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Bear Images: Human Performativity and Animal Touch in Grizzly Man

Novero, Cecilia (Chapter in Book, Animal Life and the Moving Image, 2015)

In Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog edits and presents footage shot by Timothy Dexter while in the company of grizzly bears. As the film states, Grizzly Man centres on the human story that unfolds in Treadwell’s videos, ...
Fan-made Time: Power and Play in the Production Paratext of The Hobbit

Gwynne, Owain (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Following the critical acclaim of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) the forums of dedicated fan website, TheOneRing.net, buzzed with rumours of a new film, an adaptation of Tolkien’s original novel, ...
Children of the Revolution: Bolan, Bowie and the Carnivalesque

Blair, Alison (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

David Bowie and Marc Bolan were two glam rock stars who, in the 1970s, presented audiences with carnivalesque ‘alternatives’ to everyday reality. As a time of crisis and transformation, the 1970s in Britain has been ...
Exploring nature as representation and young adults’ conceptualisations of nature in the user-generated online world: Nature 2.0

Elliot, Gillian (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

Urban living is now the norm around the world, nature spaces and species are declining and, it is argued, many now have little or no direct contact with nature. At the same time, people everywhere are increasingly dependent ...
China on Video: Smaller Screen Realities

Voci, Paola (Book, 2010)

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and ...
Willful women in contemporary cinema: Affect, space and affirmative aesthetics

Ceuterick, Maud (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

Under the current patriarchal status quo, women’s bodies do not have the same ‘freedom’ (and thus capability) of spatial movement and social exis- tence as bodies ‘gendered as masculine, or racialised as “white”’ (Sheller ...
Programming Parents: Care of Supernanny

Kambuta, Rebecca Mary (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

In 2004 the problem of bad parenting came to the British public’s attention in a string of reality TV programmes about unruly children, exemplified most prominently by Supernanny. Unlike first and second wave makeover ...
Multiplicities and the Subject: Rethinking a Mix-of-Attributes Approach in the Digital World

Pearson, Erika; Elliot, Gillian (Journal Article, International Journal of Communication, 2015)

It has been 30 years since Clark made his call to focus on fundamental structures of media rather than media formats (such as radio or television) and more than 10 years since Eveland proposed a mix-of-attributes approach ...
Re-examining Rural Representations in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Documentary

Ross, Jane Catherine (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2015)

Documentary film enacts a particular viewing position, which enlists spectators in what Elizabeth Cowie describes as the desire to see and know the world through its recorded sights and sounds of reality. This thesis ...
Technology Translated: The Communicational Facilitation of Medium

Paterno, David (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

Drawing upon and synthesizing findings established in select areas of social and medium ecological approaches to the study of human communication, this project advances and tests the utility of a reformed, processual model ...
Solid to liquid culture: The institutional, political and economic transformation of New Zealand state broadcasting

Reid, Donald Macgregor (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

This thesis examines the cultural development of New Zealand state broadcasting and proposes a new institutional paradigm based around the discursive potential of digital and social media. In framing the political, cultural ...
Learning for Survival, Resilience, Well-being and Continuance: An Epistemology and Pedagogy for Environmental Education/Education for Sustainability informed by Māori Culture

McKay, David John (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

The literature suggests that philosophies, worldviews and approaches of indigenous cultures may be key to an urgent shift in paradigm towards holistic ethics, attitudes, values and behaviours essential for an ecologically ...
The Cookbook: A discussion on the process, pitfalls and successes of hacking an open textbook

Pearson, Erika (Project Report, 2014)

This document represents the process and reflections on the creation and curation of an open source 'texthack' for a media studies textbook for students in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. This document is provided ...
Liberalism and Its Populist Excess: Barack Obama, the Tea Party and the Media Field

Jutel, Olivier Christian (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

The remarkable ascendancy of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America in 2008, in the shadows of the financial crisis, was in no small part due to the effective discursive response to the ideological ...
Rethinking Indian Cinema: Toward a Cinema of Multiplicity

Lenihan, Petra (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2014)

This thesis explores the ways in which cinema’s in India have articulated the idea of the Indian Nation, and presents the argument that a national cinema must be necessarily multi-faceted in nature. Nationalism and Nations ...
Communicative mobility and networked mediation in transnational lifeworlds: a case study of European expatriates in Australia

Deffner, Florian (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

Transnational lifeworlds of expatriates raise exciting questions on the use and meaning of media. Network communication, and its increased communicative connectivity, allows for a borderless communicative mobility which ...
Media Studies 101

Pearson, Erika; Taffel, Sy; Nicholls, Brett; Wengenmeir, Martina; Chin, Khin-Wee; Phillips, Hazel; Snowden, Collette; Madill, Bernard; Ross, Jane; Gallagher, Sarah; Fisher, Thelma; Kabir, Shah Nister J.; Ceuterick, Maud; Mettner, Hannah; Urbano, Massimiliana (WebsiteBook, 2014)
Documenting lives over time: How longitudinal documentaries provide a visual life course perspective

Miller Skillander, Katherine (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2014)

The term longitudinal documentary has become commonplace in film studies where it is used to describe any series of documentaries made over a long period of time; this thesis explores the origins of the word ‘longitudinal’ ...
New Zealand Media Constructions of Islam and Muslims: An Analysis of Selected Newspapers Between 2005-2006

Kabir, Shah M. Nister J. (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

This study investigates the representation of Islam and Muslims in three New Zealand newspapers—the Otago Daily Times (ODT), The Press (Press) and The New Zealand Herald (NZH)—in order to identify how Islam and Muslims are ...
Media Power, Framing and the New Zealand Press: VSM and Kim Dotcom

McMillan, Paul Andrew (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)

This thesis examines the New Zealand press, focusing on newspaper representations of two events: the instating of Voluntary Student Membership (VSM) for New Zealand tertiary institutions in 2011 and the arrest of Finnish-German ...