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Browsing Department of Media, Film and Communication by Date Published
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women struggled to find a public voice amidst an oppressive patriarchal culture. Women turned to private writing forms in order to find a voice, and thus the diary and the letter ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)The opportunities that websites offer to Environmental Non Governmental Organisations (ENGOs), from information dissemination to deliberation and from service delivery to mobilisation, have led scholars to anticipate that ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)The New Brazilian Cinema (from the mid-1990s) has been celebrated as a period of re-birth for the national film industry. Not only has there been a considerable increase in film releases, but during this period, Brazilian ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)This thesis argues that the slasher remake functions as a cumulative hypertext, incorporating content not only from the original film, but also the many sequels and intertexts that exist between original and remake. In ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis argues that in an age of brand identity and media governmentality, Brand New Zealand capitalizes on concepts of community, patriotism and nationhood to (re)frame Aotearoa New Zealand as a business enterprise, ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)From the 1980s to the present, the American television industry has undergone many significant industrial and technological shifts which have enabled fundamental changes to the production and distribution of primetime ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis analyses the way love is presented as the central storyline in cinema drawing upon genre studies and informed by sociology. It ultimately finds that there are two dominant Hollywood love stories: the first is ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Until two decades ago, pregnant bodies were absent from mainstream media types or presented primarily in a maternal context. Today, the pregnant body is ubiquitous across a broad spectrum of media forms, including Internet ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis explores the influence of postfeminist culture on cinematic representations of female biographies. It does so by analysing four case studies of films that represent the lives of creative women who are established ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)In this thesis I contribute a political reading of David Lynch’s films. To do so I employ a mode of ideological analysis that draws explicitly on the thinking of Fredric Jameson and in particular his conception of three ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)Monterey Pop (1968), Woodstock (1970), and Gimme Shelter (1970) are all examples of what has become known as the first wave of the rockumentary, nonfiction films that document rock musicians and musical events using the ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2008)
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)When a woman gains a foothold as a hero, as a warrior or tough woman in popular culture, the gender order is threatened. For the warrior woman's identity to be legitimated she must perform a coherent subjectivity that ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2004)This thesis investigates the role of the music video in the construction of star image. Specifically, I examine the intertextual nature of the star images of pop stars Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. In their early ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2002)In the 1970s and 1980s New Zealand experienced significant socio-economic upheaval due in part to the global economy, economic experiments, and the gains of Māori activism. Despite the divisiveness of this period (or ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2002)This thesis examines theories of colonial stereotypes and spectatorship as they circulate in postcolonial film and media theory. Conventional approaches to the repetitive and easily reproduced characteristics of the colonial ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2002)
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