October 2018 – Confluence

Difficult Men, Difficult Women

by Hannah BensonPosted on October 30, 2018April 1, 2021

"Whether Tony Soprano or Don Draper, the mysterious men with a complicated past and an even more complicated present reflected not only changes in viewing patterns but also a deep change in how the nation reflects itself on television. But who are the "Difficult Women" of the television revolution?"

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Nuclear Consumers

by Elie Pariente CohenPosted on October 30, 2018April 1, 2021

During the Cold War, was the United States government was able to dissuade the American public into believing in a “safe” atomic bomb?

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Movies, Cinematography, Visuality

by Daniels MekssPosted on October 25, 2018April 1, 2021

A Brief Review of Néstor Almendros’s A Man with a Camera, but Mostly My Own Thoughts about Film, Art and the Human Condition

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismaesthetics authorship beauty film filmmaking labor

Visualizing Horror

by Julia Martina CruzPosted on October 25, 2018April 1, 2021

"How and to what extent does photography translate the horror of the Nazi concentration camps to the distanced viewer?"

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In Fuller Color and Movement

by Donna GaryPosted on October 23, 2018April 1, 2021

"Watching the latest Beyonce music video, "Mine," directed by Pierre Debusscherre I thought, we do strange things to tell the story of our emotions with our bodies."

Creative NonfictionCriticismIndependent Projectart color dance movement

Mail Gaze

by Jonathan SonnenbergPosted on October 23, 2018April 1, 2021

Like an apartment, a box is private, personal, sensitive; it stores its content within walls, behind an address. As a package, it has only the functions of identity, security, and portability. As long as it arrives at the right place, without internal damage, it has completed its task. It will not be integrated into its recipient’s life.

Creative NonfictionIndependent Projectart authorship gaze identity media structure

Howl

by Sarah May SmithPosted on October 23, 2018April 1, 2021

"Even though it is out of date, temperamental, and actively begging me to stop using it, I will continue to use Howl for my podcast listening until the day I die."

Creative NonfictionIndependent Projectcomedy podcasts

Unboxing YouTubers

by Erin CunninghamPosted on October 23, 2018April 1, 2021

"Thousands of brands look to sponsor those who can push their product onto the screens of millions of potential customers, and they continue to take advantage of this on the one platform that has continuously drawn any and all kinds of people to it for nearly fourteen years - YouTube."

Creative NonfictionIndependent Projectinfluencers

I Was a Lesbian Child

by Nyelah SawyerPosted on October 18, 2018April 1, 2021

A take on the original Dyke TV segment dedicated to normalizing lesbianism and childhood while exploring the often confusing relationship of lesbians (at any age) to the camera/male gaze.

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Traveling Through Squares

by Grace RogersPosted on October 18, 2018April 1, 2021

Instagram travel influencers “produce strikingly similar images, creating a recognizable system of signs on their feeds that create knowledge of the cultures they depict.”

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarglobalization hegemony influencers instagram representation social media tourism travel

Not Quite My Religion

by Arjun ParikhPosted on October 17, 2018March 30, 2021

Two visions of Christianity walk into a bar . . . A Socratic elenchus.

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My Colorful Nana Project

by Lauren Stockmon BrownPosted on October 15, 2018February 27, 2024

"A couple of months ago, I was digging through my nana’s photo collection . . . I found this beat up, stained, and wrinkled picture of this most powerful and gloriously bright women that looked familiar and yet distant to my memories . . . She was a piece of me that I am and a part of me that I wish to become. "

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