Film Studies Theses: Recent submissions
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When the place speaks : an analysis of the use of venues and locations in the international film festival circuit
(2023-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines how film festival venues participate in shaping broader film cultures. It proposes an approach to studying film festivals that is founded on looking at their physical spaces instead of merely focusing ... -
The material life of world cinema : dynamics of ‘discovery’ and ‘rediscovery’ at the Cineteca di Bologna (1960-2018)
(2022-06-13) - ThesisThis thesis explores how concepts and canons of world cinema were historically and materially conditioned by European film institutions. Using the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna as a dynamic case study, it retraces the ... -
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 ...