125 Online Film and Moving Image Studies PhD Theses

"How will I ever find a PhD thesis in here?": images from The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986)

The ever industrious, but not nearly modest enough, Film Studies For Free has just published a new page to house a permanent and, thankfully, growing list of openly accessible, English-language, online PhD theses in Film and Moving Image Studies.

Like its other, jaw-droppingly essential pages, it is accessible from the FSFF contents index in the right-hand sidebar. So, hopefully you won't need a PhD to find it again in future.

It currently lists links to 125 theses on an enormous range of film and moving image studies topics, and it will be kept constantly updated as new items come to light.

Talking of which, if you know of any relevant, existing online theses that should be added to the list or, alternatively, of online research repositories that FSFF hasn't yet explored, please, please, please email FSFF.

More E-theses online: Doris Day, film spectacle, telefantasy, cinema & society, Korean film & TV

Image from Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, 1961),
starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson

Film Studies For Free had already reported that Douglas Morrey's excellent PhD thesis on the work of Jean-Luc Godard had now been posted online. Below are direct links to some equally wonderful pieces of graduate research on film and television from that very same, very rich Warwick University Research Archive:

• Allen, Steven William, (2003) A pleasure in pain: contemporary mainstream cinema's fascination with the aestheticized spectacle of the controlled body. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Brown, Tom, (2007) From intimate pleasures to spectacular vistas: musicality and historicity in French and American 'classical' cinema of the 1930s. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Jeffers, Tamar Elizabeth Louise (2005) "Should I surrender?": performing and interrogating female virginity in Hollywood films 1957-64. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Johnson , Catherine (2002) Histories of telefantasy: the representation of the fantastic and the aesthetics of television. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Kim, Ju Young (2007) Rethinking media flow under globalisation: rising Korean wave and Korean TV and film policy since 1980s. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Lehin, Barbara (2003) Cinema and society: Thatcher's Britain and Mitterand's France. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
  

Assorted articles and e-theses: costumes, sound, French and Spanish cinema, and more

Image from La Reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1993)

Another visit to a university research repository took Film Studies For Free to Exeter, home to some of the most original film-related research in the United Kingdom. Below are some openly accessible research items of note; four especially highly-recommended items are emboldened and marked with asterisks: ***

• Bridget Birchall, 'Patrick Dewaere and gender identity in Giscardian France (1974-1981)', e-PhD thesis, February 2009
• ***Jennie Cousins, 'Unstitching the 1950s film à costumes: Hidden Designers, Hidden Meanings.'', e-PhD thesis, October 2008
• Michael DeLashmutt, 'The sexualisation of popular culture: towards a Christian sexual aesthetic', Crucible, Summer 2006, pp. 42-56
• Michael DeLashmutt, 'The technological imaginary: bringing myth and imagination into dialogue with Bronislaw Szerszynski's "Nature, Technology and the Sacred"', Zygon, 41(4), pp.801-810
• Nikhilesh Dholakia and Jonathan Schroeder, 'Disney: delights and doubts', Journal of Research for Consumers, 2, 2001
• ***Sally Faulkner, 'A Cinema of Contradiction: Picazo's "La tía Tula" (1964) and the Nuevo Cine Español,' The Modern Language Review July 2004
• Stefan Jack Garel, 'QUEER BODIES AND SETTLEMENTS: the pertinence of queer theory in the fields of queer history and trans politics, disability and 'curative education', quantum physics and experimental art - an interdisciplinary and transnational account of three socio-cultural and filmic research projects.', e-PhD thesis, March 2009
• Anthony King, 'Serial killing and the postmodern self', History of the Human Sciences, 19(3), August 2006, pp. 109-125
• ***Amy McGill, 'The Contemporary Hollywood Film Soundtrack: Professional Practices and Sonic Styles Since the 1970s', e-PhD thesis, November 2008
• Jonathan Schroeder, 'Visual Consumption', Discussion papers in management. Final version published in The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology / edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell, 2007
• ***Thomas Wynn, 'Manon Through the Lens of Clouzot (1948): ‘images troublantes et précises’', French Cultural Studies, February 2006
  

Online theses on the work of Jean-Luc Godard

Image from Vivre sa vie/My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

Film Studies For Free was delighted to discover that Douglas Morrey's wonderful PhD thesis on the work of Jean-Luc Godard was now openly accessible online. Then, ecstatic, it found two more, highly worthwhile pieces of graduate research work on that filmmaker. The direct links are given below for your own delectation, delight, and film-educational betterment....

• Gary Elshaw, 'The Depiction of late 1960's Counter Culture in the 1968 Films of Jean-Luc Godard', MA e-thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, November 2000
• Douglas Morrey, Jean-Luc Godard and the other history of cinema. PhD e-thesis, University of Warwick, 2002
• Thibaut Schilt, 'Marginal Pleasure and Auteurist Cinema: the Sexual Politics of Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Breillat and François Ozon', PhD e-thesis, Ohio State University 2005