Student Work: Criticism
Gender Conflict in Othello
The female characters in Shakespeare's "Othello" are unknowingly thrown into the center of Iago’s villainous plot and used as pawns. How do they combat their circumstances and find power?
“Triggering” Manhattan: The Ethics of Self-Insertion
What are the ethical implications of an artist’s choice to portray their own protagonist in film and television? A comparative analysis of Woody Allen’s portrayal of Isaac Davis in "Manhattan" and Lena Dunham’s portrayal of Hannah Horvath in "Girls."
Is That Really Necessary?
To the plethora of objections "Salò" and "Lolita" multifaceted works of art have encountered, I add one more challenge: Is this artwork really that necessary?
On Seeing Sound
Robert Hayden carefully intertwines the visual and sonic senses in his poetry, setting striking images to meticulously crafted poetic music.
Unpacking the Cultural Readymade
In a renewal of intention behind existing objects of the past, who is the iconoclast? The one that does not ascribe new meaning because time has passed or the one that does?
Iz Burns: Creating Connections Through Creativity
"Creativity should be as innate as breathing; it’s all about being new, and expansive, and respectful.”
The Strong Women in the Attic
The Not-So-Secret Punishments of Independent Women in Great Expectations and Middlemarch
An Ugly Nation in Baron Cohen’s Comedic Mirror
In “Who Is America?” Baron Cohen’s goal is no longer to illuminate the fact that people have racist, xenophobic thoughts, but to see just how far those views will go and the horrible things they will guide them to do.
Taylor Swift and the Too-Big Teenaged Girl
Taylor Swift made being an adolescent girl a romantic, beautiful existence, something to be cherished, not run away from.
Variations on the Pleasures of the Temporal Perhaps
Time has a way of vanishing much as desire has a way of changing: almost never in the way expected.
As You Like It and the “Magic Circle”
Fundamentally, Shakespeare's "As You Like It" is an introduction to the concept of the consumer theater, of this new game space that we consciously create via works of “media."
Starring Balthus as the Cheshire Cat
Balthus’s inclusion of cats in his paintings of young girls elevates the aesthetic quality of his portraiture by forcing observers to confront the nature of their gaze.
