Essays on Films by TRU (UCC) Students

 New Essays:     "The Elements of Film Noir" by Katie Gillespie - TRU student

                         " The Legacy of Film Noir" by Judy Kress - TRU student

• "Blurring the Boundaries: Hard Core Logo" by Sheryl Sadorski, UCC student

  The strength of both Michael Turner's book and Bruce MacDonald's film adaptation lies in their distinct  

  use of fragmentation and hybridity, Sadorski argues.

• "Post-Modernism in Robert Lepage’s Le Polygraphe"  by Amy McKinnon, UCC student

  Mckinnon's examination focuses on the unconventional staging/camera techniques, the autobiographical 

  genesis, and the reflexivity of the playscript and the movie.

• "Who the Hell Do They Think They Are?" by Sarah Cordingley, UCC student

Cordingley argues that Michael Turner's book, Hard Core Logo, and Bruce MacDonald's film of the same name 

provide equally successful insights into punk rock lifestyle and ethos. 

• "Le Polygraphe: Two Media, Two Perspectives, One Post-Modern Work" by Jordan Hermiston, UCC student

• "Gargantuan Bugs, Radioactive Sea Monsters, and Carnivorous Arachnids: Atomic Anxieties and Fears of Radiation Reflected in Mutant Monsters Films, 1953-1962" by Wynn G. Hamonic - TRU student

• "The Unstoppable Dark Force and The RKO Noir-Horror Trinity: Jaques Tourneur, Nicholas Musuraca, and Albert S. D’Agostino" by Wynn G. Hamonic - TRU student

• "A comparison of Wendy Lill’s play The Glace Bay Miners ‘Museum and Mort Ransen’s film" by Birte Goessling, UCC student

Other Online Essays:

• Critical Writing Online

• Essays on Film Noir

• "The Past in Prime Time: Canadian History, the CBC/SRC, and the National Archives" by Monica MacDonald

• Film Studies Association of Canada