Film and Media Studies
Recent Deposits
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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 ... -
Soundscaping New Zealand: An Aural Perspective of a Cinematic Geography
This study is an inquiry into how New Zealand’s national cinema represents the local aural geography on-screen. It concerns itself with the cinematic geography rather than actuality. The investigation proceeds in a manner ... -
Previously On Battlestar Galactica: Narrative Innovation in Contemporary American Science Fiction Television
From the 1980s to the present, the American television industry has undergone many significant industrial and technological shifts which have enabled fundamental changes to the production and distribution of primetime ... -
Brand New Zealand: Media Governmentality and Affective Biopower
This thesis argues that in an age of brand identity and media governmentality, Brand New Zealand capitalizes on concepts of community, patriotism and nationhood to (re)frame Aotearoa New Zealand as a business enterprise, ... -
Re-Presenting Fear: The Slasher Remake as Cumulative Hypertext
This thesis argues that the slasher remake functions as a cumulative hypertext, incorporating content not only from the original film, but also the many sequels and intertexts that exist between original and remake. In ... -
'We live inside a dream': Ideology and Utopia in the Films of David Lynch
In this thesis I contribute a political reading of David Lynch’s films. To do so I employ a mode of ideological analysis that draws explicitly on the thinking of Fredric Jameson and in particular his conception of three ... -
The Rockumentaries, Direct Cinema, and the Politics of the 1960s
Monterey Pop (1968), Woodstock (1970), and Gimme Shelter (1970) are all examples of what has become known as the first wave of the rockumentary, nonfiction films that document rock musicians and musical events using the ... -
Shaping Motherhood: Representations of Pregnancy in Popular Media
Until two decades ago, pregnant bodies were absent from mainstream media types or presented primarily in a maternal context. Today, the pregnant body is ubiquitous across a broad spectrum of media forms, including Internet ... -
Representing Romance at the Movies: Passionate Love and Film Genre
This thesis analyses the way love is presented as the central storyline in cinema drawing upon genre studies and informed by sociology. It ultimately finds that there are two dominant Hollywood love stories: the first is ... -
The Postfeminist Biopic: Narrating the Lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf and Austen
This thesis explores the influence of postfeminist culture on cinematic representations of female biographies. It does so by analysing four case studies of films that represent the lives of creative women who are established ...