A PhD is a PhD is a PhD Ostrow, Deborah Anne 10.4225/03/58b657d80f5c4 https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/A_PhD_is_a_PhD_is_a_PhD/4705603 A PhD is a PhD is a PhD is a practice-based project that interrogates the process of an artist undertaking PhD research under established criteria. It consists of an exegesis, an original screenplay, and a digital film made for online viewing, with images drawn from a range of documentaries and films found on YouTube. They have been dissected, re-assembled and then re-embedded to YouTube. The source material covers topics such as medicalization of madness, the conspicuous appropriation of universal media and ideas already floating around, with the intention of producing a pointedly political, critical, non-hierarchical, and humorous proposition/thesis. 2017-03-01 05:10:45 Screenplay Madness Digital film thesis(doctorate) 1959.1/1218096 ethesis-20150823-17135 Situationist monash:162327 Détournement Open access 2015