Screen Media & Cultures

M.Phil Degree

Sample Titles:
M.Phil Theses

This list of thesis titles is provided to give potential and current students an idea of the range of topics that can be addressed in a Screen Media and Cultures M.Phil Thesis. All titles must be submitted for approval by the Course Director.

Information on submission deadlines can be found here.

The titles below are all examples of topics chosen by former Screen Media and Cultures M.Phil students and submitted to fulfil the M.Phil Thesis requirement.

A Queer Becoming: Female Adolescence in Contemporary Cinema

An analysis of the emergence and implications of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)

Boxed In: Women and Containment in American Sitcoms of the 1950s

British television comedy in the digital age: space, place and media in contemporary sitcom

Cinema at the end of time: Temporality, gender and legitimacy in German Truemmerfilme of 1946-47

Cinematic Reality and the Aesthetics of Chinese Independent Cinema

City Symphonies in Minor: Screening Three Postwar Berlin Childhoods with Walter Benjamin

Claustrophobia: The Framing of Space in American Fiction and Film, 1919-1932

Co-auteurism in the Public and Private Spheres: The contributions of Alexander Kluge and Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Deutschland im Herbst

Commedie al femminile: The Gendering of Space in Three Films by Antonio Pietrangeli

Defining the Cinematic Kampong: Malay films and Malaysian society from 1957 to 1969

Displaying the Personal: The 'Postdocumentary' in Old Media and New

Double-Crosses: Gender and Comedy in Some Like It Hot and Victor/Victoria

Ecstatic Cinema: Excess and Limitation

Establishment and Ambiguity of Space in Animation

Exile and Displacement in the Late Cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci

Exoticism and Nostalgia in Cinema: Out of Africa (1985) and Nowhere in Africa (2001)

Experienced and inherited exile: representations of identity in Mitko Panov's The War is Over and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven

Fabricated Albums: Family Representations in the Works of Wes Anderson

Film Adaptations of Andrei Platonov's Prose: Visualizing Matter

From Bazin to Bumming in Beijing: China's New Documentary Movement in its International and Chinese Contexts

Immediacy and Hypermediation: A Basis for a New Approach to Intermedial Reference in Film

Jetztzeit/Zeitgeist: The Virtue of Forgetting in Film and Video

La Marche cinématographique

Lynch's Gloss: Film-Making and the Art of Advertisement

Making the Real City Reel: Towards a Phenomenology of City Symphonies

Mass Killing as Mass Entertainment: Fictionalised Cinematic Portrayals of the Rwandan Genocide

Neorealism, Neoverism: Music in Italian Neorealist Films

On Import Export: Reading Ulrich Seidl's film through Jean-Luc Nancy

Painting With Light: Articulations of Space Through Luminous Media in the Work of László Moholy-Nagy

Pixar's Approach to Technological Innovation and Creativity

Preserving Paradise: Sustaining the Commerce and Culture of MMORPGs

Remediating the Feminine: Feminist Consciousness and New Media

Satire on Page and Screen: A Study of Kubrick

Sensations and Sensationalism in the early cinema of Fritz Lang, 1919-1922

Silent Sangre: Severing Blood Ties and Shattering Family Structures in New Argentine Cinema

The (Un)heimlich Topography of Lynchland

The Conservative Grotesque: Confronting the Abject in the Cinema of Pasolini and Greenaway

The Politics of Representation in early Senegalese Film Adaptation: A Case Study of Ousmane Sembene's Mandabi and Xala