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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...