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April 9, 2017 Matthew Jones

Review: Creep (2004) ★★

Like so many horror films before it, Creep (2004) starts off strong and eventually succumbs to a weak script, mediocre performances,

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April 9, 2017 Matthew Jones

Metzger’s Women: Gender Representations and Visual Abstraction in ’60s Sexploitation

In the years following the 1948 Paramount Case, independent cinema gained a competitive edge in the United States. As the

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April 4, 2017 Matthew Jones

Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017) ★★★

In Ghost in the Shell (2017), technology has advanced to the point that humans can replace their own body parts with

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March 29, 2017 Matthew Jones

Review: Sherlock Jr. (1924) ★★★★½

Silent films don’t usually tickle my fancy. We are so far removed from the “Golden Age” of silent filmmaking that

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March 25, 2017 Matthew Jones

Politics in Horror: American Anxieties Play Out on Screen

It is not new or revolutionary to connect the political and social realities of our times to films that we

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February 15, 2017 Matthew Jones

Sex and the Creation of Horror in It Follows

Since the earliest days of horror films, sex has been a key component of the genre. Sometimes the sexual content

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January 11, 2017 Matthew Jones

Cinematography and Style in Rebel Without a Cause

Very few films, even today, accurately portray the complexities of teenage life. It is an age group with which it

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November 5, 2016 Matthew Jones

Analysis: Confession of a Child of the Century

Sylvie Verheyde’s 2012 film, Confession of a Child of the Century, based on Alfred de Musset’s 1836 semi-autobiographical novel, tells

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August 24, 2016 Matthew Jones

Human Nature and Technology in Science Fiction

Since the earliest days of cinema, films have explored the role of technology in science fiction. The moving picture, in

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July 6, 2016 Matthew Jones

Stoicism in Film: Changing Lanes

True stoicism in film is somewhat rare. Many films put particular emphasis on emotion and its impact in our daily

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June 2, 2016 Matthew Jones

Nebraska, the Taiga, and An Escape from Modernity

There are probably no two films that, at first glance, appear less comparable than Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Werner Herzog’s

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April 16, 2016 Matthew Jones

The Graduate Analysis: Audiences and Film Criticism

Film reviews are, more than anything, a reflection of their audience. Where most films aim to entertain their respective audiences,

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March 6, 2016 Matthew Jones

Gender and Sexuality in Breillat’s Fat Girl (2001)

Contemporary French cinema has seen a rise in the number of female filmmakers, and in turn, an increased focus on

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January 6, 2016 Matthew Jones

Mixing Genres and Political Turmoil in The 39 Steps

Though Hollywood has dominated the global film industry since the 1910’s, many influential directors and films have surfaced outside of

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May 10, 2014 Matthew Jones

Responsibility and Victimization in Grave of the Fireflies

Targeting non-combatants has been a strategic and controversial practice in wartime for centuries. Despite laws established during the first, second,

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May 3, 2014 Matthew Jones

Feminist Film Theory: Freeland and Mulvey

During the second wave of feminism in the 1960’s and 70’s, feminist theorists put increasing attention on representations of women

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April 25, 2014 Matthew Jones

Jonathan Glazer’s Birth and the Definition of Art-Horror

Noël Carroll’s theory of “art-horror” lays out a structure for classifying works of horror in fiction. Specifically, he identifies the

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