Veronica Chandler- Funneling Out: The Ever-Present Constriction on Black Filmmakers in Hollywood
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
Macy Meyer- From Hurdanos to Hauka Cults: On Ethnographic Surrealism in Buñuel and Rouch Films
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
Josh Martin- Hanging Out at the Movies: Nostalgia, Spectatorship, and Slowness in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn
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
Ben Van Welzen- Infectious Atmospheres: The Horror of Japanese New Media in Ring
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
Halynna Snyder – The Portrait Looks Back: Revising Hitchcockian Tradition in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Winner, Best Undergraduate Essay in Film Studies, 2020-21)
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