Library Dissertation Showcase

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Latest Dissertations

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

Analysing the presentation of 1980s American masculinity in Frank Miller’s Daredevil: The Man Without Fear! (#168-191)

  • Author:
  • James Eling
  • Subject:
  • English
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) English

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

‘Which side are you on, boys?’: an investigation into miners’ masculinity in the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike

  • Author:
  • Molly Day-Coombes
  • Subject:
  • History
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2019
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) History

The Demolition Diner and the summer of 84: an exploration of the space and time of the Bristol student anarchists of the mid-1980s

  • Author:
  • Benjamin Samuel Cattle
  • Subject:
  • History
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) History

The extent to which lesbians and lesbian issues were involved in social political movements throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and how their interests were catered for

  • Author:
  • Charlotte Luisa Dunstan
  • Subject:
  • History
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) History

What can the Mayorship of Bernie Sanders in Burlington, Vermont, tell us about the nature of politics in President Ronald Reagan’s America, 1980-1989?

  • Author:
  • Ryan Dean Thompson
  • Subjects:
  • English
  • History
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) English and History

Empire, sodomy and the HIV epidemic: the relationship between British colonial anti sodomy legislation and the spread of HIV/AIDS

  • Author:
  • Andrew North
  • Subject:
  • International Relations
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • MA International Relations