Dissertations
Completed Dissertations
| Student Name | Dissertation Title | Degree Program | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Nicholas Forster |
“The Period Between Was My Life”: Self-Adaptation and the Many Lives of Bill Gunn” |
with African American Studies | 2019 |
|
Regina Karl |
“Manipulations: The Hand as Symbol and Symptom in the Arts and Literature after 1900” |
with German |
2019 |
|
Viktoria Paranuk |
“Soviet Cinema Comes in from the Cold: Realism, the Thaw, and the Aesthetic of Sincerity.” |
with Slavic | 2019 |
|
Masha Shpolberg |
“Labor in Late Socialism: the Cinema of Polish Workers’ Unrest 1968-1981” |
with Comparative Literature | 2019 |
| Luca Peretti | “Neocapitalist Realism: ENI’s Industrial Films in the Anticolonial Era” | with Italian | 2018 |
| Alexandra Catrickes | “Cinematic Melodrama as Historical Mode: Art, Geography, and Hyper-realism in Italian Melodrama Films” | with Italian | 2018 |
| Ila Tyagi | ”Extending the Eye: The American Oil Industry in Moving Images” | with American Studies | 2018 |
| Kirsty Dootson | “Industrial Color: Chromatic Technologies in Britain (1856-1971)” | with History of Art | 2018 |
| Mallory Ahern | “Flickers, Loops, Dots, Stacks, and Tracings: Cinematic Devices and the Technical Images, 1960-1975” | with History of Art | 2018 |
| Moira Weigel | “Facing Animals in the Age of Celluloid” | with Comparative Literature | 2017 |
| Mihaela Mihailova | “Negotiating Reality: Animated Realism in the Digital Age” | with Slavic | 2017 |
| Daniel Fairfax | “The Theoretical Legacy of Cahiers du cinéma (1968–1973)” | with Comparative Literature | 2017 |
| Janett Buell | “Body, Space, Memory: Mapping Notions of Human Experience in German & American Media Theory” | with German | 2017 |
| Raisa Sidenova | “From Pravda to Vérité: Soviet Documentary on Film and Television, 1953–1982” | with Slavic | 2017 |
| Zelda Roland | “Hollywood Stockyards: People and Places in the Backgrounds of Classical Hollywood” | with History of Art | 2016 |
| Joshua Sperling | “Realism, Modernism and Commitment in the Work of John Berger 1952–76” | with Comparative Literature | 2016 |
| Jordan Brower | “A Literary History of the Studio System, 1911–1950” | with English | 2016 |
| Anne Berke | “ ‘You Just Type’: Women Television Writers in 1950s America” | with American Studies | 2016 |
| Rea Amit | “The Japanese Postwar Golden Age of Cinema: Industry, Reception, Aesthetics, and Demographics” | with East Asian | 2016 |
| Patrick Reagan | “The Contested Community: European Auteur Cinema at the Beginning of the 21st Century” |
with German |
2016 |
| Takuya Tsunoda | “Land of the Dawn: Iwanami Productions and Postwar Japanese Cinema” | with East Asian | 2015 |
| Claudia Calhoun | “ ‘The Story You Are About to Hear Is True’: Dragnet, Transmedia Storytelling, and the Postwar Police Procedural” | with American Studies | 2015 |
| Joshua Glick | “Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977” | with American Studies | 2014 |
| Grant Wiedenfeld | “Elastic Esthetics: Media and Metaphysics in Mallarmé, Griffith, and Flaubert” | with Comparative Literature | 2014 |
| Ryan Cook | “Through the Looking Glass: Flirtations and Nonsense in 1960s Japanese Film Culture” | with East Asian | 2013 |
| Michael Cramer | “The Pedagogical Art Film in European Cinema” | with Comparative Literature | 2013 |
| Naoki Yamamoto | “Realities That Matter: The Development of Realist Film Theory and Practice in Japan, 1985–1945” | with East Asian | 2012 |
| Jeremi Szaniawski | “The Image and the Interstice: Alexander Sokurov’s Poetics of Paradox” | with Slavic | 2012 |
| Michael J. Anderson | “The Early Howard Hawks” | with History of Art | 2012 |
| Nora Gortcheva | “Modern Spaces and Cinema: Movie Theaters and City Films in Wilhelmine and Weimar Berlin” | with German | 2011 |
| Seung-hoon Jeong | “Cinematic Interfaces: Retheorizing Apparatus, Image, Subjectivity” | with Comparative Literature | 2011 |
| Richard Suchenski | “Utopian Romanticism and the Poetics of Scale: Modernist Explorations of the Cinematic Long Form” | with History of Art | 2011 |
| Miriam Posner | “Depth Perception: Narrative and the Body in Medical Filmmaking” | with American Studies | 2011 |
| Victor Fan | “Football Meets Opium: Political Violence, Sovereignty, and Cinema Archeaeology between ‘England’ and ‘China’ ” | with Comparative Literature | 2010 |
| Jennifer Stob | “ ‘With and Against Cinema’: The Situationist International and the Cinematic Image” | with History of Art | 2010 |
| Alice Lovejoy | “A Military Avant-Garde: Art Cinema in the Czechoslovak Army, 1951–1971” | with Comparative Literature | 2009 |
| Anne Kern | “Games and the Sacred in European Literature and Film 1900-1940” | with Comparative Literature | 2007 |
| Jennifer Smyth | “American Cavalcade: Hollywood as Historian in the 1930s” | with American Studies | 2004 |
Dissertations in Progress
| Student Name | Dissertation Title | Degree Program |
|---|---|---|
| Ila Tyagi | “Seeing the Invisible: The American Oil Industry in Moving Images’ | with American Studies |
| Jamicia Lackey | “The Cinematic Registers of Postcolonial Diaspora” | with African-American Studies |
| Cecile Lagesse | “France and Chinese Cinema (1980–2010)” | with East Asian |
| Andrew Vielkind | “In Media Res: Experimental Cinema and Technoscience During the Cold War Period” | with History of Art |
| Andrey Tolstoy | “Going off the Grid in Film and Literature” | with Comparative Literature |
| Luca Peretti | “Moving images in a country in motion: Eni’s Cinema at the Crossroads of Modernity and Tradition” | with Italian |
| Malory Ahern | “Flickers, Loops, Dots, Stacks, and Tracings: Cinematic Devices and the Technical Image, 1960–1975” | with History of Art |
| Sean Strader | “ ‘L’irréel avec l’évidence du réalisme’: Mythology and Technology in the Cinema of Jean Cocteau” | with French |
| Kirsty Sinclair-Dootson | Industrial Colour: Chromatic Technologies in Britain, 1856–1971 | with History of Art |
| Maria Catrickes | Cinematic Melodrama as Historial Mode | with Italian |