Research

Distinction to High Distinction grades in Media Studies and PR industry-led projects
Honours thesis (Distinction) on cultural studies, queer theory, and film studies
Advanced research and critical analysis skills
Deep understanding of social sciences and the arts
Creative work grounded in empathy toward gender and cultural diversity

Film Analysis

Make films that intrigue your audience to read the screen.

Write stories that your reader wants to envision the pages.

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Iranians in Wartime

Persepolis

Remaking Cultures

Em là bà nội của anh ( Sweet 20)

Sunny

Time in Wong Kar-wai's romance

Chungking Express

In The Mood For Love

Relationships between female characters

Wadjda

Being outsiders in the place we call home

Bend it like Beckham

Home Song Stories

When history meets fantasy on screen

Pan's Labyrinth

Public Mourning for Celebrity’s Death on Social Media:

Motivations and Practices

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Review

Good context, clear lead and well-constructed argument.

Well-organised, very thorough and substantial use of literature, always tying it back. Especially in your discussion, you addressed exactly your questions and have a strong connection. Excellent work surpassing the quality of a uni assignment. I could easily see this paper published in an academic journal.

This project demonstrated a sound foundational knowledge of the history of queer filmmaking in Vietnam and presented some insights into native and diasporic Vietnamese filmmakers and their films. There is evidence of effective and appropriate research and this has been applied well in the analysis of the film case studies contained within the thesis. The thesis presents a solid historical account of queer representation in Vietnamese cinema through the application of key theories and contemporary film case studies. Dinh has conducted significant historical and cultural research.

It was a pleasure to read this thesis.

Honours Thesis

Queerness in contemporary Vietnamese cinema:
Representation, reconciliation and resistance

Dinh’s thesis encompasses an impressive number of contemporary films that depict lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters, which Dinh groups together under the “provisional umbrella term” queer. The central research questions focus upon how queer identities are narrated and how they challenge or conform to existing heteronormative discourses of queerness in Vietnam. Overall the thesis is successful in addressing broad themes of representation and relationship to stereotypes of queerness, as well as to some degree heteronormativity.

Given the relative scarcity of research on Vietnamese homosexuality and transgenderism, Dinh’s work is important in an emerging chorus of writing on queerness in Vietnam.