All Outputs (3)

The performance and politics of memory-work in contemporary documentary film: transforming violent pasts (2024)
Thesis
Housby, K. E. (2024). The performance and politics of memory-work in contemporary documentary film: transforming violent pasts. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/674606

This thesis investigates the dynamics of ‘memory-work’ in contemporary documentary films that deal with painful pasts involving violence. The analysis will focus on four recently produced documentary films. Memory-work in this thesis is understood as... Read More about The performance and politics of memory-work in contemporary documentary film: transforming violent pasts.

Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology (2023)
Thesis
Skentelbery, D. (2023). Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology. (Thesis). Keele University

Cosplay is the act of dressing and performing as a character from popular media and is typically associated with fan conventions. The academic study of gender-play cosplay (explicit play with gendered codes) has framed cosplay as a socially transform... Read More about Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology.

The labour of feminist performance: postfeminism, authenticity, and celebrity in contemporary representations of girlhood on screen (2018)
Thesis
Seaton, W. A. (2018). The labour of feminist performance: postfeminism, authenticity, and celebrity in contemporary representations of girlhood on screen. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/412023

This thesis examines the labour that is made visible by the individual on-screen performances of five distinct postfeminist identities from contemporary popular culture. Each chapter focuses on one of three texts: the English-language film adaptation... Read More about The labour of feminist performance: postfeminism, authenticity, and celebrity in contemporary representations of girlhood on screen.