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"Domestic Rituals, the Undivided Body & Empathy for Jeanne Dielman"
1st place winner for the 2023 Hart & Winnie Wegner Award for Film Studies.
An analysis of the mise-en-scène and structure of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) through a Mulveyian lens interrogating Louis Giannetti's proxemics.
~1900 words.
"A Stage Actor on Screen: Contextualizing & Analyzing Robert Donat as Mr. Chips"
2nd Place winner for the 2022 Hart & Winnie Wegner Award for Film Studies.
An analysis of Robert Donat's performance in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) as informed by his dual presence on stage and screen based on research by Victoria Lowe.
~2000 words.
"Unreal Film: Watching Spectacular Film to Interrogate Reality"
Final research paper for FILM 400: Film Theory, taught by Prof. Rodabeh Boroumand.
A synthetic construction of a new comprehensive film theory as inspired by and in response to André Bazin's essentialist realism.
~3100 words.
"Yuva: Ratnam and Rahman’s Hyperlink-Masala Vision of a Modern India"
Final research paper for FILM 414: Cinematic Structure, taught by Prof. Kynan Dias.
An analysis informed by Patrick Jagoda's Network Aesthetics of the structure of Yuva (2004) in its screenplay, editing, soundtrack, and score as they serve to construct an image of post-colonial India in the Y2K era.
~1300 words.