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Triforce of the gods: a sacred realm of new media
by Barrett Burgin This essay explores the ways that the “Legend of Zelda” series has purposefully capitalized on religion. The essay demonstrates how the series accessed religion, how religion developed organically within it, and how the series centered around it, and the implications…
Space and place in visages villages
An Eco-critical Perspective of Building Communities via the Face of the Other by Samuel Moynihan This essay employs the work of Lawrence Buell, Marc Augé,and Emmanuel Levinas to examine Agnes Varda’s Visages Villageswithin an eco-critical context. The text shows that Visages Villagesand…
Looking at empowered women through voyeur-tinted glasses
Complications of Exploring the Male Gaze with a Visual Medium as Demonstrated in Traumnovelle and Eyes Wide Shut by Mariah Johnson
Movement in “Paprika” and Baudry’s Apparatus Theory
by Kaily Goodro Jean-Louis Baudry’s apparatus theory suggests that movie viewers experience an immobility that makes watching a film akin to dreaming. Spectators are unable to freely move, unable to affect what they see, and unable to differentiate between self…
Mulholland Thanatos: Noir Theories of Identity in the Work of David Lynch
by Brendan Lund Thanks to the dream scene which occupies most of the running time of the film, Mulholland Drive, directed by David Lynch, can be read as representing the internal conscious and unconscious states of its protagonist. In this…
Alchemy of the Face: “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” and Facial Emotion
by Brendan Decicio This paper utilizes the Japanese anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood to evaluate different uses of facial close-up. Drawing heavily from the theoretical works of Bela Belaz and Maya Deren, the examination reveals that the seriously realistic and absurdly…