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Schweitzer, Dennis C. "Ton & traum : a critical analysis of the use of sound effects and music in contemporary narrative film /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1108483481.

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Rassos, Effie School of Media Film &amp Theatre UNSW. "Everyday narratives - reconsidering filmic temporality and spectatorial affect through the quotidian." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Media, Film & Theatre, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25717.

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This thesis takes as its focus the relation between particular constructions of filmic time and the resulting affective and emotional experiences these temporalities produce on a spectatorial level. This connection between time and affect is thought through more specifically here in relation to an idea of the everyday not only as a thematic concern with the minutia of routine daily existence but also as distinct, and yet shifting, conceptions of filmic and viewing time. While film studies has often approached the temporal construction of the quotidian through the rubric of ???real time,??? I explore different articulations of the everyday in a number of film practices through the writings of Henri Lefebvre. As a sociologist and philosopher preoccupied with the revolutionary quality of everyday time in both material reality and art practices including film, Lefebvre???s work enables this thesis to approach film as an especially potent and significant site for affective experiences of time and of the everyday. Beginning with John Cassavetes??? Faces (1968) and an analysis of an affective everyday temporality that film is able to produce as a temporal medium, this thesis goes on to consider the quotidian through photography and stillness in Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975), dying and witnessing via Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman, 1993), and finally melodrama and unrequited love in Wong Kar-wai???s In the Mood for Love (Huayang Nianhua, 2000). In the analysis of these films and videos, this thesis draws on film debates explicitly concerned with time as well as focusing on those places in philosophy and critical theory where a promising and productive articulation of film and its inscription of time and affect can be found and conceptualised. In this investigation, the everyday as both a temporal construction and a spectatorial affective experience is a means to reflect on the cinema as a continually shifting and dynamic affective site.

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Strauss, Angela L. "The economic impact of film tourism on small communities." Th author, 2003. http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/55215981?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uwstout.edu%2Flib%2Fthesis%2F2003%2F2003straussa.pdf&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail=.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin-Stout., 2003.
"December, 2003". "A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science Degree with major in Global Hospitality; Approved: 3 semester credits (signature) professor Lynnette Brouwer; The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Stout." Description based on 2005 edition printed on Aug. 2, 2007 from http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/55215981?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uwstout.edu%2Flib%2Fthesis%2F2003%2F2003straussa.pdf&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail= Bibliography p. 36-40. Also available online (viewed 2 Aug. 2007) at address: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/55215981?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uwstout.edu%2Flib%2Fthesis%2F2003%2F2003straussa.pdf&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail=

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McKenzie, Jordi. "An economic analysis of motion pictures in the Australian cinema industry, 1997-2000." Connect to full text, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1794.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Discipline of Economics, University of Sydney, [2006?].
Title from title screen (viewed 27th June, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Economics, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2006?; thesis submitted 2005. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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Melville, Andrew. "Exegesis and screenplay for a film entitled Mangrove a thesis submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts (Communication Studies), August 2004." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.

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Exegesis (MA--Communication Studies) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2004.
Title page and table of contents missing from e-thesis. Also held in print (14 p., 30 cm.) in Wellesley Theses Collection (T 791.4372 MEL)

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Matzkin, Rosalie Greenfield. "The film encounter in the life-world of urban couples : a uses and gratification study /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1985. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10538483.

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Cazdyn, Eric M. "Problem cinema : culture, capital and form in Japan /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9908497.

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Athique, Adrian Mabbott. "Non-resident cinema transnational audiences for Indian films /." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060511.140513/index.html.

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Chan, Kim-mui Eileen. "Postmodernity and recent Hong Kong cinema /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18539191.

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Bather, Neil. ""There is evil there that does not sleep-" : the construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002 /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070125.105814/.

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Carbonaro, Joseph. "Enabling church members to evaluate the moral content of feature films." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Watkins, Jessica. "From fallen women to risen heroines representations of gender and sexuality in American film, 1929-1942 /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=539.

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Bardsley, Karen. "Out of sight : resemblance, illusion and cinematic perception." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84465.

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In my thesis I develop a theory of our mental, physiological and emotional involvement with motion pictures that accounts for the distinct role of perception in our cinematic experiences. In particular, I present a (limited) resemblance view of cinematic perception and depiction that begins with an analysis of motion picture screenings as events in the world to which audience members share perceptual access and to which we can attribute complex visual and auditory properties. By understanding the precise nature of these properties and by understanding the mind's rich and dynamic relationship to visual and auditory stimuli, we can meet the demand of explaining the essential contribution of perception to our cinematic experiences. This positive theory is introduced through a philosophical and empirical critique of the work of several contemporary "cognitivist" film theorists who can been faulted for (i) falling into the traps of traditional illusion accounts, (ii) failing to account for the perceptual nature of our film experiences, or (iii) incorrectly characterizing the nature of our perceptual relationship to cinematic content.

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Aich, Priyanka. "The construction and (re)presentation of Indian women in recent mainstream western cinema." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2009/p_aich_112309.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in communication)--Washington State University, December 2009.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 12, 2010). "Edward R. Murrow College of Communication." Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-115).

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Tam, Siu-yan Xavier. "Between penumbrae and shadow contextualizing transnational queer Chinese cinemas /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B44142663.

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Van, Liew Maria. "Democratic women : gender, national discourse and the cinema of post-Franco Spain /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9820983.

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Rutherford, Anne. "'What makes a film tick?' : cinematic affect, materiality and mimetic innervation." Thesis, View thesis, 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/20720.

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This PhD explores questions of cinematic affect and its relationship to mimetic experience. Through an examination of cinematic materiality, it argues that film must be inscribed across the sensorium if it is to arouse affective experience for the spectator. Drawing on Miriam Hansen’s readings of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, the thesis argues that cinematic affect can most productively be understood in film as a process of mimetic innervation. The thesis is comprised of seven published essays and an overarching chapter. The introductory chapter, ‘A Paradigm Shift in Film Studies’, situates the published essays in the context of recent debates about embodied spectatorship and affect, arguing the need for a revision of key paradigms of film theory. The first series of essays argues the centrality of embodied affect to cinema spectatorship, and proposes a nexus between mimetic visuality, affect and mise-en- scène, linking the analysis of mise-en-scène to Kracauer’s discussions of cinematic materiality. The essays extend this nexus to rethink genre through the lens of affective mimetic experience, arguing that both genre and visual style work mimetically. The arguments are explored through studies of the work of Mizoguchi Kenji, Theodorus Angelopoulos and Lee Myung-Se. The second series examines spectatorship in documentary cinema, raising questions about historiography, embodied knowledge, inter-cultural dialogue, and the affective elements of cultural specificity. The essays interrogate the universalist claims of conventional documentary form, and its assumptions of a disembodied spectator. They contest the assumed opposition in documentary theory between affect and signification and draw affect and mimetic experience into the core conceptualisation of documentary film. The studies explore an Australian television documentary series, an Indonesian political docudrama and three hybrid documentaries—two Indian and one French. Through these studies, the thesis argues that affective embodied mimetic experience is at the core of cinema spectatorship.

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Wang, Qi. "Writing against oblivion personal filmmaking from the forsaken generation in post-socialist China /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619151901&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gunckel, Colin. ""A theater worthy of our race" the exhibition and reception of Spanish language film in Los Angeles, 1911-1942 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997008061&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Flook, Christopher A. "A critical analysis of masculinity portrayals in film : definition, ideal, and possible solution." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379432.

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The purpose of this thesis is to critically analyze masculinity portrayals in film at the turn of the Twenty-First Century. Specifically, the films Fight Club and American Beauty are analyzed to determine how these films define masculinity and render the ideal male. This analysis finds that the portrayal of men in these films closely matches the perception of a masculinity crisis. The films also offer a solution to the crisis that follows the philosophical theories suggested by Friedrich Nietzsche. It is concluded that masculinity is a social construction that needs new ideals and definitions to more accurately fit the environment of American men in the new century.
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Overpeck, Deron. "Out of the dark American film exhibition : political action and industrial change, 1966-1986 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1459904671&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Margolis, Harriet Elaine. "The cinema ideal an introduction to psychoanalytic studies of the film spectator /." New York : Garland Pub, 1988. http://books.google.com/books?id=HYJZAAAAMAAJ.

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Wang, Ting. "Global Hollywood and China's filmed entertainment industry." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3230167.

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司若. "中國電影大片路 = The high concept movies in China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/799.

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Zhao, Meng. "Understand the misunderstanding a study incorporating uses and gratifications theory on why Chinese film audiences see America the way they do /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2008. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Rutherford, Anne. "What makes a film tick? cinematic affect, materiality and mimetic innervation /." View thesis, 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/20720.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2006.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, School of Communication Arts, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography.

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Sitnisky-Cole, Carolina. "La literatura y el cine Andinos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX de una modernidad sólida a una líquida /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1973896441&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Restoule, Jean-Paul. "How "Indians" are read the representation of aboriginality in films by native and non-native directors /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30998.pdf.

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Craddolph, Hayden V. "Developing a community of independent film/video producers to foster creation, marketing, and distribution of digital media." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?EP21256.

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Yang, Jing. "The construction of the Chinese woman in 1990s American cinema." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43813185.

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Lau, Tsz-wan Christal. "Ethics in the production of Hong Kong movies." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39559105.

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Williams, Danielle E. Winn J. Emmett. "Local motion picture exhibition in Auburn, for 1894-1928 a cultural history from a communication perspective /." Auburn, Ala., 2004. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2004/SUMMER/Communication_and_Journalism/Thesis/willide_31_Williams.pdf.

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Tiburzi, Brian M. "The fifth generation Chinese cinema's "great leap forward" /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1445180.

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Galt, Rosalind. "Redrawing the map of Europe space, history and spectacle in new European cinema /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=kV9ZAAAAMAAJ.

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Gulledge, Jim. "A search for myth and metanarrative in films popular among college students an alternative model for Christian evaluation /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Szaloky, Melinda Terezia. "Mutual images transcendental reflections on cinema and the aesthetic between Kant and Deleuze /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1906570811&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Zhu, Ying. "From art to commerce : Chinese cinema in the era of reforms /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Ming, Kee-ying Thomas. "An analysis of the filmic : a philosophical grounding for film aesthetics /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B15949941.

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Field, Emma. "Only a trickle? : blood in detail and three women's films /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://adt.lib.utas.edu.au/public/adt-TU20050315.093920.

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Su, Xin. "Ideas of film authorship : a study of theories and concepts of agency and subjectivity in film authorship, with a conclusion on the possible configuration of a future theoretical model of feminist film authorship." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1101.

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Huggett, Nancy. "A cultural history of cinema-going in the Illawarra (1900-50)." Connect to this title online, 2002. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050317.111523/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wollongong, 2002.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 14, 2005). Ill. in print version lacking in electronic version. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301).

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Su, Xinxin. "Genesis : a feature screenplay /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8692.

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Carter, Sandra Gayle. "Moroccan cinema : what Moroccan cinema? /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Orfall, Blair. "Bollywood retakes : literary adaptation and appropriation in contemporary Hindi cinema /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1883677651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Berrien, John P. "The portrayal of the clergy in selected American films from the 1930's to the 1970's." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Luce, Micah. "The cinema and the church experiential [koinonia] in audience and congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p051-0115.

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Suen, Pak-kin. "Filming gay representations : male homosexuality in Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23242036.

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Lupton, David, and emaylus@hotmail com. "Prolegomena to reflective film study : a Bourdieusian analysis of the economy of cinematic exchange." Swinburne University of Technology, 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050708.092149.

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What is unique to the experience of cinema that has ensured its ongoing popularity across generations of filmgoers? As both a theoretical construct and a real world practice, cinematic experience is necessarily implicated in systems of social and cultural stratification, and thus subject to the drive for symbolic distinction amongst classes. As such, practical logics grounded in specific cultural arbitraries hinder illumination of the complexities of film going, perpetuating epistemological errors based in social ignorance and therefore denying a new understanding of cinematic experience in its embodied state. By uncovering the key theoretical and methodological fallacies informing scholastic knowledge production within the discipline of film studies, the sociological program of Pierre Bourdieu allows for the systematic mapping of cinematic experience as an economy of exchange � an economy engaging specialised categories of patron recognition and appreciation in order to offer an experience of recognised social value. Whilst subject to a range of both theoretical and methodological criticisms, ultimately the deficiencies of Bourdieu�s program are outweighed by the benefits of reflexive sociology in developing the autonomy of the field of film studies, allowing for future film study fully cognizant of the mechanisms of symbolic violence and thus academic knowledge production more attentive to the destructive logic of the open market.

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Lupton, David. "Prolegomena to reflective film study a Bourdieusian analysis of the economy of cinematic exchange /." Australasian Digital Thesis Program, 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20050708.092149.

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Thesis (PhD) - Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2004.
Typescript. Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Life and Social Science, Swinburne University of Technology, 2004. Bibliography: p. 275-284. Also available on cd-rom.

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Phiri, Diana. "An investigation into the popularity of Nigerian movies in Zambia: a reception study of Lusaka viewers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007615.

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Motivated by a concern as to why Zambians are attracted to foreign media in the form of Nigerian movies, this thesis is a qualitative audience study which investigates the popularity of Nigerian movies in Zambia with a focus on Lusaka viewers. Against the dominance of Western media and most especially Hollywood movies, this study explores the popularity of Nigerian movies in Zambia which highlights the circulation of media within and between non-Western countries. This is an aspect of trans-national cultural flows that has been ignored in theories of media imperialism. The thesis argues that the widespread popularity of Nigerian movies in Africa and in Zambia in particular necessitates a revision of the conceptions of global cultural flows that privilege the centrality of the West but ignore other centres engaged in contemporary cultural production.

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