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• “On Your Left”: Woke Marvel and the Growing Political Divide in Post-9/11 America

  Author: Cargill, L., 1 Jan 2024

  Supervisor: Wheatley, C. (Supervisor) & Smith, I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• ‘Sex Scenes That Would Offend the Marquis de Sade’: The Queer Significance of Obscenity in William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and John Waters’ ‘Trash Trilogy’, 1959 – 1985

  Author: Arthur, K., 1 Aug 2022

  Supervisor: Turner, M. (Supervisor) & Gorfinkel, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• ‘London’s moving East’: film, television, and gentrification, 1980 to the present

  Author: Sborgi, A. V., 1 Jul 2020

  Supervisor: Shiel, M. (Supervisor) & Napper, L. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Womb Phantasies in International Horror and Extreme Cinema

  Author: Haylett Bryan, A. R., 2017

  Supervisor: Choi, J. (Supervisor) & Cooper, S. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Towards a Lyrical Cinema of Shuqing: Reconfiguring Contemporary Film Theory with Buddhist and Daoist Poetics

  Author: Fan, W., 1 Sept 2022

  Supervisor: Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor) & Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The representation of nurses in American, British and Italian feature films

  Author: Babini, E., 2016

  Supervisor: Rafferty, A. M. (Supervisor) & Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The politics of language in Algerian and Moroccan films from 1999 to 2015

  Author: Ouartsi, R., 1 Mar 2020

  Supervisor: Harrison, N. (Supervisor) & Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Plasticity of Film: Forming Images with Malabou, Dumont, Breillat and Denis

  Author: Grace, M., 1 Apr 2022

  Supervisor: Cooper, S. J. (Supervisor) & Ffrench, R. P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The Okinawan New Wave: film culture of the post-reversion Okinawan youth

  Author: Fujiki, K., 1 Apr 2017

  Supervisor: Choi, J. (Supervisor) & Betz, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The modern woman in “long” 1960s French cinema: beyond the New Wave

  Author: Miller, E., 1 Feb 2021

  Supervisor: Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor) & Vidal, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The metaphysical screen in Gilles Deleuze’s cinematic philosophy

  Author: Kent, L., 1 Aug 2020

  Supervisor: Cooper, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The idea of Europe in Contemporary European Cinema

  Author: Liz, M. V., 2012

  Supervisor: Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor) & Palmowski, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The fantastic realism of second generation Taiwan New Cinema

  Author: Hsieh, C., 1 Apr 2019

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor) & Choi, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Talk isn't cheap: word-of-mouth in contemporary Hollywood film financing, marketing, distribution, and exhibition

  Author: Hewitt, S., 1 Jul 2020

  Supervisor: Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor) & Conor, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Soho on screen: London, Bohemia and cosmopolitanism in British cinema, 1948 – 1963

  Author: Young, J., 1 Jun 2020

  Supervisor: Napper, L. (Supervisor) & Shiel, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Self-reflexivity and cinematic individuation: abject figures and viewers in contemporary Hollywood filmmaking

  Author: Crosthwait, G., 1 Jul 2019

  Supervisor: Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor) & Brown, T. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Screening Discontent: Queer Cinema and/as AIDS Activism, 1985-1997.

  Author: Mills, R., 1 May 2022

  Supervisor: Galt, R. (Supervisor) & Scheible, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Romy Schneider and transeuropean stardom: an analysis of a European star’s image and acting style

  Author: Hallet, M. A. R., 1 Jun 2019

  Supervisor: Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor) & Carter, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Resounding Silence: Jean-Luc Nancy and Listening to Global Art Cinema

  Author: Paveck, H., 1 Feb 2020

  Supervisor: Choi, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Representations of the Holocaust in Soviet cinema

  Author: Timoshkina, A., 2014

  Supervisor: Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Remembering and forgetting: women and disabled Veterans in British and American silent cinema

  Author: Hink, C., 1 Jun 2020

  Supervisor: Napper, L. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Queer Micro-Films in Digital China: Queer Tropes, Queer Feelings

  Author: Li, Q., 1 Oct 2021

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Publicness and the public in contemporary Indonesian documentary film cultures

  Author: Sasono, E., 1 Dec 2019

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Public Bodies, Private Moments: Method Acting and American Cinema in the 1950s

  Author: McDonald, P., 1997

  Supervisor: Dyer, R. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Popcorn and Post-Mortems: Death, Spectatorship and American Genre Film

  Author: Woolley, E., 1 Mar 2017

  Supervisor: Betz, M. W. (Supervisor) & Wheatley, C. A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Phantoms of the rive gauche: mortality and intersubjectivity in the films of Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker

  Author: Horner, K. A., 1 Jul 2019

  Supervisor: Cooper, S. (Supervisor) & Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Out of the past: reading Lacan and film noir

  Author: Tyrer, B., 2012

  Supervisor: Cooper, S. J. (Supervisor) & Kollias, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Meontological-Gyrational Investigation: Re-examining Film Philosophy and Aesthetics via Daoism

  Author: Liu, S., 2024

  Supervisor: Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor) & Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Laughter with Chinese Characteristics: Neoliberalisation and the PRC Comedy Film

  Author: Lai, Y. H., 1 Sept 2022

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor) & Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Lars von Trier and the prophetic voice: a comparative analysis of Lars von Trier and the old testament prophet Ezekiel

  Author: Ver Straten-Mc Sparran, R., 1 Dec 2019

  Supervisor: Quash, B. (Supervisor) & Wheatley, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Interpreting Shared Pasts: Remembering Taiwanese Idol Dramas and Taiwan Tourism in a Rising China

  Author: Li, A., 1 May 2024

  Supervisor: Reading, A. (Supervisor) & Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Harun Farocki, Media Technologist: Film as Research Instrument in the Work of Harun Farocki 1966 to 1973

  Author: Lux, L., 1 Aug 2023

  Supervisor: Brady, M. (Supervisor) & Balsom, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Gay Comics and Queer Male Alternative Comics in America: History, Conventions, and Challenges

  Author: Shamsavari, S. S., 2015

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• From the Light of Luxo: The New Worlds of the Computer-Animated Film

  Author: Holliday, C. D., 2014

  Supervisor: Pierson, M. (Supervisor) & Betz, M. W. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Film and Repertory Cinema in London from Punk to Brit Pop, 1976-1994

  Author: Smith, K., 1 Jul 2017

  Supervisor: Betz, M. (Supervisor) & Pierson, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Film and Fado in Portugal from the 1930s to the 1950s

  Author: De Melo, A., 1 Jul 2013

  Supervisor: Dyer, R. W. (Supervisor) & Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Egyptian Male Stars in Nasser’s Era

  Author: Abdelrahman, S. A., 1 Sept 2022

  Supervisor: Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor) & Vidal, B. I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Distorted Realities: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film

  Author: Rowan-Legg, S., 2014

  Supervisor: Vidal, B. I. (Supervisor) & Munoz Sempere, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Comedy and Social Change in French Cinema 1990-2010: The Rise of the Rom-com

  Author: Harrod, M., 1 May 2013

  Supervisor: Cooper, S. J. (Supervisor) & Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Cinephilia and the Politics of Time

  Author: Jurdeczka, L., 1 Jun 2023

  Supervisor: Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor) & Vidal, B. I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Cinematic Figurations of Bisexual Transgression

  Author: Engelberg, J., 1 Nov 2022

  Supervisor: Galt, R. (Supervisor) & Gorfinkel, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Challenging the generational contract: an analysis of the enfants terribles in post-war French cinema

  Author: Westling, K., 1 Dec 2020

  Supervisor: Vincendeau, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Beyond gangland?: mapping the changing genrescape in South Korean gangster film, 1990-2011

  Author: Plaice, M., 1 Aug 2019

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor) & Choi, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Animated Experientia: Aesthetics of Contemporary Experimental Animation

  Author: Husbands, L. M., 2014

  Supervisor: Pierson, M. (Supervisor) & Dyer, R. W. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Action in tranquility: sketching martial ideation in kung fu cinema

  Author: Wong, W., 2020

  Supervisor: Fan, H. L. V. (Supervisor) & Magnan-Park, A. H. J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• A Critical History of Taiwanese Independent Documentary

  Author: Chen, P., 2014

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• A Critical History of Film Technology in Maoist China: 1949-1979

  Author: Zhu, Z., 1 Mar 2022

  Supervisor: Berry, C. (Supervisor) & Edgerton, D. E. H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy