Below is a selection of dissertations from the Film Studies program in Dodge College of Film and Media Arts that have been voluntarily included in Chapman University Digital Commons. Additional dissertations from years prior to 2019 are available through the Leatherby Libraries' print collection or in Proquest's Dissertations and Theses database.

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Theses from 2021

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(De/Re)Constructing ChicanX/a/o Cinema: Liminality, Cultural Hyphenation, and Psychic Borderlands in Real Women Have Curves and Mosquita y Mari, Diana Alanis

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Obsessed With the Image: Vulgar Auteurism and Post-Cinematic Affect in the Late Films of Tony Scott, Ethan Cartwright

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The Ben-Hur Franchise and the Rise of Blockbuster Hollywood, Michael Chian

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Cinematic Palimpsests: Polysemy and In(ter)dependency in the Spectator Experience, Lyric Luedke

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Beyond the Image: Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters, and The Method, Emily K. Oliver

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Layer Cake: Post-Cinematic Aesthetics and the “Social Justice Impulse” in Kaneza Schaal's Jack &, Amber M. Power

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Re-animating Post-Digital Cinema: [Animated] Fluidity and Hybrid Aesthetics in Tomm Moore’s Celtic Trilogy, Thomas James Schwaiger

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Curation of the Video Art Exhibition in the Museum, Kamla Thurtle

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Pennies from Heaven: Death and the Afterlife in World War II Fantasy Films, Elise Williamson

Theses from 2020

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Unreal Reality: Post-socialist China's Massive Infrastructural Agenda in Jia Zhangke's "Three Gorges Films", Weiting Liu

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Smell as Self-identity: Capitalist Ideology and Olfactory Imagination in Das Parfum’s Multimedia Storytelling, Xinrong Liu

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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood, Tham Singpatanakul

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Bong Joon-Ho’s Transnational Challenge To Eurocentrism, Lisa - Marie Spaethen

Theses from 2019

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Stardom, Spectacle, Show, and Salability: United Artists and the Founding of the Hollywood Blockbuster Model, Jessica Johnson

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Iranian Cinema in Transition: Relative Truth and Morality in Asghar Farhadi’s Films, Mazyar Mahdavifar

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AI Film Aesthetics: A Construction of a New Media Identity for AI Films, Priya Parikh

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A Cauldron of Chaos and Cultivation: Rediscovering Disney Animation of the 1980s, Thomas Price

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Inflicted Viewing: Examining Moral Masochism, Empathy, and the Frustration of Trauma Cinema, Kira Smith

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Representative Biodiversity: The Ecosystem of Cartoon Network, Carl Suby

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Bending Family Friendly into Fear: Nostalgia, Minstrelsy and Horror in Bendy and the Ink Machine, Isabelle Williams

Theses from 2014

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The Criterion of Quality: A Paratextual Analysis of the Criterion Collection in the Age of Digital Distribution, Jonathan Charles Hyatt