MA in Film Studies Program: Past Thesis Titles

Theses completed by the MA Film Studies Class of 2010 are:

"Post-Colonial African Cinema: Confronting the Challenge of Globalization" by Cheiku B. Camara

"Discovery of Women: Filmic Representations of Modern Girls in Chosun Cinema during the Japanese Occupation Period" by Eun Jeong Choi

"The Historiography of Early African-American Women in Film" by Aimee Dixon

"Myopia Diagnosed: Rendering Subjectivity to the Children in the Sertao" by Bruno Guarana

"The Influence of Aristophanes on Greek Film Comedy (1948-1968)" by Nefeli Lygerou

"Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle: Digestion and Assimilation in Asian American Cinema" by Abraham Kim

"Moral Ambiguity in Contemporary Art-House Cinema" by Terry S. Kim

"Mission Possible: From Art to Business. The Transitional Period in the Russian Film Industry (late 80s - 2009)" by Elena Lakomkina

"Empire of (Lcto)Signs, Vol. 1: Gesture as Post-Deleuzian, Omnidirectional Potentiality" by Jason R. LaRiviere

"Film Star Persona: The Manliness, Sexual Rebellion, and Technique of Montgomery Clift" by Jyn Van Putten

"The Absence of Sex in a Pornographic Context: The Nature of Explicit Content in Post-War American Avant-Garde" by Vera Ryzhik

"Afghan Cinema: A Visual Culture Constituted by Foreign Gain" by Carson Smith

"Contesting Greek Society in Cinematic Heterotopias" by Diana Wade

"A Close Analysis of the contemporary Chinese animated film industry" by Yunyi Wang

"The Myth, the Meaning, the Memory: A Barthian Analysis of Michael Jackson's Star Image" by Molly Wedgwood

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