Tuesday, September 22, 2020

ENG 281: Fall 2020 Student Responses

 Introduction to Film Studies: 1960 - 1999

Exemplary responses:

Samantha Comberger - The True Horror Behind the Shining: The Abuse of Shelly Duval

Nathan Foster - All That Jazz: Do the Dance Macabre

McKenna Dallas - The Dog: Another Beloved Sociopath

Samantha Comberger - Carrie: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ... Right Sue Snell

Samantha Comberger - The Godfather II: This is the Business We Have Chosen

Nathan Foster - Taxi Driver: A Ride to the Dark Side

Nathan Foster - Alien: A Perfect Organism (and film)

McKenna Dallas - The Exorcist: Manipulation

Lauryn Maystead - Saturday Night Fever: Of the Sparkling Lights

Lauryn Maystead - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Tunneling through Many Genres

Cade Healander - The Rocky Horror Picture Show: “CREATING FAMILY MEMORIES WATCHING THE ‘TOUCHA, TOUCHA, TOUCH ME’ SECENE IN ROCKY HORROR”

Cade Healander - Young Frankenstein: Frakenstien and Laban

Samantha Comberger - The Godfather: Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli

Samantha Comberger - Planet of the Apes: Darwin's Reversed Evolution

Rebecca Lopez - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?: A Question of Mercy

Nathan Foster - 2001: The Human Voyage

McKenna Dallas: Half Beguiled

McKenna Dallas - In Cold Blood: "Okay Honey"

Cade Healander: Cabaret and The Banality of Evil

Cade Healander - Midnight Cowboy: I'm Queer, I'm Lonely, and (not completely) Loving It

Abraham Collum - Walkabout: Journey of Humans

Cade Healander: Drunk on Daisies

McKenna Dallas - A Fistful of Dollars: Aim for the Heart

Cade Healander - The Haunting ... of the Mind

McKenna Dallas: The Art of Finger Snapping (a comparison between West Side Story and Twin Peaks)

Samantha Comberger - The Haunting: You May Not Believe in Ghosts

Nathan Foster - Yojimbo: Tumbleweeds and Katanas

Letterboxd Profiles and Response Tally:

Sifting

Abraham Collum 8 (Psycho; Dr. Strangelove; Cool Hand Luke; Walkabout; The Exorcist; The Wolf of Snow Hollow; Carrie; Blue Collar)

Cade Healander 10 (The Haunting; Daisies; Midnight Cowboy; Cabaret; Young Frankenstein; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Alien; Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; The Shining; Orlando)

Lauryn Maystead 4 (West Side Story; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Saturday Night Fever; Caddyshack)

McKenna Dallas 10 (West Side Story; A Fistful of Dollars; In Cold Blood; The Beguiled; The Exorcist; The Dog; The Evil Dead; The Outsiders; Brazil; American History X)

Nathan Foster 8 (Yojimbo; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mean Streets; Alien; Taxi Driver; All That Jazz)

Rebecca Lopez 7 (The Haunting; Daisies; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Badlands; Carrie; Days of Heaven)

Samantha Comberger 9 (The Haunting; Le Samourai; Planet of the Apes; The Godfather; The Godfather II; Halloween H20; Carrie; The Shining; Alien)

Selene Hernandez 8 (West Side Story; Daisies; The Graduate; Willi e Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; The Exorcist; The Outsiders; Borat Subsequent Film; The Rocky Horror Picture Show)


Final Projects:
Abraham: Reflection on films viewed and themes this semester
Cade: Queer Theory and Horror - book review
McKenna: Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Horror Genre 
Nathan Foster: The Trial of the Chicago 7  - revolutionary politics / the new left movement of the 60s
Rebecca Lopez: At least 4 paintings on the films watched this semester
Samantha: The Shining and Dr. Sleep
Selene: Lord of the Rings trilogy


Tracks (optional):

Cade Healander: Cinematography/LGBTQ+ 

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