• Editors’ Introduction: Approaching the online audience: new practices, new thinking 

  Hight, Craig; Hardy, Ann; Michelle, Carolyn; Athique, Adrian M. (Aberystwyth University, 2011)

  Convergence culture, participatory culture, user generated content, interactive media; these are all now familiar terms within contemporary media and communication studies that have risen to distinguish emergent content ...

  

• Framing audience prefigurations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The roles of fandom, politics and idealised intertexts 

  Davis, Charles H.; Michelle, Carolyn; Hardy, Ann; Hight, Craig (2014)

  Audiences for blockbuster event-film sequels and adaptations often formulate highly developed expectations, motivations, understandings and opinions well before the films are released. A range of intertextual and paratextual ...

  

• The Last Patriarch 

  Hardy, Ann (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

  There is a scene two-thirds of the way through The Piano in which the film's heroine, Ada, lies stretched out on a bed gazing at herself in a small hand-mirror. Just a few hours earlier she had ripped off her clothes and ...

  

• Making global audiences for a Hollywood ‘blockbuster’ feature film: Marketability, playability and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 

  Davis, Charles H.; Michelle, Carolyn; Hardy, Ann; Hight, Craig (Intellect Ltd., 2016)

  This article interprets two key concepts in movie marketing (marketability and play-ability) through an empirical examination of the effects of commercial interpellation of audiences for a Hollywood ‘blockbuster’ fantasy ...

  

• Matariki, commodity culture, and multiple identities 

  Hardy, Ann (Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, 2011)

  The event known as Matariki, the rising of the Pleiades in winter, which Māori take as the mark of the beginning of a new year, was not a strong feature of the wider public sphere for most of the 20th century. Since 2001, ...

  

• Risky Opportunities: Developing Children’s Resilience through Digital Literacy in Thailand 

  Kaewseenual, Sujittra (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This project develops a case for defining appropriate concepts of risk and opportunity in the digital domain for children in Thailand; it explores what the consequent balance is between, regulation/policing of this domain ...

  

• Vocational Survival: Expanding the Film Value Chain for the Independent Filmmaker 

  Jackson, Fiona (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  As a case-study in the occupational sociology of the creative industries, this thesis develops an argument for expanding the traditional FilmValue Chain model in order to address what it means to be an independent filmmaker. ...

  

• Barry Barclay: the Reflection of Maori and Pakeha Identities 

  Hilal, Emad Jabbar (University of Waikato, 2017)

  This Media and Screen Studies thesis tries to investigate the identifications of Barry Barclay (1944-2008) - a New Zealand filmmaker, thinker and poet, of Māori and Pākeha ethnic background - who identified as Māori in the ...

  

• New Zealand meets South Korea: Strategies for film co-productions between two countries 

  Kim, JuHee (University of Waikato, 2017)

  This study investigates the state of international film co-productions between New Zealand and South Korea and whether such co-productions are possible, and if so, which modes or types of film co-productions are likely to ...

  

• Conspiratoria - the Internet and the Logic of Conspiracy Theory 

  Ballinger, Dean Ross (University of Waikato, 2011)

  This thesis is a theoretical investigation of the relationships between the logic of conspiracy theory and the Internet. It argues that the Internet can be conceptualised as a technocultural space conducive to the development ...

  

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