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Subject: Film and 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

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

A look at the portrayal of the menstruating teenage girl as the monstrous feminine in teen horror films, Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body

  • Author:
  • Shahinah Begum binte Syed Tazmul Hussain
  • Subject:
  • Film and Television
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies

In the company of women: gender politics and the representation of female friendship in Nine to Five and Thelma & Louise

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

“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