Postgraduate research
Film studies
Contemporary American and Canadian Film and Television
- Popular Music and Film
- Representing Disability on Screen
- Literary Adaptations
- Protest Cinema
- Contemporary Hollywood
- The family and film
- Costume/fashion in film and television
Contemporary East Asian Cinema
- Hong Kong New Wave
- New Taiwan Cinema
- Mainland Chinese cinema in the Reform Era
Contemporary European Cinema
- Turkish German Cinema
- Contemporary German film
- Cinema of migration and diaspora in Europe
- Labour migration and film
- Political Cinemas
- Questions of work and labour
- Extreme cinema
Film History, Politics and Theories
- British cinema and television in their historical contexts
- The role of the media as propaganda
- Representation of war and history
- Cultural politics of popular fictions
- The cultural history of British comics
- Post-World War II American Film
- 1950s and 1960s American Film and Culture
- Mental Health and Film History
- Cinema and the US Presidency
- The 1930s and 1940s Shanghai cinema
- Post-war Chinese film history during the Mao era
- The development of Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema in its historical and political contexts
- History of Chinese film studios
- War, (post)colonialism and popular screen culture in and beyond China
- Censorship and the development of the Chinese film industry
- Film theory and philosophy
- Questions of materiality, affect and spectatorship
- History of the Star Wars Franchise
- Anarchist Philosophy and Cinema
- Canadian Film and Television History
- Indigenous or First Nations Cinema and Reconciliation
Film Industry, Market and Transnational Cinema
- Film co-production between China and America
- International filmmaking and distribution/exhibition
- Cross-cultural reception of foreign-language films in China
- Cross-cultural reception of Chinese-language films abroad
- Transnational Cinemas and Ideology
Gender, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity
- Gender on screen
- Women filmmakers and women working within Hollywood
- Race, Ethnicity and American Cinema
- The construction of (East) Asian gender and racial image in American and British popular cinemas
- The reception of Chinese racial and gender image in the Chinese-speaking and English-speaking film markets
- The construction of whiteness in Chinese-language cinema
- Female stars and the development of feminism in China
- Horror Film - Nostalgia and Gender Issues
Migration and Diasporic Cinema
- Cinema, Diaspora and Migration
- Intra-regional migration and filmmaking in East and Southeast Asia
- Asian-Pacific mobility and Chinese diasporic cinema
- Chinese Migrant filmmakers and Sinophone cinema
Popular Culture and Screen Culture
- The cultural history of British comics
- Horror Video Games - Perception/Reception Studies and/or Ideology, Gender, and Identity Issues
- Shakespeare on Screen and Cultural Capital
- Guerrilla Cinema - Parody and Satire
- Zombies, COVID-19, and Panic Journalism
Urbanisation, City and Cinema
- Film, Television and the American City
- Contemporary American Cities on Film
- East Asian cities on American and British films
- Cinematic Shanghai and Hong Kong
- Location filming and urban landscape