In my research, I ask what it means for the future of the human-environment relationship when collective, subconscious climate anxieties, expressed via film, can seem to predict real-world environmental catastrophe. …
Inspired by the lack of cosmetic PFAS research in North America, in 2021 Whitehead et al. from the University of Notre Dame published a multi-year study wherein they examined the
In an shake-up of style, I got to try my hand at developing a video essay as a final project for my media and popular culture class. I have always
I examine how systems of unequal wealth distribution, allegorized by the prison structure central to the The Platform, beget three desire symptoms present in the film; desire for food, sexual relations, and racial control; within the context of Spanish history and Spanish film history. To provide further insight to the desires that arise from these inequitable systems, I utilize psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s scholarship on subconscious desire and drive. …
“Two years he walks the earth, no phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou
Grossing well over two billion dollars worldwide, James Cameron’s Avatar passed his 1997 film, Titanic, as the highest-grossing movie of all time in 2009. The film’s success has been attributed
I glare towards the horizon at the tunnel of red lights that impede my 9:00 am arrival. Although I suspect that each light will change to green as I approach,
What is “the environment”, and how do individual and group perspectives shape the way that people or groups behave towards it? The “Draw an Environment” (DAE) test aims to analyze
I wrote the following piece for a writing class in which I am currently enrolled. The topic of the class is Writers in Community, and this was our first full
Reminders I let my flowers die; they needed to be watered. I knew they needed to be watered, so why did I let them die? At first I fed them