Honours theses: Recent submissions
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Capture - Upload - Broadcast. A case study in the gatekeeping of amateur footage
Published 2013-01-01This thesis explores the transition of amateur footage across three different stages of the news making process. Through a case study of the 'Mardi Gras Police Brutality Video' this thesis tracks and analyses the development, ...Open AccessThesis -
Syntactic Derivations of Samoan Predicates
Published 2010-01-01This thesis gives a formal syntactic account of Samoan verbal classes. Samoan verbs may be divided into classes based on their observable syntactic behaviour (for example, case assignment, incorporation) or on their semantic ...Open AccessThesis -
“HAIR IS IT, FOR AFRICANS:” African-Australian Hair Stories
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the relationship African-Australian men and women have with their hair. Through open-ended interviews with seven African-Australian men and women, aged 22-63, this thesis analyses the cultural significance ...Open AccessThesis -
Ventriloqueer: Finding Voice in the Strange Boyhoods of Disney Princesses
Published 2013-01-01This thesis considers two samples from the Disney Princess film canon as texts that can speak to, and be reclaimed in the name of, queer experience. Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Little Mermaid (1989), and Nathan Greno ...Open AccessThesis -
Brief Encounter: Sex and Intimacy in Andrew Haigh’s "Weekend"
Published 2013-01-01This thesis is an exploration of the representation of gay male intimacy in Andrew Haigh’s "Weekend" (2011), a film about a brief encounter between two men. The thesis stages a second brief encounter between Haigh’s film ...Open AccessThesis