Film Studies Theses: Recent submissions
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Cosmetic Japaneseness : cultural erasure and cultural performance in Japanese film exports (2000-2010)
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisSince the introduction of film to Japan in the 1890s, Japanese cinema has been continually influenced by transnational processes of film production, distribution, promotion, and reception. This has led inevitably to questions ... -
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 ...