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Goodbye, Dragon Inn and the Power of Slow Cinema By Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta

Why The Best Movies Are Boring

by Sawyer Gouw RanzettaPosted on March 29, 2024September 23, 2024

Rather than recreate the magic of the wuxia film, effectively bridging the gap between past and present, Goodbye, Dragon Inn is obsessed with the chasm between then and now and uses duration as a tool to both attract and alienate viewers.

CriticismIndependent Projectfilm taste temporality time

“A Prize of War No Blood Has Stained”: Venus and Romance in Roman Literature by Ruby Barron

Venus: The Roman Entwinement of Love & War

by Ruby BarronPosted on March 27, 2024March 27, 2024

The goddess Venus is an essential example of this multidimensionality. Even though she is an explicitly feminine figure––as a mother goddess of love, sexuality, and beauty––she played an extremely important role in Roman religion and national identity.

CriticismIndependent Projectclassics feminism myth poetry

Beyond the Boundary Between Literature and Visual Art

by Riko EharaPosted on March 4, 2024February 6, 2024

Cha allows the historical memory of Japanese oppression of Korea to be dictated and restored at a greater sharpness and resolution.

CriticismFirst-Year Writing Seminarkoreas media poetics poetry representation

Free and Independent States [of Being]

by Dagny EdwardsPosted on March 1, 2024February 6, 2024

In order to analyze an American image, one must analyze American images: lucid explorations of conflict, hardship, selfhood, merriment, strife, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

CriticismIndependent Projectnationalism philosophy photography representation visual culture

Mapping Carceral Geographies

by Yudi FengPosted on February 23, 2024February 23, 2024

To visualize the abolitionist imagination is a matter of disarticulating the invisibility of these systems by rendering them geographic.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarcapitalism incarceration race

Childlike Innocence and the Survival of Gods

by Ava PaolucciPosted on February 19, 2024February 19, 2024

Innocence is one of the remaining traits that keeps religion alive, and therefore is dependent on children for survival.

CriticismFirst-Year Writing SeminarChildhood myth narrative religion

Haunting Ourselves

by Madeleine KernPosted on February 14, 2024January 30, 2024

We watch, hungry for answers and our first real glimpse at the ghost that torments Nell.

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismmemory mental health television

The Weird, Wild Detour of “Pine Barrens”

by Claudia Lopez-OnaPosted on February 7, 2024January 30, 2024

They may provide cover and a place to dump the dead, but it is also where they are at their most morally corrupt and reprehensible.

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismnarrative setting television

What If She’s Gay?

by Ava ChioccoPosted on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024

These characters and interpretations provide an interesting level of historical queer representation on a larger scale, whether or not they are actually queer.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarfemale sexuality literature queerness sexuality women

From the Archives: Discontinuities

by Elliot WrightPosted on January 9, 2024January 9, 2024

How do we reconcile our present identity with continuous movement of time, the incessant production of personal history? How do medium and genre modulate the expressions of this existential quandary?

CriticismEditorial Featuresarchives identity temporality

Nose Jobs and Neo-Colonialism

by Maya Masa'dehPosted on December 12, 2023December 12, 2023

”In search of a bride for their son, elderly women “sometimes look for tall, blonde and white women. You find this not only in Jordan, but also in Syria and in Iraq,” Hijazi says.

CriticismIndependent Project21st century beauty colonialism gender middleeast neocolonialism pop culture postcolonialism race representation trends

The Fabric of the City

by Gideon GoldhagenPosted on December 7, 2023December 8, 2023

Eliot’s representation of the senses is wide, and can be both personal to the intended reader, or more universalized, general descriptions which portray the poignant scenes for which Eliot is so famous.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarmemory poetics poetry senses

The Articulation of Caste in Punjabi Music

by Amer KhoslaPosted on November 22, 2023November 20, 2023

Music, as a form of expression that is vital to Punjabi articulation regardless of caste/class, loses its potency as a tool for social cohesion if Jatt is truncated to mean Punjabi.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarclass india music race

The Social, Invisible, and Functional Qualities of Religion and Photography in the Age of Contemporary Spirituality

by Simonne AlunanPosted on November 13, 2023October 30, 2023

Photography provides the visual language pertinent in studies of post-colonial visual cultures and the new rise of contemporary spirituality.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarphotography religion spirituality visibility

Dystopian Technologies in Pixar’s WALL-E

by Sam de AlfaroPosted on November 10, 2023October 30, 2023

Rebellion against the numbing effects of technology is possible, but it requires a recognition of the self and a connection with the world outside of the numbing medium.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarenvironmentalism film science fiction technology

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