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Caitlin Duffy deposited EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis is the syllabus I’ve designed for my Fall 2019 undergraduate-level Introduction to Film course. I focused the course as a genre study of American horror films. I want my students to be able to consider the socio-political contexts of popular films and to detect and explain the arguments and worldviews produced by film.
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Caitlin Duffy deposited EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis is the syllabus I’ve designed for my Fall 2019 undergraduate-level Introduction to Film course. I focused the course as a genre study of American horror films. I want my students to be able to consider the socio-political contexts of popular films and to detect and explain the arguments and worldviews produced by film.
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Matt Chalmers deposited Representations of Samaritans in Late Antique Jewish and Christian Texts in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAbstract and introduction for PhD dissertation, defended and deposited in April 2019.
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Caitlin Duffy deposited “Live or die, make your choice”: American Survival Game Horror in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoFrom the 2007 remake of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to Adam Robitel’s Escape Room (2019), the survival game has become a recurring sub-genre of American horror cinema in the last twenty years; however, its haunting presence has yet to be fully analyzed.
The American survival game horror film is uniquely able to render neoliberal con…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited “Live or die, make your choice”: American Survival Game Horror in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoFrom the 2007 remake of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to Adam Robitel’s Escape Room (2019), the survival game has become a recurring sub-genre of American horror cinema in the last twenty years; however, its haunting presence has yet to be fully analyzed.
The American survival game horror film is uniquely able to render neoliberal con…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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Ian Rodwell deposited A warning to the curious: ghost signs as liminal memento-mori in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis conference paper explores ghost signs: the faded adverts for brands, organisations and services that we see inked or carved on walls or above shops. I discuss: 1. the liminality of ghosts and ghosts signs – and the ways we materially engage with them 2. how they flex time and, in doing so, gift us an organisational warning 3. and how, as m…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Study Guide) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Coursepack) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Study Guide) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Bourgeoisie Is Also a Class: Class as Character in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” from a Marxist perspective, including its depiction of the Italian bourgeoisie of “il boom” era of the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous frame enlargements are used to substantiate the claim that even the film’s style contributes to its representations of socioeconomic class.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Italian Americans in the Hollywood Cinema: Filmmakers, Characters, Audiences Voices in Italian Americana 7.1 (Spring 1996): 65-77. Selected for reprinting in Voices in Italian Americana 26.1 (Spring 2015) as one of the most significant essays published in VIA in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article investigates the representation of Italian Americans in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, expanding the research originally conducted by noted scholar Mirella Affron.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Japan through Others’ Lenses: “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959) and “Lost in Translation” Japan Studies Review 11 (2007): 143-155. Also available on the Internet at http://asianstudies.fiu.edu in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article compares and contrasts two films that take place in Japan but that were directed by French and American directors. Their “outsider perspective” is explored in terms of their respective films’ themes, characters, and cinematic styles.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis is a review/analysis of the Antonioni film IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN (1982), occasioned by its DVD release by the Criterion Collection.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Mr. Jones Goes to Washington: Myth and Religion in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay uses Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Monomyth to analyze both the mythic and contemporary implications of a “popcorn” movie that has numerous social and political subtexts for the Reaganite era.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “‘You’re Telling Me You Didn’t See”: Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay compares After Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW and Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP in terms of their similarities in narrative, characters, and cinematic style.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: “Triumph of the Will” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay uses the work of Wilhelm Reich to analyze the “mass psychology of fascism” in Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.
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