Centre for Media and Film Studies
PhD Completions
2013
- Paolo D’Urbano, “The Muslim Brotherhood and new media in Egypt” (D. Matar)
- Ghazal Seif, “Counter-authoritarian discourses in Egyptian blogs pre-2011” (D. Matar)
- Lucia King, "Performance on Screen in India:Methods and relationships in non-fiction film production 1991-2011 (S. Hughes)
2012
- Ylva Rodny-Gumede, "Race and transformation of South African news media: 1994-2010” (A. Sreberny). Ylva is a Lecturer in the department of Journalism, Film and Television at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa: www.uj.ac.za/.../YlvaRodny-Gumede.aspx
2010
- Georgina Holmes (S. Chan)
- Ivan Kwek, “Producing Television, re-visioning Singapore Malays: An Ethnography in television production practices” (M. Hobart)
- Meenu Gaur
2009
- Nacim Pak-Shiraz, “Shi’ism and film:Religion and spirituality in Iranian cinema” (A. Sreberny)
Nacim is lecturer in Persian and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh: www.ed.ac.uk/.../pak-shiraz Shi‘i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film, IBTauris, 2011 - Emma Freedman, “Foreign correspondents, agency and the Second Intifada” (A. Sreberny)
- Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, “The Politics of Cinema under the Islamic Republic” (A. Sreberny) The Politics of Iranian Cinema, Routledge, 2009. Teaches at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and in the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS
- Somnath Batabyal, “News Television practices in India Television: An ethnography of Star News and Star Ananda”, (A. Sreberny) 2009. Making News in India, Routledge, 2012. Currently a lecturer in the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS.
- Wendy Willems, “Imagining the power of the media: global news, nationalism and popular culture in the context of the 'Zimbabwe crisis', 2000-2007” (M. Hobart). Wendy is a lecturer in the Department of Media at LSE: www2.lse.ac.uk/.../Wendy-Willems.aspx
- Silke Niehusmann, “Manga: lost in translation?” (D. Martinez)
- Luke Robinson, "Xianchang: On Location with China's New Documentary Film Movement" (K. Latham). Luke is a lecturer in the Film and TV Studies Institute, Nottingham University www.nottingham.ac.uk/cfm/staff/luke.robinson
- Christopher Howard
2008
- Monte Missouri, “Black Magic Woman: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity on the American Screen” (I. Standish)