Category: Fall 2023
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Toxic Masculinity & Moose Hunting in Pierre Perrault’s The Shimmering Beast
Written by Markus Falk and Juniper McKenzie for Justine McLellan’s Cinema and Culture course The film La Bête Lumineuse (Pierre Perrault, 1982) centers around a group of middle-aged men who go on a hunting trip in search of moose. During this trip, the social dynamics of the group, compared to that of a wolfpack, gets…
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Shifting Identities
A scene analysis from Robert Altman’s 3 Women Written by Kayliya Phongsavath Sananikone for Justine McLellan’s Cinema Styles course 3 Women (1977), directed by Robert Altman, is a fever dream of a film that follows the otherwise mundane lives of Millie, Pinky, and Willie. The film focuses on their identities and how those are shaped…
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Jordan Peele’s Nope
Created by Kayla Rodgers Kayla Rodgers analyses “The Star Lasso Experience” scene from Jordan Peele’s 2022 Horror/Sci-Fi.
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Alienation as a Result of Mass Industrialization in Antonioni’s Red Desert
Written by Dorothée Gingras-B for Magdalena Olszanowski’s Ecocinema course Through grim images of factory chimneys, opaque fumes, and behemoth infrastructure, Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 drama Red Desert tells the story of a woman’s growing sense of alienation and disorientation in the face of a highly industrialized and increasingly polluted environment. In the midst of Italy’s booming after-war…
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The Mesmerizing and Brutal Essence of Nature in Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland
By Angélique Babineau, written for Magdalena Olszanowski’s Ecocinema class Nomadland (2020), set in 2011 Nevada, Arizona, South Dakota, and California, is an independent American drama directed by Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao. Adapted from the 2017 novel by Jessica Bruder of the same title, Nomadland mostly features real nomads as fictionalized versions of themselves (Linda May…
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Cultural Differences, Diasporic Cinema in The Farewell
By Clarisse Boutin, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course Click the image or here to watch
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Romantic Comedies and Romantic Ideals
By Clarisse Boutin and Arielle Simon-Hamel, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course
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Cinema and Behavior
by Sarah Foster, Caleb Gales & Emilia Martinez, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course
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Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and the Critique of Nationalism
By Théo Lambert, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course
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Reality Television as a Funhouse Mirror
By Théo Lambert, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course
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