School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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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 -
“Quality TV”: The reinvention of U.S. television
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the rise to prominence of a new form of “quality television” that has appeared in the U.S. since the 1990s. There are competing and sometimes conflicting ways to define “quality television”, depending ...Open AccessThesis -
Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse
Published 2013-01-01This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects ...Open AccessThesis -
'Harry the Ninth (The Uncrowned King of Scotland) Henry Dundas and the Politics of Self-Interest, 1790-1802
Published 2012-01-01The career of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville underscores the importance of individual self-interest in British public life during the 1790-1802 Revolutionary Wars with France. Examining the political intrigue surrounding ...Open AccessThesis -
Neo-pragmatist accounts of truth: Rorty's "ethnocentrism" and Putnam's "internal realism"
Published 2012-01-01This work will discuss a recent series of public exchanges that took place between the two founding figures of neopragmatism, Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam, regarding truth and its relation to justification. Like the ...Open AccessThesis