Homegrown Evan Davison   Artist Statement   When planning Homegrown, I wanted to make a monster horror film, but I also knew this would be a challenge, especially with a limited time frame and college student budget. I originally planned … Read more

Excerpted from the author’s 2018 honors thesis Couples Lost in Time: Hiroshima, mon amour and L’Eclisse Dylan Caskie   Not yet identified lovers embrace in the abstract prologue of Hiroshima, mon amour In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1983) and Cinema … Read more

Affective Mood as a Narrative Tool in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Julia Stamey   Addressing the audience, Mr. Rogers (Tom Hanks) presents the case of Lloyd (Matthew Rhys) as a lesson in anger management for adults Marielle Heller’s … Read more

Masculine Hierarchies, Voice, and the Clown-Cuckold Figure in The Blue Angel Liam Bradford   Alongside Lola (Marlene Dietrich), Professor Rath (Emil Jannings) is reduced to a clown The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel, Josef von Sternberg, 1930) is a film … Read more

Political Monstrosity Framed as Normality: Romero’s Horror Aesthetics in The Crazies Ben Newport-Foster   Soldiers dispose of Trixie-infected bodies, burning them in flames that hover somewhere between the screen and the audience American independent filmmaker George Romero excelled at crafting … Read more

Winner, Best Undergraduate Essay in English and Comparative Literature, 2020-21 Vertiginous Memories: Traces of Hitchcock in La Jetée and Portrait of a Lady on Fire Lexi Baird    A Vertigo-inspired lap dissolve in Chris Marker’s La Jetée “Nothing sorts out … Read more

Matriarchy in The Birds: A Feminine Power Struggle between Melanie and Lydia  Reanna Brooks   A frightened Lydia (Jessica Tandy, middle) reacts to an avian assault in The Birds In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock released one of his eeriest and most … Read more

Excerpted from the author’s 2021 honors thesis Gender Performance as Sacrifice in Stella Dallas Barbara Blaschke   Before the mirror, Stella (Barbara Stanwyck) engages in class-conscious gender performance in King Vidor’s melodrama Likely the most remembered scene of King Vidor’s … Read more

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