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