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Laurel Creighton
Jun 88 min read
Iranian and Italian Realism with Children
Realism in cinema, particularly within the Italian Neorealism movement and its global reverberations, represents a profound shift in...
Laurel Creighton
Jun 84 min read
My Italian Neo-Realism Picks - No. 2
La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles) was released in 1948 and directed and narrated by Luchino Visconti. The story follows a family in...
Laurel Creighton
Dec 20, 20236 min read
Subversion and Sensuality: Vereda Tropical
Laurel Creighton Brazilian Cinema Fabio Cardoso Andrade In the 1970s, Brazil experienced an emergence of pornography as a mainstream...
Laurel Creighton
Nov 3, 20231 min read
3 poems on a very bad day
I Like a book on the subway tracks That somebody forgot to read I, too, am filled with discarded knowledge More esoteric than academic My...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 15, 202315 min read
Always the Mother
Laurel Creighton Ivone Margulies Selected Directors: Chantal Akerman Spring Semester 2023 Always the Mother A film that replicates itself...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 15, 20239 min read
Embarking on a Journey of Self-Exploration: Inside My Body
Under the guidance of my professor, Mr. Benjamin Moore, I'm setting out on a month-long journey to explore my inner self and connection...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 14, 20238 min read
A Comparative Review of Historical Realism within Terrence Malick’s The New World
Laurel Creighton HIST 14100 02 The United States from the Colonial Era to the Civil War July 12, 2023 A Comparative Review of Historical...
Laurel Creighton
May 27, 20239 min read
That’s Entertainment: Robert De Niro’s Performance in Raging Bull
The film Raging Bull is based on Jake LaMotta’s memoir, Ragin Bull: My Story. The screenplay was written by Mardik Martin and re-written...
Laurel Creighton
May 6, 20234 min read
Tukman Research Residency Program
Dear Tukman Research Residency Program Board, Over the years at Hunter, I have passionately studied both Film and the German language. My...
Laurel Creighton
Apr 11, 20237 min read
Scene Analysis: Notorious' Racetrack Scene
Notorious is an espionage film with gothic melodrama and noir elements. It stars Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Cary Grant and plays...
Laurel Creighton
Jan 31, 20237 min read
Overview of The Prison in 12 Landscapes
Politicians have double billed prisons as solution to crime and unemployment and this narrative has shaped the United States’ political...
Laurel Creighton
Dec 28, 20223 min read
Groundhog Day and Fabulism
What is the difference between plot and story? According to Russian Formalists, the plot is what we see and hear while a story goes much...
Laurel Creighton
Dec 1, 20226 min read
Branca de Neve
João César Monteiro's Branca de Neve is a startling recital of Snow White over a black screen punctuated by momentary images and eerie...
Laurel Creighton
Nov 23, 20223 min read
Au Hazard, Balthazar - Bresson
Bresson's Au Hazard, Balthazar (1966, France) is an allegorical film told through the lens of a donkey named Balthazar and was based in...
Laurel Creighton
Jun 26, 20224 min read
Born in Flames: an Essential Watch
Lizzie Borden presents a situation where individuals, especially women are still restricted and oppressed despite a "successful" Social...
Laurel Creighton
Jun 21, 20225 min read
L’Opera Mouffe/News from Home
Opera Mouffe is about many things but can be argued that it is about women’s visual vocabulary. A woman’s visual vocabulary exists linked...
Laurel Creighton
Jun 9, 20224 min read
Preston Sturges' Battle for Meaning in Hollywood
Critics and scholars agree that the 1930s were classical Hollywood's "Golden Era." Only a few years prior, in 1928, film had been...
Laurel Creighton
May 24, 20224 min read
Populism and Frank Capra
John Cassavetes says, "Maybe there is no America; it was only Frank Capra." A true rags to riches in his own life – Frank Capra became...
Laurel Creighton
Jan 21, 20224 min read
My Italian Neo-Realism Picks No. 1 - Padre Padrone
Padre Padrone is an adaptation of a novel written by Gavino Ledda, ab illiterate shepherd who became a renowned artist through hard work...
Laurel Creighton
Jan 12, 20224 min read
Thoughts on Peter Ohlin and the Nature of "Persona"
Peter Ohlin asks the question if it is really necessary to invoke the Holocaust in order to portray the spiritual crisis of a comfortably...
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