The MA thesis
A key
component of the MA in Film Studies is your thesis, which is worth half of the 90 credits of the MA. This is a long project (15000 words approximately) that you will research and write up from March
until September.
The teaching team has a wide range of expertise, and will work with you to come up with a topic that interests you.
Below is a list of some of the theses that staff on the MA have supervised. It will give you some sense of the diverse range of topics that can be supervised by our team.
- Colonialism in David
Lean
’s films
- Horror
films post 9/11
- The Films of Tim
Burton
- Stardom and Kathleen
Turner
- Batman
and audience reception
- The Films of Stephen
Frears
- The Films of the Coen
brothers
- Recent zombie
films
- Charlize Theron
/Star image
- Cult Stardom and Bruce
Campbell
- Teen movies
of the 1980
- Charlie Kaufmann
and postmodernism
- Lillian Gish
and melodrama
- Herzog’s Grizzly
Man
- Jane Campion
and feminist filmmaking
- Silent gangster
films
- Narrative and gender
in the films of Terrence Malick
- James Dean
and the American Dream
- Voyeurism and
masochism in Martin Scorsese
’s
work
- Filmic representations
of World War II
- Gender in the early Federico
Fellini
- Women and cinema
in the 1920s
- The films of Jules
Dassin
- Hollywood Cinema and
American attitudes before and after 9/11
- Ethnicity and identity
in recent American gangster
films
- Motherhood in Almodovar
’s films
- Performativity in Michael
Moore
’s documentaries
- Children of Men
and counter cinema
- Theory and practice of
the documentary in Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Shrek
and parody
- Blondes in the films
of David Lynch
- The German Heimatfilm
- Stardom in recent
Hollywood musicals
- Trauma in the cinema
of Lars von Trier
- The War films of Ken
Loach
- Music in Contemporary
and Historical Irish Cinema
- Montage in Jean-Luc
Godard
’s Histoire(s) du
Cinéma
- Politics and
Ideologies of the Bond
films
- Hitler's Irish
Movies
- The cinema of Kevin
Smith
- Metafiction
in modern Hollywood
