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Award: BA (Hons) Film & Television

Policing an overwhelming abundance of underwhelming media: exploring the role of the YouTube algorithm in shaping a new form of television streaming

  • Author:
  • Harry Flack
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

Don’t You Forget About Me: construction and presentation of 1980’s youth culture in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles

  • Author:
  • Christy Ip
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

How the marketing tool and narrative device ‘Queerbaiting’ is used within ‘Supernatural’ and ‘The 100’ to exploit queer audiences on the broken promise of representation

  • Author:
  • Kieran Cooper
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

“That’s just, like, the rules of feminism”; Analysing representations of femininity and feminist narratives in Legally Blonde and Mean Girls

  • Author:
  • Isabelle Atherton
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

British films that will lift your spirits: exploring nostalgia, community and identification in films at times of socio/political uncertainty

  • Author:
  • Karenza Bell
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

Who is The Cool Girl? An investigation into Amy Dunne and The Cool Girl trope

  • Author:
  • Georgia Whitehouse
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

The ground-breaking work of Agnès Varda and La Nouvelle Vague

  • Author:
  • Lauren Morley
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

Where’s Austen? The use and misuse of Jane Austen’s irony in literary film adaptation

  • Author:
  • Florence Moorhead
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair: neoliberalism in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

  • Author:
  • Louis Ricci
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television

Smoke and mirrors: women as witches in American cinema

  • Author:
  • Emma Moorhouse
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film & Television