Studies of intercultural performance have been very much concerned with the politics of cultural practice, the authority of cultural traditions, the location of culture(s) in the interstices of exchange, and the theorising ...

This dissertation provides a theoretical basis for, and critical analysis of, two creative-practice projects conducted via social media platforms. These projects were designed to examine how – in an era marked by alternative ...

Like the protagonist, both the short story and the short film are subject to the demand to arrive ‘on time’. Violently freed from the imperatives of conventional storytelling, this film considers the moment when the laws ...

Like many Australian films, The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) initially fared far better overseas than it did at home. Arguably, this can be attributed to several factors that apply to Australian cinema as a whole: ...

This thesis presents the most detailed study yet of the music of the English composer William Havergal Brian (1876-1972). It concentrates on the orchestral music written in a single decade — the 1930s — at a time when he ...

This thesis draws on the writings of a number of nineteenth-century musical commentators, including Richard Pohl, Hermann Deiters, Selmar Bagge, Adolf Schubring, Franz Brendel, and Eduard Hanslick. These critics were writing ...

The Chapel Royal of Dublin Castle, the household chapel of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was opened for worship on Christmas Day 1814. It was established in imitation of the Chapel Royal of St James’s Palace, London, and ...

This thesis contributes to the study of dialogue in cinema, an area that remains critically under-developed within film studies. In general, scholarly references to speech tend to be made in passing, disregarding dialogue's ...

This thesis, comprised of a portfolio of compositions accompanied by media examples and commentary, traces the evolution of the author?s compositional approach in the search for a manner to present unstable sound that ...

This dissertation investigates such processes along and addresses the separate methodologies involved in the composition of music using graphical or traditional notation. The impact of either notational system upon ...