Category: Film Studies
Sung, Not Seen: Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977)
(Intro to Film, Spring 2023) Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence (2021) asks a question: what if the first sound you ever heard was one of pain (Noyer)? The heroine, Alexis (Jasmine Savoy Brown), grew up deaf until her hearing returned during the murder of her family when she was ten. As a college student, she
Resisting Passivity in Rebel Without a Cause
A snapshot of 1950s America looks different to different people. An idea floats among public discourse even today that the 1950s sitcom Leave It to Beaver accurately represented life in America, but the external polish of suburbia harshly conflicted with the slowly rotting foundation of “traditional” life. The Cold War took up the mantle of global tensions after World War II introduced the atomic bomb.