Media, Communication and Performing Arts
Recent Submissions
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The Slum Chronotope and Imaginaries of Spatial Justice in Philippine Urban Cinema
(2017)This dissertation proposes that Philippine independent urban cinema reveals imaginaries of spatial justice. The works approached as Philippine urban cinema are independently produced and internationally circulated films ... -
SCREENING SCOTLAND’S STORIES: Film Adaptations in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Cinema
(2017)This thesis surveys book to film adaptations in Scottish cinema in the period 2000-2015. It is the first examination of this practice in a Scottish context which also analyses the operations of Creative Scotland, the public ... -
An examination of the filmmaking methods of Kenneth Branagh in his directorial film work on Thor, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Cinderella with specific reference to his status as auteur
(2017)This thesis examines the methods that director Sir Kenneth Branagh employs in his approach to directing his films and questions whether the consistency of methods adopted by Branagh across the scope of his films and ... -
Webfilm theory
(Queen Margaret University, 2007)Since its inception in 1989, the World Wide Web has grown as a medium for publishing first text, then images, audio, and finally, moving images including short films. While most new media forms, in particular, hypertext, ... -
Female identity and the British female ensemble drama 1995-1998
(Queen Margaret University, 2007)This thesis focuses upon a distinctive form of 'feminine-gendered' fiction, that of the British female ensemble drama, that has proliferated across televisual schedules since the late 1970s and which has received little ...