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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
