Department of Media, Film and Communication
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Recent Deposits
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Women and Islam in Malaysia: Narrative and myth in the qualitative analysis of two controversial online news stories between 2014 and 2018
This study investigates the mythic aspects of news to highlight the role of myth in news narratives of selected Malaysian online news portals through examining the structure and content of individual reports and comparing ... -
Mimesis and Power
This thesis investigates the complicated relationship between mimesis and power. It shows how a theoretical concern with mimesis has been at the heart of critical efforts to understand and overcome the systematic and ... -
Southern screens : locating early cinema in Dunedin
This thesis sets out to investigate the development of, and the audience perspectives of, cinema during its first three decades in Dunedin. This thesis argues that the "American Model" of early cinematic development should ... -
Narratives of desperation : 'genre, gender, and Desperate Housewives
This thesis investigates the history of the term 'desperation' when applied to female film and television genres, before examining how the first series Desperate Housewives draws from and adds to this history. In addition ... -
Arletty and Jean Harlow : a comparative analysis of two film stars of the 1930s
Stardom is an important mechanism through which both national identity and gender norms are articulated. By adopting a comparative approach, this thesis investigates the intersections between film stardom, femininity and ... -
A Foot in Both Worlds: The Bicultural Audience and Film in New Zealand
This Masters thesis works as a pilot project to provide a platform for the development of bicultural audience reception research in a New Zealand context. For the purpose of this study, a “bicultural” person is defined as ...