Film Studies: Recent submissions
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Cinema of exposure : female suffering and spectatorship ethics
(University of St Andrews, 2014-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis explores the intersection of phenomenological, bio-political and ethical facets of spectatorship in relation to female suffering and gendered violence in contemporary film produced in Europe (mainly drawing ... -
The modern political film : biopolitical production and cinematic subjectivity
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThis project uses Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the minor cinema to argue for a contemporary political mode of film that critiques dominant or majoritarian ideologies. I argue that these 'modern political ... -
Genre memory in the twenty-first century American war film : how post-9/11 American war cinema reinvents genre codes and notions of national identity
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06-27) - ThesisIn this thesis, I argue that twenty-first century American war films are constructed in dialogue with the past, repurposing earlier forms of war representation by evoking the visual and narrative memory of the past that ... -
Hasse Ekman : a question of authorship in a national context
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06-27) - ThesisThis thesis takes a historical approach to its subject and focuses on Swedish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The thesis argues that Swedish cinema experienced a renaissance in the 1940s, lasting approximately from 1940 to ... -
Folding cubanidad : a Deleuzian approach to contemporary Cuban cinema
(University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - ThesisIn this thesis I look at the way in which Cuban cinema of the post-Cold War period re-envisions the image of the nation through a theoretical framework of Deleuzian extraction. In particular, I refer to Deleuze's philosophy ...