Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Film studies"
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Balance, binary debate and missing women: a discourse analysis and creative response to 30 years of the abortion debate on RTÉ current affairs television, 1983-2013
(2017-02-23)Since the introduction of a foetal right to life into the Irish Constitution in 1983, abortion has persisted as a contentious issue in public debate in Ireland. This practice-based study investigates Irish public discourse ... -
Cultural glocalization or resistance? Interrogating the production of YouTube videos at an Irish summer college through practice-based research
(2017-03)This thesis includes the film Dúshlán Lurgan/The Lurgan Challenge and a written exegesis which reflects on the film's 'generative performance'. The film asks if making Irish-language versions of music videos in English at ... -
Disability, deficiency and excess: a critical re-examination of the construction, production and representations of physical disability in contemporary European film
(2014-06-26)This thesis critically investigates three contemporary European disability films to examine how representation and metaphor are used to present physical disability as deficient in comparison with the able-bodied ideal. The ... -
Equally existing objects: Tracing the emergence of non-hierarchical being through film and Occupy Wall Street
(NUI Galway, 2017-04-06)This project aims to trace the emergence of a non-hierarchical being, from 1999 to roughly 2013. The type of being under discussion is one that allows for all things to equally exist, outside of a human-world correlation, ... -
The Palestine Solidarity Movement in Ireland and the UK: mediating and framing Palestine online
(2016-09-19)This research explores the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s contemporary collective action in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and the impact of online media on the dynamics of the movement’s activism. It does ... -
Personajes Femeninos Contestatarios del Cine Mexicano del siglo XXI: Subvirtiendo la Epoca de Oro
(2012-09-28)El cine mexicano de los últimos años ha vuelto a captar la atención del mercado internacional. Puede verse en éste una marcada tendencia a la universalidad de temas y una vigencia en cuanto a los cambios propios de la era ...