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Interview With Natasha Ofili, Monica Blizek Apr 2022

Interview With Natasha Ofili, Monica Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

Natasha Ofili, the star and screenwriter of The Multi, was interviewed by Monica Blizek about the process that led to the creation of the film.


Sundance 2022 Introduction, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

Sundance 2022 Introduction, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is the Introduction to our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.


Leonor Will Never Die, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

Leonor Will Never Die, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Leonor Will Never Die (2021), directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar.


Nothing Compares, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

Nothing Compares, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Nothing Compares (2022), directed by Kathryn Ferguson.


Jihad Rehab, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

Jihad Rehab, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Jihad Rehab (2021), directed by Meg Smaker.


Brian And Charles, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

Brian And Charles, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Brian and Charles (2021), directed by Jim Archer.


Dual, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

Dual, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Dual (2021), directed by Riley Stearns.


Alice, Sheila J. Nayar Apr 2022

Alice, Sheila J. Nayar

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Alice (2022), directed by Krystin Ver Linden.


Long Line Of Ladies, William L. Blizek Apr 2022

Long Line Of Ladies, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Long Line of Ladies (2022), directed by Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome.


Introduction To Slamdance 2022, William L. Blizek Apr 2022

Introduction To Slamdance 2022, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is the Introduction to the Slamdance Film Festival 2022.


“For Now We See In A Mirror, Dimly”: Dialectical Wholeness In Oshii Mamoru’S Ghost In The Shell, Mari Aida Apr 2022

“For Now We See In A Mirror, Dimly”: Dialectical Wholeness In Oshii Mamoru’S Ghost In The Shell, Mari Aida

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

This essay argues that Oshii Mamoru's 1995 animated film Ghost in the Shell, while indicating possible alliances with the political interests of cyberfeminism, ultimately advocates for the oppositional agenda of dialectical wholeness. Foundational texts of cyberfeminism, such as Donna J. Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs," have criticized narratives of isolation and a return towards a primordial wholeness implicit in Euro-American scientific culture. In the context of these texts, the cyborg symbolizes a departure from such narratives and guides the political project of reimagining epistemological boundaries. However, despite its apparent alignment with such projects, Ghost in the Shell dramatizes and …


The Female Heroine Of Action Films: A History And Exploration Of The Genre And Application To The Short Film Lois, Daniel Brunner Apr 2022

The Female Heroine Of Action Films: A History And Exploration Of The Genre And Application To The Short Film Lois, Daniel Brunner

Senior Honors Theses

The action genre is one of the oldest forms of filmmaking, beginning with some of the earliest short films with simple chases and heists. From then it has progressed into the genre we know today but still retains certain crucial aspects. One of sub-genres within these films can be seen in post-apocalyptic and dystopian films. All of these tend to follow the hero’s journey as described by Joseph Campbell. The representation of powerful female heroines within the action genre has increased since 1980s from its traditional male centric viewpoint. The screenplay for the short film Lois shows the convergence of …


Persian Squares, Natasha Sabour Apr 2022

Persian Squares, Natasha Sabour

LMU Theses and Dissertations

After moving to Los Angeles, California, polar opposite sisters Sahar and Roxana struggle to find jobs, husbands, and their Persian identity. Here’s hoping they can find the 405!


The Rink, Noura Alavi Apr 2022

The Rink, Noura Alavi

LMU Theses and Dissertations

When two elite, female figure skaters are both at a crossroads with their skating performance, they decide to form a same-sex skating pair for a chance to save their careers.


Electric Eden, Victoria De La Concha Apr 2022

Electric Eden, Victoria De La Concha

LMU Theses and Dissertations

(Pilot, One-Hour Drama, YA, Sci-Fi) A rebellious physics student investigating her twin’s disappearance invents time travel only to strand herself in the blood-stained amusement parks of 1907 Coney Island with a killer on the loose.


Dulce, Christopher Espinal Apr 2022

Dulce, Christopher Espinal

LMU Theses and Dissertations

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The Church Of Leila, Nikki Haririan Apr 2022

The Church Of Leila, Nikki Haririan

LMU Theses and Dissertations

After attempting suicide and speaking with God, a disaster of a woman sets out to start her own religion, all while moving back in with her parents.


Tantura, Sheila J. Nayar Apr 2022

Tantura, Sheila J. Nayar

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Tantura (2022), directed by Alon Schwarz.


What They've Been Taught, William L. Blizek Apr 2022

What They've Been Taught, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of What They've Been Taught (2022), directed by Brit Hensel.


The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future, John C. Lyden Apr 2022

The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (2022), directed by Francesca Alegría.


Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying, William L. Blizek Apr 2022

Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Walls Cannot Keep Us from Flying (2022), directed by Jonathan Haff Mehring.


The Gay Agenda: Being Accepted In Children’S Media, Tiffany Wells Apr 2022

The Gay Agenda: Being Accepted In Children’S Media, Tiffany Wells

Honors College Theses

For many LGBTQ+ children, there is a lack of representation of their identities in the television shows they see growing up. We turn to objects, like television characters, to help “find our way,” which becomes limited for individuals who are part of the minority (Ahmed 1). When television shows reflect a variety of lived experiences, they can increase cultural competence in their viewers. While LGBTQ+ representation in children’s media has increased, it is still difficult to implement such representation. This thesis we will discuss three shows, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, and The Owl House, that have struggled with the implementation …


Female Victimization In The 1970s And 1980s Slasher Film, Sarah Lukowski Apr 2022

Female Victimization In The 1970s And 1980s Slasher Film, Sarah Lukowski

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

To examine this portrayal of women in 1970s and 1980s slashers, I will first provide background on the genre using the influential films The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978), and from there I will define the genre in accordance with its characteristics and formulaic conventions. Clover’s groundbreaking work (1987; 1992), offers a feminist perspective on slasher films and will provide substantial evidence throughout my paper. Then, I will compare and contrast multiple content analyses from the 1980s to the 2000s that use empirical studies to evaluate the degree to which women are victimized in slashers by the …


Pathos, Spring 2022, Portland State University. Student Publications Board Apr 2022

Pathos, Spring 2022, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell


Pathetic Beauty: Mono No Aware In Hollywood Cinema –To Family And Friends In These Estranged Times–, Aaron Francis Ward Mar 2022

Pathetic Beauty: Mono No Aware In Hollywood Cinema –To Family And Friends In These Estranged Times–, Aaron Francis Ward

Japanese Society and Culture

Mono no aware is considered to be one of the central-most Japanese aesthetics and distinctive to Japanese identity (Keene 1995; Miller 2011). This aesthetic standpoint finds wistful beauty in the transient, and is most often translated to ‘beauty in pathos’ or ‘the ah-ness of things’ (Hume 1995), as exemplified in the Heian-era classic, The Tale of Genji (Murasaki 1981). To the outside world, mono no aware is most commonly associated with cherry-blossom viewing, where the short-lived existence of the falling cherry blossom is seen as a metonym for contemplation of the beauty in the transience of life itself. Although this …


Revolutionary Reenactment: Militant Futures Past In Rania And Raed Rafei’S “74 (The Reconstitution Of A Struggle)”, Judith Naeff Mar 2022

Revolutionary Reenactment: Militant Futures Past In Rania And Raed Rafei’S “74 (The Reconstitution Of A Struggle)”, Judith Naeff

Regards

This article analyses how innovative narrative techniques operate in the movie 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) by Rania and Raed Rafei (2012). The film is a reenactment of an historical event: the student occupation of the American University of Beirut one year before the start of the Lebanese civil war. The use of improvised reenactment, testimonials and the voiceover all strengthen the film’s approach to the event as an embodied transformative experience, even as it descends into its defeat. While a cynical spectator might argue that the focus on “revolutionary becoming” reduces collective action to individual experience, the article …


Le Cinéma Politique Et Engagé Turc, Mehmet Ozturk Mar 2022

Le Cinéma Politique Et Engagé Turc, Mehmet Ozturk

Regards

This article is about Turkish political cinema. The cinema, which began with the authorization of the state during the fall of the Ottoman Empire, did not have an important political role during the construction of the Kemalist Republic. In the 1950s, it entered its golden age in pro-American Turkey. At the end of the 1960s, especially in the lead years (1970), political cinema was used on several occasions as part of the ideology of the far right and the revolutionary left. After the violence of the military coup of 1980, it remained rather cynical and disengaged. Political interpretations represented the …


Introduction – Le Cinéma Militant Dans Le Monde Arabe (Des Années 1960 À Nos Jours), Joseph Korkmaz Mar 2022

Introduction – Le Cinéma Militant Dans Le Monde Arabe (Des Années 1960 À Nos Jours), Joseph Korkmaz

Regards

Le cinéma militant dans le monde arabe, des années soixante du siècle dernier à maintenant, est tributaire d’un contexte historique marqué par le conflit israélo-palestinien et, par induction, israélo-arabe. Ce contexte s’inscrit à son tour dans la Guerre froide et le bras de fer entre le bloc communiste, mené par l’URSS, et le bloc occidental, parrainé par les États-Unis...


Usages Du Ciné-Tract Dans Le Film « Demande À Ton Ombre », Camille Leprince Mar 2022

Usages Du Ciné-Tract Dans Le Film « Demande À Ton Ombre », Camille Leprince

Regards

Lamine Ammar-Khodja's first feature film, produced in 2012, Demande à ton ombre (Ask your shadow) is part of the so-called "creation" documentary. A diary and political chronicle, this film which runs from January to March 2011 plunges us into the news of the Arab uprisings seen from Algeria. While distinguishing itself in several respects from a militant cinema, Demande à ton ombre does not deny certain processes of the tradition of cine-tracts. In order to measure this distant, even distanced, proximity to the resources of militant and engaged cinema, it is proposed here to analyze their function and …


Technology Of Cinematic Architecture In Science Fiction Movies, Hasan Al-Haj, Lena Hosni, Rana Ghannoum Mar 2022

Technology Of Cinematic Architecture In Science Fiction Movies, Hasan Al-Haj, Lena Hosni, Rana Ghannoum

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)

Cinematic architecture in the broadest terms, portrayed spaces as a scene, where it conceives and reads the built environment in terms of sequences. It explores the effect of futuristic architecture and highlight the significant role of cinematic architecture in the society. Both movies and architecture function as languages, with two components: the signifiers, which are the tangible forms of signs, and the signified, which are the concepts, thoughts, and ideals that the signifiers contain. Unfortunately, the world is experiencing fast changes as a result of the massive rise of technology and capitalism, and the cinema industry plays an important role …