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Student Written Work

Zines

Zine #1: Video Games
Created by Students in FMST 001 (Fall 2023)
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Zine #2: Social Media
Created by Students in FMST 001 (Fall 2023)
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Essays

Bridging Cultures Through Animation: Exploring the Tension and Intersection of East Asian and Western Values in Contemporary Animated Features
Essay by Liya Hughes '24 for Animation and Media Course in Fall 2023
First Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2024

Bong Joon-ho and Transnational Flow Through Auteurism
Essay by Rocio Guay '25 for Critical Theories of Film and Media Course in Spring 2024
Second Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2024

The Boy Who Swallowed a Star: Transformational Synthesis in Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Essay by Josephine Low '27 for Animation and Media Course in Fall 2023
Third Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2024

Demystifying the Voice of AI
Essay by Anastasia Lewis '24 for FMST Capstone in Spring 2024
Honorable Mention in FMST Critical Essay Award in 2024

AIDS and Time Travel: 12 Monkeys and Philadelphia
Essay by Rachel Lapides '23 for Popular Music and Media Course in Spring 2023
First Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2023

2001: A Jeanne Dielman Odyssey (or, Passivity and Agency in Safe)
Essay by Jake Rothman '23 for FMST Capstone in Spring 2023
Second Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2023

Kamen Rider Black Sun: Tokusatsu’s Past, Present, and Future
Essay by Ben Rotko '25 for Television Studies Course in Spring 2023
Third Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2023

From Theater to Thriller: The Evolution of Horror Television
Essay by Ellie Tsapatsaris '24 for Television Studies Course in Spring 2023
Third Place FMST Critical Essay Award Winner in 2023

Maria Braun and the Formulation of a Nation
Essay by Chili Shi '22 for German Cinema Course in January Term 2021
Co-Winner of FMST Critical Essay Award in 2021

The Politics of Yesterday Girl
Essay by Isabelle Titcomb '22 for German Cinema Course in January Term 2021
Honorable Mention in FMST Critical Essay Award in 2021