Film Studies Theses
Focusing on the transnational and the peripheral elements of film, we develop and expand the entire realm of film scholarship. Working on areas from Deleuze to Korean cinema, from digital cinema to Eastern Europe, from transnational auteurs to documentary and activist films, and many areas in between, we promise a vibrant and engaging research environment for students and scholars.
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Recent Submissions
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Nostalgia and Chinese new waves
(2022-05-20) - ThesisThis study considers the underexplored uses of nostalgia by filmmakers from the Chinese New Waves. Over the last few decades, Svetlana Boym, Paul Grainge, and many other scholars have argued that nostalgia can be exploited ... -
An in/divisible whole : time, space, and technologies of mediation in the Musée de l'Homme
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the development of cinema as part of the broader institutional ecology of the Musée de l’Homme between the 1930s and 1960s. In particular, it asks how film was used to analyse, illustrate, promote, and ... -
‘Americanism in action’ : the 1920s epic western and Hollywood historical cinema
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis study examines the emergence of epic Western filmmaking in the late silent era. Identified by vocal Hollywood proponents and critics of filmdom morality alike as the most laudable use for the increasingly ubiquitous ... -
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 ...
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