Author Archives: llebpmac

Phenomenology and Its Creation and Exploration of Environment in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy Ana Hoppert Flores   Old friends Mark and Kurt drive away from their industrial urban center into the Oregon forests   Film scholars have long observed and … Read more

An Examination of Time, Medium, and the Moving Image in Chris Marker’s La Jetée Campbell Mah  The protagonist of La Jetée is paradoxically caught between the bounds of movement and stasis, and of life and death   Chris Marker’s 1962 … Read more

Winner, Best Undergraduate Essay in Film Studies, 2020-21 Intervening Hands: Building Discoursal Legacies of Film Sound with Apocalypse Now and A Man Escaped Liam Bradford   Capt. Willard is tormented by his memories of the Vietnam War in the opening scene of … Read more

Turning the Camera Around to You: The Passenger and Objectivity vs. Subjectivity Charlie Brownlee    The final shot of The Passenger, in which Locke (Nicholson) lies in bed as the camera moves past him.   The opening scene of Michelangelo Antonioni’s … Read more

Unconventional Space: Queering and Liberation of Spaces in Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Hold Me While I’m Naked Brian Rosenzweig   Hélöise and Marianne create a space of intimacy and belonging, however brief it is.   We often examine queerness, … Read more

What Makes an Auteur? An Analysis of Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up Andrew Tomei    Director Abbas Kiarostami speaks to the imprisoned Sabzian.   In the pantheon of great filmmakers, several figures have become strongly associated with one particular style. Although filmmaking … Read more