Category: Essay
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Women’s Self-Determination
A comparative analysis of Miriam Toews’ Women Talking and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women By Kara Chevry, written for Louise Slater’s Women and Anger course For four years, several women and girls within a remote Mennonite colony have woken up in pain and agony, their skin marked with bruises and cuts. The colony’s religious leaders laid…
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Spectatorship Theory’s Relation to Genre Films
By Clarisse Boutin, written for Cheryl Simon’s Film Theory course Since its development in the 1970s, spectatorship theory has become an integral aspect of film studies. This theory explores the connections between cinematic apparatus —including, but not limited to, cinematography, editing, music, and performance— and individual interpretations of a film based on our personal baggage…
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Taylor Swift and the Double Standard of Modern Media
By Emilia Martinez-Zalce Darroch, written for Justine McLellan’s Explorations in Cinema and Communication “I would be complex / I would be cool / They’d say I played the field before I found someone to commit to / And that would be okay for me to do / Every conquest I had made would make me…
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An Exploration of National Identity: New German Cinema
By Alexandrina Sandu, written for Cheryl Simon’s Film Theory course Andrew Higson, professor of Film and Television at the University of York, explains that it is primordial “[…] to pay attention to historical shifts in the construction of nationhood and national identity: nationhood is always an image constructed under particular conditions” (Higson 44). Considering that…
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The Rise of Feminist Horror
Written by Lou Tremblay, written for Justine McLellan’s Explorations in Cinema and Communications Winner of the Cheryl Simon Writing Award for Subtext’s Fall 2023 issue It is a well-known fact that the horror genre has not been particularly kind to women. In the past, horror films often have offered tropes, such as the “Final Girl”…
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