The Summer Made Her Light Escape
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Arit Emmanuela Etukudo
Un-apologetically female: An analysis of Alien
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Arguments about what amounts to a feminist character have always been up for debate. Does a feminine character mean a character who portrays male attributes or a character who supports the traditional female attributes, or is it a female character who is un-apologetically feminine? Although feminist characters do not always
The inevitability of performativity: An analysis of Crash
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Paul Haggis’ 2004 Crash is a film that focuses on stereotyping, cause and effect, and racial tensions. When looked at closely, the film goes beyond the surface of these things and raises important questions. Are we living for ourselves or everybody else? Are we in control of our own lives
Our rosebud: An analysis of the Simpson’s “Rosebud”
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No doubt The Simpsons is a show infamous for its humor, but it is often known that underneath humor is allegorical truth. This is evident in the “Rosebud” episode of The Simpsons where it deals with youth, innocence, the growth into adulthood, and the reaction of adults to these things;
Cognitive dissonance of humanity: An analysis of Sedmikrasky
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Chytilova’s 1966 Daises or Sedmikrasky is often recognized as a feminist film for reasons that are very easy to notice. It features two carefree women, running around their town with reckless abandon, doing whatever they please. It can also be said to feature feminist topics mainly pertaining to the role
Recognizing the age of black bodies: An analysis of Do The Right Thing
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When Spike Lee’s 1989 Do The Right Thing is discussed, the topic that always comes up is whether or not Mookie did the right thing by throwing the trashcan through Sal’s window. This is a topic that always has been and always will be up for debate. When it
Urges from the Renwick: A review of the “Wonder” exhibit
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Whenever I go to an exhibit for the first time I take two walks around. On the first walk I go in blind. I do not read the descriptions or the artist statement, I go just to look. The second walk around can be more or less exciting depending on
Hatred of the delicate
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Olivia Parker – Site I (from “Lost Objects portfolio) It’s funny how once something is damaged it can never be the same. Not actual funny, but the funny that comes with a statement like “It’s funny how the only thing guaranteed in life is death.” This statement isn’t funny at
Floodlit White
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Floodlit white. Not the white you see on a piece of paper or the white that comes from the soap bubbles that turned your eyes screaming red when your cousin told you to close your eyes but you were too stubborn to listen. But the white that comes from the
A warning against buried images.
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Images that are buried deep will always find a way back to you. You’re 21 and in a museum. You see a marble, and then you’re 5. You’re 5 again and standing in front of the vase of marbles in your aunt’s house that you will soon begin to swallow.
Arit Emmanuela Etukudo 