Image from La Reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1993)

Another visit to a university research repository took Film Studies For Free to Exeter, home to some of the most original film-related research in the United Kingdom. Below are some openly accessible research items of note; four especially highly-recommended items are emboldened and marked with asterisks: ***

• Bridget Birchall, 'Patrick Dewaere and gender identity in Giscardian France (1974-1981)', e-PhD thesis, February 2009
• ***Jennie Cousins, 'Unstitching the 1950s film à costumes: Hidden Designers, Hidden Meanings.'', e-PhD thesis, October 2008
• Michael DeLashmutt, 'The sexualisation of popular culture: towards a Christian sexual aesthetic', Crucible, Summer 2006, pp. 42-56
• Michael DeLashmutt, 'The technological imaginary: bringing myth and imagination into dialogue with Bronislaw Szerszynski's "Nature, Technology and the Sacred"', Zygon, 41(4), pp.801-810
• Nikhilesh Dholakia and Jonathan Schroeder, 'Disney: delights and doubts', Journal of Research for Consumers, 2, 2001
• ***Sally Faulkner, 'A Cinema of Contradiction: Picazo's "La tía Tula" (1964) and the Nuevo Cine Español,' The Modern Language Review July 2004
• Stefan Jack Garel, 'QUEER BODIES AND SETTLEMENTS: the pertinence of queer theory in the fields of queer history and trans politics, disability and 'curative education', quantum physics and experimental art - an interdisciplinary and transnational account of three socio-cultural and filmic research projects.', e-PhD thesis, March 2009
• Anthony King, 'Serial killing and the postmodern self', History of the Human Sciences, 19(3), August 2006, pp. 109-125
• ***Amy McGill, 'The Contemporary Hollywood Film Soundtrack: Professional Practices and Sonic Styles Since the 1970s', e-PhD thesis, November 2008
• Jonathan Schroeder, 'Visual Consumption', Discussion papers in management. Final version published in The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology / edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell, 2007
• ***Thomas Wynn, 'Manon Through the Lens of Clouzot (1948): ‘images troublantes et précises’', French Cultural Studies, February 2006