Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Cinema and Media Studies Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2016
Grace Kelsey Davis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Rhoda the Beautiful: Negotiating Gender and Proper Femininity in Television Sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore (1970-1977) and Rhoda (1974-1978)
Lily Marie Eisenthal, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Excess and a Radical Feminine Aesthetic in Daisies and Fruit of Paradise
Veronica Garcia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Casa, Home, Leaving
Nora Johnson Gregor and Jackson Hudgins, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Church That Jesse Built
Russell Anthony Hanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, No Boundaries
Theresa M. Heitz, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, We Call Each Other Sister: Melodrama, Ideology, and Women's Bodies in Orphan Black
Emma Frances Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western
Henry Dillon Maler, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, A Small Revolution: Reconstructing A National Identity in Post-Financial Crisis Greek Cinema
Shaylin Fay Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Travelogue Meets The Diary Film in Change of Course
Aaron W. Sala and Vincent DeZutti, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Cornered
Hannah Elizabeth Sanchez, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Unapologetically Me
Jack Christopher Turzillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Hunk
Submissions from 2015
Francina Raye Block, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Clearwater
Connor Pierce Einarsen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, ARIADNE
Jhernie Ho'onani Punahele Evangelista, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Haku: A Short Experimental Documentary
Brit Kamara Fryer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, trans·ience
Charlotte Ruth Harris, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Made From Paste
Jonathon Liou, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Reimagining the Disney Melodrama
Vivian McNaughton, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Trevor & Janeson's Cool Learnings: Sherlock Holmes Through The Ages
Richard Jordan Palacios, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, un(masc)ing desire: navigating gender desire on gay social media
Lucas Reppe, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Stordahl Church
Brendan Macklin Richard, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Lucrecia Martel: An Accusatory Cinema
Haley Marina Ryan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, b l v t
Rebecca Anne Stimson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, The Showrunner: Hannibal and the Question of Television Authorship
Ken Wang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Diary, Fragments, Eulogy
Ashanti Raheem Wavy-Soldier, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Voice
Christopher Todd Williams, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Kickin It With Big J
Robert Sanford Yeagle, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, España Reimagined
Submissions from 2014
Isaac Artin Burns and Simon Emilio Lansberg-Rodriguez, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Out Of Commission
Adrian Charles Carpenter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Recoil
Zoe Katarina Cohen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, A Few Weeks Ago When I Was Younger
Giancarlo Salvatore Danno, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, ... Del Fuego: Razing Cthulu
Max Felderman and Nona Schamus, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Some Nights Are Better
Felicity Flesher, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, COLT
Diana Mary Fraser, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Mainstreamed Marginals: A New Cycle in Romantic Comedy & "The Little Things"
Griffin Johnson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Get Your Anthropocene On
Woody Kaine, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, The Low Place
Tanwaporn Watanaporn Ohl, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, This is Leech Lake
Ashley Victoria Shaw, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, A Day In Memory
Hannah White, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Picture Start
Submissions from 2013
Christopher David David Baur, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Arb Sonics
Linnea Monroe Bullion, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, ... AND FOR A MOMENT, TIME STOPS
Jack R. R. Davis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, I am an Aspiring Actor
Joseph Daniel Fishman and Matthew Benjamin Spevack, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, A White Suit
Daisuke Kenneth Kenneth Kawachi, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Self Sacrifice and Sexuality in the Cinema of Lars Von Treir
Edith Elizabeth Elizabeth Lee, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, The Quality of Reality
Kyle Samuel Samuel Markwalter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Fathers of Cinema: Catholicism in Capra, Scorsese, and Coppola
Daniel Pierce Pierce McAlister, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Zeke's Quest
Madeline C. Muzzi, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, The Place of Craft
Lucy Essumanba Essumanba Quagraine, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Ghana For Real, the Familiar, Unfamiliar Place
Henry Rownd, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, You Are There! . . . as a Tessering, Morphing Hyperbody: The Viewer in Contemporary 3D, CGI, and Ridefilm Technologies
Richard Tovar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Come With Me
Katharine Hennessy Walton, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Stand Apart
Submissions from 2012
Josiah Tate Burns, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Sun/Moon in Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun [essay], Shangrila [video]
Robert Daniels, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: "I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay" Analysis [essay], The Stranger [film]
Sam Robert Ondich Dunnewold, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Before and After Asphalt [essay], The Incredible Owlbear [video]
Jonathan Scofield Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: The Happiness of the Katakuris [essay], Iron Mountain [project]
Hannah Neora Blum Jensen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Mistaken Identity? The Fabrication of Truth in The Lady from Shanghai and the Star Image of Rita Hayworth [essay], Last [video]
Kaitlin Elena Elena Randolph, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS Comps 2012: A Carefully Conceived Sunrise (essay), One Bench (video)
Anna Lynn Lynn Swanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Mono No Aware // Awareness: Perception of the Ephemeral in Bill Viola's Hatsu-yume [essay], when you wish upon a star [film]
Johanna Marie Marie Williams, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Cleaning up America [essay] , Uncharted Territories [video]
Margaret Mackenzie Mackenzie Zimmer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Self-Reflexivity through Form and Character in "Broken Embraces" [essay], Branded [installation]
Submissions from 2011
Paul Maple Carpenter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, All Ears
Alexander Slocum Carruthers, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock: The Industrial Model of Authorship
Megan E. Hafner, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Beyond the Hype: Thoughts on Food in Northfield, Minnesota
Sung Hyo Kim, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Tokyo Drifter(film analysis), Absence and Imagination(research paper)
Timothy James Mulso, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Drink Responsibly
Samuel Jenkins Scherf, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Feeling Future
Jameson Timothy Siegert, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Callahan
Max Joseph Silver, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Chair
Rachel Elizabeth Sklar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Perfect Goulash
Allison Helen Sterling, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, I'm No Longer That Girl: Film Noir's Influence on the Construction of Alternative Girlhood in Veronica Mars
Andreas Orson Stoehr, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Gender, Sympathy, and the "Monstrous Hero" in the American Horror Film
Kate Trenerry, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Rephotographing the Iron Curtain
Mateo Felipe Trujillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, The Sons of the Inheritance: Part 1 - The Will of Fire
Allyson Fawcett Weaver, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Star Gazing: A close look at Olivia de Havilland and star contracts in the height of studio era Hollywood
Cathleen Dyer Wolf, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Meet Street View: Theorizing Google Street View
Submissions from 2010
Kristen Lee Asp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, Imaging Northfield: The Photographic Representation of Place
Emma Kathleen Burghardt, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, Notes on Whimsy and Twin Lens
Austin R. Hall, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, The Eye
John Michael Mawhorter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, A Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter Designed For Social Play
Jordan Michael Warner Narvey, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, John McCain as John Wayne: The Influence of the War Film Genre's Evolution
Elizabeth Christine Otto, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, From Projector to Pen: Six Case Studies in the Design of Illustrated Film Posters
Meryl Rose Schumacker, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, The Square: A Prosocial Educational Television Show for 6-9 Year Old Audiences
Ezra Velazquez, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, TownFork
Janae D. Walton-Green, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, Untitled: A Documentary
Submissions from 2009
Kenneth Geiger, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Re-made in the USA: the journey of film from Asia to Hollywood
Caitlin Magnusson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The animated feature film: encoding and decoding across cultures
Jerome C. Potter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Telepop: a subjective composite of twentieth century American popular culture and history
Bedrich Rios, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Web design: type and layout
Lisa Short, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The modification of melodrama in Tyler Perry's films
Andrew Tatge, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Police states in film and Foucault's Panopticon: negotiating spiritual and physical
Submissions from 2008
Andrew Joseph Lauer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2008, Some films are better than others: Lyman H. Howe, cultural capital and bringing the world to Northfield, MN
