film theory

This PhD is a genealogy and critical examination of the writings and films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, spanning the period from the early 1960s to 1980s. Despite the prominence of their texts, there has not been a book-length study of either body of writing, nor an overvie…

National and international cinemas occupy two different territories in critical reception and criticism with an overlapping realm and unbridged gaps in between. The study of cross-cultural adaptations in a national cinema demands an understanding of the cultural, social, and pol…

This dissertation is a rhetorical study of the critical reception of the French film Hiroshima mon amour (1959; dir.: Alain Resnais; screenplay: Marguerite Duras). My main argument is that the themes of love and technology followed a dialectical progression in the critical recep…