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Beyond Summerisle: Comparing Folk Horror in The Wicker Man and Get Out

Ryan Pham

How the terrain of folk horror expands into considerations of race

 

 

Radicalization to Revenge: Exploring the Relationship Between Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion Through Bush Mama and Coffy

Nyla Guilford

How two revolutionary Black film movements exist in dialogue

 

Reclaiming Black Autonomy in In the Heat of the Night

Samantha Thompson

How this trailblazing Poitier performance defiantly subverts racial dynamics

 

 

Rethinking Han in Contemporary Korean Cinema: Fiery Moods, Affects, and Atmospheres in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning

Campbell Mah

How thinking about film aesthetics sheds light onto a transnational cinema

 

 

The Gastronomic Grotesque and Feminist Defiance in Daisies

Adriana Kirk

How this rebellious Czech New Wave work uses food to undermine authority

 

 

 

“It’s About Flowers!”: Photogénie as a Reflexive Tool in Adaptation

Ali Hardin

How this film reflexively ponders the nature of its own making and meaning

 

 

“Tender is the Ghost”: (In)visible, Reciprocal Breath and the Realm of Memory in Aftersun

Sean Sabye

How the motif of breathing in film ignites an atmospheric play of memories

 

 

Stalker: A New Soviet Avant-Garde

Landen Fulton

How Tarkovksy rethinks and reinvents the medium’s relationship to montage

 

 

Metal, Fire, and Flesh: Surrealist Body Horror in Julia Ducournau’s Titane

Charlie Brownlee

How this film leverages bodies as surreal sites of violence and transformation

 

 

The Wandering Eye: Slow Cinema, Spectatorship, and Surrealism in Memoria and 2001: A Space Odyssey

Alyssa Ho

How Apichatpong and Kubrick radically reorient our senses through slowness

 

 

Cinematic Attunement in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival

Rebecca Kelley

How films evoke and induce an embodied spectatorial experience

 

 

 

Exposing the Interior Through Sound in Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love

Melissa Luna

How these two Sandler films blur sonic binaries and express chaotic interiority

 

 

Eclipsing the Visual: Sonic Immersion, Suggestion, and Blurring in Blade Runner

Peter Snyder

How this sci-fi classic builds a convincing cinematic world through sound

 

 

Christiane, Liberated Doll: Surrealism and the Female Gothic in Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face

Cassidy Englund

How this French horror film reinvents surrealist motifs for feminist ends

 

 

“See You in My Dreams”: The Oneiric in Twin Peaks

Noemi Walton

How Lynch’s iconic television series lulls viewers into its bizarre dream world