Volume 3 Essays
Intervening Hands: Building Discoursal Legacies of Film Sound with Apocalypse Now and A Man Escaped
Liam Bradford
How these films compel us to rethink ingrained approaches to sound in cinema
An Examination of Time, Medium, and the Moving Image in Chris Marker’s La Jetée
Campbell Mah
How Marker’s film reflects on the means of its own creation
Phenomenology and Its Creation and Exploration of Environment in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy
Ana Hoppert Flores
How this film constructs an environmental world and makes mood primary
The Final Girl and Final Boy: Reframing Gender Identities in Alien and Get Out
Matthew Gebbia
How respective films by Scott and Peele rewrite gendered conventions of genre
Horror as a Vehicle: The Terror of Technology in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse
Jack Ashby
How this classic of J-horror explores universal fears of loneliness
Turning the Camera Around to You: The Passenger and Objectivity vs. Subjectivity
Charlie Brownlee
How Antonioni’s camera movements implicate the observer
Unconventional Space: Queering and Liberation of Spaces in Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Hold Me While I’m Naked
Brian Rosenzweig
How two queer films open up spaces for melancholy, joy, and transience

What Makes an Auteur? An Analysis of Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up
Andrew Tomei
How Kiarostami’s self-reflexive film lends itself to an exploration of authorship
What Is Outside Is Also Inside: The (Un)familiar World of Zama
Abigail Burns
How sensuous forms lend themselves to phenomenological film theory
Sound Builds Its Own World: Auditory Montage in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Theo Holt
How the complex layering of sound imparts a feeling of entrapment in Martel’s anticolonial masterpiece
goin thru it.
Carly Peck
A short film exploring “photogenic” processes of memory, trauma, and working-through
It’s Your Move
Noah Maynard
A short film as a chess board somewhere between dream and reality