by cy | Apr 4, 2022
UndergraduateResearchSymposium2022 Chloe Shafer The Embalming of Mr. Bechdel This essay is an intricate autopsy of Alison Bechdel’s book, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Tracing the veins of its themes through comic book form and commenting on the subtleties that tell...
by cy | Apr 4, 2022
UndergraduateResearchSymposium2022 Cailan Compierchio Look Out, Look Out, Look Out! Little Shop of Horrors as a Metaphor for Reaganomics Little Shop of Horrors was originally written as a critique of Reaganism and capitalism in the 1980s. Yet the film version of the...
by cy | Apr 4, 2022
UndergraduateResearchSymposium2022 Lisitte Mora From Nigeria to Egypt: A Brief History of North African Theatre A comparison of pre-1800’s North African Theatre and European Theatre with an emphasis on how settler-colonialism has skewed the world view of...
by cy | Apr 8, 2021
UndergraduateResearchSymposium2021 James Palmer BA Film & Television Mystery Science Theater 3000, Audience Participation, and Gloriously Bad Movies Mystery Science Theater 3000 made a name for itself by riffing on Z-grade movies, but what made the show truly...
by cy | Apr 8, 2021
UndergraduateResearchSymposium2021 Selena Kuikahi Film & Television Production The complexities of incest and pedophilia in films by women Women directors have gone beyond popular male-centric tropes of incest and pedophilia to explore the underbelly of such...
