Film Studies: Recent submissions
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Human versus where? : navigating the survival space in the 21st century American survival film
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis navigates the contents, patterns, limitations and renegotiations of the filmic survival space in 21st century American film. Defined as the audio-visual wilderness environment in which the human becomes ... -
Recovering Indian Third Cinema practice : a study of the 1970s films of Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, and Satyajit Ray
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-27) - ThesisIn this thesis I focus on the cultural politics and film practices of Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, and Satyajit Ray in the long 1960s, with the aim of recovering Indian political cinema as Third Cinema practice. I posit the ... -
The rise of grassroots voices : Chinese urban identity and independent filmmaking in the post-1989 era
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-27) - ThesisAt the beginning of the 1990s, independent Chinese fiction and documentary film works made their first step, marking the rise of Chinese Sixth Generation cinema. Faced with the dominant communist state ideology and commercial ... -
The 1950s Hindi film song : between transgression and memory
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-27) - ThesisThe thesis argues that the film songs in the 1950s, often termed the ‘golden era’ of films and film music, function as an integral narrative device of the cinema’s engagement with the national discourse and with socio-political ... -
The monsoon crush : rethinking Indian cinema's art-commerce divide in the context of transnationalism, corporatisation and liberalisation
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-22) - ThesisMy thesis identifies and establishes the Multiplex Film as a widespread paradigm in contemporary Indian Cinema, by critically examining its emergence from the post-millennium collapse of All-India and Alternative films, ...