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Heritage and Post-Heritage: Investigating the Style, Form and Genre of Period Drama in 2010s British Television

Abbiss, Will (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This project analyses six period drama productions in British television of the 2010s, expanding Claire Monk’s term of ‘post-heritage’ into a critical framework. Its case studies establish a cycle of progressive representations ...
Constructing a Biopic Screenplay: Fictional Invention in the Biopic with Scant Evidence

Chakravarty, Indranil (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

As a creative practice research project, this thesis sets out to write a screenplay about Suresh Biswas (1861-1905), a little-known Bengali adventurer who was a wild-life trainer and circus-performer in Europe and later ...
Revenge Remix: TERROR NULLIUS (2018) and the Politics of Sample Filmmaking

Lynch, Caitlin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

TERROR NULLIUS (Soda_Jerk, 2018) is an experimental sample film that remixes Australian cinema, television and news media into a “political revenge fable” (soda_jerk.co.au). While TERROR NULLIUS is overtly political in ...
Tangata Ngākau: Māori Boys and Masculinity in the Writing of Bruce Stewart, Witi Ihimaera, and Whiti Hereaka

Dale-O'Connor, Kieran (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis surveys a selection of writing by Bruce Stewart, Witi Ihimaera, and Whiti Hereaka, and considers how these texts represent varying modes of masculinity available to and expressed by Māori boys and young men. ...
‘A Construction in the Void’, Formal Architecture in the Novels of Edith Wharton

Parker, Isabel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Edith Wharton has been persistently framed as an author detached from the ‘modern’ twentieth century literary world she inhabited. Intellectually compromised by critical conceptions of her as the “last Victorian”, and Henry ...
Poems in Interreligious Dialogue: Searching for God in the Poetry of Ku Sang and Thomas Merton

Scaccia, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Twentieth-century poets Ku Sang and Thomas Merton, two Catholic poets from Korea and America, respectively, were both aware of a space between themselves and God. Their poetry reveals attempts to go and find him. Because ...
Contemporary Taonga: The Art Works of Brett Graham

White, Anna-Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The production of taonga is a sovereign Māori tradition closely guarded in contemporary Māori society. Many Contemporary Māori Artists observe taonga principles in their work though these qualities are stifled within the ...
Paradoxical Desire in the Poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Herbert

He, Qiwei (Francis) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Inspired by conventional Petrarchism, early modern English poets adopted the concept and rhetoric of paradox in their articulations of desire while revealing significant progression and innovation. Desires expressed by the ...
The Manufacture of Disconnection

Beattie, Alex (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In Silicon Valley, the world’s most famous site of technological innovation, technology professionals are rejecting their own inventions and disconnecting from the internet. According to reports, technologists believe their ...
Perfectly Boring? The Public Afterlife of Private Films

Hickman, Rosina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Home movies are now viewed in a variety of public contexts, a shift that entails a loss of their original meanings. In order to consider the impact of exhibiting these private documents, this thesis analyses the use of ...
New Zealand Young Adult Fiction: National Myths, Identity and Coming-of-age

Manker, Tina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Tara, the 17-year-old narrator of Dear Vincent by Mandy Hager, struggles in the relationship with her mother and learns about her family’s past on a trip to Ireland. She must decide whether she follows in the footsteps ...
To Sit is a Verb: Incoherence and Contemporary Conceptual Writing

Fenton, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis reconceives the productive possibilities of incoherence in four works of contemporary conceptual writing. Despite a pervasive ‘recognition’ of incoherence in literary criticism, we find little formal theorisation ...
Constituting the 'Woman Artist': A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand's Art History 1928 - 1989

Baker, Kirsty (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis considers the ways in which the figure of the ‘woman artist’ has been constituted in published sources in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history, between 1928 and 1989. Most of the texts dedicated specifically to ...
Towards an Ethical Aestheticism: Christianity, Christhood and Martyrdom in the Fiction of Oscar Wilde

Pope-Mayell, Shey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Oscar Wilde is part of our world. With his dandyish witticisms and decadent demeanour, he continues to serve as a model of subversive grace, an aesthetic beacon drawing his readers towards a lighthouse of beauty, even more ...
Incredible but Very Real: 3D Cinema and Trauma in the Wake of WWII and 9/11

Fadlon, Dor Thor (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis investigates Hollywood and global Hollywood 3D cinema at the height of its box office success, the early fifties, and from 2009-2014. Discourse surrounding 3D cinema in both periods is governed largely by ...
Performing Arts Festivals, Festivalization and Global Public Sphere: Locating DNT Performances of India and the Māori Performances of Aotearoa/New Zealand in Post-colonial Asia-Pacific

Bhatt, Swatibahen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

The project aims at theorising the idea of ‘festivalization’ of the local and global public sphere generated by performing arts festivals. The thesis challenges the concept of ‘festival’ in its popular framework of a ...
For Who the River Carries: Marginalised Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Literature

Bultitude, Danny (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This thesis examines the representation of rivers from marginalised American authors of the twentieth-century. American rivers are notably diverse and variable natural features, and as symbols they offer extensive metaphorical ...
The Scientific Supernatural in the Fin de Siècle Novel

Magaña, Kathryn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Nineteenth-century literary criticism has mainly focused on lasting scientific advancements, at the expense of a more comprehensive history, when examining the legacy of science in fiction. Yet there were many sciences ...
Same but Different: Chaos and TV Drama Narratives

McLachlan, Alison (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Complexity is a term that is now commonly used when discussing TV serial dramas and the way that, in recent years, creators and producers of this narrative form have embraced innovative and challenging strategies to tell ...
Athlete of Emotion - Examining the Perdekamp Emotional Method

Slinn, Vaughan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

The Perdekamp Emotional Method (PEM) is an emerging psychophysiological acting system that claims to allow actors ‘safe, reliable and repeatable access’ to emotion, with no recourse to their own psychology, imagination or ...