Dissertation and Thesis Databases
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Index 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. - WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
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Over 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. - eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new windowUC's open access repository. Contains books, journals, working papers, conference publications, postprints, theses, and dissertations.
- 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 Black Film and Television
- And the Stereotype Award Goes To...: A Comparative Analysis of Directors Using African American Stereotypes in Film
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- Black Like It Never Left: Black Women and Representation in Contemporary Broadcast Television
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- Black Women in Primetime Soap Opera: Examining Representation within Genre
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- Does this accurately define us?: Black audience members' views on African American reality television
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- From periphery to foreground: The representation of African Americans in film noir
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- Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Jordan Peele's New Black Body Horror
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- Image matters: Then and now in televisions' depiction of African Americans
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- Impact of Colorism: The Impact on the Portrayal of African American Women in Television
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- Inclusive Imagery of African-American Prosperity in the Social Film, "Reparations"
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- Insidiously Sophisticated: From Blackface to Blackfishing
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- Media and Stereotypes on Interethnic Communication: A Study of Framing African American-Hispanic Romantic Relationships in Film
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- Modeling Resilience for African American Adolescents Through Coming-of-Age Drama Films
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- The Perception of African American Female Therapists in Television
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- The Resurgence of Blaxploitation Ideologies in Contemporary Black Films
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- Resurrecting Black beauty culture: A critical analysis of the Black beauty salon through contemporary film
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- Waiting too long to exhale: Dysfunctional love in African-American film
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