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Script to Screen: Visualizing the Turning Point of ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
Getting to know you/Getting to know all about you
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Growing Pains: Names, Autonomy, and the Changing Self in ‘Spirited Away’
A liminal journey through the spirit realm by any other name would smell as sweet…
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Chasing Butterflies: Observations on the Visual Style of Terrence Malick
Hope y’all brought your allergy medication because we’re going to be running through some fields.
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Fake Blood and True Grit: How Sam Raimi Made 1981’s ‘The Evil Dead’
Turns out making a splatter film in the dead of winter is a horrorshow in its own right.
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Glamor From Above: The Simple Majesty of Dietrich Lighting
Lights, camera, Marlene Dietrich.
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Separation Anxiety: The Anatomy of the ‘Basket Case’ Trilogy
“What’s in the basket? Easter eggs?”
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Visual Rhymes: The Cinematic Resonances of ‘Tenet’
Because no one is a bigger film dork than filmmakers.
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The Ballad of Gator Purify: Samuel L. Jackson’s Career-Making Performance
Before Jules Winnfield…there was Gator Purify.
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Bluffs, Tells, and Martinis: An Analysis of the ‘Casino Royale’ Poker Scene
Knowledge of how poker works not required.