Great Film Studies Theses from Texas Universities

Image from Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982). You can read about this film in Chi Hyun Park's 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 it's 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 FSFF's 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 Akın's 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 Singleton's 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