Check out the array of research expertise emerging within Media, Film and Communication.
Current students
PhD students
Eleanor Crabill (co-supervised with School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences)
A critical analysis of the legacy and impacts in the post-FIFA Women's World Cup era
Oliver Dearnley-Smith
Self-Alienated spirit; the subject and the social in Hegel and Critical Theory
Kevin Denholm
Frankie Fei
"Feels Like Queer Spirit": Queer Structures of Feeling in Independent Films and Narratives
Kevin Fletcher
The Family in United States Media Culture
Deniz Karahan-Alp
Between Emancipation and Domination: Herbert Marcuse and social media
Arundhati Sethi
Charlotte von Waldenfels (co-supervised with Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology)
Trauma, Womanhood and Landscape in female-led crime drama.
Tessa Watson
Eileen Yu
Feminine Aesthetics and Visual Imagination in the works of Virginia Woolf, Germain Dulac and Dora Carrington.
Jung Seok (Lucas) Yu
How Can Social Media Be Regulated in a Democracy: A study of platform accountability in South Korea
MA by thesis students
Rose Finnie
MA by coursework students
Yana (Lingling) Hu
Jia Ling and feminism in China
Ingrid Ireland-White
Completed students
PhD graduates
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 Hannah Herchenbach (co-supervised with Sociology)
On Becoming a Dunedin Rock Musician
Dr Bethany Geckle (co-supervised with Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences)
Queer World-Making: Destabilising Heteronormativity through Skateboarding.
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
Watch seminar
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
Dr Mariska Mannes
When professional and cultural identities collide: working in a multicultural health team in NZ
Dr 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
Masters' graduates
Taylor Adams
From flayed bodies to frozen eggs: A cultural history of the body, somatechnices, and the 're'-turn of the flesh.
Alison Blair
Children of the Revolution: Bolan, Bowie and the carnivalesque
George Elliott
A Baudrillardian Analysis of War Porn and the Speculative Martian Frontier
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
Elizabeth Ross
'And Godard Created Karina': The Muse from Goddess to Vessel in European Cinema.
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
Matt Ward
Previously on Battlestar Galactica: Narrative Innovation in Contemporary American Science Fiction Television
Eileen Yu
Virginia Woolf, the Window and Visual Culture