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Subject: Film and Television

The exploration of film as a memory agent, resonating with an audience through shared experiences. The creative and ethical challenges facing the production designer when constructing on-screen memory

  • Author:
  • Louis Mowbray
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2024
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

From novel to screen – Investigating authorship, fidelity and ownership in adaptation studies

  • Author:
  • Heller Harris Lengsfield
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2024
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

Women in a man’s world – the construction of femininity in the James Bond franchise. From Goldeneye to No Time to Die

  • Author:
  • Emma Lawson Arnold
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2024
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

“Now I don’t want to make a big deal outta this, but I do believe it’ll be the greatest moment in the history of everything” – The representation of boyhood and adolescence of the 1980s and 1990s in the 21st century American period sitcoms, Everybody Hates Chris, The Goldbergs and Fresh off the Boat

  • Author:
  • Bryce Cox
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2024
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

How 80s remakes of 50s horror films recontextualised narratives of the MacCarthy era to reflect the fears of the Reagan era

  • Author:
  • Ethan Sanders
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2024
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

Stanley Kubrick – capturing the imperfect duality of the human experience

  • Author:
  • Joseph Bates
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2024
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

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

How the construction of mentor/protégé and father/son protagonist dynamics in Wes Anderson’s films act as a vehicle for his enactment of the auteur

  • Author:
  • Annie Gault
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies