Category: History of Film Production Techniques
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Sex, Blood, and Stereotypes: How X Challenges Horror’s Sex-Negativity
Created by Kayla Rodgers for Justine McLellan’s Cinema Styles course. Kayla Rodgers discusses horror film tropes and stereotypes through X’s subversion of expectations.
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Incels are Abusing Women: The Gendered Effects of AI
Created by Athena Bouas for Cheryl Simon’s Communications Theory course. Athena Bouas talks about the ever-expanding use of AI and its roots in misogyny.
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Survival Through Dominance in Video Games
Created by Kayliya PS for Magdalena Olzanowski’s Ecocinema: Nature, Bodies, Environments course. Kayliya analyzes the fight for survival between nature and humanity in video games such as Minecraft, the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and more!
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Rebirth Through Water: Cinematic Imaginaries of Transformation and Renewal
Created by Andrew Côté for Dipti Gupta’s Film Theory course. Andrew Côté gives examples of the ‘rebirth’ trope and its visual ties with water.
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Seen and Not Seen: 1960s and 1970s American Gender Politics
Created by Vassilia Kiakas and Maya Gregoire for Magdalena Olzanowski’s History of Film Production Techniques class Vassilia Kiakas and Maya Gregoire discuss 1960s and 1970s queer representation and gender politics through the lens of horror.
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Udigrudi: From Underground to the Surface
Created by Stella Avolio for Magdalena Olzanowski’s History of Film Production Techniques class Stella Avolio explains and analyzes the cinematic movement ‘udigrudi,’ a Brazilian subculture that was active between the 1960s and 1970s.