Master of Letters in Cultural Studies

January 15, 2009 by Tara Brabazon

Tara's Master of Letters was obtained from Central Queensland University in 1994. The degree was composed of four units and a dissertation.

The units Tara selected were:

Cultural Theory
Construction of gender in the print media
Film Studies
Space, place and the built environment

These four modules were aligned into a thesis titled "In the shadow of her time: An evaluation of the words and vision of Derek Jarman as gendered sources for the Thatcher decade."

Two refereed articles resulted from this dissertation:

“At your own risk: Derek Jarman and the (semiotic) death of a film maker”, Social Semiotics, Vol. 3, 1993, pp. 183-200

“Reading Tilda: A Swinton guide through bodily textualization,” Social Semiotics, Vol. 4, 1994, pp. 9-30

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