Browsing by Author "Swale, Alistair"
Supervised by Alistair Swale
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The Matrix of Transmedia Creative Production: Multi-Platform Production and the Fragmentation of the 'Auteur' Model
(University of Waikato, 2017)Media entrepreneurship has given rise to a new media space in which new innovative forms of digital technology have emerged and revolutionised the way we now see the content of new media. The on flowing relation between ... -
Diffracting Through Media: An exploration of the performative and a diffractive reading of media texts
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis explores the development of the notion of performativity. This exploration is used to develop and apply a diffractive methodology to media texts in order to assess the usefulness of the diffractive method in ... -
Breaking Binaries: Transgressing Sexualities in Japanese Animation
(University of Waikato, 2012)As a visual medium that articulates all genres of fiction, from children’s card games to extreme pornography, Japanese animation, better known simply as ‘anime’, is an art form that has gained international recognition ... -
Anime: Fear and Anxiety in Texhnolyzed Worlds
(University of Waikato, 2010)This is a study of primarily post-millennial Japanese Anime texts, drawn from the science-fiction genre of the medium. The key interest of this study is the prevalence of the dystopian attitude toward technology that has ...
