Authors:Kaitlyn Lonnee Abstract: This essay explores the historical context and the depiction of the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite’s Opposition Campaign in Pablo Larraín’s No (2012). By presenting the historical overview, the controversy surrounding the depiction, the succusses of the campaign, the methods of the campaign, and the delivery of the "message," an analysis of the potential falling of the film No (2012) is explored. PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Holly Calnan Abstract: This essay contends that Wes Anderson’s use of nostalgic elements, such as the David Bowie songs in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), is an example of this engagement of nostalgia, and in turn, engaging cinephilic feelings within the viewer. This connects to the idea that the use of nostalgic triggers, such as music, contributes to the cinephile’s pleasurable experience of watching a film PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Sarah Arksey-Njegovan Abstract: This essay analyses and explores the creation of "Windowflicks." Due to the unique circumstances of 2020 regarding the pandemic, there was a chance to create. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the cinema industry came to a grinding halt across the globe and Berlin was no exception. However, the circumstances of 2020 led to the creation of "Windowflicks," a creation that sought to amend the feeling of loneliness one may feel while streaming a film alone. PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Luke Lee Young Abstract: "Get Happy” is a highly contradictory number; despite its upbeat score and its catchy lyrics that contain the word “happy” eighteen times, the number is about inevitable death and “getting ready for judgment day." This essay contends that there are three essential moments in “Get Happy” where the number intentionally breaks its illusion of happiness. These three moments contradict Richard Dryer's assumption that musicals are "utopian worlds." Despite these contradictions, the number remains a pleasurable viewing experience. PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Jenny Yang Abstract: This essay grapples with Erwin Panofsky's essay "Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures" by analyzing animation whilst taking live-action cinema into account. It is because animation embodies the very possibility of cinema that it would evolve similarly, testing out realism and serious storytelling in the general trajectory of live-action films despite people’s nostalgia for its older cinematic form, especially since it has become something of cinema’s cinema, where animation, and Disney, are viewed as lower entertainment for the masses as a form of escapism and consumerist Hollywood storytelling while also sometimes trying to be more, all features Panofsky did not condemn when analyzing regular cinema. PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Greg Nowicki Abstract: This essay examines the role of attractiveness, road trips, and sex as means to belonging, as depicted in the film Y tu mama también and in the music video Seek Bromance, two works that arguably belong to the film genres of road film and of bromance. PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:Nadia Khan Abstract: Oldboy is a film that revolves around Oh Dae-su’s revenge. This essay contends that revenge enacts a creative commentary on the social classes in Korea during the 2000s. It also ties in the various historical moments occurring in Korea and worldwide and how that shapes the main character. Throughout the film, these aspects of social class and history are used to further drive the plot forward without being glaringly evident in the film’s setting. PubDate: 2022-02-09 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
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