Senior Essays, Films and Screenplays, 1998

Can be read in the Film Studies Program office, 53 Wall Street, Rm. 216

Senior Essays

Alexandra Robbins, The Fairy-Tale Façade: Walt Disney’s Anti-Grotesque Dream

Patrick Carone, From Neominstrelsy to New Black Cinema

Michael Jo, James Youngdeer, Princess Redwing, and the Indian Picure in the Silent Era

Eryn Rosenthal, Art Bearing Witness: Metaphor and Rupture of its Frame in the Telling of the Holocaust

Lev Olsen, Villette’s Design of Pain

Joel Burges, The Unnatural History of Civilization: A Ghostly Genealogy of United States Imperialism, Postcolonial Black Nationalism, and Homophobia

Jyana Sunshine Gregory, Interlacing Theater and Life in the Films of Jean Renoir

Niko Smrekar, Evolution of a Revolutionary Style, on the films of Makavejev

Abigail Marceluk, Ukraine in Flames: A Film Scenario by Oleksandr Dovzhnko

Tristan Patterson, When Our Heroes Were Men: The Role of the Wild West and Prize-fighting in shaping American Identity

Michael Shear, The Good the Bad, and the Ugly: Law and Order, Vigilantism, and Changes in the Western, 1964-1974

Judy Guchu, Osccar Micheauz, Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee

R.J. Elizondo III, American Identity and Citizen Kane

Domingo Villaronga, Hollywood’s Monster Reinterpreting the Significance of the Science Fiction Film 1955-1962

Senior Films

Amina Henry, Remembering Me

Senior Screenplays

Noelle Stehman, Troubadour

Craig Knotts, Hail Mary

Lee Horvitz, Authorial Intent