Excerpted from the author’s 2021 honors thesis Jia Zhangke’s Emotional Questioning of Contemporary China Tyler Kwok Tao (Zhao Tao), a performer at Beijing World Park, moves solo through an uncertain and shifting Chinese cultural landscape China’s tumultuous 20th century … Read more
Drama in the Dull: Journalistic Process and Moral Ambiguity in All the President’s Men Ryan Wilcox Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Woodward (Robert Redford) tirelessly hover over the typewriter, a weapon that brings down the highest office in the land … Read more
Excerpted from the author’s 2021 honors thesis Funneling Out: The Ever-Present Constriction on Black Filmmakers in Hollywood Veronica Chandler Returning the gaze and rewriting Black representation in HBO’s series Lovecraft Country Finding Power and Agency You need executive producers … Read more
Excerpted from the author’s 2021 honors thesis From Hurdanos to Hauka Cults: On Ethnographic Surrealism in Buñuel and Rouch Films Macy Meyer Why doesn’t the documentary crew intervene to help suffering subjects in Las Hurdes? Surrealism has never been … Read more
Excerpted from the author’s 2020 honors thesis Hanging Out at the Movies: Nostalgia, Spectatorship, and Slowness in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn Josh Martin An (in)attentive audience from a bygone era watches King Hu’s film in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, … Read more
Infectious Atmospheres: The Horror of Japanese New Media in Ring Ben Van Welzen Viewing scenes of viewing: an estranged couple studies a mysterious and apparently lethal videotape When Sadako (Rie Inō) emerges from the television screen in Nakata Hideo’s … Read more
Winner, Best Undergraduate Essay in Film Studies, 2020-21 The Portrait Looks Back: Revising Hitchcockian Tradition in Portrait of a Lady on Fire Halynna Snyder Hëloise (Adèle Haenel) eyes the rolling waves in one of Sciamma’s painterly compositions Upon first … Read more
