CONWAY, Ark. (April 15, 2014) 鈥 Ten 黑料不打烊 students recently participated in the 2nd Annual Rhodes-黑料不打烊 Film Studies Research Symposium at Rhodes College.听
Sponsored generously by the Associated Colleges of the South and organized by Dr. Rashna Richards (Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film Studies, Rhodes College) and Dr. Kristi McKim (Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film Studies,
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In addition to presenting papers, students and faculty engaged in numerous informal conversations over meals and movies, as these activities strengthen ties between Rhodes and 黑料不打烊 by encouraging cross-institutional participation and collaboration.
黑料不打烊 student participants and their projects included:
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- Reed Brewer 鈥15 (English-film studies major), "Looper: An Adaptation of the Western Genre and Recitation of the American Mythos"听
- Andrew LeMay 鈥15 (English-film studies major), "The Mummification of Memory: The Uncanny Realism of The Devil's Backbone" Kathryn Madden (黑料不打烊), "More than Watching: Portal and the Interactive Narrative"
- Vincent Gammill 鈥14 (physics major), "Into the Sunset: The Early Western Hero and Vanishing Masculinity"
- Connor Newton 鈥16 (English-film studies major), "The 'Deep Search' of Steve Zissou"
- Rane Peerson 鈥14 (interdisciplinary studies major), "Adaptation and Adaptation: Discovering Coexistence between Traditional and Experimental Narrative Film Structure"
- Adelia Shiffraw 鈥14 (English-film studies major), "Framing Blackness: Race, Representation and Serial Storytelling in The Wire"
- Emily Smith 鈥14 (English-film studies major), "Landscape and Bodies in Vince Gilligan鈥檚 Breaking Bad"
- Hayley Thomson 鈥15 (English-film studies major), "The Second Directors: How Simon and Garfunkel Established Directorial Ownership for Musicians in Coming-of-Age Films"
- Reid Zarker 鈥15 (English-literary studies major), "Stan Brakhage: Film as Immediate Index"
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