Category: Extra Credit
Lina Lamont in Singin’ In the Rain
Revisiting Singin’ In the Rain was a pleasure, and watching the film again inspired in me a newfound curiosity for Lina Lamont. The first time around, I definitely didn’t give her character enough... Read MoreCharles Foster Kane, or William Randolph Hearst?
Link to Searcher source: (a great article that goes in-depth on the feudal parts of Citizen Kane’s production and release) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/kane-william-randolph-... Read MoreThe Sound Design Behind a Famous Horror Game
*The content of this post may contain some creepy/uncanny images or sounds.* *The topic has been approved by Professor Zinman through email.* I can confidently say that this image of a bear below will... Read MoreA Story of Hope: Reflecting on The Shawshank Redemption
Earlier this semester, I watched The Shawshank Redemption after noticing it was the highest rated film on IMDB. The movie, almost three hours long, at first felt like a typical “prison escape” sto... Read MoreTakeaways from Rewatching La La Land
I’m not the biggest on watching a film more than once, but if I’ve learned anything from this course, it’s that there are always new observations to be made. Over Thanksgiving break I watched La... Read MoreFrom the Stereo in Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
In my first extra-credit blog, I wanted to look into the music playing from Radio Raheem’s stereo. The movie is themed by “Fight the Power” (Public Enemy), which plays frequently throughout th... Read MoreCivil War (2024) and its Themes
This was an enjoyable movie. It was exciting and captivating, and it had action. Civil War is a 2024 film directed by Alex Garland. It is set in a time in America where there is a civil war going on i... Read MoreTakeaways from ‘The Big Short’
For a class presentation, we showed a clip from “The Big Short” to explain the 2008 banking crisis. I realized I had never seen the movie, so I decided to watch it over break and thoroughl... Read MoreDocumentary Forms of Ideology and Critique: A Comparison of Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing
During this Thanksgiving break, I had the chance to watch Malcolm X, another piece of work by Spike Lee which he presents the racial tensions in the American society in a completely different forms co... Read More- 2 of 4
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