Apologize to the Pork A Video Essay by Yasmin Shemer & Lorene Wang Artist Statement Yasmin Shemer & Lorene Wang Inspired by the split-cutting style of the dissected material at play, “Apologize to the Pork” uses films Tampopo (1985), Daisies … Read more
Exposing the Interior Through Sound in Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love Melissa Luna In both Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems, the interior of the character is expressed through sound design and score. In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Adam … Read more
Christiane, Liberated Doll: Surrealism and the Female Gothic in Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face Cassidy Englund Christiane’s mask reflects the surrealist exploration of the “uncanny” and the animate/inanimate binary in Eyes Without a Face. Until the final five … Read more
“See You in My Dreams”: The Oneiric in Twin Peaks Noemi Walton Agent Cooper’s “deductive reasoning” scene is an example of Twin Peak‘s dreamlike red herrings, misdirecting the audience. In his 1924 “Manifesto of Surrealism,” André Breton “once and … Read more
Stalker: A New Soviet Avant-Garde Landen Fulton In a moment which subverts the film/spectator relationship, the Stalker, the film’s protagonist, gazes at the audience. At the intersection of cinema and poetry lies a film whose expression yields an … Read more
Winner, Best Undergraduate Essay in Film Studies, 2023-24 The Gastronomic Grotesque and Feminist Defiance in Daisies Adriana Kirk Chytilová uses the characters of the doll-like Maries to subvert traditional ideas of femininity and the grotesque. “I love eating,” … Read more
The Final Girl and Final Boy: Reframing Gender Identities in Alien and Get Out Matthew Gebbia Ripley’s eyes flash with terror as she alone is hunted by the deadly Xenomorph set loose on the Nostromo Genres provide filmmakers … Read more
