Check out the array of research expertise emerging within Media, Film and Communication.
PhD and MA
Current PhD students
- Oliver Dearnley-Smith
Negative Affects: critical theory and libidinal (dis)economies - from alienation to misery - Frankie Fei
Feel Your Time: (Re)imagining history and futurity in retro-queer narratives - Kevin Fletcher
The Family in United States Media Culture - David Green
- Deniz Karahan-Alp
Between Emancipation and Domination: Herbert Marcuse and social media - Mariska Mannes
When professional and cultural identities collide: working in a multicultural health team in NZ - Campbell Walker
- Jung Seok (Lucas) Yu
How Can Social Media Be Regulated in a Democracy: A study of platform accountability in South Korea
Current MA by thesis students
- Taylor Adams
Somatechnics: Machinic flesh and re-writing the gendered body - George Elliott
A Baudrillardian Analysis of War Porn and the Speculative Martian Frontier
Recently completed PhDs
- Dr Aida Nasirah Abdullah
Environmental Online Communication in Malaysia: a Case Study of Best Practices used by Malaysian Environmental NGO's Websites - Dr Anne Begg
Brand New Zealand: Media Governmentality and Affective Biopower - Dr Garth Cartwright
"We Live Inside a Dream": Ideology and Utopia in the Films of David Lynch - Dr Maud Ceuterick
Willful women in contemporary cinema: Affect, space and affirmative aesthetics - Dr Florian Deffner
Communicative Mobility and Networked Mediation in Transnational Lifeworlds: a case study of European Expatriates in Australia - Dr Gillian Elliot
Exploring nature as representation and young adults’ conceptualisations of nature in the user-generated online world: Nature 2.0 - Dr Owain Gwynne
Fan-Made Time: Power and play in the production paratext of The Hobbit - Dr Olivier Jutel
Liberalism and its Populist Excess – Barack Obama, the Tea Party and the Median Field - Dr Chris Hacon
The Algorithmic Subject: the neo-liberal apparatus and hte social media technology of power - Dr Rieko Hayakawa
Possibility of telecommunication universal service in the Pacific Islands: case studies of Vanuata, PEACESAT and USPNet - Dr Teri Higgins
Attention to Detail: Epistolary Discourse and Contemporary Cinema - Dr Gabrielle Hine
Shaping Motherhood: Representations of Pregnancy in Popular Media - Dr Shah Nister J. Kabir
New Zealand Media Constructions of Islam and Muslims: An analysis of selected newspapers between 2005-2006 - Dr Rebecca Kambuta
Programming Parents: Care of Supernanny - Dr Paul Kirkham
Mimesis and Power - Carolijn Van Noort
BRICS online: a narrative analysis of new technologies and identity forming - Dr David Paterno
Joining (or constrained between) Technology and Medium: Social Communication as Organising Practice - Dr Bronwyn Polaschek
The Postfeminist Biopic: Narrating the lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf and Austen - Dr Ellen Pullar
Arletty and Jean Harlow: a Comparative Analysis of Two Film Stars of the 1930s - Dr Donald Reid
From Solid to Liquid Culture: The institutional, political and economic transformation of New Zealand state broadcasting - Dr Erica Todd
Representing Romance at the Movies: Passionate Love and Film Genre - Dr Massimiliana Urbano
Becoming-common: affective technologies and grassroots activism in contemporary Italy - Dr Thaera Yousef
Telling gendered news stories of women and Islam in Malaysia: A narrative analysis of Malay women and controversy in Malaysian online news coverage, 2014 to 2017
Recently completed MAs
- Chloe Banks
- Alison Blair
Children of the Revolution: Bolan, Bowie and the carnivalesque - Aline Freire de Carvalho Frey
Realism, Urban Conflict and Spatial Segregation in New Brazilian Cinema - Petra Lenihan
Rethinking Indian Cinema: Toward a Cinema of Multiplicity - Paul McMillan
Media Power, Framing and the New Zealand Press: VSM and Kim Dotcom - Bernard Madill
Soundscaping New Zealand: an Aural Perspective of a Cinematic Geography - Ryan Metzler
Creative cross-cultural collaboration: forging a new path for ethnographic film in Aotearoa New Zealand - Katherine Miller-Skillander
Documenting Lives Over Time: How Longitudinal Documentaries Provide a Visual Life Course Perspective - Jo Murphy
Re-Presenting Fear: the Slasher Remake as Cumulative Hypertext - Jane Ross
Re-examinations of Rural Life in Contemporary New Zealand Documentary - Abigail Sawyer
Race, Terror and the Media: Representations of the New Zealand "Anti-terror" Raids - Peter Stapleton
The Rockumentaries, Direct Cinema, and the Politics of the 1960s - Edmund Smith
The Age of the Superhero: the cycle of appropriation & revitalisation in the Hollywood Blockbuster - Amie Taua
- Matt Ward
Previously on Battlestar Galactica: Narrative Innovation in Contemporary American Science Fiction Television - Eileen Yu
Virginia Woolf, the Window and Visual Culture
