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Beyond the Screen: Empathy, Memory, and Film-Souvenir. By Gillian Fast and Kai Paschall
Since Jean Pierre-Meunier’s coining of the term film-souvenir in 1969, the concept has undergone several redefinitions by subsequent film theorists. Past its initial purpose of classifying modes of filmic identification, film-souvenir has become a tool for self-evaluation in film experiences. We recount personal experiences with film during our childhoods, highlighting the confusion and fascination inherent in witnessing storytelling beyond our present understandings. Using the empathetic lens of film-souvenir, we reevaluate these experiences as growing pains of a developing consciousness. Continue reading
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Leaving Hollywood: Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. By Callum McGrath
“You’re really happy driving this taxi? Is that your whole goal in life?” So asks Victoria, a Beverley Hills casting agent who has just offered her cab driver an acting role. Filmed with velveteen richness as dusk bleeds into night, … Continue reading
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Citation Ethics and Inclusive Scholarship: Fostering Equity in Academic Discourse. By Alexis Johnson
During my senior year of undergrad, I was assigned to peer review papers for a film studies class I was taking. Usually, this process is pretty uneventful, with the biggest offense typically amounting to a couple of comma splices and … Continue reading
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Sound and Image in Psycho: An Analysis of Herrmann and Hitchcock’s Affective Methods of Evoking Horror. By Lena Streitwieser
Alfred Hitchcock has long been considered the “master of suspense,” most commonly because of how he used cinematography to instill fear in the audience. Yet, Hitchcock made distinct use of other elements of filmmaking along with visuals to induce horror. … Continue reading
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Uncanny Details: Coraline’s Gothic Horror and Its Visual Narration. By Costanza Chirdo
Figure 1: Coraline’s “welcome home” cake, Henry Selick (dir.), Coraline, 2009. USA © Focus Features. When the eleven-year-old Coraline Jones discovers a small door in her new house to be a portal to an “Other World,” she is welcomed by … Continue reading
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Building a Scottish Platform for International Filmmakers: A Review of the St Andrews Film Festival 2021. By Ash Johann
The St Andrews Film Festival (SAFF), which took place 22-28 November 2021, celebrated its third year with a wide array of international films. Born in 2018 through the University’s Filmmakers’ Society, SAFF has become a charity committed to raising the … Continue reading
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Dimes Square Offline: My Experience with www.RachelOrmont.com. By Natasha Piner
In early 2022, I am aware of everyone else who seems to be online just the same amount as I am, so I recognize there is a trend in the content I am consuming. There is an online scene managed … Continue reading
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Genre Study: Spencer and the Horror Fairy Tale. By Costanza Chirdo
From director Pablo Larrain, Spencer (2021) was long awaited as the ultimate biopic on one of the most fascinating, yet cursed, personalities of modern history. The story of Lady Diana has been an object of attention since the very beginning … Continue reading
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A Conversation with Robert Redhead. By Lillianne Hogsten
Three (short) years ago, I arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina, for the first time. I knew next to nothing about the town, what it could offer me or what my future held within it. As a young filmmaker, I was … Continue reading
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Aligarh (2015) – Redefining Notions of Queerness in an Orwellian State. By Mustafa Rajkotwala
Set in the locality of Uttar Pradesh, written by Apurva Asrani and directed by Hansal Mehta, Aligarh is a depiction of the real life accounts of Srinivas Ramchandra Siras (played by Manoj Bajpayee), a 64-year old Marathi professor and the … Continue reading
