Film Studies Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Curating film history : film museums and archives in the age of new media 

      Ingravalle, Grazia (University of St Andrews, 2017-05-11) - Thesis
      As analogue film approaches obsolescence and new modes of engaging with moving images through digital media displace traditional cinema-going practices, film archives and museums acquire increasing prominence in the cultural ...

    • In-between worlds : exploring trauma through fantasy 

      Shields, Amber (University of St Andrews, 2018) - Thesis
      While fantasy as a genre is often dismissed as frivolous and inappropriate, it is highly relevant in representing and working through trauma. The fantasy genre presents spectators with images of the unsettled and unresolved, ...

    • Mapping constellations : early cinema in the Balkans, archives and cultural memory 

      Grgić, Ana (University of St Andrews, 2016) - Thesis
      Is cinema ‘the most modern, technologically dependent and Western of all the arts’ (1995) as David Parkinson seems to suggest? My thesis addresses and problematizes this often evoked misconception on the art of cinema, ...

    • The specificity of the aesthetics of slowness in contemporary Romanian cinema 

      Popa, Emilia Diana (University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - Thesis
      Contemporary Romanian cinema, particularly in its internationally successful instances, displays formal characteristics that have often led to its being seen in terms of the so-called Slow Cinema trend in contemporary ...

    • The cinematic corpography of war : re-mapping the war film through the body 

      Rositzka, Eileen (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - Thesis
      In this thesis, I explore the ways the sensory experience of war is staged as a corporeal apprehension of space in the Hollywood war film. Placing an emphasis on films that foreground tactile, and sonic experience in combat ...