Film Studies Program

Senior Essays, 1996

Can be read in the Film Studies Program office, 53 Wall Street, Rm. 216

Senior Essays

Monique Giselle Espana, Men With Purple Hearts: The Post World War II Construction of the Film Noir Protagonist

Chris Davey, A Closer Look at Nicholas Ray’s Deconstruction of Heterosexuality in Film Noir “The Brief Evolution of an Auteur’s Favorite Theme”

Caroline Lee, The Many Face of Patty Heart: The Story of Patricia Hearst, the S.L.S. and The Media

Kathleen J. Man, A Safe Place, Woman and the Anti-Melodrama

Franklin Pryce Raff, Mother Russia and the Woman Typist, Representation and Treatment of Women in the Anniversary Year of Films of Sergei M. Eisenstein and Vsevolod I. Pudovkin

Judith Ellen Penner, Lighting in the Classroom: Education, Nationalism, and Propaganda in the 1920s through the Lens of the Yale Chronicles of America Photoplays

Monica De Armond, Race, Gender, and Postmodernism in the Films of New York Independent Filmmkaers: Commanding Position of Exile Within the Cultural Geography of New York City