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Dissertations

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• Dissertation: " Aluminum Lesbians: Recycling Lesbian Legacy in Classical Hollywood"
• Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (English)
• Readers: Jules Gill-Peterson (English), Nancy Glazener (English), David Pettersen (French & Italian)
• Dissertation: " Process over Product: Kinesthetic Cinema, Sporting Bodies, and Media Milieux"
• Readers: Randall Halle (German), Adam Lowenstein (English), Neepa Majumdar (English)
• Dissertation: White Design: Engineering the Visualization of Race and Racism in Social Media
• Chair: Jinying Li (English) & Zachary Horton (English)
• Readers: Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Brenton Malin (Communication), Elizabeth Reich (English)
• Dissertation: From Women's Cinema to Women's Horror Cinema: Genre and Gender in the Twenty-First Century
• Chair: Adam Lowenstein (English)
• Readers: Lucy Fischer (English), Neepa Majumdar (English), David Pettersen (French & Italian)
• Dissertation: Soviet Tableau: Cinema and History under Late Socialism (1953-1985)
• Chair:  Nancy Condee  (Slavic)
• Readers:   David Birnbaum  (Slavic),   Randall Halle  (German),  Neepa Majumdar  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English),  Vladimir Padunov  (Slavic),  Dan Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Dissertation:  Cinema in Fragments: Transmediating Popular Hindi Cinema on Small Screens
• Chair: Neepa Majumdar (English)
• Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), Jinying Li (English), Aswin Punathambekar (Communication Studies, University of Michigan), Jennifer Waldron (English)
• Dissertation:  The Interstate Logic: How Networks Change the Cinematic Representation of Time and Space
• Chair:   Lucy Fischer  (English)
• Readers:  Randall Halle  (German),  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English)
• Dissertation:  "Quiet on Set!": Craft Discourse and Below-the-Line Labor in Hollywood, 1919-1985
• Chair:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English)
• Readers:  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English),   Randall Halle  (German), Dana Polan (NYU),  Dan Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Dissertation:  The Matter of Identity: Digital Media, Television, and Embodied Difference
• Chair:  Jane Feuer  (English)
• Readers:  Brenton J. Malin  (Communication), Jinying Li (English),  Jennifer Waldron  (English)
• Dissertation:  The Rehearsal for Terror: Form, Trauma, and Modern Horror
• Chair:  Marcia Landy  (English)
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Dan Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Dissertation:  FEEL IT ALL AROUND: ART MUSIC VIDEO, ART CINEMA, AND SPECTATORSHIP IN THE STREAMING ERA
• Chair:  Adam Lowenstein  (English)
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English),   Randall Halle  (German),   Dan Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Dissertation:  The Cinematic Animal: Animal Life, Technology, and the Moving Image
• Readers:  Neepa Majumdar  (English),   Adam Lowenstein  (English), Akira Lippit (Cinema & Media Studies, University of Southern California)
• Dissertation:  Sustaining Life During the AIDS Crisis: New Queer Cinema and the Biopic
• Readers:  Lucy Fischer  (English),   Randall Halle  (German),   Marcia Landy  (English)
• Dissertation: Pataphysical Networking: Virtuality, Potentiality and the Experimental Works of the Collège de 'Pataphysique, the Oulipo, and the Mouvement Panique
• Dissertation: "Everything new is born illegal." Historicisizing Rapid Migration through New Media Projects
• Chair: Randall Halle (German)
• Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), Sabine von Dirk (German), John B. Lyon (German)
• Dissertation:  Impasse in Multilingual Spaces: Politics of Language and Identity in Contemporary Francophone Contact Zones
• Chair:  David Pettersen  (French & Italian)
• Readers:  Nancy Condee  (Slavic),  Neil Doshi  (French & Italian),  Giuseppina Mecchia  (French & Italian)
• Dissertation:  Press Play: Video Games and the Ludic Quality of Aesthetic Experiences across Media
• Readers:   Randall Halle  (German), Jinying Li (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English),  Dan Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Dissertation:  Shopping the Look: Hollywood Costume Production and American Fashion Consumption, 1960-1969
• Chair:  Neepa Majumdar  (English)
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  Jane Feuer  (English),  Brenton J. Malin  (Communication)
• Dissertation:  Another Habitat for the Muses: The Poetic Investigations of Mexican Film Criticism, 1896-1968
• Readers:  Neepa Majumdar  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Joshua Lund  (University of Notre Dame)
• Dissertation:  Frame and Finitude: The Aporetic Aesthetics of Alain Resnais's Cinematic Modernism
• Co-Chairs:  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Daniel Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Readers:  Neepa Majumdar  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English)

Natalie Ryabchikova

• Dissertation: The Flying Fish: Sergei Eisenstein Abroad, 1929-1932.
• Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (Film)
• Readers: William Chase (History), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Randall Halle  (Film), Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)

Kelly Trimble

• Dissertation:  The Celebrification of Soviet Culture: State Heroes after Stalin, 2017
• Chair: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
• Readers: David Birnbaum (Slavic), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Randall Halle (German)
• Dissertation:  A Hidden Light: Judaism, Contemporary Israeli Film, and the Cinematic Experience
• ​Chair:   Lucy Fischer  (English)
• Readers:  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English), Adam Shear  (Religious Studies)
• Dissertation:  Global Russian Cinema in the Digital Age: The Films of Timur Bekmambetov
• ​Chair:   Nancy Condee  (Slavic)
• Readers:  Vladimir Padunov  (Slavic),  Randall Halle  (German),  Daniel Morgan  (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
• Dissertation:  The Flying Fish: Sergei Eisenstein Abroad, 1929-1932
• ​Chair:   Vladimir Padunov  (Slavic)
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  William Chase  (History),  Nancy Condee  (Slavic),  Randall Halle  (German)

Anne Wesserling , Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Georgia

• Dissertation: Screening Violence: Meditations on Perception in Recent Argentine Literature and Film of the Post-Dictatorship
• Chair: Daniel Balderston  (Hispanic Languages & Literature)
• Readers: John Beverley  (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Gonzalo Lamana  (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Adam Lowenstein  (English)
• Dissertation:  The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and Genre
• Readers:  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English),  David Pettersen  (French & Italian)
• Dissertation:  Unseen Femininity: Women in Japanese New Wave Cinema
• Readers:  Nancy Condee  (Slavic),  Marcia Landy  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English)
• Dissertation: Visualizing the Past: Perestroika Documentary Memory of Stalin-era
• Readers: Nancy Condee (Slavic), David J. Birnbaum  (Slavic), Jeremy Hicks  (Languages, Linguistics, Film)

Gavin M. Hicks

• Disseration: Soccer and Social Identity in Contemporary German Film and Media  
• Readers: John B. Lyon  (German), Sabine von Dirke (German), Clark Muenzer  (German), Gayle Rogers (English)
• Dissertation:  Film Dance, Female Stardom, and the Production of Gender in Popular Hindi Cinema
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English), Ranjani Mazumdar (Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Dissertation:  Overlooking the Evidence: Gender, Genre and the Female Detective in Hollywood Film and Television
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Brenton J. Malin  (Communications)

Christopher Nielsen , Educator, Institute for Health and Socioeconomic Policy/National Nurses United

• Dissertation: Narco Realism in Contemporary Mexican and Transnational Narrative, Film, and Online Media
• Chair: Juan Duchesen-Winter (Hispanic Languages & Literature)
• Readers: John Beverley (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Joshua Lund (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Giuseppina Mecchia  (French & Italian)
• Dissertation:  New Korean Cinema: Mourning to Regeneration
• Readers: Kyung Hyun Kim (East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Irvine),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English)
• Dissertation:  “Insubordinate” Looking: Consumerism, Power, Identity, and the Art of Popular (Music) Dance Movies
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Randall Halle  (German)
• Dissertation:  Sustaining Feminist Film Cultures: An Institutional History of Women Make Movies
• Readers:   Mark Lynn Anderson  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English),  Randall Halle  (German Language),  David Pettersen  (French & Italian)

Yvonne Franke , Assistant Professor of German, Midwestern State University

• Dissertation:  The Genres of Europeanization - Moving Towards the "New Heimatfilm"
• Readers: Lucy Fischer (Film), John B. Lyon (German), Sabine von Dirke (German)

Olga Kilmova ,  Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh

• Dissertation: Soviet Youth Films under Brezhnev: Watching Between the Lines
• Chair: Nancy Condee (Slavic)
• Readers: Vladimir Padunov  (Slavic), David J. Birnbaum  (Slavic), Lucy Fischer  (Communication), Alexander V. Prokhorov (Slavic)
• Dissertation:  The Toy Like Nature: On the History and Theory of Animated Motion
• Chair: Daniel Morgan
• Readers:  Marcia Landy  (English), Mark Lynn Anderson  (English), Scott Bukatman (Film & Media Studies, Stanford University)
• Dissertation:  Cinematic Occupation: Intelligibility, Queerness, and Palestine
• Readers:  Mark Lynn Anderson  (English), Troy Boone  (English), Todd Reeser (French & Italian)

Yahya Laayouni , Assistant Professor of Arabic and French, Bloomsberg University of Pennsylvania

• Dissertation: Redefining Beur Cinema: Constituting Subjectivity through Film
• Co-Chairs: Giuseppina Mecchia  (French and Italian) & Randall Halle  (German)
• Readers: Todd Reeser (French and Italian), Mohammed Bamyeh  (Sociology & Religious Studies), Neil Doshi  (French & Italian)
• Dissertation:  Image to Infinity: Rethinking Description and Detail in the Cinema
• Chair:   Marcia Landy  (English)
• Readers: Troy Boone ,  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English),  Randall Halle  (German)
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• Dissertation:  Screen Combat: Recreating World War II in American Film and Media
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English),  Randall Halle  (German)
• Dissertation:  Modern Kinesis: Motion Picture Technology, Embodiment, and Re-Playability in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Giuseppina Mecchia  (French & Italian)
• Dissertation:  Research in the Form of a Spectacle: Godard and the Cinematic Essay
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English)
• Dissertation:  Immaterial Materiality: Collecting in Live-Action Film, Animation, and Digital Games
• Readers:  Marcia Landy  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Randall Halle  (German)
• Dissertation:  Nation, Nostalgia, and Masculinity: Clinton/Spielberg/Hanks
• Readers:  Marcia Landy  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Brent Malin  (Communications)
• Dissertation:  Body Image: Fashioning the Postwar American
• Readers:  Jane Feuer  (English), Marianne Novy (English), Carol Stabile (English, University of Oregon)

Natalia Maria Ramirez-Lopez , 

• Dissertation: MARGINALIDAD Y VIOLENCIA JUVENIL EN MEDELLÍN Y BOGOTÁ: NARRATIVAS LITERARIAS Y FÍMICAS DE LOS AÑOS 80 Y 90 EN COLOMBIA
• Chair: Hermann Herlinghaus  (Latin American Literature, University of Freiburg)
• Readers: Aníbal Perez-Linán (Political Science), Bobby J. Chamberlain  (Hispanic Languages & Literature), Gerald Martin (Hispanic Languages & Literature)

Dawn Seckler , Associate Director of Development, Bridgeway Capital

• Dissertation: Engendering Genre: The Contemporary Russian Buddy Film
• Readers: David MacFadyen (University of California, Los Angeles), Lucy Fischer  (Film), Nancy Condee (Slavic)
• Dissertation:  The Ethnic Turn: Studies in Political Cinema from Brazil and the United States, 1960-2002
• Readers:  Adam Lowenstein  (English), Shalini Puri,  Neepa Majumdar  (English),  John Beverley  (Hispanic)
• Dissertation:  Acting Social: The Cinema of Mike Nichols
• Readers:  Mark Anderson  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English), David Shumway (English, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Dissertation:  Ruins and Riots: Transnational Currents in Mexican Cinema
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  John Beverly  (Hispanic)
• Dissertation:  The Word Made Cinematic: The Representation of Jesus in Cinema
• Readers: Troy Boone ,  Adam Lowenstein  (English), Vernell Lillie (Africana Studies)
• Dissertation:  Fathers of a Still-Born Past: Hindu Empire, Globality, and the Rhetoric of the Trikaal
• Readers: Paul Bové  (English), Ronald Judy  (English),  Nancy Condee  (Slavic)
• Dissertation:  Excavating the Ghetto Action Cycle (1991-1996): A Case Study for a Cycle-Based Approach to Genre Theory
• Readers:  Jane Feuer  (English),  Neepa Majumdar  (English), Paula Massood (Cinema and Media Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY)
• Dissertation:  "The World Goes One Way and We Go Another": Movement, Migration, and Myths of Irish Cinema
• Readers:  Adam Lowenstein  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English),  Nancy Condee  (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
• Dissertation:  The Writing on the Screen: Images of Text in the German Cinema from 1920-1949
• Readers: Paul Bové  (English),  Lucy Fischer  (English), Linda Shulte-Sasse (German, McAllister College)
• Dissertation:  Mantras of the Metropole: Geo-Televisuality and Contemporary Indian Cinema
• Readers: Paul Bové  (English); Eric Clarke (English);  Colin MacCabe  (English); M. Prasad (Film Theory, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad)
• Dissertation:  Hollywood Youth Narratives and the Family Values Campaign 1980-1992
• Readers: Troy Boone  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English), Carol Stabile (Communications)
• Dissertation:  Reading Scars: Circumcision as Textual Trope
• Chair: Philip Smith  (English)
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English), Mariolina Salvatori, Greg Goekjian (Portland State University)
• Dissertation:  Dreaming in Crisis: Angels and the Allegorical Imagination in Postwar America
• Chair:  Colin MacCabe  (English)
• Readers: Ronald Judy  (English), Jonathan Arac ,  Nancy Condee  (Slavic)
• Dissertation:  Laying Down the Rules: The American Sports Film Genre From 1872 to 1960
• Readers:  Jane Feuer  (English), Moya Luckett, Carol Stabile (Communications)

Elena Prokhorova

• Dissertation: Fragmented Mythologies: Soviet TV Series of the 1970s
• Readers: Carol Stabile (Communications), Jane Feuer (English and Film), Martin Votruba (Slavic), Nancy Condee (Slavic)
• Dissertation:  Nickels and Dimes: The Movies in a Rampantly American City, 1914-1923
• Readers: Moya Luckett,  Jane Feuer , Gregory Waller (University of Kentucky)
• Dissertation:  As Far As Anyone Knows: Fetishism and the Anti-Televisual Paradoxes of Film Noir
• Readers: Valerie Krips, James Knapp, Henry Krips (Communications)

Alexander Prokhorov , Associate Professor, College of William and Mary

• Dissertation: Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Tropes in Thaw Culture
• Chair: Helena Goscilo (Slavic)
• Readers: Lucy Fischer (Film), Mark Altshuller (Slavic), Nancy Condee (Slavic), Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)
• Dissertation:  “Dig If You Will The Picture”: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
• Chair:   Marcia Landy  (English)
• Readers: Paul Bové  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English), Amy Villarejo (Cornell), Wahneema Lubiano (Duke)
• Dissertation:   French Film Criticism, Authorship, and National Culture in the Mirror of John Cassavetes’s Body, His Life, His Work
• Readers:   Marcia Landy  (English), James Knapp
• Dissertation:  In The Shadow of His Language: Language and Feminine Subjectivity in the Cinema
• Chair:   Colin MacCabe  (English)
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English), Lynn Emanuel, Patrizia Lombardo (French and Italian)
• Dissertation:  Being In Control: The Ending Of The Information Age
• Chair: Paul Bové  (English)
• Readers: Jonathan Arac ,  Marcia Landy , Carol Stabile (Communications)
• Dissertation:  The Emergence of Date Rape: Feminism, Theory, Institutional Discourse, and Popular Culture
• Readers: Nancy Glazener  (English),   Lucy Fischer  (English), Carol A. Stabile (Communications)
• Dissertation:  Gender and the Politics and Practices of Representation in Contemporary British Cinema
• Readers: James Knapp,  Marcia Landy  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English), Sabine Hake (German)
• Dissertation:  Telling the Story of AIDS in Popular Culture
• Chair:   Jane Feuer  (English)
• Readers: Eric Clarke (English),  Marcia Landy  (English), Danae Clark (Communications)
• Dissertation:  Technology, the Natural and the Other: The Case of Childbirth Representations in Contemporary Popular Culture
• Readers:  Marcia Landy  (English), Dana Polan, Iris M. Young (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh)
• Dissertation:  Lesbian Rule:  Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
• Readers: Paul Bové  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English), Gayatri Spivak (Columbia)
• Dissertation:  Feminism, Postmodernism, and Science Fiction: Gender and Ways of Thinking Otherwise
• Chair:  Philip Smith
• Readers:  Marica Landy  (English),  Lucy Fischer  (English), Dana Polan, Tamara Horowitz (Philosophy)
• Dissertation:  Camp and the Question of Value
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English), Eric Clarke (English), Janet Staiger (University of Texas–Austin)
• Dissertation:  Culture in a State of Crisis:  A Historical Construction in Cinematic Ideology in India, 1919-75
• Readers: Paul Bové  (English),  Colin MacCabe  (English), Keya Ganguly (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Dissertation:  The Ethics of Transgression: Criticism and Cultural Marginality
• Chair: Paul Bove  (English)
• Readers:   Lucy Fischer  (English),  Marcia Landy  (English), Dana Pollan, Danae Clarke
• Dissertation:  Sally Bowles: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Politics of Looking
• Readers:  Marcia Landy  (English), Dana Polan, Sabine Hake (German)

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Dissertations and career paths.

Eliot Bessette Dissertation: “Thinking Through Fear in Film and Haunts”

Alexandra Bush Dissertation: “Cold Storage: A Media History of the Glacier”

Jennifer Blaylock Research Associate in Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College Dissertation: “Media/Fetish: A Postcolonial Archaeology of New Media and Africa”

Dolores McElroy Lecturer, UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media Dissertation: “Passionate Failures: The Diva Onscreen”

Justin Vaccaro

Dissertation: “Human Sciences, Human Monsters: the SF-Horror Film from the 1930s to 1960s”

Fareed Ben-Youssef

Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow, NYU-Shanghai Dissertation: “Visions of Power: Violence, the Law and the Post-9/11 Genre Film”

Patrick Ellis

Brittain Fellow, Georgia Tech University  Dissertation: “Aeroscopics: Spectacles of the Bird’s-Eye View”

Jennifer Pranolo

Center for Humanistic Inquiry Fellow, Amherst College  Dissertation: “Studio/World: Photography’s Other Nature”

Robert Alford

Assistant Director, Donor Relations at UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture  Dissertation:“’To Know the Words to the Music’: Spatial Circulation, Queer Discourse and the Musical”

Christopher Goetz

Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa  Dissertation: “At Home Everywhere: Empowerment Fantasies in the Domestication of Videogames”

Kristen Loutensock

Dissertation: “Genre Disorder: Autism and Narrative in American Popular Culture”

Nicholas Baer

Assistant Professor of Film Studies, University of Groeningen Dissertation: “Absolute Relativity: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism”

Irene Chien

Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg College  Dissertation: “Programmed Moves: Race and Embodiment in Fighting and Dancing Videogames”

Jonathan Haynes

Dissertation : “The Mid-Atlantic : Fantasmatic Genealogies of the French and American New Waves”

George Larkin

Chair of Filmmaking, Associate Professor, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA Dissertation: “Post-Production: The Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking”

Irina Leimbacher

Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Keene State College  Dissertation: “More Than Talking Heads: Nonfiction Testimony and Cinematic Form”

Erica Levin

Assistant Professor of History of Art, Ohio State University  Dissertation: “Social Media: The News in Experimental Film, Video Art, and Performance after 1960”

Kevin Wynter

Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College  Dissertation : “Feeling Absence: Horror in Cinema from Post War to Post-Wall”

Kris Fallon

Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, University of California, Davis  Dissertation: “Where Truth Lies: Political Documentary Film & Digital Media, 2000-2010”

Dissertation: “The Initimacy of Distance: South Korean Cinema and the Conditions of Capitalist Individuation”

Rielle Navitski

Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Georgia  Dissertation: “Sensationalism, Cinema and the Popular Press in Mexico and Brazil, 1905-1930”

Damon Young

Assistant Professor of Film and Media and French, University of California, Berkeley  Dissertation: “Making Sex Public: Cinema and the Liberal Social Body”

Laura Horak

Associate Professor of Film Studies, Carleton University  Dissertation: “Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women and the Legitimation of American Silent Cinema”

Jennifer Malkowski

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Smith College  Dissertation: “‘Dying in Full Detail’: Mortality and Duration in Digital Documentary”

Scott Ferguson

Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of South Florida  Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity  Dissertation: “Recapitulation in close-up: Ontogeny, phylogeny, and the face of evolutionary time”

Meredith Hoy

Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory, Arizona State University  Dissertation: “From Point to Pixel: A Genealogy of Digital Aesthetics”

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of South Florida  Dissertation: “‘Passionate Detachment’: Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967 – 1974”

Associate Professor, Media and Communications, Muhlenberg College  Dissertation: “Traveling spectators: Cinema, geography, and multiculturalism in late twentieth-century America”

Douglas Cunningham

Adjunct Professor, Professor of Humanities, BYU  Adjunct Professor of Film and Media, University of Utah  Dissertation: “Imagining Air Force identity: Masculinity, aeriality, and the films of the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit”

Tung-hui Hu

Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows, and Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 2009-2012  Dissertation: “Seeing Emptiness: Berlin, Nevada, and the Space of New Media”

Anupama Kapse

Associate Professor of Film Studies, Loyola Marymount University  Film and Media Studies, Queens College, City University of New York  Dissertation: “The moving image: melodrama and early Indian cinema 1913-1939”

Associate Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University Dissertation: “Life and death in the cinema of Weimar Germany, 1919-1924”

Hoang Tan Nguyen

Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, UC San Diego  Dissertation: “A view from the bottom: Asian American masculinity and sexual representation”

Scott Combs

Associate Professor of English, St. John’s University in Queens, New York City  Dissertation: “Final touches: Registering death in American cinema”

Minette Hillyer

Lecturer, Department of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand  Dissertation : “Making home: Film and the modern American everyday”

Ara Osterweil

Assistant Professor, Department of English, McGill University  Dissertation: “Flesh cinema: The corporeal avant-garde 1959-1979”

Guo-Juin Hong

Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Director, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image; Academic Director, Duke in LA Program; Duke University Dissertation: “Cinematograph of history: Post/colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai and new Taiwanese cinema since 1982”

Maria St John

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco; Chair, Feminist Psychology Program, New College Graduate Psychiatry Program  Dissertation: “The mammy fantasy: Psychoanalysis, race, and the ideology of absolute maternity”

Frank Wilderson

Professor, African-American Studies and Drama, UC Irvine  Dissertation: “Settler, ‘savage’, slave : cinema and the structure of U.S. antagonisms”

Dissertation: “Acoustic graffiti: The rock soundtrack in contemporary American cinema”

Domietta Torlasco

Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University  Dissertation: “Undoing the scene of the crime: Time and vision in Italian cinema”

Lecturer, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara  Dissertation: “Beowulf in Hollywood: Popular Film as Folktale and Legend”

Catherine Zimmer

Associate Professor of English, Pace University  Dissertation : “Film on film: Self-reflexivity and moving image technology”

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Designated Emphasis

Juan Ospina Leon (Spanish and Portuguese, 2015)

Asst. Professor of Hispanic Studies, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, The Catholic University of America

Todd Barnes (Rhetoric, 2010)

Associate Professor of Literature, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Mona El-Sherif (Political Science, 2010)

Assistant Professor of Arabic, Colorado College

David Pettersen (French, 2008)

Associate Professor of Film Studies, and French Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh

Elisabeth Anker (Political Science, 2007)

Associate Professor, American Studies, George Washington University

Zeynep Gürsel (Anthropology, 2007)

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College

June Hwang (German, 2007)

Associate Professor of German, University of Rochester

Rani Neutill (Ethnic Studies, 2007)

Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature

Polina Barskova (Slavic, 2006)

Associate Professor of Russian Literature; Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies Faculty, Hampshire College

Jane McGonigal (Performance Studies, 2006)

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Christopher Oscarson (Scandinavian, 2006)

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Film Studies Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Film Studies, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

The Rise of Marvel and DC's Transmedia Superheroes: Comic Book Adaptations, Fanboy Auteurs, and Guiding Fan Reception , Alex Brundige

Contemporary French Queer Cinema: Explicit Sex and the Politics of Normalization , Joanna K. Smith

Rob Zombie, the Brand: Crafting the Convergence-Era Horror Auteur , Ryan Stam

Transnational Monsters: Navigating Identity and Intertextuality in the Films of Guillermo del Toro , Sean M. Volk

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom: Modernist Moods of "West Side Story" , Andrew M. Falcao

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Music, Cinema and the Representation of Africa , Natasha Callender

Clash of the Industry Titans: Marvel, DC and the Battle for Market Dominance , Caitlin Foster

The New French Extremity: Bruno Dumont and Gaspar Noé, France's Contemporary Zeitgeist , Timothy J. Nicodemo

'Subbed-Titles': Hollywood, the Art House Market and the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the Oscars , Kyle W. J. Tabbernor

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Fighting, Screaming, and Laughing for an Audience: Stars, Genres, and the Question of Constructing a Popular Anglophone Canadian Cinema in the Twenty First Century , Sean C. Fitzpatrick

New York Beat: Collaborative Video and Filmmaking in The Lower East Side and the South Bronx from 1977-1984 , Andrew G. Hicks

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The graduate program in film and media studies.

Inaugurated in 2002, Yale’s doctoral Program in Film and Media Studies quickly achieved the international stature it enjoys today. Building on a core faculty that had long overseen an impressive undergraduate major, the graduate program attracted incoming faculty who were eager to help shape it. The quality of the students who have applied has been superior, and the large majority of those selected have chosen to study here. Fifty students have completed, or are in the midst of, their degrees. Our alumni hold positions at a range of institutions, including universities with major graduate programs, and several have already seen their revised dissertations published as books by important presses. 

Graduate students have been able to produce such significant research thanks not least to Yale’s unparalleled resources.  Specialized librarians and curators keep our students in mind as they collect and make available the massive amounts of material held by the Sterling Memorial Library, the Haas library in the History of Art, and especially the Beinecke rare book library that houses the archives of hundreds of filmmakers, writers, and artists.  Two of America’s great art museums, The Yale University Art Gallery and the British Art Center (with buildings designed by Louis Kahn), retain a continuing relation with our graduate students.  As for primary material in our field,  the Yale Film Archive is home to a growing collection of 35mm and 16mm film prints, and is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). The Archive also oversees a large circulating library of DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS tapes.

A dedicated, expert projectionist oversees hundreds of screenings each year, mainly in two spaces (the auditorium of 250 in our building and a projection room holding 40 on York Street) that are equipped for 35mm, 16mm, and virtually all video formats. 4K and 2K projections are common.

Graduate students absorb and generate the energy and enthusiasm so important to dynamic film scholarship thanks to the bustling intellectual climate at the Humanities Quadrangle, where faculty and students meet continually—almost daily it seems—around screenings, lectures, conferences and workshops, some initiated by the graduate students themselves. 

By design the doctorate in Film and Media Studies at Yale is always undertaken in combination with one of ten other disciplines in the Humanities (African-American Studies, American Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, French, German, History of Art, Italian, Slavic Languages and Literatures).   It was thought, and has proven true, that upon completing their degrees, students who are prepared for positions in both Film and Media and in another discipline would hold a particular advantage, and not merely because of the wider range of openings available to them in the job market, but because the calculated interdisciplinarity of their research makes them stand out. Thoroughly grounded in Film and Media Studies, they become expert in certain of its issues by offering authoritative perspectives and methods that derive from systematic work with the outstanding faculty and graduate students in another Yale department or program. Our students are welcomed throughout the Humanities on campus as they enliven traditional disciplines with the images, sounds, and ideas they bring from Film and Media Studies.

The faculty and its curriculum represent a full range of topics that have been at the center of Film Studies from its outset: theory, criticism, and history, plus cultural approaches to American, European, Latin American and Japanese national cinemas.  Naturally, as the field and its discipline evolve, so too do we, though always keeping ourselves based in this tradition. Transnational and global approaches bring the national cinemas, and their specialists, into productive contact. Overarching concerns involving technological, aesthetic, social and cultural issues (especially race and gender), have developed to the point that in 2015 the Program added “Media” to its name and mission. FMS, as our Program is now called for short, officially embraces images and sounds from an array of sources and channels, especially as these coexist and intertwine with cinema, something that has occurred throughout its long history.  We study that history as well as the challenge and possibilities of “new media,” which we know to be on the minds of graduate students. This keeps Yale’s Program vigilant as it looks to the past for cues about ways to best approach the future. The faculty recognizes that graduate students must be in the lead of an evolving discipline, and so encourages them to take up the most current developments and debates. The goal of the Program’s pedagogy is to provide its current students with a steady anchor in what the discipline has been, so that they can confidently and creatively participate at the highest level in its discourse and institutions, leading it forward while passing continuing its legacy.

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Film Dissertation Topics (28 Examples) For Research Ideas

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The discipline of film studies in the world of academia is linked with the critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to films. A list of film dissertation topics is developed to help students in choosing the right topic for their thesis, research project, and dissertation. Choosing a topic from the list of film dissertation topics can […]

The discipline of film studies in the world of academia is linked with the critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to films. A list of film dissertation topics is developed to help students in choosing the right topic for their thesis, research project, and dissertation. Choosing a topic from the list of film dissertation topics can help in gaining a fascinating experience of research.

The project topics on films and research topics on films are developed to help students in finding a topic according to their area of interest. We have a team of highly experienced and professional writers who can help you in writing proposals and dissertations on your selected film dissertation topic.

List of Film dissertation topics

An analysis and comparison of the most popular genres of cinema in the world today.

To compare the commercial cinema and non-commercial cinema – A literature review.

Studying the role of marketing in the Chinese and Japanese film industry.

Examining the cinema and film culture in the Middle East.

An analysis of the perceptions of youngsters on horror films.

Exploring the concept of special effects in silent movies.

Creative translation and cultural transformation impact on the film adaptation.

How has the digital revolution influenced the film and cinema industry?

An empirical analysis of music and soundtracks in films.

Exploring the diverse film elements and pedagogical feasibilities for creative writing.

An analysis of film education as a multiplicity of practices.

Evaluating the evolution of music in the film – a comparative review.

Studying the evolution of urban film making.

How are technological advancements contributing to the film industry?

An analysis of the importance of a Character in a film.

Studying the landscape of Eastern film making.

Exploring the relationship between literature and film.

What are the special aspects of film making and how it influences the different people involved in the process?.

Why is violence in commercial cinema overrated?

An analysis of participatory film production a media practice.

Exploring the role of women in film – cultural impact on the changing discourse on gender representation in films.

A sentiment analysis on IMDb movie reviews using hybrid feature extraction model..

Irony, interpretation, and surface meanings in the film.

A literature review on the evolution of television and film industry.

Studying the art of handmade movie hoardings in Pakistan.

To study the effects of protectionism on film industry taking the case of Korea.

An analysis of Hollywood’s film localization efforts.

A comparative review of Hollywood with other countries film industry.

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Theses and dissertations are a key source for finding the latest scholarship, additional material such as data sets, and detailed research. They can also help you find out what has been written on a topic, uncover other sources through citations, and get inspiration for your own research project. Use the resources below to search for PhD theses from universities in the UK and abroad. If you're a PhD student yourself, you can use the resources to make sure that your topic hasn't already been written about by other doctoral students.   

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The Library received all Ph.D. and M.Phil. theses and M.Sc. (Regulation 3.5.) theses up to 30 September 2016. Theses submitted after this date are kept in the University of Essex Research Repository . We do not normally hold dissertations and theses connected with other degrees - the exception being LL.Ms. All of our theses are kept in Store and can only be consulted in the library - you'll need to use the online store request form or fill in a form at the library helpdesk to request them.

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• ProQuest dissertations and theses ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses. Note: Full text for certain publications is subject to market availability more... less... Shibboleth login

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We have a range of online resources to help plan, write and finish your dissertation. Although this is aimed primarily at 3rd Year Undergraduates and Postgraduate Taught students, it contains information that can be useful to Postgraduate Research Students.

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• Starting Your Dissertation (Video) 46 minutes This webinar recording will help you with the early stages of planning, researching and writing your dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Understand the challenges and opportunities of writing a dissertation --Move towards refining your subject and title --Know what steps to take to progress with your dissertation
• Writing Your Dissertation (Video) 52 minutes This webinar recording will help guide you through the middle stages of writing your dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Identify the key parts of a high quality dissertation --Understand how to structure your dissertation effectively --Know how to increase the fluency and strength of your argument across an extended piece of writing 
• Finishing Your Dissertation (Video) 59 minutes This webinar recording aims to guide you through the final stages of writing your dissertation. By the end you should be able to: --Identify key features that should be included in your dissertation --Know how to ensure your dissertation has a strong and cohesive structure --Proofread your work.
• Using Word to Format Long Documents (Video) 1 hour and 22 minutes A video tutorial on how to format long documents such as Essays and Dissertations using Word. By the end you should be able to: --Create a Table of Contents --Know how to insert page numbers --Be familiar with how to use the various auto-formatting and styles functions to manage longer documents

A selection of external sources that would be of particular use to 3rd Year Undergraduate students and Postgraduate students. 

Please note that the Library does not hold Undergraduate or Masters Dissertations. For information on print and online doctoral theses please see below information on University of Roehampton Thesis Collection

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• Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,153,410 theses and dissertations.

The university holds a selection of theses and master dissertations awarded by the University of Roehampton.

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Film Dissertation

Module overview.

The dissertation is an extended piece of work of 8,000 words in length which is the result of an in-depth study of an area of film studies. The subject matter could be a movement, a director, a studio or production company, a national cinema, genre or theoretical issue. It should not replicate assessed work in the other final year module.

Linked modules

FILM1001 or FILM2006 or FILM1027 or FILM1020

Aims and Objectives

Learning outcomes, knowledge and understanding.

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• a chosen area of investigation which reflects and embodies your own particular expertise and enthusiasm
• how rigorous intellectual inquiry within a relatively narrow field of study can nevertheless inform and enhance a wider engagement with one or more constituent disciplines
• relevant theoretical approaches applicable to your chosen area of study

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• employ the appropriate use of web-based research and display general competence in using electronic research methods and data
• engage in interpretation and critical commentary in order to develop at length a chosen line of argument.
• where appropriate, develop relevant empirical research techniques
• employ general research skills such as information retrieval and library searches

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

• craft a structured and fully developed exposition of those same conclusions
• make relevant connections between different critical methodologies and use, where appropriate, interdisciplinary modes of approaching the subject
• analyse, evaluate and synthesise primary and secondary sources
• organize your ideas in a systematic and fully developed fashion
• arrive at a series of informed and nuanced conclusions as a consequence of sustained inquiry and reflection
• demonstrate originality of thought and approach, moving beyond a simple synthesis of secondary materials
• engage with critical debate through sustained argument over an extended piece of work

The dissertation is an extended piece of work, usually divided into chapters and amounting to 8000 words in length. The topic and content are determined by you. The module provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate how much you have learnt and acquired in years one and two of your degree programme. It will enable you to develop in depth an area of study of your own choice, however, the topic will be chosen in consultation with a member of the Film Studies teaching staff.

The dissertation must conform to the guidelines with respect to format, house style and referencing as laid down in the programme handbook. The final draft must have a clear structure and the standard of written English must demonstrate your familiarity with the basic principles of grammar, punctuation and sentence construction. The ability to communicate in a clear, coherent, and attractive fashion will enhance the overall quality of the dissertation.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods.

Teaching methods include

• one-to-one supervision with your tutor
• a series of workshops and seminars on a range of topics related to the preparation for and writing of the dissertation

Learning activities include

• engaging in genuinely independent learning through gathering, assimilating, synthesising, and interpreting information pertinent to your chosen topic of inquiry

R. Berry (2000). The Research Project: How to Write It . Routledge.

R Preece (1994). Starting Research: An Introduction to Academic Research and Dissertation Writing . Cassell.

T. Bowell and G Kemp (2001). Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide . Routledge.

S Stein (1999). Learning, Teaching and Researching on the Internet . Longman.

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

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• Every day I’m completely immersed in an environment that’s creative in all aspects
• Everything I learn feels so relevant, even If it’s a subject rooted in the past
• Maritime engineering
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FacebookXEmailWhatsAppRedditPinterestLinkedInChoosing research topics can often be daunting for students embarking on the challenging yet intellectually rewarding journey of crafting a thesis or dissertation in the field of Film Studies. Whether you are an undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral candidate, pursuing an engaging and meaningful research topic is paramount. As an academic discipline, film studies offers a […]

Choosing research topics can often be daunting for students embarking on the challenging yet intellectually rewarding journey of crafting a thesis or dissertation in the field of Film Studies. Whether you are an undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral candidate, pursuing an engaging and meaningful research topic is paramount. As an academic discipline, film studies offers a vast and ever-evolving landscape of subjects to explore, from analyzing cinematic techniques to examining cultural and societal influences on film production. In this blog post, we aim to provide you with a comprehensive guide to various degree levels, presenting a diverse array of Film Studies research topics that can inspire and guide your academic endeavors.

Film Studies, often called Cinema Studies or Film Analysis, is an academic discipline that involves the critical examination, analysis, and interpretation of motion pictures as a form of art, culture, and communication. It encompasses exploring cinematic techniques, history, aesthetics, and the societal impact of films.

A List Of Potential Research Topics In Film Studies:

• Investigating the role of film criticism in shaping audience perceptions.
• Examining the representation of LGBTQ+ characters in contemporary cinema.
• Investigating the evolution of film distribution channels in the digital age.
• Assessing the impact of political ideologies on propaganda films.
• Examining the use of virtual reality in immersive filmmaking experiences.
• Analyzing the portrayal of war and conflict in war documentaries.
• Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on the production and reception of documentary films.
• Exploring the depiction of addiction and substance abuse in cinema.
• Examining the future directions and emerging trends in the field of film studies.
• Assessing the role of humor and satire in political cinema.
• Assessing the influence of cultural stereotypes in international co-productions.
• Examining the influence of Brexit on the UK film industry and its international collaborations.
• Investigating the role of British film funding bodies in supporting diverse and inclusive filmmaking.
• Investigating the influence of globalization on international cinema.
• Exploring the portrayal of regional identities in British cinema and its connection to Brexit.
• Analyzing the representation of British identity in post-Brexit cinema.
• Examining the impact of celebrity culture on film promotion.
• Exploring the influence of cinema on cultural identity in contemporary society.
• Analyzing the cultural significance of British costume dramas in contemporary cinema.
• Examining the evolution of gender representation in superhero films.
• Investigating the portrayal of surveillance and privacy in dystopian films.
• Investigating the role of nostalgia and comfort viewing in film consumption during and after the pandemic.
• Assessing the role of film festivals in promoting independent cinema.
• Exploring the intersection of public health and cinematic storytelling after COVID-19.
• Assessing the portrayal of historical events in biographical films.
• Investigating the role of film archives and preservation in advancing film studies research.
• Investigating the representation of mental illness in horror films.
• Examining the influence of post-truth politics on documentary filmmaking.
• Analyzing the use of special effects in creating cinematic spectacle.
• Investigating the impact of digital technology on the field of film studies and criticism.
• Evaluating film marketing and promotion dynamics in the digital age post-COVID.
• Exploring the aesthetics of film adaptations of graphic novels.
• Investigating the role of location and setting in cinematic storytelling.
• Studying the role of film festivals in promoting British cinema on the international stage.
• Examining the use of animation in conveying complex narratives.
• Examining the representation of disability in mainstream cinema.
• Exploring the cultural significance of iconic film soundtracks.
• Examining the role of film archiving in preserving cultural heritage.
• Studying the relationship between film and other art forms, such as literature and visual arts.
• Investigating the intersection of politics and British cinema in the context of Brexit.
• Evaluating the relevance of auteur theory in contemporary film analysis.
• Exploring the influence of surrealism on cinematic aesthetics.
• Exploring the intersection of technology and storytelling in science fiction films.
• Assessing the portrayal of aging and mortality in cinema.
• Examining the portrayal of migration and displacement in international films.
• Examining the representation of immigration and multiculturalism in recent UK films.
• Analyzing the influence of auteur directors on cinematic aesthetics.
• Investigating the portrayal of public health crises in contemporary cinema after the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Examining the influence of literature on film adaptation.
• Investigating the representation of indigenous cultures in cinema.
• Investigating the aesthetics of film noir in contemporary cinema.
• Examining the representation of isolation and social distancing in post-pandemic films.
• Assessing the influence of postmodernism on narrative structures in film.
• Analyzing the representation of AI and robotics in science fiction films.
• Analyzing the portrayal of racial diversity in Hollywood blockbusters.
• Assessing the influence of COVID-19 on film festivals and their adaptation to virtual formats.
• Exploring the intersection of gender studies and film studies in contemporary research.
• Conducting a comprehensive review of the evolution of film studies as an academic discipline.
• Analyzing the use of non-linear storytelling in contemporary cinema.
• Analyzing the use of silence and sound in minimalist filmmaking.
• Investigating the portrayal of mental health in animation.
• Exploring the ethics of documentary filmmaking in the era of fake news.
• Evaluating the challenges and opportunities for UK filmmakers in accessing European markets post-Brexit.
• Analyzing the portrayal of mental health in contemporary cinema.
• Analyzing the use of music and soundscapes in creating emotional resonance.
• Exploring the cultural appropriation debate in film production.
• Examining the representation of gender fluidity in LGBTQ+ cinema.
• Assessing the role of costume design in historical accuracy in film.
• Exploring the aesthetics of experimental and avant-garde cinema.
• Exploring the role of nostalgia in contemporary remakes and reboots.
• Exploring the role of film preservation in restoring lost cinematic treasures.
• Assessing the role of film festivals in shaping critical discourse around cinema.
• Analyzing the role of cinematography in conveying character emotions.
• Assessing the use of symbolism and metaphors in art house cinema.
• Studying the resurgence of drive-in theaters as a response to the COVID-19 crisis and their cultural significance.
• Investigating the portrayal of environmental themes in documentary filmmaking.
• Analyzing the impact of social media on film marketing and audience engagement.
• Analyzing the representation of race and ethnicity in film studies scholarship.
• Analyzing the major theoretical frameworks and paradigms in contemporary film studies.
• Exploring the use of symbolism and allegory in religious-themed cinema.
• Assessing the impact of AI and machine learning on film editing.

In closing, Film Studies provides an enriching platform for aspiring scholars across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. The diverse list of research topics presented here serves as a starting point for your academic journey, offering a glimpse into the breadth and depth of this dynamic field. Whether you explore the intricacies of film aesthetics, delve into the socio-cultural impact of cinema, or examine the evolving landscape of digital media, Film Studies offers endless possibilities for intellectual engagement and discovery.

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Welcome to the Film and Media Studies Ph.D. Program

UC Irvine’s PhD program in Film and Media Studies offers students the opportunity to study and develop original research on film, television, and digital media. Rooted in the Humanities, we focus on interpreting the histories and theories of media and their cultural contexts.

Our curriculum provides a broad foundation in Film and Media Studies while also centering questions of media and power. Our course offerings emphasize post-colonial and decolonial approaches to film and media, queer theory and histories of gender and sexuality, critical race studies, video game studies, and archival research. We seek students who are deeply invested in understanding the perspectives of those who have been pushed to the margins of media technology, industries, and texts and in exploring the relationships between culture, identity, history, and power.

Located near Los Angeles, UC Irvine offers access to the rich cultural offerings and research institutions of Southern California. Students may choose to supplement their Film and Media Studies degree with interdisciplinary graduate certificates in Asian American Studies , Chicano/Latino Studies , Critical Theory , Feminist Studies , Latin American Studies , and/or Visual Studies .

We admit all students, with BAs or MAs, directly into the PhD program in small cohorts with multi-year funding packages. We encourage prospective students to review our faculty profiles and contact the faculty members who work in their potential areas of interest before applying to learn more about their research, teaching, and advising.

Prospective students interested in the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, administered by the Department of Art History, can find more information here .

Meet the Film and Media Studies Faculty and learn about their research interests.

The annual admissions deadline is December 1 .

Complete applications will include:

• A Statement of Purpose (1200 words maximum) that describes your research interests and reasons for seeking a PhD. The Statement of Purpose should indicate how your proposed research correlates to our program's emphases and how you will benefit from working with specific core faculty. You can find information about faculty research interests here.  

• A Personal History Statement (1200 word maximum) that describes your educational accomplishments and goals. It is important to communicate whether you have experienced unique or significant opportunities, challenges, and/or obstacles in your pursuit of an education. Please also describe the career paths you plan to pursue after graduation.

• A sample of academic writing that demonstrates original thinking, clear writing and your preparedness to do graduate-level work in film and media studies.

• Length: A minimum of ten pages to a maximum of thirty pages. Any submission longer than the maximum will not be reviewed past the maximum page limit.
• You may submit two pieces of work as long as their combined length does not exceed the page limit.
• In the event you have a longer piece of work to submit, such as a Master's thesis or Undergraduate research paper, please submit a chapter or section of the work within the page restriction.

• Three letters of recommendation, preferably from faculty with whom you have studied.

• Transcripts.

• Results of the TOEFL or IELTS exam for international applicants for whom English is not their primary language.

For academic questions (questions about program requirements, the application review process, funding opportunities, etc.) please contact the Graduate Director, Professor Kristen Hatch ([email protected]). 

For administrative questions (questions about how to apply, paying the application fee, application materials, etc.) please contact the Graduate Coordinator, Amy Fujitani ([email protected]). 

To apply, click here .

Course Requirements

Required Core Courses (6 courses)

FLM&MDA 285A: Film Studies: Theory and Methods.

FLM&MDA 285B: Television Studies: Theory and Methods.

FLM&MDA 285C: Digital Media and Game Studies: Theory and Methods.

FLM&MDA 286A: Film and Media Studies Historiography.

FLM&MDA 286B: Media/Power/Culture.

FLM&MDA 286C: Methods and Research Design.

Elective Courses (7 courses)

FLM&MDA 291: Graduate Seminar in Film and Media Studies. Repeatable as topics vary.

FLM&MDA 292: Graduate Seminar in Film & Media Critical Practice. Repeatable as topics vary.

FLM&MDA 295: Directed Reading. Repeatable as topics vary.

Required Practicums in Film and Media Studies (4 courses)

FLM&MDA 287: Practicum in Pedagogy.

FLM&MDA 288A: Practicum in Professionalization I.

FLM&MDA 288B: Practicum in Professionalization II.

FLM&MDA 288C: Practicum in Professionalization III.

Required Supporting Course (1 course)

FLM&MDA 298: Prospectus Writing Practicum.

Students must take three elective courses from within the Department of Film and Media Studies and two outside Film and Media Studies. The remaining two electives can be taken within or outside the department.

Students entering with a MA may petition to have up to three elective courses waived, subject to the approval of Graduate Division. Students who have had three courses waived must take two elective courses from within the Department of Film and Media Studies and one outside Film and Media Studies. The remaining elective can be taken within or outside the department.

During the third through sixth years in the program, students normally enroll in variable-unit courses as follows:

FLM&MDA 296: Reading for the Preliminary Examination.

FLM&MDA 297: Prospectus Research.

FLM&MDA 299: Dissertation Research.

First-Year Review

Students are required to select and confirm their Primary Advisor by the end of the first year.

At the end of the Spring quarter, the Film and Media Studies faculty will review the performance and progress of each first-year student and provide written evaluation of their work. This evaluation will include an assessment of the student’s ability to complete independent research.

A positive assessment indicates that the student is making good progress.

A cautionary assessment will be accompanied by a description of specific improvements that a student must make in order to advance to candidacy in the third year.

A negative overall assessment will place the student on Academic Conditional Status. Faculty will give written feedback with specific areas for improvement and a timeline for future expectations of academic progress. Students who fail to demonstrate improvement may be recommended for dismissal from the program without a degree.

MA Requirements

All students apply for and are accepted into the doctoral program.

Students who enter the PhD program with a prior graduate degree (MA or beyond) in Film and Media Studies or a related discipline may petition to waive up to three electives, subject to the approval of Graduate Division. These students may also petition to waive the MA exam requirement in recognition of their prior degree; normatively, this will be approved. In these cases, students will not complete the MA exam requirement nor earn a second MA en route to the PhD. Film and Media Studies faculty will determine what graduate degree fields qualify as related disciplines. Students entering with an MFA will typically be required to complete the MA exam unless the Graduate Committee determines that the degree is equivalent to an MA.

Students who have not earned an MA in a relevant field prior to matriculating in the Film and Media Studies PhD program must earn an MA degree as part of the PhD program. The program does not offer a stand-alone or terminal MA, except in instances when a student does not continue in the program toward earning the PhD.

In order to earn the MA degree, the student must

1. Satisfactorily complete six foundational courses (FLM&MDA 285A, FLM&MDA 285B, FLM&MDA 285C, FLM&MDA 286A, FLM&MDA 286B, and FLM&MDA 286C);

2. Satisfactorily compete FLM&MDA 287;

3. Satisfactorily complete seven electives, three of which must be within the Department of Film and Media Studies and two outside the Department of Film and Media Studies;

4. Pass the MA Exam; and

5. File the necessary paperwork for conferral of degree with Graduate Division.

For the MA exam, the student will revise one seminar paper written while in the program and submit the revised paper before the start of the Spring quarter in their second year of study. 

The requirements for passing the MA exam are as follows:

• The revised paper must present a substantial and original argument;

• It must reflect substantive revision from the original paper, demonstrating additional research and/or reconceptualization and responsiveness to feedback;

• It must demonstrate a command of the relevant literature;

• It must present adequate evidence to support its claims;

• It must be clearly written in an appropriate academic style; and

• It must be formatted according to MLA or Chicago Manual of Style guidelines with proper citation and bibliography.

Ideally, this revised paper will demonstrate promise toward publication and toward the ability to develop a dissertation; however this is not a requirement at the MA stage.

This paper will be evaluated by a 3-person MA committee, which consists of the student’s primary advisor as chair and two additional department faculty members appointed by the Program Director in consultation with the student and the advisor. The MA committee will evaluate the student’s ability to identify a suitable research project and methodology, develop an argument, respond to faculty feedback, and make revisions. The committee will respond with feedback within three weeks of receiving the paper and may ask for a second round of reasonable revisions, to be completed before the end of the term.

The committee will unanimously decide whether the student has passed the MA exam and if they are eligible to proceed toward the PhD, taking into holistic account the exam (revised paper) results, input from the core Film and Media Studies faculty during the First-Year Review, and the student’s progress during the second year of course work. There are four possible determinations:

Positive: The student will earn the MA degree and qualifies to continue toward the PhD exams. This should be the outcome in the majority of cases.

Cautionary: The student will earn the MA degree and qualifies to continue toward the PhD exams but with areas for improvement communicated in writing to the student and advisor. This occurs when the student’s holistic performance and promise outweigh a borderline exam or vice versa. This should be the outcome only in rare or extenuating circumstances.

MA Only: The student will earn the MA degree but is disqualified from continuing toward the PhD exams. This occurs when the student’s holistic performance and promise do not outweigh a borderline exam.

Negative: The exam is unacceptable. The student will not earn the MA degree and is disqualified from continuing toward the PhD exams.

Students may revise and resubmit the MA paper one additional time in case of a failure to pass.

By the end of their second year, students will work with their advisor to plan their Examination fields for the following year. No later than the end of Winter in the third year of study, students will establish a 5-person Qualifying Exam Committee, at least 51% of whose members, including the Dissertation Advisor, must be core faculty in the Department of Film and Media Studies. At least one committee member must be external to the department.

The student will receive one standardized bibliography and select two specialty field bibliographies on which they will be examined. In the Fall and Winter quarters of the third year, the student will enroll in FLM&MDA 296: Reading for the Preliminary Examination and complete reading the works on these three bibliographies. The three exam areas should serve to help the student define general areas of specialized competence that will aid them in establishing a broad base for the dissertation and in developing college-level courses. Students may not enroll in FLM&MDA 296 until all their other course requirements (with the exception of FLM&MDA 298: Prospectus Writing Practicum) have been completed.

The Qualifying Examination will be administered by the Qualifying Exam Committee and will include both a written and an oral component. The written component will consist of at least one question for each Exam bibliography for which the student has completed readings. Students will write at least one essay for each respective Exam. Faculty may offer a range of questions for each bibliography, giving the student a choice of which question(s) to answer. The written component will be offered as a series of three remote exams to be completed within three respective 24-hour periods; questions and responses will be delivered electronically. The oral component of the exam will take place in conjunction with the Prospectus Defense during the Spring quarter of the student’s third year.

Language Requirement 

Students will consult with the program Director and their principal advisor(s) to determine whether they must demonstrate or develop proficiency in a second language for their research. [1] If the program Director and principal advisor(s) determine that proficiency in a second language is required, the student must demonstrate this proficiency prior to advancing to candidacy. In the event a student does not need a second language to conduct doctoral research, they will not be required to demonstrate proficiency in a second language.

If determined to be required, the language requirement may be satisfied by one of the following means:

1. By passing the Film and Media Studies translation exam. A request must be made to the Film and Media Studies Staff within the first two weeks of the quarter the student wishes to take the exam.

2. By completing, with a grade of B or better, a language course at the 2C level or equivalent, with the exception of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which must be completed at the 3C level or equivalent.

3. By attaining a proficiency level of 2C on the Russian Exemption Exam or a proficiency level of 3C on the Chinese Exemption Exam offered by UCI's Academic Testing Center.

4. By petitioning the program. Grounds for a petition might include the student’s being a native speaker in a language other than English or having completed an equivalent language requirement at a different institution. The granting of this petition will remain at the discretion of the Graduate Director, although students dissatisfied with this determination may request the petition be considered by the full faculty. Students who have completed the language requirement at a different institution will need to submit transcripts with the petition. Students will inquire with the Graduate Coordinator to complete a petition.

Dissertation Prospectus and Advancement to Ph.D. Candidacy

In the Spring of the student’s third year, the student will enroll in FLM&MDA 298: Prospectus Writing Practicum and complete a prospectus that identifies the scope, approach, and rationale for their proposed dissertation. The student will present an oral defense of the prospectus to the Qualifying Exam Committee. When the prospectus has been unanimously approved by the Qualifying Exam Committee, the student will be advanced to doctoral candidacy. Students should have taken their preliminary examination, defended their dissertation prospectus, and advanced to doctoral candidacy no later than the end of Spring quarter of their third year. If a student will exceed the 3-year normative time to candidacy, they must petition by Spring quarter of their third year for an exception, presenting an approved plan for timely progress to candidacy.

In the event that a student does not pass the qualifying examination, consistent with UCI policy (Academic Senate Regulation 467) the student will be allowed one repeat attempt of the examination. This repeat examination will occur during the quarter following the initial examination.

Dissertation

The dissertation shall be an original research project of substantial length approved by the Doctoral Committee. Members of the student’s Doctoral Committee are noted on the PhD Form I: Advancement to Candidacy PhD Degree. The committee shall typically consist of the Doctoral Advisor and two additional faculty. At least 51% of the Doctoral Committee, including the Doctoral Advisor, must be core faculty in the Department of Film and Media Studies. The remaining members of the Doctoral Committee must satisfy Academic Senate requirements.

Dissertation Defense 

A final examination in the form of an oral defense of the dissertation is required for the PhD. This examination will be supervised by the Doctoral Committee and will be given just prior to the completion of the dissertation. The defense will be open to all members of the academic community. Faculty and graduate students of Film and Media Studies and the Graduate Dean will be given written notice of the date, time, and place of the examination at least five days in advance of the examination.

Time to Degree

The normative time to degree is six years (18 quarters). The first nine quarters are spent in pre-candidacy, the last 9 quarters in candidacy. Normatively, students will complete their course work within the first two years and prepare for and pass the Qualifying Examination and advance to candidacy in the third year. The maximum time to degree is seven years.

[1] Examples of when a second language would likely be necessary include Spanish proficiency for the study of Spanish-language media, Mandarin proficiency for study of media in Mainland China, or the relevant language for a project on non-English language transnational/diasporic media.

All students receive a five-year funding guarantee at admissions. This typically includes a combination of at least one fellowship year and multiple years of Teaching Assistantships. Additional competitive scholarships, fellowships, and summer stipends may also be available.

Students also receive tuition and fee remission, including non-resident (out-of-state or international) tuition during this period. Domestic students coming from outside of California will be expected to establish state residency during their first year; otherwise, they will need to cover their non-resident tuition fees.

TAships may be in Film and Media Studies undergraduate courses or for courses in other Departments or Programs.

Funding beyond the fifth year is not guaranteed, but TAships or other opportunities are often available.

The graduate emphasis in Film and Media Studies prepares students in any M.A., Ph.D., or M.F.A. program to analyze film and media texts, contexts, and industries. The emphasis requires that students complete four seminars, two of which are in the Film and Media Studies PhD core series (FMS 285A-C, FMS 286A-C) and two of which may be Film and Media Studies core or elective seminars (FMS 291, FMS 292, FMS 295).

Students who are currently enrolled in any MA, Ph.D., or M.F.A. program at UCI are eligible for admission to the Graduate Emphasis in Film and Media Studies.

Students who are interested in pursuing the graduate emphasis should contact the Graduate Director to indicate their interest in applying for the emphasis. Application materials include:

• an explanation of how their research and/or teaching will benefit from completing the Film and Media Studies Graduate Emphasis;
• current CV;
• brief letter of approval from the student’s primary advisor or program director;
• names of Film and Media Studies core faculty with whom they have worked or plan to work. Applicants who are not yet acquainted with Film and Media Studies core faculty may name the Graduate Director.

Application

To be considered for the Film and Media Studies Graduate Emphasis, please submit an application . 

Questions? Please contact Amy Fujitani , Graduate Coordinator.

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Lange, Shara K. "Documentary Film Engagement." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3651.

Lange, Shara K. "Documentary Production & Documentary Problems." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3666.

Lange, Shara K. "Ethical Documentary Filmmaking in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3648.

Lange, Shara K. "The Documentary, “The Dressmakers,” & Film Screening." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3664.

Lange, Shara K. "Opportunities for Engagement: Documentary & Public Health." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3656.

Pichaske, Kristin. "Colour adjustment : race and representation in post-apartheid South African documentary." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8248.

Lange, Shara K. "Documentary Production as a Way to Talk about and Engage with Community." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3657.

Camillo, Seth Jordan. "The circus: a city symphony." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3437.

Hong, Jiachun. "DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION AS A SITE OF STRUGGLE: STATE, CAPITAL, AND PRECARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE DOCUMENTARY." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1627.

Watson, Ryan Grant. "Re-claiming the radical: documentary and video advocacy in the age of new media." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5677.

Sadegh-Vaziri, Persheng. "Iranian Documentary Film Culture: Cinema, Society, and Power 1997-2014." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/363567.

Zuber, Sharon Lynne. "Re-shaping documentary expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623442.

Largent, Julia E. "Documentary Dialogues: Establishing a Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Documentary Fandom-Filmmaker Social Media Interaction." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1497547704340843.

Chen, Yeong-Rury, and na. "A fantasy China an investigation of the Huangmei Opera Film genre through the documentary film medium." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20061009.132620.

Lange, Shara K. "Spotlight ETSU." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3660.

Lange, Shara K. "Jeans & Djellabas." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3661.

Lange, Shara K. "Guest Artist Talk." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3652.

Lange, Shara K. "Work Sticks." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3658.

Lange, Shara K. "What Do We Do with our Bodies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3659.

Merilainen, Laura. "From Namibia with Love - the dissertation paper a reflective essay supporting the documentary film 'From Namibia with Love'. With special references from the director's and editor's perspective on making a politically sensitive documentary film." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12001.

Steinbach, Katherine. "Documentary adaptation: non-fiction transformations via cinema and television." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5643.

Lange, Shara K. "ETSU Radio, TV, Film 1969-2011: Partnerships, Promise, Hope." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3663.

Tarrant, Patrick Anthony. "Documentary practice in a participatory culture." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/26975/.

Makan, Amit J. "Making a feature length documentary film linked to the programme for improving mental health care (PRIME) : process and ethical challenges." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20093.

CHEUNG, Tit Leung. "Extending the local : documentary film festivals in East Asia as sites of connection and communication." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2012. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/vs_etd/5.

Farrell, Richard M. "Baltimore Mobility: The Wire , Local Documentary, and the Politics of Distance." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7783.

Daley, KaRyn Elizabeth. "The Role of Documentary Film in the Emerging Social Entrepreneurial Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5663.

Ribera, Deborah. "(Re)Presentation: An Affective Exploration of Ethnographic Documentary Film Production." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1428658018.

Sniadecki, John Paul. "Digital Jianghu: Independent Documentary in a Beijing Art Village." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10971.

Shaw, Neil. "Culture and gentrification on upper Long street : a study of Long street's evolution and contemporary incarnation, with a look at documentary styles and the cinematic city." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7972.

Palfreman, Jon. "Communicating controversy in the mass media." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2005. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/communicating-controversy-in-the-mass-media(65320260-4d82-4ec9-82ac-a7cf363f0e13).html.

Goldson, Annie. "A claim to truth: documentary, politics, production." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1246.

Schram, Katherine Elisabeth. "Images and Voices from the Cumberland Mountains: Surface Coal Mining and the Evolution of Appalshop's Documentary Activism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1056.

Qian, Ying. "Visionary Realities: Documentary Cinema in Socialist China." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11035.

Lange, Shara K. "Screening: Banjo Romantika: American Bluegrass Music and the Czech Imagination." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3649.

Bidgood, Lee, and Shara K. Lange. "Banjo Romantika: Across Genres & Disciplines." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3653.

Jensen, Rhonda Karen. "Manufacturing dissent." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16224/.

Guerra, Karla M. "Listen to Me." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1084.

Phillips, Brett Michael. ""You want it all to happen now!": The Jinx, The Imposter, and Re-enacting the Digital Thriller in True Crime Documentaries." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6743.

Duff, Kristen Lesley. "Out of the box, into the bottle: an example of documentary film as a new research tool in the South African wine industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10389.

Seering, Ashley. "Postcards." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2021. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/984.

Hodge, Tuarean M. ""Black Reparations Film Project: Descendants of Slavery and Institutional Racism"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862812/.

Mutibwa, Daniel Henry. "Changing imperatives in third sector media and cultural production : a study of news production, documentary film-making and arts and cultural programming." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3407/.

Peixoto, Hugo Cardoso Brandão. "Webdocumentário: a representação da ótica documental no ciberespaço." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5021.

Weatherston, Kristine T. "Nonfiction, Documentary and Family Narrative: An Intersection of Representational Discourses and Creative Practices." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3602.

Hoare, Lottie. "Secondary education in BBC broadcast, 1944-1965 : drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273980.

Glueck, Lara A. "Contested Land: The Bernard Biological Field Station." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2001. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/92.

Riley, David. "Silver Sands." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5870.

Bidgood, Lee, and Shara K. Lange. "Banjo Romantika." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3655.

Varrasso, Federico. "Représentations et croyances dans le vodou haïtien : approche filmique d'une communauté religieuse de Port-au-Prince." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100079.

Department of Comparative Literature

You are here, comparative literature and film and media studies.

Applicants to the combined program must indicate on their application that they are applying both to the program in Film and Media Studies and to Comparative Literature. All documentation within the application should include this information.

Program of Courses

16 term-courses will be the norm, taken over a two-year period. In some cases a candidate may be allowed to take one of these courses in the fifth term of study.

A. Requirements in Film and Media Studies (6 courses)

A. FILM 601 Film and Their Study (offered every other Fall term) B. FILM 603 Film Historiography (offered in alternate Fall terms) C. Four additional seminars in Film Studies

B. Requirements in Comparative Literature (6 courses)

A. Proseminar in Comparative Literature (taken first term offered) B. One course in theoretical issues C. Four courses in literary study, each originating in Comparative Literature or bearing a crosslist number.

a. A course involving poetry and one drama b. One course in pre-1800 literature, one in pre-1900 literature

a. Any course can count for more than one designation.

C. Four other courses to be worked out with DGS of both units.

A. Students may gain up to two course credits for prior graduate work if approved by the DGSs and the Graduate School.

1. Excellent English and one other language at admission. 2. An additional research-related language, satisfied by the fifth term:

a. passing the “advanced reading-for-research” course or related exam in the pertinent language. b. passing any Yale course in the language.

Foundational Texts in Film and Media Studies

By October 1 of the third year, all candidates must have met the requirement regarding foundational texts in the Film and Media Studies field. See the Film and Media Studies webpage detailing this requirement.

Oral Examinations:

1. By the end of the third semester, the candidate will meet with the DGS of both units to agree on the six topics (also called “questions”) to be prepared, paying attention to generic, geographic, and historical range and to methodological or theoretical approaches. Of the six questions taken up in the oral, half should emphasize literary studies, half Film and Media Studies, though primary texts in both fields may appear on the list drawn up for any question.

2. By the end of the fourth semester, the candidate will submit to both DGSs the list of readings, prepared for each question. Final versions of the lists are signed by each faculty member involved a week before the oral, which normally takes place by the end of the fifth semester, in six 15-minute sections.

3. Should the responses to a question be judged inadequate, the committee may call for its reexamination at a later date or may impose remedial work, such as a bibliographic paper.

The Dissertation Prospectus

The prospectus, prepared with one or two advisors (one from Comparative Literature), is presented to the Comparative Literature Standing Committee in the sixth term, and never later than the outset of the seventh term. At the end of the hour discussion, and with the advisor(s) and a DGS present, the faculty will decide either to pass the prospectus as it is, or ask the student to submit a further draft either to the advisor or the standing committee (generally without necessitating a further live meeting). In all cases the finished version of the prospectus will also be submitted to the DGS in Film and Media studies who distributes it to the faculty for ratification. Once final approval of the prospectus comes from both units, the student will be advanced to candidacy for the degree.

Defense of Method

Defense of Method occurs in the semester preceding submission of the dissertation. This 60–90 minute oral involves a presentation of 80% of the dissertation for discussion and questioning. At this meeting the DGS, advisor(s) and the three official readers of the dissertation will give advice and correct errors so that the work will be in its optimal form when submitted. The DGSs appoint the three readers to assess the dissertation, two of which are normally from Comparative Literature and one from Film and Media Studies. Note that the advisor(s) may not write the final assessments of the dissertation.