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Writing Selected Writing Academic Papers on Film Papers on Culture Personal Short Stories Poetry Travel Writing Memoirs Losing Truth Whose Pants Are These? Intimations of San Francisco’s Chinatown Non-place is Still Someplace Designing Reality and the Dream Culture and Experience on Sale Get Up, Stand Up: The Comedy of John Leguizamo Through Theater and Pain It’s the End of the World As We Know It The Methods of Madness Survivor: An American Travesty Designing for the Gaze Nostalgia for Suffering The Counterfeit Body Souvenirs and the Museum Store In Sickness and in Health: America’s Cinematic Deadly Obsessions Questioning the Strength of the Human Spirit: Representations of the Revolution and The Blue Kite Bridging the Great Divide Losing Truth: The Limitations and Fallibility of Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa This paper examines conflicting visions and versions of memory and the subsequent rewriting and re-remembering of history in South Africa through two novels, Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother and Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples. Whose Pants Are These?: Representing Asian Male Sexuality in Early US Cinema Using the films Broken Blossoms and Daughter of the Dragon, this paper explores and confronts the problematic representations and standardizations of Asian male sexuality as manifested in such characters of US cinema in the early 20th century. Intimations of San Francisco’s Chinatown: Unity and Dispersal in the Representations of Community in Flower Drum Song and Chao is Misssing Analyzing two divergent films situated in the same space, a popular musical and an independent film, a dynamic picture of the Chinatown community is constructed. Survivor: An American Travesty This paper examines the phenomenon of reality TV at its true advent and explosion into popular culture through an analysis of the original Survivor, utilizing elements of Marxist theory. Designing for the Gaze: Vietnam Revisited and Represented by and for the Western Tourist Industry The essay confronts Vietnam in transition, from previous stigmatized site of war to burgeoning tourist destination and the implications and impacts of the transition process. This paper has special relevance for the author after she visited the country herself in January 2003 as a tourist. The Methods of Madness: Representations of Inmates, Authorities and the Asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Awakenings This paper focuses on the concepts and representations of the institution and the inmate, and how films, even when presenting in a seemingly sympathetic tone, have often served only to further stigmatize both entities. Nostalgia for Suffering: Western Fascination, Fetishization and Appropriation of the Third World Experience and Representation Through the Culture Industry This paper examines the simultaneous influence and subjugation of the Third Cinema movement in conflation with the Western Culture Industry and the implications for success or failure within this schema. Bridging the Great Divide: Hollywood Versus the Avant-garde Using two of Fritz Lang’s films, M and Scarlet Street, this paper highlights the disparities between notions of high and low art, as well as the corrupting, transformative and conformative capacities of the Hollywood system. Non-place is Still Someplace: Seven’s Failure to Surmount Mass Culture This paper explores the concept of non-place in relation to mass culture and postmodernity through an analysis of David Fincher’s film, Seven. Designing Reality and the Dream: The History and Ideological, Economic, Social and Physical Construction of Disneyland in Southern California This paper positions Disneyland as a microcosmic reflection of California artifice and as the manifestation of fantasy. Disneyland and its ideals function as models for the conception of California in the most fantastic sense. The Counterfeit Body: Fashion Photography and the Deceptions of Femininity, Sexuality, Authenticity and Self in the 1950s, 60s and 70s This is my senior thesis, which is a culmination of my film and cultural studies, focusing on the system of fashion photography—the photographer, the photographed object and the surrounding cultural structure. In the specific case of my study, I use films about such as the all-encompassing medium of representation. Utilizing the well-established construct of the male gaze as my lens, I examine the reciprocity between film and culture in terms of influence. The main goal of the thesis was to uncover the relevance or irrelevance of fashion photography as something beyond a mere cultural indicator, rather as a true art form. Souvenirs and the Museum Store: Icons of Status and Culture to Go This paper examines the origins and implications of souvenirs and collecting, and relates them to the tenuous and problematic context of the museum gift store. Culture and Experience on Sale: An Inventory of the Getty Bookstore This paper is a case-study of a specific museum gift store that served as the precursor to the expanded souvenir paper. Get Up, Stand Up: The Comedy of John Leguizamo Through Theater and Pain This paper outlines the background and career of John Leguizamo and examine his humor with a critical lens in his use of ‘ethnic license’ in insulting any and all groups of people in hopes of a laugh. I explore the possibilities for justification of using this technique and attempt to gauge his success. It’s the End of the World As We Know It This paper provides a rough backround of modern cosmology including explanations of the cosmological constant, expansion theory and Type IIA supernovae. In Sickness and in Health: America’s Cinematic Deadly Obsessions Postmodernism, Camp and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane: The Search for Identity in the Death of Hollywood Mythology and the Mass Audience. Questioning the Strength of the Human Spirit: Representations of the Revolution and The Blue Kite Mothers and Daughters: Representations of Generational Difference and Conflict in Chinese-American Filial Relationships in Wayne Wang’s Dim Sum and The Joy Luck Club. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Works Cited Writing Index | Writing on Film

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