra Lynn, 'Postcolonial Unions: The Queer National Romance in Film and Literature', PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2005
  17. Basu, Anustup, Mantras of the Metropole: Geo-televisuality and Contemporary Indian Cinema, PhD e-thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
  18. 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
  19. Behlil, Melis, Home away from home: global directors of new Hollywood, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2007
  20. Bergen-Aurand, Brian K., Seeing and the Seen: Post-Phenomelogical Ethics and the Cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Maryland, 2004
  21. Berridge, Susan, Serialised sexual violence in teen television drama series, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010
  22. Bias, Rebecca H., From golden age to silver screen: French Music-Hall Cinema from 1930-1950, PhD, Ohio State University, 2005
  23. Biermann, B.C., Travelling philosophy: from literature to film [on A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Solaris], PhD Thesis, UvA, 2006
  24. Birchall, Bridget, 'Patrick Dewaere and gender identity in Giscardian France (1974-1981)', PhD thesis, University of Exeter, February 2009
  25. Birdsall, C.J., Between Noise and Silence: Sound, Technology and Urban Space during Nazi Germany, PhD Thesis, UvA (2010)
  26. Bissell, Laura, The female body, technology and performance: performing a feminist praxis. PhD thesis University of Glasgow, 2011
  27. Bourkiba Larbi, Abdelrhaffar, Parody and ideology: The case of Othello, PhD Thesis, Universitat de València, 2005
  28. Boyce, Michael William, 'Re-imagining the War in British Film, 1945-155', PhD Thesis, University of Manitoba, April 2007
  29. Bremer, Rose Mary, Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation, PhD, Ohio State University, 2004
  30. Brown, Stuart Duncan, 'Uses of Laughter in the Cinematic Representation of the British Working-Class', PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, December 2007
  31. 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
  32. Brownrigg, Mark, 'Chapter 4: Music and the Western', Film Music and Film Genre, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 2003
  33. Bruce, Jean Marietta, A melodramatic imagined nation : the unruly subject of Canadian cinemas, PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2003
  34. Burton, Aaron V., Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004, PhD Thesis, Bowling Green State University, May 2008
  35. 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
  36. Carrasco, Rocio, Of men and cyborgs: the construction of masculinity in contemporary U.S. science fiction cinema, PhD Thesis, Universidad de Huelva, 2010
  37. Chalkou, Maria, Towards the creation of 'quality' Greek national cinema in the 1960s, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
  38. Chan, Felicia, In Search of a Comparative Poetics: Cultural Translatability in Transnational Chinese Cinemas, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007
  39. Cherry, Brigid S. G., The female horror film audience : viewing pleasures and fan practices, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999
  40. 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
  41. Connelly, Marie Katheryn, The films of Martin Scorsese: A critical study, PhD, Ohio State University, 1991
  42. Conte, Carolina Siqueira, Bonds: A Theory Of Appropriation For Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice Realized In Film, PhD, Ohio State University, 2005
  43. Copier, L.T., Preposterous revelations: visions of apocalypse and martyrdom in Hollywood cinema 1980 – 2000, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2009
  44. Copsey, Dickon, Race, gender and nation : the cultural construction of identity within 1990s German cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004
  45. 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
  46. Cousins, Jennie, 'Unstitching the 1950s film à costumes: Hidden Designers, Hidden Meanings.'', PhD thesis, University of Exeter, October 2008
  47. Cvek, Sven, 9/11: Event, Trauma, Nation, Globalization, PhD Thesis, University of Zagreb, 2009
  48. 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
  49. De B'béri, Boulou Ebanda, Africanicity in Black cinema : a horizontal labyrinth of trans-geographical practices of identity, PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2003
  50. Deer, Lesley, The repetition of difference: Marginality and the films of Hal Hartley, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, 2000
  51. 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
  52. Drake, Philip J., Stardom after the star system: economics of performance in contemporary Hollywod cinema. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
  53. Driel, K. van, Psychology of entertainment, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2003
  54. Durham, Christopher Louis, Masculinity in the post-war western: John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, 2005
  55. Dymek, Mikolaj, Industrial Phantasmagoria : Subcultural Interactive Cinema Meets Mass-Cultural Media of Simulation, PhD Thesis, KTH, Sweden, 2010
  56. Ebbers, J.J., Organizational dynamics in social networks : contracts and reputations in the film industry, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2009
  57. Edmondstone, Robert J., 'Beyond “Brutality”: Understanding the Italian Filone's Violent Excesses', PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
  58. 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
  59. Farrugia, Marisa, The plight of women in Egyptian cinema (1940s 1960s), PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 2002
  60. 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
  61. Feng, Dongning, Text, politics and society : literature as political philosophy in post-Mao China, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997
  62. 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
  63. Field, Emma, Only a Trickle? Blood in Detail and Three Women's Films, PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003
  64. Fitzgerald, Louise, Negotiating lone motherhood : gender, politics and family values in contemporary popular cinema, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009
  65. 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
  66. 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
  67. Fowler, Catherine, The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995
  68. Fruth, Bryan Ray, Media Reception, Sexual Identity and Public Space, PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, August 2007
  69. Ganjaei, Sara, Representations of Iran in British documentary, 1920s–2006, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
  70. 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
  71. Gasher, Mike, The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  72. Gillan, Mary, In the shadow of the church: Irish and Quebec cinema, PhD Thesis, Dublin City University, 2009
  73. Godfrey, Sarah, (2010) Nowhere Men: Representations of Masculinity in Nineties British Cinema, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010 
  74. Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn, Alban Berg's Filmic Music: Intentions and Extensions of the Film Music Interlude in the Opera LULU, PhD Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2002 
  75. Goode, Ian, Voices of inheritance: aspects of British film and television in the 1980s and 1990s, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000
  76. 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
  77. Greenwood, Kate, Confronting the limits: Renditions of the Real in the Edge of the Construct Film, PhD Thesis, The University of Adelaide, December 2006
  78. Grist, Leighton, Authorship and context: the films of Martin Scorsese 1963-1977, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
  79. Gruner, Oliver, Public politics/personal authenticity: a tale of two sixties in Hollywood cinema, 1986-1994, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
  80. Gustafsson, Henrik, Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2007 and errata
  81. Hagener, Malte, Avant-garde culture and media strategies: the networks and discourses of the European film avant-garde, 1919-39, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2005
  82. Hall, Stefan, "You've Seen the Movie, Now Play the Game": Recoding the Cinematic in Digital Media and Virtual Culture, PhD, Ohio State University, 2011
  83. Hamilton, Jayne, Gender representation and textual strategies in the films of Pilar Miró, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, 1997
  84. Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold, Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema : Origins, Functions, Meanings, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006
  85. Heeren, Catherine Quirine van, Contemporary Indonesian film : spirits of reform and ghosts from the past, PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 2009
  86. Hibberd, Lynne A., Creative industries policy and practice. a study of BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009
  87. Hinchliffe, Alexander, Contamination and containment: representing the pathologised other in 1950s American cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010
  88. Hindrichs, Cheryl Lynn, Lyric narrative in late modernism: Virginia Woolf, H.D., Germaine Dulac, and Walter Benjamin, PhD, Ohio State University, 2006 (available from May 19, 2011)
  89. 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
  90. Homewood, Christopher James, From Baader to Prada The Representation of Urban Terrorism in German-Language Film, PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2008
  91. Horvath, Gyongyver (2010) From Sequence to Scenario : The Historiography and Theory of Visual Narration, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
  92. 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
  93. Isaacs, Bruce, 'Film Cool: Towards a New Film Aesthetic', PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 2006
  94. Ivins, Jerry R., 'The Training of Stage Actors in Film/Video Acting Techniques: An Interdisciplinary Approach', PhD thesis, Texas Tech University, August 1993
  95. Jeffers, Tamar, "Should I surrender?": performing and interrogating female virginity in Hollywood films 1957-64', PhD thesis, University of Warwick
  96. Jenkins, Claire, Family entertainment: representations of the American family in contemporary Hollywood cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
  97. Johnson , Catherine, Histories of telefantasy: the representation of the fantastic and the aesthetics of television. PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 2002
  98. 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
  99. Johnston, Derek, Genre, taste and the BBC : the origins of British television science fiction, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009
  100. Jones, Daniel O., The Soul That Thinks: Essays on Philosophy, Narrative and Symbol in the Cinema and Thought of Andrei Tarkovsky, PhD, Ohio University, 2007
  101. Joo, Chang-Yun, The interpretative positions of the audience and the invitations of television drama, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997
  102. Jozajtis, Krysztof, Religion and film in American culture: the birth of a nation, PhD Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001
  103. Kang, Kathryn Muriel, Agnostic democracy : the decentred "I" of the 1990s, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 2006
  104. Kedem, EM, The kibbutz and Israeli cinema : deterritorializing representation and ideology, PhD Thesis, UvA 2007
  105. Keightley, Keir, Frank Sinatra, hi-fi, and formations of adult culture : gender, technology, and celebrity, 1948-62. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1996
  106. 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
  107. Kim, Se Young, A Sociohistorical Contextual Analysis of the Use of Violence in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, MA thesis, Ohio State University, 2010
  108. 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
  109. 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
  110. Klevan, Andrew, Disclosure of the everyday : the undramatic achievements in narrative film, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
  111. Knuuttila, Sirkka, 'Fictionalising Trauma: The Aesthetics of Marguerite Duras’s India Cycle', PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2009
  112. Kristmanson, Mark, Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  113. Larbi, Addelrhaffar Bourkiba, Parody and ideology: The case of Othello, PhD Thesis, Universitat de València, 2005
  114. Lavik, Erlend, "Changing Narratives: Five Essays on Hollywood History", PhD Thesis, University of Bergen, 2007
  115. Lee, Christina, Beyond the Pink: (Post) Youth Iconography in Cinema, PhD Thesis, Murdoch University, 2005
  116. Lehin, Barbara, Cinema and society: Thatcher's Britain and Mitterand's France, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003
  117. Lehin, Barbara, Cinema and society: Thatcher's Britain and Mitterand's France, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003
  118. Lennon, Elaine, The screenplays of Robert Towne 1960-2000, PhD Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2009
  119. Liu, Yo-Hsin Cindy, The Examination of the Appearance and Use of French Horn in Film Scores from 1977 to 2004, DMA Thesis, Ohio State University, 2005
  120. Lourenco, Cileine I. de, Negotiating Africanness in national identity: studies in Brazilian and Cuban cinema, PhD, Ohio State University, 1998
  121. Mari, Maasilta, African Carmen. Transnational Cinema as an Arena for Cultural Contradictions, PhD Thesis, University of Tampere, 2007
  122. Marie, Laurent, The French Communist Party and French cinema 1944-1999, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000
  123. 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)
  124. Martin-Jones, David, Becoming-other in time: the Deleuzian subject in cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
  125. McGill, Amy, 'The Contemporary Hollywood Film Soundtrack: Professional Practices and Sonic Styles Since the 1970s', PhD thesis, University of Exeter, November 2008
  126. McKenna, Anthony T., Joseph E. Levine: showmanship, reputation and industrial practice 1945-1977, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008
  127. Meir, Christopher, Underwriting national sovereignty?: policy, the market and Scottish cinema, 1982- present, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007
  128. Mendez-Fiddian, Maria del Carmen, The representation of the family in Spanish cinema from 1950 to the present day, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, 1989
  129. Morrey, Douglas, Jean-Luc Godard and the other history of cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002
  130. Morris, Julia, An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010
  131. Moses, Antoinette, Constructing the real: an examination of authorship and ownership in contemporary verbatim theatre, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009
  132. Mueller, Denis, John Dewey and Documentary Narrative, PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2007
  133. 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
  134. Nagayama, Chikako, Fantasy of Empire: RI KŌRAN, Subject Positioning and the cinematic construction of space, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2009
  135. Natzén, Christopher, The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 : New and Old Technologies, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, 2010
  136. Naughten, Rebecca Claire, Spain Made Flesh: Reflections and projections of the national in contemporary Spanish stardom, 1992-2007, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, 2010
  137. Neely, Sarah, Adapting to change in contemporary Irish and Scottish culture: fiction to film. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003
  138. Newman, Michael Z. Characterization in American Independent Cinema (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
  139. Newsinger, Jack, From the grassroots: regional film policy and practice in England, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010
  140. Owczarski, Kimberly Ann, 'Batman, Time Warner, and Franchise Filmmaking in the Conglomerate Era', PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2008
  141. Paneva, Iva, A study of female aggression as represented in Patty Jenkins' fiction film Monster, e--PhD Thesis, University of Witswatersrand, December 2008
  142. Parasecoli, Fabio, Food and men in cinema: an exploration of gender in blockbuster movies, Universität Hohenheim, 2009
  143. 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
  144. Pascoe, Caroline M., Screening Mothers: Representations of motherhood in Australian films from 1900 to 1988, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, September 1998
  145. 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
  146. Penney, Renee, Desperately Seeking Redundancy? Queer Romantic Comedy and the Festival Audience, PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010
  147. Pescetelli, M., The art of not forgetting: towards a practical hermeneutics of film restoration, PhD Thesis, University College London, 2011
  148. Pidduck, Julianne, Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1997
  149. Pigott, Michael, Time and film style, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
  150. Pinsonneault, Michael, Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1999
  151. Plessis, Judith Marie, Femininity and Authorship: Deren, Duras and Von Trotta, PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1995
  152. Prince, Rob, Say Hello to My Little Friend: De Palma's Scarface, Cinema Spectatorship, and the Hip Hop Gangsta as Urban Superhero, PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2009
  153. Punt, M.J., Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2000
  154. Ragazzi, Rossella, Walking on uneven paths : the transcultural experience of migrant children in France and Ireland, PhD Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2005
  155. Rassos, Effie, 'Everyday Narratives: Reconsidering Filmic Temporality and Spectatorial Affect Through the Quotidian,' PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, 2005
  156. Rauma, Sara I., 'Reinventing the Story: Inventions in the film adaptation The Green Mile by Frank Darabont', PhD Thesis, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLA, 2006
  157. 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)
  158. Robinson, Rebecca Grace, Scottish television comedy audiences, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
  159. 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
  160. Romanczuk, Barbara L., Screening Zola’s women, PhD, Ohio State University, 2002
  161. 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
  162. Russell, D.W., A multifaceted multi-methodological examination of the global movie industry, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2006
  163. Ryan, John Edward, Ordinary people: The cinema of John Sayles, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, 1994
  164. 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
  165. 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
  166. 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
  167. Shand, Ryan John, Amateur cinema: history, theory and genre (1930-80), PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007
  168. Shields, Ryan John, Amateur cinema: history, theory and genre (1930-80), PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007
  169. Simmons, David C., The Dysphoric Style in Contemporary American Independent Cinema, PhD Thesis, Florida State University, Spring 2005
  170. Simon, Cheryl Inez, Gender, genre and globalization: discourses of "Femininity" in the popular culture of the 1990's, PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1998
  171. Slack, Neil Graham, A cinema of white masculine crisis: race and gender in contemporary British film. PhD thesis, University of Sussex, 2010
  172. Smit, Alexia Jayne, Broadcasting the body: affect, embodiment and bodily excess on contemporary television, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010
  173. Smith, Sarah, A complicitous critique: parodic transformations of cinema in moving image art, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow 2007
  174. Smith, Tim J., 'An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing', PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005 (see also descriptive statement here)
  175. Soles, Carter, Falling Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith, Queerness, and Contemporary Independent Film. PhD Thesis, University of Oregon, September 2008
  176. Sorrentino, Giuseppe, The Disappearance of the Real - Mass Media in Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy, PhD Thesis, Università degli studi Roma, 2008
  177. Stanley, Alice, Representations of sexuality in the films of Francois Ozon, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
  178. Stein, Lisa K., The Travel Narrative as Spin: Mitigating Charlie Chaplin's Public Persona in My Trip Abroad and "A Comedian sees the World", PhD, Ohio State University, 2005
  179. 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
  180. Stollery, Martin, Alternative empires : Soviet montage cinema, the British documentary movement and colonialism, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick 1994
  181. Stuart, Jamie L., The Business and Pleasure of Filmic Lesbians Performing Onstage, PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2006
  182. Tasker, Yvonne, Spectacular bodies: gender, genre and the action cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995
  183. Thanouli, Eleftheria, Post-classical narration: a new paradigm in contemporary world cinema, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2005
  184. Thomas, David, Extraordinary Undercurrents: Australian Cinema, Genre and the Everyday. PhD Thesis, School of Media, Communication and Culture Murdoch University 2006
  185. 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
  186. 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
  187. Tiso, Giovanni, 'Impossible Recollections: the Troubled Imaginary of Mediated Memory', PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006
  188. Titus, Joan Marie, Modernism, socialist realism, and identity in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich, 1929-1932, PhD, Ohio State University, 2006
  189. Totaro, Donato, Time and the long take in The Magnificent Ambersons, Ugetsu and Stalker, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001
  190. 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
  191. Vassiliou, Andrew, Analysing Film Content: A Text-Based Approach, PhD Thesis, University of Surrey, 2006
  192. Vitols, Maruta Zane, From the Personal to the Public: Juris Podnieks and Latvian Documentary Cinema, PhD, Ohio State University, 2008
  193. 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
  194. Vojkovic, S., Subjectivity in the New Hollywood Cinema: Fathers, Sons and Other Ghosts, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2001
  195. Walsh, John, A Space and Time Machine: Actuality Cinema in New York City, 1890s to c. 1905, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005
  196. Warner, Helen, ‘Perfect Fit’: Industrial Strategies, Textual Negotiations and Celebrity Culture in Fashion Television, PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010
  197. Weber-Fève, Stacey A., There's no place like home: homemaking, making home, and femininity in contemporary women's filmmaking and the literature of the MÉTROPOL and the MAGHREB, PhD, Ohio State University, 2006
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