Research

The following list includes the authors and project titles of graduates of the MA in Popular Culture. Titles in red can be accessed in full by clicking through to the Brock University Digital Repository.

Indie 2.0: Independent Film Distribution and Marketing in an Age of Media Convergence by Jeff Parker
     supervisor: C. Milliken

"Pledging Their Love to the Ground": The Metamodernism Hypothesis and the Films of the Coen Brothers by Armand Khambatta
     supervisor: S. Henderson

Representations and Constructions of Class Difference during the Economic Recession in Vogue's Fashion Advertising by Shelbi Robson
     supervisor: J. Botterill

My Poetry Hails within the Streets, My Poetry Fails to be Discrete: Examining Belonging and Identity in Southern Ontario Diasporic Hip-Hop Music by Ola Mohammed
     supervisor: S. Henderson

There is Something More to Our Agency: Harnessing the Power of the Supernatural Fandom and Bringing Hope to Haiti by Mariel Concepcion
     supervisor: S. Vint

The Lost Story of Mr. Nobody: The Raw Shark Texts and Playing Novels in Urban Space by Anthony Minichilli
     supervisor: S. Vint

From Sherlock Holmes to "Heisei" Holmes: Counter Orientalism and Post Modern Parody in Aoyama Gosho's Detective Conan Manga Series by Mimi Okabe
     supervisor: M. Rose

Experiencing the Real and Fake in Twilight town: Tourism in Forks, Washington by Justine Moller
     supervisor: D. Foster

Not Necessarily the News, Eh? Negotiating Canadian News Parody by Geraldine Jones
     supervisor: S. Matheson

"I'm Your Biggest Fan, I'll Follow You..." Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Religious Dimension of Fandom in Pop Music by Keri Ferencz
     supervisor: H. Skott-Myhre

Dexter's Dark Desires, Moody's Multiple Mistresses: Contemplating the Pressures of Hegemonic Masculinities in Showtime's Dexter and Californication by Nicole Lemieux
     supervisor: S. Matheson

An Aesthetic of Rebellion: The Formal Deviations of The Manchurian Candidate and The Parallax View by Matthew Thompson
     supervisor: J. Leach

"Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged": Being a man in a feminist coming of age story: Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Laura Berger
     supervisor: S. Vint

The Joke's on You, Bats! The Joker's Disengagement with Institutional Myth in The Dark Knight, Batman, and The Killing Joke by Paul Sawchuk
     supervisor: J. Sloniowski

OUH8It2?: A Discourse Analysis of Txt Msging in Popular Culture by Shakira Lynch
     supervisor: T. Dun

Message in a Bottle: Analysis of Niagara Region Winery Websites' Constructions of "Local" by Holly Gibson
     supervisor: D. Foster

Remembering Jimi Hendrix: Memory, Meaning and the Posthumous Album by Jeffrey McMahon
     supervisor: S. Henderson

Blood, Sweat and Cheers: Absurdist Crime Films and Contemporary Society by Christopher Meisner
     supervisor: J. Leach

'All the best cowboys have daddy issues': (Post)Oedipal Fatherhood and Subjectivity in ABC's Lost by Gozde Kilic
     supervisor: S. Matheson

Representations of Swinging London in 1960s British Cinema: Blowup (1966), Smashing Time (1967) and Performance (1970) by Marlie Centawer Huisman
     supervisor: J. Leach

The Content and Reception of Weeds by Emily Barriere
     supervisor: D. Bradley

Gods, Monsters and Robots: The Mythopoesis of the Prometheus Myth by Alisa Cunnington
     supervisor: J. Sloniowski

The New Blockbuster Film Sequel: Changing Cultural and Economic Conditions within the Film Industry by Jessica Bay
     supervisor: B. Nebesio

There and Back Again: The Construction of Nostalgia in Advanced Adventures by Darren Crouse
     supervisor: G. Gillespie

Still the Working Man's Game? The Bosman Ruling and the Political Economy of European Football, 1995-2010 by Andrea Bove
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

Consuming media piracy: A study of pirated media consumers by Trina Joyce Sajo
     supervisor: J. Good

Little Britain: Buying (into) Anglophilia in Niagara-on-the-Lake by Michael Plato
     supervisor: R. Johnston

"Exterminate!": Hate, Evil and the Daleks of Doctor Who by Audra Gordon
     supervisor: J. Leach

"But They'll Turn Our Children Gay!" A Rhetorical-Frame Analysis of the Videos that Passed Proposition 8 by Jeffrey DeViller
     supervisor: J. Botterill

Wanna Be On Top?: Naturalizing Neoliberalism and Self-Branding America's Next Top Model by Andrea Ruehlicke
     supervisor: D. Foster

Borderlands and Boundary Consciousness in Geoff Ryman's Air: Or, Have Not Have: (Post)Cyberpunk and the 'New Mestiza' by Malisa Kurtz
     supervisor: S. Vint

The Battle for Potential: The Baroque Age of the Superhero Film and its Mythic Legacy by Chris Caskie
     supervisor: B. Grant

Peeking Through the Opomulero Lens: Tunde Kelani's Women on Centre Stage by Jumoke Isekeije  
     supervisor: C. Milliken

Staging Global Media Spectacle: A Comparison of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony on CCTV, NBC and CBC by Yang Zhang
     supervisor: M. Bredin

"What is this? A Rulebook?": Reading Austen on Film by Mariam Esseghaier
     supervisor: B. Seeber

 "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, But Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely": A Feminist Analysis of Jean Grey/Phoenix/Dark Phoenix in Comics and Film by Shelley Smarz
     supervisor: S. Matheson

Post World War II Retro Pin-Up Culture: Reconstructing Fantasy by Agata Tarkowski
     supervisor: J. Botterill

Manufacturing Authenticity: A Case Study of the Niagara Wine Cluster by Caroline Charest
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

"I'm Not a Person to Them, I'm a Thing": Posthumanism, Subjectivity, and Battlestar Galactica by Zak Bronson
     supervisor: S. Vint

"A Bit of the Old Ludwig Van": The Affective Potential of Film Music as 'Sound-Image' in the Kubrick ouevre by Liam Young
     supervisor: B. Nebesio

Codes of Manhood: Fantasy Football Magazines and the Discourse of Masculinity by Kristopher Brockelbank
     supervisor: G. Gillespie

Foucault, Power and the Royal Mistress: A Middle-Class Discourse by Rick Boutin
     supervisor: J. Leach

Bonds Away: Baseball Mythology and the 2007 Home Run Chase by Matthew Ventresca
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

"Man of Science, Man of Faith": Lost, Consumer Agency and the Fate/Free Will Binary in the Post-9/11 Context by Susan Tkachuk
     supervisor: S. Henderson

Playing With Gender: Resident Evil Online as Co-Creative Media by Joanna S. Robinson
     supervisor: D. Bradley

'I Might Be A Duck, But I'm Human': An Analysis of Clothing in Disney Cartoons by Luke Dubin
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

Two War Scandals: News in the Age of Empire by Jason Legge
     supervisor: H. Skott-Myhre

'Soul Power': Archiving Sampled Sounds and Pursuing Cultural Capital by AJ Fashbaugh
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

Monstrous Adolescence: Rethinking Sexuality and Gender in the Development of the Teen Slasher Genre by Ana Petrovic
     supervisor: C. Milliken

Dinner of the Dead: Consumption and Consumerism in the Horror Film; An Analysis of Fido by Armando Alfaro
     supervisor: B. Grant

'The Whole Earth as Village': A Chronotopic Analysis of Marshall McLuhan's Global Village and Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner by Nicole Maggio
     supervisor: J. Leach

He's My Brother: Wincest and the Supernatural Fan Community on Livejournal by Stephanie Morgan
     supervisor: D. Foster

'Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood': Surveillance, Myth and Orientalism in Jane-Finch by Christopher Richardson
     supervisor: H. Skott-Myhre

Theorizing It: Paris Hilton, the Celebutante, and the It Girl Lifestyle by Kristin Robbins
     supervisor: S. Matheson

Steeltown Scene: Genre, Performance and Identity in the Alternative Independent Music Scene in Hamilton, Ontario by Joshua Holt
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

Animating a Nation: Giving Life to the Imagined Citizen by Patrick McIlroy
     supervisor: J. Leach

The Backwoods to Our Backyards: Ontarian Pioneers and the Crisis of Ecology by Michael Pereira
     supervisor: J. Good

Produced Subjectivities and Productive Subjects: Locating the Affective Potential of the Self-Reflective Blog by Zorianna Zurba
     supervisor: D. Bradley

Revisiting Girlhood: Defining a Postmodern/Popular Feminist Culture by Nicolette Cosburn
     supervisor: S. Pomerantz

Evolving Laugh Tracks by Ashley Dell
     supervisor: D. Foster

Instruments of Control: Technology and CSI by Christopher Lynch
     supervisor: J. Sloniowski

The Individual Embodied Social Cyborg: Combining Psychological and Cultural Approaches to Assess the Potential of Online Communities to Alter Participants' Gender-Based Perceptions by Catherine Houlahan
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

The Smart Films of Todd Solondz: Coming of Age With A Vengeance by Nicole Lewis
     supervisor: C. Milliken

Picturing Mortality: Images of Death in Popular Cinema by Curtis Maloley
     supervisor: B. Grant

Heroes on the Home Front: Heroism and Virtue in Post-9/11 American Cinema by Joy Poliquin
     supervisor: D. Varga

You Get What You Pay For: Independent Music and Canadian Public Policy by Jennifer Testa
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

Through Sigurd's Portal: Hegemonic-Liminality in the Medieval Norse Diasporas by Trudy Tattersall
     supervisor: R. Hale

Melting the Matrices: structure, anti-structure, and the emerging conversation by Matt Masters
     supervisor: R. Hale

Monstrum: The Vampire in the Detective Story by Caroline Stikkelbroeck
     supervisor: J. Sloniowski

Comics Carnet: The Graphic Novelist as Global Nomad by Ed Bader
     supervisor: M. Bredin

Buying Britney: Pop Culture Icons to Cultural Brands by Markian Saray
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

"What ever happened to breakdancing?" Transnational B-Boy/B-Girl Networks, Underground Video Magazines and Imagined Affinities by Mary Fogarty
     supervisor: A. Bennett

Metal Music as Critical Dystopia: Humans, Technology and the Future in 1990s Science Fiction Metal by Laura Taylor
     supervisor: B. Grant

A Tale of Two Childhoods: The Virtual Child and the Real Child in Romania, 1970s and 1980s by Laura Visan
     supervisor: M. Bredin

Where's Albania? Staking Out the Politics of the Real and Reality in Documentary Cinema by Graeme Metcalf
     supervisor: J. Leach

Slackers, Slashers and Sticklers: Hollywood Films and Audience Reception by Sarah Bradley
     supervisor: J. Leach

The Last Resort: Spa Therapy and the Docile Body in Victorian St. Catharines by Lynne Prunskus
     supervisor: M. Ripmeester

Popular Romance Novels: Seeking Out the 'Sisterhood' by Tania Fera-Van Gent
     supervisor: G. Irons

The Bond Girl Phenomenon: Defining the Female Protagonists of the James Bond Films by Lisa Funnell
     supervisor: J. Good

The Encounter with The Real and Post-Soviet Trauma: Fantasy Construction in Russian Popular Cinema by Olga Klimova
     supervisor: J. Leach

The New Woman, Femininity and Modernity in Margery Allingham's Detective Novels of the 1930s by Carol Bott
     supervisor: M. Rose

American Desi: Reflection and Reproduction in the Diaspora by Naveen Joshi
     supervisor: M. Bredin

Marginal/Minority Popular Music: The Concept of the 'Third Space' and the Case for 'Hybridities' of Cultures/Identities by Hema Chetty
     supervisor: N. Baxter-Moore

Buddy Films and Gender Identity: Representing the Bonds of Masculinity by Jodi Mason
     supervisor: B. Grant

The Midnight Express Phenomenon: A Historical Materialist Approach to the Reception of the Film Midnight Express by Dilek Kaya Mutlu
     supervisor: J. Sloniowski

Morality, Metanarratives and Mea Culpa: Postmodern Problems in Law and Order by Andrea Brathwaite
     supervisor: J. Sloniowski