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 ...

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 examines the consequences for representations of the national through national discourses of the increasing artistic and technical collaboration that occurred between the Abbey Theatre and a number of film ...

This thesis explores the evolution of female performance paradigms and representation in Hollywood musicals from 1929 to 1940. In particular, it considers how the paradigmatic representation of femininity within the musical ...

Challenging the view of home as the very opposite of voyage, Giuliana Bruno suggests that houses and films share certain similarities insofar as both could be considered inherently mobile sights/sites of passage. Taking ...

The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between ideology and the narrative structure of popular Hollywood cinema in the 1990s, particularly the manner in which a closed narrative structure serves ...

This thesis develops an understanding of the application of Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image. Benjamin’s theory of the dialectical image is examined through the comparison of avant-garde and realist film productions and ...

Since the first IRA ceasefire in 1994, construction of discursive memory in Northern Ireland’s cultural spheres has politicised and sanitised historical trauma. This thesis identifies audio-visual culture as being exemplary ...

Many of the films of Lars von Trier can be situated within the context of the ‘woman's film’ and, more specifically, within its subgenre of the maternal melodrama. However, the films' intensification of the investments ...