Dissertation and Thesis Databases
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowIndex to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.
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WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new windowOver 5 million dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. UCLA students, faculty, and staff can request non-UCLA dissertations via interlibrary loan.
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eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new window
UC's open access repository. Contains books, journals, working papers, conference publications, postprints, theses, and dissertations.
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Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign DissertationsSearch the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary Loan Service will request that CRL acquire it for your use. This special issue of Focus on Global Resources describes CRL's extensive collection of foreign dissertations.
Selected Dissertations on Arab American Film and Television
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Contemporary Arab American theater and performance in the United States: restaging and recasting Arab America in theater, film and performance / by Michael Jim Najjar.Dissertation--Ph.D.; University of California, Los Angeles, 2011.
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The Cultural Politics of Otherness: Arab Americans at Crossroads of U.S.-Arab Imagery / by Waleed MahdiDissertation--Ph.D.; University of Minnesota, 2015.
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Archival Frictions: The Arab and Arab American as Image in Literature, Film, and Other Archives / by Michelle BaroodyDissertation--Ph.D.; University of Minnesota, 2019.
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Image of Arabs in Hollywood films / by Ahmed Ould MeiloudThesis--M.A.; University of Wyoming, 2007.
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The Arab in American silent cinema: A study of a film genre / by Hajji AbdelmajidDissertation--Ph.D.; University of Kansas, 1994.
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Action movie Arabs and the American call to endless war: The role of American Orientalism in organizing the United States "response" to the 9/11 attacks / by Nessim John WatsonDissertation--Ph.D; University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.
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Hollywood shoots the Arabs: The construction of the Arab in American culture / by Saleh AlaswadDissertation--Ph.D.; Temple University, 2000.