On March 1, the Film and Media Studies Program celebrated the work of seven outstanding students. The FAMS seniors presented their critical and creative works in the annual symposium in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
Panel #1: Identity Aesthetics (moderated by Professor Amelie Hastie)
Jihyun Paik “Bodies and the Things They Carry: Experience, Memory, and Subjectivity in Asian American Film and Video”
Diego Duckenfield Lopez “Belly, Dolemite, and the Relationship Between Race and Camp”
Carolina Cordon “Externalizing the Female Mind: Televisual Techniques to Communicate Emotions Across the Screen”
Panel #2: Working in and Against Genre (moderated by Professor Adam Levine)
Ari Dengler “The Pursuit of Truth in Documentary Film”
Grace Walker “Reading Fluidly: Personal Narrative, Academic Writing, and the Limitations of Genre.”
Cristian Serda “Experiments in Horror”
Will Ranyard “Identifying Misleading Documentary Using Mockumentary”