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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