Film and Media Studies Past Thesis Titles

"Revisiting Counter-Colonial Archives: A Comparative Study of Treatments to Occupational Voids"
by Aciah Abdulsater

"A Rare Breed: “Inugami Eiga” as an Unrecognized Subgenre of Japanese Horror Cinema"
by Timothy Amatulli

"Intimacy, Affect, and Natural Queerness through Aquatic Imagery in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (2016) and Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together (1997)"
by Sinéad Pauahi Nora Kailihiaokamālamalamaonālani Anae

"(Friend)Shipping as a Way of Life: The Border-Crossing Tongren Culture in China"
by Joy Bao

"The Face of Terror to Facing Terror: Redefining the Final Girl for the Modern Age"
by Kaylee DeFreitas

"The Ideological Superposition: BioShock & Our Many-Worlds"
by Jack DeGhetto

"My Big Fat Simple Wedding, Iranian Style"
Tara Ebrahimian

"Corrosive Chateaux: The Heterotopic Spaces of Jean Rollin’s Cinema"
by Molly Follette

"Is Physics Cinema?: Bergson, Deleuze, and Cinematic Relation"
by Ryan Groendyk

"The Mise-en-scène of Southernness: Southern Documentary Films and Stereotypes"
by Emily Harrold

"The Representation of Surveillance Practices and Technologies in Chinese Films since 2000"
by Yezhou He

"Queer Media in Contemporary China: The Queer Heterotopic Spaces and Desires in Chinese Queer Media Culture"
by Qinfei (Fiona) Hou

"SHE Power with Challenges and Opportunities: Women Producers in Chinese Commercial: Film Industry"
by Mingxuan Jiang

"Start New World: Perceptual Technics of the Metastable in Cinema and Video Games"
by Jackson S. Lee

"On the Periphery: Narrating and Interpreting the Ambivalence in Taiwanese Documentary"
by Yi-An Liao

"The Neglected Six Generation: Zhang Ming and His Filmmaking on Wushan"
by Liyu Liu

"Frames and Games: How Rules and Expectations Shape Player Experiences in Video Games"
by Bjorn Long

"Eye Strain: A (Little) Media History of Impairment"
by Frank Ming

"We Are Not Mere Dreamers: An Exploration Of Rhythmic Montage And Feminist Avant-Garde Histories"
by Mollie Murtagh

"Bed Me Deadly: On Narrative-Breaking Love Scenes"
by Viola (Jiarui) Sun

"The Music Video Album: The Artistic Layers in Long-Form Music Video Albums"
by Kathryn Sutton

"Teenage Girlhood Identity Formation in Coming-of-Age Cinema 1990s-2010s"
by Asiyah Syed

"Everyday Techne: Home Movie History from Film to Video"
by Gavin Thibodeau

"Color-Coding in Turning Red: Reinventing “Chineseness” in Hollywood and Streaming Media Culture"
by Yiru Wang

"Cruising to the "Maybeness": Queer Cartography"
by Chujing Zhao

“Power of Immersion: Netflix’s The School Nurse Files (2020)”
by Jung Aa Ahn

“Do it for the Culture: The Hypervisibility of Identities and the Commodification of Culture in Mainstream Cinema”
by Carlos Gutierrez Aza

“Deciphering the Riddle, Deciphering the Self: Queer and Feminist Approaches to ‘Pedagogical Cinema’”
by Annie H. Berman

“Falling for Film: A New Discourse on Stunting”
by Ryan Brothers

“Choice-A-Rama: Rereading Gimmickry in 1980s Cinema”
by Benjamin Crabtree

“Myths Through Masks: Exploring Mexploitation as National Allegory Through the Films of El Santo”
by Julia Andrea Delgadillo

“The Earth as a Film Set, The Cloud as a Screening Room: Understanding Surveillant Problematics in Society through Dragonfly Eyes (2017)”
by Yulong Hu

“‘It’s All Recorded’: Sound Technology and the Cinematic Uncanny”
by Ryan Hupp

“Youth in Crisis: Representation of Adolescence Experience in South Korean Films”
by Soo An Kang

“Faux: The Applied Histrionics of Deepmeaning”
by Maya Kotomori

“The Unsmooth Transition: The 1990s Chinese Disillusioned Film and Its Cross-cultural Resonances”
by Qingxu Li

“Cinema of Precariousness: Experimental Impulse in Chinese Post-Direct-Cinema Independent Documentary and Cong Feng’s Arche(now)logy in the Post-Cinematic Asthenosphere”
by Yilun (Elon) Li

”WEREWOMEN, TRANSWOLVES: The Exhumed Transness of Horror Cinema”
by Sam E. Miller

“Affect as Surplus: Political Mimesis in the Age of Personalized Channel Media”
by Xiaoyang Pan

“Writing Our Lives, Living Intertextuality: The Role of Screen(ed) Memories, Mass Fluidity, and the Culture of Nostalgia in Gen Z’s Online Identity Formation”

by Isabella M. Rosete

“To Cut Across Time: An Inquiry into Non-Simultaneous Cross-Cutting” 
by Akash Shetye

“The Tripod Authorship of Digital Motion Pictures in the Computer Age: Creating in a Spectatorial Manner”
by Dennis Sun

Mandate for Nationalism: Streaming, Opposition and Censorship in Contemporary India through Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy
by Soumya Vats

“Liberating Women, Remolding Family, and Envisioning New China: Films on Women’s Issues in the Early PRC, 1949-1957”
by Ailin Zhou

“i did the digital dash: practices of experimental cinema artists at the turn of the 21st century”
by Paul Attard

“Hindi Cinema’s Contemporary Heroine: The Post-postcolonial Mode, Abject Agency and The New Woman in Kahaani” 
by Spandita Behera

“Ordinary Ruins: Tracing Mao’s Socialist Utopian Vision in Zou Xueping’s Trash Village”
by Marissa Elaine C de Baca

“Films as Tourism Commodities: Exclusive Experiences Beyond the Screens”
by Hexuan Cao

“Application of Rhythm Theories in Cinemetrics: Visualizing Antonioni’s Trilogy of Modernity and its Discontents”
by Po Chen

“What’s Inside?: The Scopic Regime of the End-User Society”
by Madeleine Collier

“I Can’t Watch This Anymore: Meditations on Black Aesthetics” 
by Simone Dill 

“Stillbirth and Filipino Film: On Colonialism, Subjecthood, and Abjectivities”
by Mark Ebbay

“The Absent ‘Gayness’ and Where to Find It: Chinese Danmei/Fu Series and the Fans”
by Zitong Feng

“Through the Eyes of Whose Validation: The Universal or The National” 
by María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize

“Traversing the Boundary of the Screen: Contextualizing Immersive, Cinematic Environments in Theme Parks”
by Joseph Fischer

“Block the Blockbusters: The Failure of Big IPs and Idols in Shanghai Fortress”
by Yinqi Huang

“Adaption in Early Chinese Filmmaking: In the case of Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Lower Depths” 
by Jing Jiao

“Through the Narrow Door: Paradigm Shift in Chinese Crime Genre”
by Zhiwei (Zoe) Jiao

“The Participation of Chinese Cinema in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, 1950-1953”
by Jing Peng

“Melodramas of Masculinity: Queerness and Gender in 21st Century Venezuelan Cinema” 
by Juan A. Ramírez

“Why Are East European Films So Damn Depressing? or What Does it Mean to Be ‘Post’?: Investigating and Identifying the Postcolonial Mode in Post-Soviet Cinema” 
by Kristen Santer 

“A New Paradigm in Criticism: The Rise of Video Sharing and the Para-Social”
by Tessandra Z. Smith

“Contemporary Chinese Women’s Struggle and Self-Liberation Will in Send Me to the Clouds (2019)”
by Qiuyuan (Violet) Tang

“Because You Watched: Exploring Netflix’s Predictive Algorithm and Its Impact on Accessibility, Community, and Exhibition”
by Emma Weeks

“Postmodern Consumerism and the Chinese Middle Class”
by Yuke Xie

“Virtual Reality and Cinematic Realism: The Myths Among Us”
by Zhe (July) Xu

“How Emergent Storytelling Can be Inspired” 
by Xinlei Yu

“Blurring the Line Between Art and Pornography: A Reimagination of Japanese Pink Cinema”
by Jialin Zhang 

“From ‘Interworking’ to ‘Splinternet’: What Does Internet Sovereignty Mean for the Future of Internet?” 
by Tianpei (William) Zhou

“K-drama as Netflix’s Expansion Both for the Local and the Global”
by Jie Zou

“Conspiratorial Women: Searching for Antigone in Arab Spring Cinema”
by Alreem Alkaabi 

“‘Perilous Pauline’ or ‘Dainty Pearl White’? Fearless Femininity and Serial Queen Publicity Materials” 
by Daniel Lawrence Aufmann

“Be Water, My Friend: The Political, the Social, and the Aesthetic in Hong Kong as a ‘State of Exception’”
by Cheuk Ying Cherie Chan

“Democracy of Goods: Knowledge, Commodity, and Instructional Film”
by Phoebe Chen

“What Says and What Says Nothing: Between Language and Image in Fernand Deligny’s Cinematic Thought”
by Aaron Dowdy

"In the Forests: Solitude and Subjectivity in Contemporary British Queer Representation"
by Kira Li

“Bewitched and Besmirched: Locating Women in Contemporary Folk Horror”
by Kyna McClenaghan

“Modernist Fidelity in Adaptation Through the Polish School”
by T.A. Morris

“Politically Remediating Palimpsestic Digital Copies Brazilian Films Through Informal Distribution Networks”
by William Plotnick

“The Cult of Horror: Horror Cinema and Fandom at Horror Film Festivals” 
by Andrew Powell

“Portugal’s Saudade, a Cinema of Dreams”
by Karlee Rodrigues

Tuwei: New Awkwardness in Chinese Cyberspace”
Xiaoyu Shen

“Keep Me From Ending It All: Failed Content, Montage Forms and Collectivity in Digital Compilations”
by Will Tamura

“Girls on the Margin: Representation of Girlhood in Chinese Independent Documentary”
by Shimiao Wang

“Feminist Traumedy”
by Emily Wei

“On the Modernization of Film Language: Locating Chinese Film Theory Right After the Cultural Revolution and in Zhang Nuanxin’s Sha Ou (1981)” 
by Yumo Yan

“‘Listen to Moscow’: Intertitles in Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Cinema’s Transition to Sound”
by Zijing Yu

“The Last Blossom: The Road to Diva and the Disappearance of Tianhou” 
by Ao Zhang

“Meeting Women of the World: Hollywood’s Ambivalent Encounters with Vamp Actress”
by Muxin Zhang

“The Pseudo-Collaboration: Shanghai Cinema in Japanese Occupation (1938-1945)”
by Tianyi Zhou

“Radical Potentialities: Retheorizing Cinephilia with a Feminist Historical Framework”
by Sonia Brand-Fisher

“Que Siri, Será: On Cinematic Love Stories of Human and Machine”
by Myranda D’Apolito

“The Strolling 60s: Sidney Poitier and Ontological Changes to the Black Image”
by Benjamin Y Goff

“Hypertemporal Dynamics: The Function of Nonlinear Fracture in the 21st Century Cinematic Narrative”
by Matt Knudsen

“Is Seeing Still Believing?: High Definition and Programmed Fidelity in the Age of 4K, and Beyond”
by Insook Park

“The Rap of China: Borderless Hip-hop with Chinese Characteristics”
by Tianren Qiang

“The Genus of Genre: Estrangement, Abjection, and Embodiment at the Border of Film Species”
by Nathan Escar Smith 

“Virtual Reality in Future Sexuality”
by Xingjian Sun

“The Murderous Shadow: Dr. Caligari from Weimar Germany to Republican China”
by Tim Shao-Hung Teng

“The Atmospheric Image: Between the Visible and the Invisible”
by Shuyi Xiong

“The Spatialized Moments in Your Pocket: Space, Image, and Locative Media”
by Yuxing Zhang

“Washed-Out City, Washed-Out Body: On Light Pollution, Elemental Infrastructure and Atmospheric Media”
by Tinghao Zhou

“Produce 101 vs. Idol Producer: The Problematic Transplantation of Male Idol Industry from South Korean to China”
by Rui Zhu

“Sinema: A Cinema of Transcendent Immorality”
by Grant Douglas Bromley

“The Hegemon’s Shadow: Observing Western Influence in Tamil Cinema”
by Arjun Chandrasekar

“A New Colombian Cinema? Understanding the Construction of National Cinema in the Wake of a Globalized World”
by Anthony Enrique Chassi

“‘Fei Cheng Wu Rao’: Constructing Post-Socialist Subjectivities through Reality Television”
by Shuyi Chen

“Stand-Up Comedy as Rhetoric Craft”
by Shota Hasui

“DIVED-on’t: Recontextualizing Puerto Rican Films under the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO)”
by Alexandra Elena James

“‘What’s Origin Got to Do with It?’: Problematic Historiographies and the Debate of Cinematic Origin”
by Sasha Dilan Krugman

“When China (Tries to) Take Command: Chinese War Film in Dialogue with World Cinema”
by Wentao Ma

“Why? Films”
by Marie-Anne Malek

“Growing Market, Growing Attention: Chinese Film Censorship and Controversies”
by Jinghan Mao

“Screwball Performativity and Stardom in 1930s American Comedy”
by Denise Mok

“Pizza Rat: Redefining Authenticity in the Age of Fake News”
by Jason Potel

“Under the Bi(g) Top: An Investigation into the Bisexual Vantage in ‘Circus Cinema’”
by Ayal Prouser

“Extinction/Representation: Cinematic Aporias of Multispecies Ethics”
by Nicholas Rueda-Sabater

“Ecuadorian First Wave: 2006-2016”
by Manuel Alejandro Salas

“Embody Against the Machine: IMAX, Being Meditated, & The Newness of ‘New’ Media in the Digital Age”
by Elizabeth (Kallie) Kallmeyer Strode

“Tyrannical Images and Performative Rituals: Stalin’s Cult of Personality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema”
by Anri Vartanov

“International Film Festival as Testimony: Power Encounter in the Mainland-Chinese Cinematic Discourse during 1980s and 1990s”
by Tian Wang

“Let Your Soul Stand Cool: The Concept of Cool in the Cinema”
by James Hunter Alan Wham

“Post-Revolutionary Iranian Melodrama: The Trajectory from the 1980s Conformist Melodrama to the Post-1997 Subversive Melodrama”
by Siavash Yansori

“Post-Nationalized Cinema in China: A Comparison of Public and Private Film Companies”
by Lin Zhang

“Voice Figure(s) ReTOONing: Geospeechifications in the Voices-Work Of Mel Blanc’s Commercial Vitality”
by Ian Arthur Adams

“Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: The Voice of Single Mothers in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s Films”
by Tania Ahmadi

“007 Both Shaken and Stirred: Evolving Structures of Seriality in the James Bond Franchise”
by Nicholas J. Bollinger

“The Film that Rattled the Machine: Another Look at Soviet Horror in Viy (1967)”
by Mary M. Foley

“Neverland Nui Loa: Inauguration of the Image Regime of Hawai’i as America’s Pacific Playground”
by Briand A. Gentry

“School Shootings in a Post-Columbine Cinema: Bowling for Columbine and Elephant
by Catherine Haas

“From on working girl to another:” The Representation of Female Employment in Screenland Film Fan Magazine During World War II”
by Megan Heatherly

“Possessed Technology: Visual Spectacles in Post-Mao Popular Cinema”
by Yiyang Hou

“Ideological Longing for Hopeful Defeat: National Policy Films in Colonial Korea Revisited”
by Haneul Lee

“Framing and Re-Framing: The Black Nerd Character in Contemporary African American Cinema”
by Julie Majerus

“Cinema’s Trepidatious Screen: Obscuring Abortive Bodies and Reproductive Identities with the Female Grotesque”
by Anne Moore

“One Last Movie: Creating the Filmic Ghost Through the Reconstruction of Our (His)stories”
by Alejandra Rosenberg

“Hitchcock, Herrmann, and Torn Curtain
by Mauri J. Sumén

“Cinema as Poetry: Through the Prism of Chinese Poetics”
by Jiyuan Tian

“Gilles Deleuze and the Generous Documentary”
by Joseph Wofford

“A National Cinema in Search for a Nation: The Manchuria Film Association”
by Xinyi Zhao

"The Untitled Natalie Wood Communist Fan Magazine Project"
by Chandler Taylor

“Making and Marketing of a ‘Sellebrity’ Auteur - Christopher Nolan”
by Peter G. Bell 

“Expanding Irish Cinema: Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Moving Image in Ireland”
by Patrick Brodie

“Negotiating Italian Whiteness: American Silent Cinema Revised”
by Joseph Coppola 

“Assembling Digital Fragments: Collage and Found Footage in Chinese Independent Documentary”
by Yiwei Fan

“Cinema and its Discontents: The Politics of Contemporary Moving Image Exhibition in the work of Hito Steyerl and Omer Fast”
by Jessica Fletcher

“For Unrestricted Use Anywhere: The Exposure of 28mm and the Complexities of Maintaining Its Visibility”
by Hannah Greenberg 

“Expanding Narrative Realms: Genre and Exhibition in the Work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Cecelia Condit”
by Jessica Ann Hough  

“Screening The ‘New Woman’ in Late Colonial Period Korean Films: Modern Girls, Good Wives, Wise Mothers”
by Andrew Sanggyu Lee 

“Desire and Devotion: A Darshan Way of Looking in the Work of Sanjay Leela Bhansali”
by Dinesh Pasrasurum 

“The Bijou of the South: Milton Starr’s Influence on African-American Motion Picture Exhibition”
by Allie Mackenzie Roberts 

“Whatever Happened to Wanda? Barbara Loden’s Unique Vision of Women’s Cinema”
by Emily Bahr-de Stefano 

“From (Representing) The Others to (Embracing) The Impossible: On Contemporary Spanish Anglophone Cinema and (Trans)nationalism”
by Johnny Gustavo Herrera Taboado 

“Documenting the Unrepresentable: Reenactment from a Distance”
by Michael Tacca 

“Trauma as Allegory: The Cinematic Representation of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Postmodern China”
by Xiangran Yang 

“A Voice of Militancy: New Atheist Documentaries and the War on Religion”
by Zizhao Zhang 

“‘You Must Be Caligari’: Depictions of Mental Illness in Film Form”
by Amanda Brzezowski

Jessica Charle, “Sci-Fi Bodies: Bodily Representations in American Science Fiction”
by Jessica Charle

“Moments of Encounter: Slow Cinema at the Museum”
by Huei-Yin Chen

“Moving Pictures, Moving People:
Screening Films to Immigrant Audiences on Ocean Liners, 1926”
by Carolyn Condon-Jacobs

“Defining ‘Tartan Asia Extreme’: Towards the Construction of a Cinematic ‘Moment’!”
by Emily Damron

“Fashion as Performance: Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn”
by Lana Ghandour         

“What If It Had Been Three Women?
Exploring Anja Breien’s Wives as a Feminist Challenge to John Cassavetes’s Husbands
by Ingrid Synneva Holtar

“The Long Take as a Reaction to the Past in Contemporary Romanian Cinema”
by Samuel Littman

“‘Age of the Chick Flick in Chinese Cinema’: Postfeminism and Hollywood-style Chick Flicks in Postsocialist China”
by Danning Ma

“Jean-Louis Comolli’s Secret Life as a Jazz Critic/Redistributing the Common Community and Rethinking the Relationship Between Art and Politics” 

by
 Matthias Mushinski

“Finding Herself: Iranian Women Onscreen by Abbas Kiarostami & Jafar Panahi”
by Bebe-Negar Nodjomi

“Cuba: The Female Face of the Revolution; Sara Gomez, the First Female Cuban Filmmaker”
by Catalina Rayo

“Looking for Berthe Dagmar:
 A Case Study of the Mythology of the Femme Nouvelle in France”
by Aurore Spiers

“The Surveillance Gaze in Red RoadZero Dark ThirtyAfterschool and Caché
by Mads Wølner Voss

“Propaganda Film Reassessed: Different Readings of Eternity in the Perspective of Production”
by Tong Wang

“From Pornography to Pedagogy Cruising’s Changing Gay Critical Reception”
by James Weaver

“Confusing Boundaries: Two Films by Leslie Thorton and Desmond Horsfield”
by Giampaolo Bianconi

“Trans-Porn: Fandom, Stardom, and Pornographic Film in East Asia Region”
by Jianqing Chen

“Mistaken Faces in Floating Places: Identities of the ‘Ocean Liner Film’ in Classic Hollywood”  
by Stephanie Gross

“Intermediality and Image: The Art of Agnès Varda’s Cinécriture
by Averi Gutierrez

“Selfishly in ‘Love’?: The Collaboration of Tanaka Noboru and Miyashita Junko”
by Mio Hatokai

“Queering Québec: Québécois Identity and Contemporary Québécois Queer Cinema”
by Jemma Hinkly

“A Tracing of Pure Cinema: From the French Avant-Garde of the 1920s to Contemporary Cinema”
by Nadia Ismail

“Apocalypse Noir: Apocalyptic Narratives and Temporal Dislocation Within the Modality of Film Noir”
by Peter Labuza

Bon papa? Visualizing the Memory of the Belgian Congo at Home and Abroad”
by Kristin Poppé Nissen

“Giallo in Venice: Constructing a City of Crime”
by Greta Nordio

“Director’s Directors Directing Director’s Directors: An Inquiry Into the Roles of Auteur Directors Acting in Other Auteur Directors’ Films”
by Clare Richardson

“Recut Trailers as Queer Remix”
by Vera Salm

“The Ignorant Filmmaker: Asghar Farhadi Under the Rancièrian Spell of Pedagogy”
by Sophie Soghomonian

“Truth and the Exonerative Documentary”
by Madelyn Sutton

“Cities and Screens: How New Media Influence Our Experience of the Cities”
by Nazish Tazeem

“What Happens When the Thing that Made You Dies?: Parental Loss and Girlhood in Contemporary Black American Cinema”
by Aramide A. Tinubu

“Remapping the Journey: A Post-Classical Reading of Life of Pi
by Hsiu-an Wan

“A Cultural Comparative Study of Contemporary People’s Republic of China (PCR) and Japanese Cinema: Moral Schema, Narrative and Youngsters (1990-2013)”
by Le Yin

“Rethinking the Cultural Identity of Chinese 1980s’ Generation: Analyzing Found of a Republic As a New Paradigm”
by Bingqiao Zhou

“Erik Barnouw and The Global Documentary”
by Andrew C. Beck

“You Want to See Me Tap Dance?: Quirk and Postfeminism in Contemporary American Film”
by Sarah Dunn

“The Same But Different: Content Distribution and Web 2.0”
by Simon Hewitt

“Mani Kaul’s Polycentric Modernisms: Towards a Dialogical Model of Assessment”
by Zain Jamshaid

“Moral Tales: The Deviant Fun of Anthology Horror Films”
by Sonia Lupher

“‘The Mind is a Whore:’An Erotics of Consciousness in the Writing of Susan Sontag”
by Emma E. Myers

“Armenians’ Presence in the Pre-Revolution Iranian Cinema: Two Significant Moments (1900-1932) and (1948-1965)”
by Garineh Nazarian

“The Indoor Apocalypse: Last Night and English Canadian End of the World Cinema”
by Jordan Osterer

“The Jig’s Not Up: A Critical Investigation of the Hollywood Song-and-Dance Man”
by Kate Saccone

“Performance and Seduction in Remediated Opera”
by Julia Katherine Sirmons

“An Endangered Cinematic Experience: Stop Motion Animation and Digital Imaging in Visual Effects”
by Katherine Stryker

“A ‘Fatal Kink’: On Parker Tyler’s Queer Criticism”
by Benjamin H. Turkus

Allochtonenfilm: Representing Dutch Immigrant Narratives on Screen”
by Diantha Vliet

Somos lo que hay, ‘New Mexican Cinema’ and Other Symptoms of Forgetfulness”
by María Cristina Alemán

“‘I Die, Therefore I Am:’ ‘Suicide Narratives’ in Israeli and American Cinema”
by Neta Alexander

“The Reality Effect: The Special Effect and Cinematic Representation”
by Depaulo Vincent Bariuan

“Attempting Freedom: The Israeli Essay Film”
by Daniel Caron

“The Postwar Moment: Art Cinema Culture in the United States, 1963-1975”
by Ricky J. D’Ambrose

“My, What a Small Camera You Have: The Anxiety of Technological Change in the American Rape-Revenge Film"
by Katherine L. Gray

“Bergson’s Challenge: Theorizing a ‘Non-Cinematographic’ Cinema”
by Jeremy Heilman

“The Future of the Chinese Imagination: Aftereffects of Duplication in the Chinese Film Industry”
by Jane V. Hsu

“Make Way for Yesterday: Evasions of Old Age in American Cinema”
by Steven D. Mears

“Embodied Ideology(s): The International Star-Image as a Conduit of Cultural Convergence”
by Jivan Nagra

“Shooting the Star: The Bond Between Star Image and Cinematographic Style”
by Frank Ombres

“‘Enough of Mozzhukhin!’ or, ‘Ivan the Great’: The Star Image of Ivan Mozzhukhin in Soviet Russia and France in the 1920s”
by Viktoria (Vika) Paranyuk

“Financial Derivatives and The Social Network
by Jonathan Robbins

“The Cultural Representation of Aishwarya Rai: Star Image and Identity in Contemporary Indian Cinema”
by Tarini Sridharan

“Trans-Nordic Cinema: The Interwoven Histories of Nordic National Cinemas”
by Pétur Valsson

“Lost Girls and Drop-Outs: Women on the Margins of International Cinema (1966-1976) A Study of Yesterday Girl, Black Girl, Wanda, and Iracema
by Livia Bloom

“The Sophisticated New Yorker and American Cinema”
by Diane Camina

“Cinetext: The Visible Word”
by Bethany Anne Czerny

“The Sick on Display: Aberrantification of Patients and Exploitation of the Body in London Missionary Society Films”
by Linnéa Hussein

“From Charlot to Hulot: The Comic Body in Space”
by Alessandra Luciano

“Passionate Failure: A Framework for the Diva on Film”
by Delores McElroy

“Shock the System: Emancipating the Image of the Black Subject Through L.A.Rebellion Films”
by Diamond McNeil

“Retaining and Assimilating Queerness: The Politics of the New Queer Cinema Crossover”
by Marc Newman

“If You Have Nothing Nice to Say, Come Sit Next to Me: Queering Star Scandal History”
by Zack Oleson

“Challenging the Myth of Authenticity via the Native Image”
by Alece Oxendine

“Permanent Negations: Towards ‘The Revolutionary’ in Chilean Revolutionary Cinema (1970-1973)”
by José Miguel Palacios Del Valle

“The Holodrama: A Dialectic of Historicized Pathos and Action. A Comparative Study of Czechoslovak and Hollywood Holocaust Narratives”
by Rachel Schaff

“Dangerous Liaisons: The Gay International Arrives in Palestine”
by Joseph S. Valle

“The Bicycle ‘Thieved:’ Reconsidering Italian Neo-Realism in Philosophical Landscapes”
by Neil Vercellin

“Yellow Subjectivity Under Yellowface: Mapping Chinese Performance Through The Curse of Quon Gwon
by Mengqian Xie

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

“Discovery of Women: Filmic Representation of Modern Girls in Chosun Cinema During the Japanese Occupation Period”
by Eun Jeong Choi

“Early African-American Female Filmmakers”
by Aimee Dixon

“Myopia Diagnosed: Rendering Subjectivity to the Children in the Sertão
by Bruno Guaraná

“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 Russian Film Industry (end of 1980s-2009)”
by Elena Lakomkina

“Empire of (Lecto)Signs, Vol. 1: Gesture as Post-Deleuzian, Omnidirectional Potentiality”
by Jason R. LaRivière

“The Influence of Aristophanes on Greek Film Comedy: 1948-1968”
by Nefeli Lygerou

“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

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

“Contesting and Reordering Contemporary Greek Society Through Film Syntax: An Examination of the Heterotopic Approach to Filmmaking Through a Close Analysis of Hostage and Correction
by Diana Wade

“Why Does China Not Have Its Own Hayao Miyazaki?: 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 Wedgewood

“‘Never Let the Camera Catch Me Acting’: Lillian Gish as Actor, Star, and Theorist”
by Annie Berke

“The Two Double Agents in Lust, Caution: Ang Lee and the Female Spy”
by Ti-Kai Chang

“Commercializing and Capitalizing: The Route to Industrial Business (Chanye) for the Chinese Motion Picture”
by Yuan Chen

“A Journey From Cinema 16 to YouTube”
by Michaela C. Downs

“Sex Isn’t Sexy: Catherine Breillat and the Pornodramatic Narrative”
by James Hansen

“Fandom Fabrication and the Fascinating Youth: A History of the Paramount Pictures School”
by Matthew Hipps

“On the Verge of Explosion: Korean Melodrama, Kim, Ki-Young’s The Housemaid
by Song Jegal

“Mapping Manhatta and the Uncharted Terrain of Early American Avant-Garde Film”
by Maria Lund

“Posing as a Pansy: The Fauxmosexual Fantasy in Film”
by Richard “Chad” Newman

“Towards an Undie Cinema: Philosophy for the Development of an Emancipated Pedagogy and Practice of Cinema”
by Michelle Serieux

“The Portuguese Colonial Collection: The Empire and its Colonies”
by Verónica Spratley

“The Eye Altered: The Cinema of the Magic Lantern”
by Artemis Willis