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GRADUATE PAPERS ON F I L M & MEDIA
Columbia University Honors Thesis:
“In Search of the Tea Philosopher within the Cinematic Essayist: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil”
Advisor: Prof. Richard Peña
Description: A deconstruction of the essay-film genre using Phillip Lopate’s criteria alongside the writings of Kazou Okakura, and with Sans Soleil as its apotheosis.
UC Berkeley Graduate papers:
“Dialectical Harmonies and the Permeability of Psyche, City, and Cine-Museum in Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours”
Advisor: Professor Anne Nesbet
“Pulling Stunts on Gender: The Fantastical Bodies of the Silent Serial New (action) Woman, Helen Gibson and Helen Holmes”
Advisor: Professor Mark Sandberg
“Cine-Tourism: Liminal Travel through Image, Time, and Space”
Advisor: Professor Nelson H. H. Graburn
“The Intermediality of Lessing’s ‘Pregnant Moment’”
Advisor: Professor Mary Ann Doane
“Memento Mori in the Digital Age: The Intermediality of Post-Mortem Photography and the Living-Dead on Facebook”
Advisor: Professor Mary Ann Doane
“A Digital Adaptation of Moholy-Nagy’s Dynamik der gross-stadt (1919): An Illustration of the Limits of Reproducibility of the Historical Avant Garde”
Advisor: Professor Tony Kaes
“‘Modernizing’ the Southern Italian Image: Mobility, displacement, and transformation in Ermanno Olmi’s I fidanzati (1963)”
Advisor: Professor Noa Steimatsky
Columbia University Honors Thesis:
“In Search of the Tea Philosopher within the Cinematic Essayist: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil”
Advisor: Prof. Richard Peña
Description: A deconstruction of the essay-film genre using Phillip Lopate’s criteria alongside the writings of Kazou Okakura, and with Sans Soleil as its apotheosis.
UC Berkeley Graduate papers:
“Dialectical Harmonies and the Permeability of Psyche, City, and Cine-Museum in Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours”
Advisor: Professor Anne Nesbet
“Pulling Stunts on Gender: The Fantastical Bodies of the Silent Serial New (action) Woman, Helen Gibson and Helen Holmes”
Advisor: Professor Mark Sandberg
“Cine-Tourism: Liminal Travel through Image, Time, and Space”
Advisor: Professor Nelson H. H. Graburn
“The Intermediality of Lessing’s ‘Pregnant Moment’”
Advisor: Professor Mary Ann Doane
“Memento Mori in the Digital Age: The Intermediality of Post-Mortem Photography and the Living-Dead on Facebook”
Advisor: Professor Mary Ann Doane
“A Digital Adaptation of Moholy-Nagy’s Dynamik der gross-stadt (1919): An Illustration of the Limits of Reproducibility of the Historical Avant Garde”
Advisor: Professor Tony Kaes
“‘Modernizing’ the Southern Italian Image: Mobility, displacement, and transformation in Ermanno Olmi’s I fidanzati (1963)”
Advisor: Professor Noa Steimatsky
