• Previously On Battlestar Galactica: Narrative Innovation in Contemporary American Science Fiction Television 

  Ward, Matthew Douglas (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 ...
• Brand New Zealand: Media Governmentality and Affective Biopower 

  Begg, Anne Marie (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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  Re-Presenting Fear: The Slasher Remake as Cumulative Hypertext 

  Murphy, Joanna Mary (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 ...
• 'We live inside a dream': Ideology and Utopia in the Films of David Lynch 

  Cartwright, Garth (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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  The Rockumentaries, Direct Cinema, and the Politics of the 1960s 

  Stapleton, Peter James (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 ...

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