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Rethinking Indian Cinema: Toward a Cinema of Multiplicity
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 ... -
Solid to liquid culture: The institutional, political and economic transformation of New Zealand state broadcasting
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 ... -
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 ... -
Technology Translated: The Communicational Facilitation of Medium
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 ... -
Terror Apparatuses: Power, Prosumership, and Propaganda in Islamic State Media
This thesis examines the media produced and circulated by the Islamic State (IS) through Michel Foucault’s notions of power, episteme, and apparatus. I expose the biopolitical function of IS videos End of Sykes-Picot (2014) ... -
The Age of the Superhero: The Cycle of Appropriation & Revitalisation in the Hollywood Blockbuster
Over the course of the 2000s, the Hollywood blockbuster welcomed the superhero genre into its ranks, after these films saw an explosion in popularity. Now, the ability to produce superhero films through an extended transmedia ... -
The algorithmic subject: the neo-liberal apparatus and the social media technology of power.
This thesis is a Foucauldian inspired apparatus investigation that contributes to our understanding of neo-liberalism. The thesis will show that neo-liberalism has varied and, at times, contradictory relationships with ... -
The Strategic Narratives of the BRICS: A Coherent Story?
Strategic narratives play a fundamental role in generating public support for political objectives. The formation of strategic narratives has intensified in the twenty-first century due to the pluralization of state and ... -
United States of Shondaland: Investigating the para-social contact of white audiences with Black Lives Matter
Race relations in the United States are an ongoing issue that is presented differently by different groups. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 fostered the myth of a post- racial nation, where racial inequalities no ... -
Willful women in contemporary cinema: Affect, space and affirmative aesthetics
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 ...